Quotes by Kent Nerburn

Kent Nerburn

…Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.

Fighting

Giving Up

Selfish

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

Age

Childhood

Echoes

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Care

Harvest

Heart

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Belief

Fall

Mastery

Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for… Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives – they grow everywhere.

Death

Men

Past

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Darkness

Miracle

Past

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Embrace

Mean

Odds

Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing… But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world.

Heart

Simple

Two

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Healing

Remembrance

Sadness

I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.

Play

Spiritual

Thinking

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Age

Alive

Art

Attention

August

Balance

Beautiful

Becoming One

Being Alone

Belief

Born

Boys

Buddhist

Building Things

Care

Change

Childhood

Children

Choices

Creativity

Dad

Darkness

Death

Decisions We Make

Design

Details Of Life

Dream

Earth

Echoes

Elephants

Embrace

Emotional

Eye

Fall

Father

Father Son

Fatherhood

Fathers Day

Fear

Feet

Fighting

Fire

Flower

Forward In Life

Giving

Giving Up

God

Gone

Grandmother

Gratitude

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Quotes by Kent Nerburn

Kent Nerburn

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

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