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Insight Archive
Insight archive: 2008/2009/2010 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004
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Spiritual and inspirational quotes. The Insight of the Week was established in late June, 2004 by Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, licensed massage therapist in Portland, Oregon. The quotations come from Hamid's library of readings and meanderings through the spiritual world. May you find a glimmer of truth in these words, leading you ever closer to the beauty of your self-realization. Namasté.
Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMT
Advanced massage & bodywork
Earth Body Wellness Center East
3810 SE Belmont ST
Portland, Oregon 97214
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503-975-1259
Even if you are on
the right track,
you will get run over
if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
July, 2010
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. -Rumi
April, 2010
Ever since happiness has heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you -Hafiz
December, 2009
Your work is to discover your world and then, with all your heart, give yourself to it. -Buddha
November, 2009
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. -Rilke
October, 2009
Impossible is a myth created by those who have never tried. -A phrase that popped into my head after the Portland Marathon
August, 2009
No matter where you go, there you are. -Buckaroo Bonzai
July, 2009
Everything is possible when the door of communication is open. -Thich Nhat Hanh
June, 2009
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. -Leonardo da Vinci
April, 2009
Learning to live is learning to let go.-Sogyal Rinpoche
March, 2009
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. -Buddha
February, 2009 - part 2
In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but, sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.
-Rumi
February, 2009 (whoops... this was a repeat from 2005!)
No one in the world can alter truth. All we can do is seek it and live it. -St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe
January, 2009
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. -Gandhi
Happy New Year!!
December, 2008
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. -Chinese Proverb
November, 2008
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. -Barack Obama
October, 2008
Instead of asking “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me? -Eckhart Tolle
September, 2008
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. -Plato
August, 2008
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
July, 2008
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
June, 2008
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -Chinese proverb
May, 2008
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. -Wayne Dyer
April, 2008
There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. -Buddha
March, 2008
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. -Joseph Campbell
February, 2008
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt. -Unknown
January, 2008
Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. -Deepak Chopra
