Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On EarthEvery religion acknowledges certain spiritual principles and records them in its sacred literature and traditions. This book curates these ancient teachings and shows how they apply to modern life with the help of parables, quotations, and commentaries. By reading Wisdom from World Religions, people from all walks of life will be inspired to pursue their own spiritual growth and to contemplate questions central to our existence, such as how, through love and creativity, can we be agents of divinity on earth? Uplifting and instructional, this is a book to be treasured, studied, and practiced. |
Contents
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it Confucius | 33 |
3 | 40 |
You have the most powerful weapons on earth love and prayer | 181 |
Week TwentyTwo | 187 |
Spotlights | 194 |
Selfcontrol leads to success John Marks Templeton | 201 |
Week TwentyFive | 212 |
Help yourself by helping others John Marks Templeton | 218 |
Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment | 224 |
Week TwentySeven | 228 |
Week | 46 |
You are sought after if you reflect love joy peace patience kindness goodness | 50 |
Love given grows love hoarded dwindles John MarksTempleton | 56 |
Small attempts repeated will complete any undertaking Og Mandino | 70 |
Spotlights | 79 |
What talents can you build? John Marks Templeton | 85 |
The only way to have a friend is to be a friend Ralph Waldo Emerson ཙ | 91 |
Week Twelve | 97 |
We are not punished for our anger we are punished by our anger | 103 |
3 | 109 |
I | 116 |
Laughter is the best medicine | 122 |
If you do not know what you want to achieve with your life you may | 128 |
Week Sixteen | 134 |
5 | 140 |
Is progress through competition to serve a basic invisible reality? | 146 |
Week Eighteen | 152 |
Only one thing is more powerful than learning from experience | 158 |
Religion is good for your health Dale Matthews | 164 |
Week Twenty | 170 |
The visible is the ladder up to the invisible the temporal is but | 176 |
Spotlights | 234 |
When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself | 240 |
Life is an attitude Have a good one Eric L Lungaard | 247 |
Week Thirty | 252 |
Spotlights | 259 |
Invest yourself in your work John Marks Templeton | 265 |
Retirement can begin a beneficial career John Marks Templeton | 272 |
Week ThirtyThree | 277 |
The shadow of ignorance is fear J Jelinek | 283 |
7 | 289 |
Week ThirtyFive | 295 |
Spotlights | 302 |
Zeal is the inward fire of the soul that urges you onward toward | 308 |
It is always darkest just before the day dawns Thomas Fuller | 314 |
Week ThirtyEight | 320 |
Humility opens the door to progress John Marks Templeton | 325 |
For every effect there is a cause Hermetic principle | 331 |
Each of us can learn to be helpers in achieving Gods purpose | 337 |
Living the Various Spiritual Laws | 343 |
Acknowledgments | 351 |
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Common terms and phrases
ability accomplish achieve action activity anger asked awareness Bahá'u'lláh beautiful become begin beneficial Bhagavad Gita blessings bring Charles Fillmore choose compassion Confucius consciousness create creative Creator daily desire develop Dhammapada diligence divine emotions energy enthusiasm Ernest Holmes everything experience express fear feel focus forgiveness fruitful gift goals God's greater growth happen happiness heart heaven on earth Henry David Thoreau human humility ideas important infinite inner inspiration Isha Upanishad John Marks Templeton kind Lao Tzu Living the Various look mean mental mind nature ness never noble opportunity ourselves Paramahansa Yogananda peace perceive person perspective positive possible prayer progress proverb purpose Qur'an Ralph Waldo Emerson reality realize religion response rience situation smile someone soul story success talents thanksgiving things thoughts tion truth understanding universe unlimited love Various Spiritual Laws vision Wayne Dyer wisdom words