“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.” WorldWayMindSelfActionPassionResultsEffortQualityMeditationSeeingMagicAwarenessHumilityBuddhismLetting GoGoodnessAchievementConcernedMedicineSeekingAppearancePeacefulGenerosityEmptinessAttachmentMasteryConformSelflessnessSelf MasteryGreatest AchievementPeaceful MindSpiritual BuddhistGreatest Wisdom Author:Atisa
“There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.” LoveHumansPersonsTwoSelfForgetSecretAchievementOneselfSeekingHuman HappinessWords LoveTwo Roads Author:Theodor Reik
“All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.” YearsEnjoySawsAchieveVictoryAchievementFindingsIllusionBusyCloudsSeekingBurnedAshesEnjoy LifeSustainingSeeking Happiness Author:Dan Millman
“Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.” WayWantGoalAchieveAchievementSeekingHolesMy WayDiscouragedDiscouragementGreat AchievementRoadblock Author:Jerry Spinelli
“We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.” GivingSelfDoneFormTermKnowingSubjectsObjectsInvolvedAchievementSeekingResurrectionObjectivitySubjectivityForms Of LoveSelf Giving Author:N. T. Wright
“The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.” LongMomentsSpiritualAnswersKnowledgeAchievementAddSeekingPossessionAvailablePresent MomentSeekersAttainmentLooking To The Future Author:Eckhart Tolle
“When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.” SpiritualBecomingAchievementSeekingBurdenHeavyComplicatedDoctrineArtificialUnnecessaryBeginnersEsoteric Author:Paul Brunton
“Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.” LoveTwoGodValuesLonelinessPlanetsAchievementCreatingSeekingValuableGod LoveTwo ThingsPopeGod's LovePouringWinos Book:Credo Source: Credo