Calendar Book 2018

1. January: Journey of souls by M. Newton
2. February: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3. March: The vision of a champion by A. Dorrance
4. April: Extreme ownership by Willink & Babin
5. May: Start with why by S. Sinek
6. June: Being mortal by A. Gawande
7. July: Pastores del Pirineo de Severino Pallaruelo. 
8. August: Notas de la vida de un pastor de Jorge Puyó Navarro
9. September: Ansó. Sus montes y su ganadería de Jorge Puyó Navarro
10. October: Handbook for teacher in Human Values Education by R & S. Farmer
11. November: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by B. Franklin.
12. December: Destiny of souls by M. Newton

Calendar Book 2017.

1. January: Your erroneous zones by Wayne Dyer.
2. February: Angels in my hair by Lorne Byrne.
3. March: The champions mind by Jim Afremow.
4. April: The diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank.
5. May: Mental training for peak performance by Steve Ungerleider.
6. June: Messages from the masters by Bryan Weiss.
7. July: Hillbilly elegy by J.D. Vance.
8. August: Green card warrior by Nick Adams.
9. September: Grit by Angela Duckworth.
10. October: Wooden by John Wooden.
11. November: Knight. My story by Bobby Knight.
12. December: Love from Heaven by Lorna Byrne.

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Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes IV

-"I can come back whenever he really gets down in the dumps and yearns for me."
-Spirits are very selective in their use of our dreams sequences.
-Spiritual dreams involve our guides, teaching souls and our soulmates who come as messengers to assist us with solutions.
-Some of our greatest revelations come from the episodic dreams of events, places and behavior patterns emanating from experiences before we acquired our present body.
-Ways spirits connect with the living:
1. Somatic touch.
2. Personification with objects.
3. Dream recognition.
4. Transference through children.
5. Contact in familiar settings.
-Souls don't give up easily on us.
-We will see each other again some day, I know.
-Personal guides and soulmates, however they are represented, contact us from the other side if we require consolation.
-Angel-like spirits who regularly come to Earth between lives simply to help people they don't know.
-Having other relationships neither lessens nor dishonors our first love, it only validates that love, providing a state of healthy acceptance has been reached in between.
-Souls lose most of their negative emotional baggage when they shed their bodies.

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Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes III

-All roles are temporary.
-The person you love is not really gone.
-Part of your energy was left behind in the spirit world at the time of incarnation. When your love arrives back home again, you will already be there waiting with that portion of your energy which was left behind. This same energy is held in reserve for unification with the returning soul.
-In death, suddenly the soul is released and given freedom. Yet, if we have the need, souls are able to contact us on a regular basis from the spirit world.
-"I'll watch over her, but I know she is going to make it through this."
-Souls who are reaching back to comfort the living look for areas that are most receptive to their energy.
-Absence is only a change of reality and not final.         

Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes II

-Once or twice between lives we visit this group of higher beings who are a step or two above our teacher-guides.
-These masters are as close as I can come to the Creator.
-Going in front of the council is like being sent to the principal's office in school.
-Souls voluntarily select less than perfect bodies and difficult lives to address karmic debts or to work on different aspects of a lesson they have had trouble with in the past.
-Most souls accept the bodies offered to them in the selection room but a soul can reject what is offered and even delay reincarnating. Then, too a soul might ask to go to a physical planet other than Earth for a while.
-If we accept the new assignment, we are often sent to a preparation class to remind us of certain signposts and clues in the life to come, especially at those moments when primary soulmates come into our lives.
-Souls join their assigned hosts on the womb of the baby's mother sometime after the third month of pregnancy so they will have a sufficiently evolved brain to work with before term.
-"The only thing of true importance in this material life is the way we live and how we treat other people."

Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes.

-At the moment of death, our soul rises out of its host body.
-A guiding principle in the spirit world is that wrongdoing, intentional or untintentional, on the part of all souls will need to be readdressed in some form in a future life.
-There is no hell for souls, except perhaps on Earth.
-Some lives are so difficult that the soul arrives home very tired.
-Our soul groups are respectful of what we have gone through during an incarnation.
-Homecoming is a joyous interlude.
-Age is not a guarantee of high attainment.
-Every aspect of a life is dissected, even to the extent of reverse role playing in the group, to bring greater awareness.
-There certainly is structure in the spirit world, but it exists within a sublime matrix of compassion, harmony, ethics, and morality, far beyond what we practice on Earth.
-In the spirit world, we are not forced to reincarnate or participate in group projects.
-"I have skated through many easy lives and I like it that way because I haven't really wanted to work hard. Now, that's going to change. My guide says: we are ready when you are."
-Souls have feelings of humility at having been given the opportunity to incarnate in physical form.

