Quotes on IntegrityThis page will be an emergent one. I have always loved Quotes on Integrity, and am sure I will keep finding more. I define Integrity as wholeness-completeness. Bucky Fuller’s definition is that something in integrity holds its shape. The first section of Quotes on Integrity speak to the challenge of living our life as Integrity. When you do something from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy.... Rumi Where your treasure is, there also is your heart. St Teresa of Avila
Is there another way to live life? The following Quotes on Integrity continue in with this theme. "Imagine getting up every day hating what you have to do. That's what shortens your life. It's better to be a failure at something you enjoy than a success at something you hate." George Burns
"Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me." George Sheehan I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music. Hafiz
If a person sweeps streets for a living,he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted,as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes the path to finding who we are takes a lifetime...its a worthwhile path..these quotes on integrity speak to that path. "That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune." Sarah Ban Breathnach
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” Anais Nin
There's a part of every living thingthat wants to become itself:the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality. Ellen Bass This Quote on Integrity by Rumi speaks to me of the yearning we each have to connect with our source. There is some kiss we want
with the whole of our lives. Rumi Walking the path of Integrity is not easy. These following Quotes on Integrity speak to the rocky journey. Learn the alchemy true human beings know The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given the door will open. Rumi More Quotes on Integrity...
What is not brought to consciousnesscomes to us as fate. Carl Jung
Die while you are aliveand be absolutely dead.Then do whatever you want:it’s all good. 15th Century Japanese Zen master, Bunan.
Gaston Bachelard, and his cautionabout creating our own suffering: “What is the source of our firstsuffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It wasborn in the moment when we accumulated silent things withinus.”
“We fell morally ill because we became used tosaying something different from what we thought.” Václav Havel Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way. Rumi
If you are going to pray, then don’t worry.And if you are going to worry, then don’t bother praying.You can’t be doing both. Sister Alice Martin.
To save your world you asked this man to die.Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? Epitaph of the Unknown soldier, W.H. Auden In these following Quotes on Integrity the authors speak of the road taken. Are you breathing just a littleAnd calling it a life? Mary Oliver
Peaceful Warriors have the patience to waituntil the mud settles and the waters clear.They remain unmoving until the right time,so the right action arises by itself.They do not seek fulfilment, but wait with open armsto welcome all things,ready to use all situations, wasting nothing,they embody the Light. Peaceful Warriors have three great treasures:simplicity, patience, and compassion.Simple in actions and thoughts,they return to the source of Being.Patient with both friends and enemies,they live in harmony with the way things are.Compassionate toward themselves,they make peace with the world. Some may call this teaching nonsense;others may call it lofty and impractical.But those who have looked inside themselves,this nonsense makes perfect sense.And for those who put it into practise,this loftiness has deep roots.
Adapted from a poem by Lao-tzu
You cannot stay on the summit forever:you have to come down again.So why bother in the first place?Because what is below does not know what is above,but what is above knows what is below.One climbs, one sees.One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneselfin the lower regionsby the memory of what one saw higher up.When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. Mt. Anologue
What you do may not seem important But it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi
The last of the human freedomsis to choose one’s attitudein any given set of circumstances Victor Frankl
‘I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the “voice within” tells you.All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero. Gandhi
Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him? Hafiz During times of Universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Its a sign of mediocrity when we demonstrate gratitude with moderation. Roberto Benigni Finally, my all time favourite and the longest Quote on Integrity, which is more of a speech than a Quote on Integrity... by the great man himself, R. Buckminster Fuller. A transcript of one of Bucky’s last public speeches. On Integrity. I want you to think about this as individuals. An individual will say this to me, “What can I do? What can I do? I am just a little tiny guy.” And, I say, what you can do- I’m repeating something I said to you earlier_ that we are really in the final examination- I did get, last night, to you that we are a function of the universe. We’re here for local universe information gathering, local problem solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative universe. But integrity is the essence. In an invisible world there are no visible aesthetics. In an invisible world the only aesthetic is integrity. It’s our great computer world we’re going into. So, I simply say, I am really confronting you with the way—I’ve lived through all that—because I am a comprehensivist, I’ve kept the records; that’s the only reason I’m able to say these things to you I am up to. I am giving you a very faithful record of what/s going on economically. So, I simply say, what you can do personally is commit yourself to what is truth. That’s all. You have to remember that we didn’t invent-design the universe, and we’re not running the universe. I’m absolutely willing to give credit to-to the- I like what the Indian’s say “The Great Spirit”. The word “God” tends to infer a human being’s form, so I say “The Great Spirit” so you realise that I don’t mean it anthropomorphic when I say “God”. But, if you operate with integrity, God wants you to know right now whether human beings have the courage to go along with their own minds, or do you have to go with the crowd? Do you have to go evenly with the game or are you going to dare? If we really dare to go with our minds, we’ll stay here. We’ll go into an entirely new era of humanity. It will not be a matter of earning a living. You’ll be doing what you see needs to be done because you’ll feel you’ll want to do it—you’ll want to qualify to be able to serve one another. There will be nothing—you will have no question at all about earning a living. At any rate, personally then—we’ve got two minutes to this session—it comes back to each one of you, as the numbers multiply of individuals who are willing to commit themselves to integrity—whatever the truth may be—and really commit themselves to making all of humanity a success. You have to ask yourself the question, “Are my reflexes so conditioned that I resent someone else enjoying themselves? Am I really telling to really love my humanity, my fellow? If you do that, we will win. If you can do it, if it is spontaneously arousable in you to operate with integrity and really go along to love—to love comprehensively. That’s it. We hope you have enjoyed this selection of Quotes on Integrity.Do let us know if you have your own favourite quote on integrity to share with us. To Return from Quotes on Integrity to Integrity is the Essence
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