For most folks, GOD is a difficult problem. A large part of that
difficulty is that we tend to antromorphize GOD when what we are
really talking about is the information content of the universe
itself. It is conscious. It is enough for us to know that it loves
life as that is its only choice. By natural exrension it loves us
and will support us.
Mother Theresa came to this problem and made it work for her as the
simplest person possible. When you read this remember that.
It remains completely astonishing just how such love and the
accompaing behavior has so totally shaped our world and culture and
how much a single individual can apply those precepts and have effect
vastly beyond the most avaricious dreams of all conquerors.
It makes everthing else attempted appear to be the tools of idiots.
17 Life Changing
Lessons to Learn from Mother Teresa
Luminita
Saviuc, Purpose Fairy
August 9, 2014
Waking Times
“If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway.
If you are successful you will win some false friends and true
enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try
to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity
and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good
you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give
your best anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
[
there can be little better expression of the love of GOD and our own
best intention – arclein ]
There are so many
beautiful and inspiring and life changing lessons to learn from this
beautiful, kind and loving woman and today I would like to share with
you some of her most inspiring quotes compiled into 17 life changing
lessons.
Enjoy!
1. There is no greater
hunger than the hunger of the heart.
“The greatest
disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted,
unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with
medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness
is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of
bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in
the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty
of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love,
as there is a hunger for God.”
“The hunger for love
is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“Let us not be
satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be
got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love
everywhere you go.”
2. Loneliness is the
leprosy of the modern world.
“Loneliness is the
leprosy of the modern world.”
“Loneliness and the
feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
3. No man is an
island.
“If we have no
peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
4. Judgment prevent us
to see the good in people.
“If you judge
people, you have no time to love them.”
5. You don’t have to
love the whole world. You only have to love one another.
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“Jesus said love one
another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”
“Go out into the
world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new
light in the hearts of people.”
“Spread love
everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your
children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let
no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the
living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm
greeting.”
6. We have all been
created for great things.
“We must know that
we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in
the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and
that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
7. Your work
matters. Do it with Love.
“We ourselves feel
that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean
would be less because of that missing drop.”
“Work without love
is slavery.”
We know only too well
that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But
if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
“I can do things you
cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
“It’s not how much
we give but how much love we put into giving.”
“I am not sure
exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it
comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good
things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much
love did you put into what you did?”
“Not all of us can
do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
8. Love and peace
begin with a smile.
“Let us always meet
each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“Peace begins with a
smile.”
“Spread love
everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving
happier.”
“Every time you
smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a
beautiful thing.”
9. God’s one
and only voice is silence.
“We need to find
God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the
friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in
silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in
silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
“In the silence of
the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will
speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only
when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill
you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
10. If you love until
it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
“I have found the
paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt,
only more love.”
11. You are never
given more than you can handle.
“I know God won’t
give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me
so much.”
12. You only have
today, and when tomorrow comes, it will be today.
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
13. Peace begins at
home.
“What can you do to
promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
14. Prayer is not
about asking.
“Prayer is not
asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His
disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
15. Don’t wait for
leaders to change your world.
“Do not wait for
leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Never worry about
numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person
nearest you.”
16. Patience is a
great teacher.
“Without patience,
we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We
will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
17. The greatest
science in the world is LOVE.
“The greatest
science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
What is your favorite
quote from Mother Teresa? What is the one lesson you have
learned from this beautiful and amazing Soul? You can share your
insights by joining the conversation in the comment section below.
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