Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which the living and the dead of all nations have contributed.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

QUOTATIONS BY
CATEGORY
AUTHOR
CANON
TRADITION

... You can live by the words in this book ...
- Thomas Moore

Reference
11,600 quotations from 5000 years of spiritual heritage by 2,200 authors in 220 categories focusing on the inner life, on personal development and self-actualization. With extensive biographical index.

Therapy
Field guide to mind states cross-indexed to help identify subjective realities: Related states, Syntonic support elements and Dystonic contraindications.

Meditation
Random browsing and contemplation of selections.

Oracle
Consult daily or as often as needed for answers to vexing questions.

Wisdom Circle
Random selection of a quotation from the collection by each member of a workshop or focus group could become a means of introduction, an ice-breaker, as that member shares with the rest of the group what that quotation means to her or him, and how it relates to them personally.

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COLLECTIONS

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but the treasures are poured before you. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season.
~ Khemetic Wisdom ~

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
~ Philip G. Hamerton ~

Wisdom for the Soul

Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Anthology of 11,600 quotations on 220 subjects from Ability to Zeal by 2200 authors from Akhenaton to RuPaul
824 pages, hard cover, full index
EAN 978-0-9773391-0-5 ISBN 0-9773391-0-6
49.95

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
~ Hazrat Khan ~

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
~ Buddha ~

A Treasury of Wisdom for the Soul

220 quotations selected from
Wisdom for the Soul
on handy 2 x 3.5 in. cards in Gold chest
35.00

WISDOM TO GO

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~

We are the only creatures on earth who can change our biology by what we think and feel.
~ Deepak Chopra ~

Bits of Wisdom for the Soul:
Original Mind Candy

Selected Quotations on 50 handy 3.5x2 cards for a quick pick-me-up any time, anywhere.
10.00

A relationship is placing one's heart and soul in the hands of another while taking charge of another in one's soul and heart.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction both are transformed.
~ Carl Jung ~

Bits of Wisdom for the Soul:
Relationship Mind Candy

50 Quotations about relating to another on handy 3.5x2 cards (business card size)
10.00

What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the natural laws of nutrition and hygiene.
~ Khemetic Wisdom ~

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive to heal itself - but that force is not independent of the belief system, which can translate into expectations of physiological change.
~ Norman Cousins ~

Bits of Wisdom for the Soul:
Wholeness Mind Candy

50 Quotations on the power of the mind and the self-healing capacity of the body
10.00

ACCESSORIES

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
~ Winston Churchill ~

Wisdom Bookmarks

Each with two quotations: the header on reading and wisdom and the other on being present, scripted diagonally across the body. 8 combinations in subtle colorways.
3.00

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken the opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
~ William James ~

Lucite Card Holder

For desk or bedside table, holds up to 70 cards.
3.00

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~ William James ~

Wherever you go, there you are.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn ~

Purple Velour Drawstring Bag

Protects and carries up to 150 cards.
3.00

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~