Wisdom from World Religions W ISD OM World Religions from ✦ pathways toward Heaven on Earth Sir John Templeton    T F P    Templeton Foundation Press Five Radnor Corporate Center, Suite  Matsonford Road Radnor, Pennsylvania  ©  by Templeton Foundation Press All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission ofTempleton Foundation Press. Designed and typeset by Gopa & Ted Printed by Sheridan Books Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available e: --- Printed in the United States ofAmerica 02 03 04 05 06 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Introduction xix Week One . When you rule your mind, you rule your world. —Bill Provost  . Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs :  . Why were you created? —John Marks Templeton  . Infinite in all directions. —Freeman Dyson  . As you give, so shall you receive. —Matthew :and Luke :  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Two . Your life becomes what you think. —Marcus Aurelius  . Love given is love received. —John Marks Templeton  . To be forgiven, you must first forgive. —John MarksTempleton  . An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. —John Marks Templeton  . You fear what you do not understand. —Anonymous  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Three . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson  . Listen to learn. —Alcoholics Anonymous  . Don’t ever think you are wise enough. —Proverbs :  v . Humility can lead to prayer as well as progress and brings you in tune with the infinite. —John Marks Templeton  . Failing to plan is planning to fail. —Benjamin Franklin  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Four . Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. —John Marks Templeton  . Progress depends on diligence and perseverance. —John Marks Templeton  . Love thy neighbor as thyself. —Matthew :  . To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. —Confucius  . Enthusiasm facilitates achievement. —John Marks Templeton  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Five . By giving you grow. —John Marks Templeton  . Does the word “religion” imply authority, whereas the word “spirituality” may imply progress? —John Marks Templeton  . The family that prays together stays together. —Common saying  . If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. —William Edward Hickson  . See everyone in your own self and yourself in everyone. —adapted from Isha Upanishad  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Six . It is better to love than be loved. —St. Francis ofAssisi  . Thanksgiving leads to having more to give thanks for. —John Marks Templeton  . You cannot be lonely if you help the lonely. —John Marks Templeton  vi  . You are sought after if you reflect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. —John Marks Templeton  . A smile breeds a smile. —Ted Engstrom  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Seven . Great heroes are humble. —John Marks Templeton  . Love given grows, love hoarded dwindles. —John MarksTempleton  . Find good in everything. —John Marks Templeton  . What the mind can conceive, it may achieve. —Anonymous  . Be steadfast in prayer. —Qur’an  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Eight . With God all things are possible. —Matthew :  . I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making mehate him. —Booker T. Washington  . Do your allotted task! Work excels idleness! —Bhagavad Gita  . Enthusiasm is contagious. —John Marks Templeton  . Small attempts repeated will complete any undertaking. —Og Mandino  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Nine . Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it. —Ted Engstrom  . The unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates  . An honest man’s word is as good as his bond. —American proverb  . Tithing often brings prosperity and honor. —John Marks Templeton  . Wisdom is more blessed than riches. —John Marks Templeton   vii Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Ten . If God is infinite, then nothing can be separate. —John Marks Templeton  . Where there is a will, there is a way. —Aesop  . Count your blessings and you will have an attitude of gratitude. —John Marks Templeton  . We learn more by welcoming criticism than by rendering judgment. —J. Jelinek  . What talents can you build? —John Marks Templeton  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Eleven . You will find what you look for: good or evil, problems or solutions. —John Marks Templeton  . Is creativity accelerating? —John Marks Templeton  . The only way to have a friend is to be a friend. —Ralph Waldo Emerson  . Your thinking greatly affects your life. —John Marks Templeton  . Learning is a lifelong activity. —John Marks Templeton  Spotlights  Living the Various Spiritual Laws  Week Twelve . Noble purpose creates fruitful lives. —John Marks Templeton  . Birds of a feather flock together. —Robert Burton  . Idle brains are the devil’s workshop. —H. G. Bohn  . You can make opposition work for you. —Anonymous  . We are not punished for our anger; we are punished by our anger. —Bhagavad Gita  viii 