Calendar Book #12 December: Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes IX

-These things I mention as a caution to young printers, and that they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace their profession by such infamous practices, but refuse steadily, as they may see by my example that such a course of conduct will not on the whole, be injurious to their interests.
-I did not, however, aim at gaining his favor by paying any servile respect to him.
-He that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
-After getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second.
-Never to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him.
-Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday.
-When men are employed they are best contented.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes VIII

-Fewer still, in public affairs, act with a view to the good of mankind.
-There seems to me at present to be great occasion for raising a United Party for Virtue, by forming the virtuous and good men of all nations into a regular body, to be governed by suitable good and wise rules, which good and wise men may probably be more unanimous in their obedience to than common people are to common laws.
-The substance of an intended creed:
That there is one God, who made all things.
That he governs the world by his providence.
That he ought to be worshiped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving.
But the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
That the soul is immortal.
And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
-The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by the general practice and habit of the virtues, free from the dominion of vice; and particularly by the practice of industry and frugality; free from debt, which exposes a man to confinement, and a species of slavery to this creditors.
-One man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
-Poor Richard's Almanac.
-It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
-These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction.
-A vicious man could not be properly called a man of sense.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes VII

-I contrived the following method for conducting that examination. I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day. I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark, by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
-I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
-Every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in my little book contained the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.
-My scheme of order gave me the most trouble.
-On the whole, although I never arrived at the perfection, I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.
-No qualities were so likely to make a poor's man fortune as those of probity and integrity.
-When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and on showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases and circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or seemed to be some difference.
-The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction.
-I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
-In reality, there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. 

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes VI

-This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day.
-Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary.
-My original habits of frugality continuing.
-I never was without some religious principles; and being to be found in all the religions we had in our country, I respected them all, though with different degrees of respect, as I found them more or less mixed with other articles, which, without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, served principallly to divide us, and make us unfriendly to one another.
-It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time.
-I concluded at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
-The 13 virtues:
1. Temperance.
2. Silence.
3. Order.
4. Resolution.
5. Frugality.
6. Industry.
7. Sincerity.
8. Justice.
9. Moderation.
10. Cleanliness.
11.Tranquility.
12. Chastity.
13. Humility.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes V

-Life is uncertain.
-I do not think that the writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society.
-School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark.
-It is at youth that we plant our chief habits and prejudices.
-Why are weaker men to be deprived of such helps, when we see our race has been blundering on in the dark, almost without a guide in this particular, from the farthest trace of time?
-What more worthy of experiments and system that human life?
-Another thing demonstrated will be the propriety of every man's waiting for his time for appearing upon the stage of the world. Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life.
-Your attribution appears to have been applied to your life, and the passing moments of it have been enlivened with content and enjoyment, instead of being tormented with foolish impatience or regrets.
-Dr. Franklin praised your frugality, diligence and temperance, which he considered as a pattern for all youth; but it is singular that he should have forgotten your modesty and your disinterestedness, without which you never could have waited for your advancement, or found your situation in the mean time comfortable; which is a strong lesson to show the poverty of glory and the importance of regulating our minds.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes IV

-For the industry of that Franklin, says he, is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind; I see him at him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed.
-You may find friends to assist you. If you will take the debts of the company upon you; return to my father the hundred pound he has advanced; pay my little personal debts, and give me thirty pounds and a new saddle, I will relinquish the partnership, and leave the whole in your hands. I agreed to this proposal.
-I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary. I dressed plainly; I was seen at no places of idle diversion. I never went out a fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and, to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow.
-I was not to expect money with a wife, unless with such a one as I should not otherwise think agreeable.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes III

-I had by no means improv'd my fortune; but I had picked up some very ingenious acquaintance, whose conversation was of great advantage to me; and I had read considerably.
-I objected my want of money.
-My mind having been much more improv'd by reading.
-It may be well to let you know the then state of my mind with regard to my principles and morals, that you may see how far those influenc'd the future events of my life.
-I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.
-We met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company.
-Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of postiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.
-Our friendship continued without interruption to his death, upward of forty years; and the club continued almost as long, and was the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes II

-On our way, a drunken Dutchman, who was a passenger too, fell overboard; when he was sinking, I reached through the water to his shock pate, and drew him up, so that we got him in again.
-My whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar, and about a shilling in copper. The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage, who at first refus'd it, on account of my rowing; but I insisted on their taking it. A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
-I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
-I began now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were lovers of reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly; and gaining money by my industry and frugality.
-An incident happened that sent me back again much sooner than I had intended.
-The governor gave me an ample letter, saying many flattering things of me to my father, and strongly recommending the project of my setting up at Philadelphia as a thing that must make my fortune.
-By steady industry and a prudent parsimony I might save enough by the time I was one and twenty to set me up.
-This was the second governor who had done me the honor to take notice of me; which, to a poor boy like me, was very pleasing.
-The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of the first great errata of my life.
-Had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor; and expense I was free from. And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under.
-I propos'd some reasonable alterations in their chappel laws.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes

-I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-It would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
-I disliked the trade, and had a strong inclination for the sea.
-Nothing was useful which was not honest.
-From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
-Persons of good sense, seldom fall into it. (Arguments).
-I was frequently chid for my singularity.
-For want of modesty is want of sense.
-So, I sold some of my books to raise a little money, was taken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.

