If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.
Sydney BanksIf the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
Sydney BanksIf we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.
Sydney BanksSomeone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought
Sydney BanksLife is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur.
Sydney BanksAnd in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean โinner selvesโ, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if youโre searching for happiness; if youโre searching for tranquility; if youโre searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.
Sydney Banks