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Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have;
that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
There was a time when a man was so convinced
that the world was round
that he was determined to prove it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
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There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes
The road to freedom lies not through
mysteries or occult performances,
but through the intelligent use
of natural forces and laws.
- Ernest Holmes
God is all there is - God includes everything,
all possibility and all action,
for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.
- Ernest Holmes
We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
When prayer removes distrust and doubt
and enters the field of mental certainty,
it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
- Ernest Holmes
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
The universe must exist for the self-expression
of God and the delight of God.
- Ernest Holmes
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
Every thought has a consequence.
And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
- Ernest Holmes
I do not believe that God has
imposed suffering upon anyone
to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
- Ernest Holmes
In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
Thoughts are things, and all the things in one's life
have a thought that precedes them.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
- Ernest Holmes
With a penetrating vision
you can dissipate the obstruction,
remove the obstacle,
dissolve the wrong condition.
- Ernest Holmes
Each one of us is an outlet to God
and an inlet to God.
- Ernest Holmes
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
You can attract only that which you mentally become
and feel yourself to be in reality.
- Ernest Holmes
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
We live in a spiritual Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
We can no more do without spirituality
than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
- Ernest Holmes
To believe in a just law of cause and effect,
carrying with it a punishment or a reward,
is to believe in righteousness.
- Ernest Holmes
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
You are more than you appear to be.
- Ernest Holmes
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
A state of expectancy is a great asset;
a state of uncertainty -
one moment thinking "perhaps"
and the next moment thinking "I don't know" -
will never get desired results.
- Ernest Holmes
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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