Reflecting Merope – Erich Fromm, Erica Jong, Roy Croft, Sophocles, Aldous Huxley, Herodotus, Dalai Lama, Dr. West

via nasa.gov You were created from ecstasy; you were created out of LOVE & LIGHT. It is your birthright. – Bashar Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. – James Matthew Barrie Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace…

You were created from ecstasy; you were created out of LOVE & LIGHT. It is your birthright.
– Bashar

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
– James Matthew Barrie

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
– Mahatma Gandhi

You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down!
– Charlie Chaplin

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
– William Shakespeare

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
– Marianne Williamson

Keep alert, stand firm in your faith; be courageous, be strong, let all that you do be done in LOVE.
– Corinthians

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
– William Shakespeare

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
– Albert Einstein

Never injure a friend, even in jest.
– Cicero

To truly give charity, you must be free of selfishness!
– Mother Teresa

You were born from a ray of God’s majesty and have ALL the blessings of a good star.
– Rumi

Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
– Werner Finck

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
– Plato

A ship has a soul.
– John Rhodes

Follow your HEART
– ♡

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
– Rumi

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
– Hal Borland

Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are.
– Rumi

It takes awareness to remember that life is a gift, don’t feel overwhelmed by other thoughts. Feel joy as spirit reflects back onto you.
– Deepak Chopra

The minute I heard my first love story I started
looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally
meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
– Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

Looking at American prisons in our day, we see primarily poor people, disproportionately but not exclusively black & brown.
– Cornel West

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank

The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a Bodhisattva, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings.

All living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them.

For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, until then may I, too, abide to dispel the misery of the world.

As time passes I have firmed my conviction that all religions can work together despite fundamental differences in philosophy. Every religion aims at serving humanity. Therefore, it is possible for the various religions to work together to serve humanity and contribute to world peace.

When we reach beyond the confines of narrow self-interest, our hearts become filled with strength.

Only the inner protection of patience can keep us from experiencing the turmoil of negative thoughts and emotions.

Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.

By developing a sense of concern for others’ well-being, then no matter what others’ attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training.

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say ‘At least I’ve done my best’.

Certain desires are positive: a desire for happiness; for peace; for a more harmonious and friendlier world.
– Dalai Lama

In awarding the Peace Prize to H.H. the Dalai Lama we affirm our unstinting support for his work for peace, and for the unarmed masses on the march in many lands for liberty, peace and human dignity.
– Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
– Erich Fromm

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
– Anwar Sadat

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
– Herodotus

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
– Aldous Huxley

My sun sets to rise again.
– Robert Browning

Grace was in all her steps, Heav’n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
– John Milton (Born December 9, 1608)

Without labor nothing prospers.
– Sophocles

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.
– Roy Croft

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
– Erica Jong

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’
Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’
– Erich Fromm

The Search for Truth is a Search for Identity, that in finding Truth, we find Ourselves.
– Neil Sutton

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Reflecting Merope

In the well known Pleiades star cluster, starlight is slowly destroying this wandering cloud of gas and dust. The star Merope lies just off the upper left edge of this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope. In the past 100,000 years, part of the cloud has by chance moved so close to this star–only 3,500 times the Earth-Sun distance–that the starlight itself is having a very dramatic effect. Pressure of the star’s light significantly repels the dust in the reflection nebula, and smaller dust particles are repelled more strongly. As a result, parts of the dust cloud have become stratified, pointing toward Merope. The closest particles are the most massive and the least affected by the radiation pressure. A longer-term result will be the general destruction of the dust by the energetic starlight.

Image Credit: NASA

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