Calendar Book # 11: November. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Life itself. Quotes

-Javier, me he dado cuenta de que tú y yo no hemos hablado nunca... Hace cinco años que yo soy dueño de estas tierras... y no me recuerdo que nos hayamos dicho no más que unas pocas palabras...
[...]
Y ahora debo preguntarte: ¿por qué significa tanto para ti?
-No le sigo señor.
-Los otros hombres usan varas y mallas. Pero tú las coges a mano. Lo que sólo te permite recoger la mitad.
-Bueno, por eso trabajo el doble. Señor.
-Lo sé, lo sé. No es un crítica. Es una simple pregunta.
-¿Por qué trabajas más duro que el resto de los hombres?
-Porque creo que es la manera correcta de hacerlo, señor.
-Te cuento la historia de mi padre, de la maltratada de mi madre, y cuanto te pido que hagas lo mismo, ¿lo único que me dices que es que es la manera correcta? Vamos hombre, bébete la manzanilla y cuéntame tu historia.
-Yo soy un hombre sencillo señor. Yo no tengo ninguna historia.
Mi padre no era un hijo de la gran puta. Mi padre era un hombre divertido, que silbaba mientras trabajaba. Y yo estoy feliz de poder hacerlo también mientras trabajo. La vara y el rastrillo magullan la aceituna. Por eso yo la cojo con las manos. Es la manera correcta. Eso es todo, señor.
-Los trabajadores te quieren mucho. Te he visto contarles historias, hacerles reir.
-Soy un bocazas.
-Pero conmigo eres muy reservado.
-Porque usted es el jefe, señor.
-Yo quiero ser tu amigo.
-No, le decepcionaría como amigo.
-No, no creo.
-Ya le he dado una respuesta, señor.
-Es curioso. El resto de los hombres me aprecian y apenas me conocen. Tú acabas de escuchar mi historia y... ¿no te hace sentir aprecio por mí? No pasa nada, puedes decir lo que quieras y ser totalmente honesto.
-No me hace apreciarlo algo más, señor.
-¿Puedo preguntarte por qué?
-Yo no habría cogido el dinero señor.

-Te gustaría ser capataz. Supervisar a la gente. Y vivirías aquí.
-Con la vivienda sería suficiente. Pero tengo una condición: cuidaré sus tierras, le ayudaré que prosperen como si fueran mías, pero mi silbido es para mí y mi bocaza es para mis jornaleros. No me pida nada señor. Y a cambio, yo nunca le pediré nada a usted.


-Enough. Listen to me. Rigo. You have had many ups and downs in your life. Too many. And you will have more. This is life. And this is what it does. Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward... if you go just a little farther... you will always find love. I found love in you. And my life, my story, it will continue after I am gone... Because you are my story. You are your father's story. Your uncle's.
Rigo... my body fails me. But you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever. Yeah? And if life brings us to our knees, you stand us back up. You get up. And go farther. And find us the love. Will you do that?

-I am not sure what story I have been telling. I am not sure if it is mine... or if it is some character I have yet to meet. I am not sure of anything. All I know is that, at any moment, life will surprise me. It will bring me to my knees. And when it does, I will remind myself... I will remind myself... that I am my father... and I am my father's father. I am my mother. And I am my mother's mother. And while it may be easy to wallow in the tragedies that shape our lives, and while it is natural to focus on those unspeakable moments that bring us to our knees, we must remind ourselves that if we get up, if we take the story a little bit farther, si vamos más allá, hay amor. If we go far enough, there's love.

Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XXI

-It is our very Presence that will motivate and transform the students in our care.
-How we live our lives will become an inspiration for the young ones to follow.
-We are immortal residing for a while in a mortal body.
-When something unfavorable is happening in the classroom, it is for our own good. It is for own good.
-When we can be mindful enough, to remember often enough that we are indestructible, all loving, peaceful and just, all fear will disappear.
-We remember how we felt during an event, much more than what we were thinking at the time.
-Teachers respond positively to having their strengths recognized, particularly by those above them in the hierarchy of responsibility.
-Every mistake as an opportunity to change direction, try again, and evolve.
-The mistake cannot know of the gains that will follow.
-Always stay calm on your boat.
- BOUNCE BACK
Bad times don´t last.
Other people can help.
Unhelpful thinking makes us more upset.
Nobody is perfect.
Concentrate on positive thinking.
Everybody as disturbing thoughts. They will pass.
Blame never.
Accept things we cannot change.
Catastrophizing avoidal.
Keep things in perspective.
-The five keys to a mindful relationship:
1. Attention to the present moment.
2. Acceptance of self and other.
3. Appreciation of all of our gifts.
4. Attunement.
5. Allowing: when we let go of our fears and fixed beliefs and prejudices, we can be open to the unfolding of possibilities of the present moment.

Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XX

-The power of example.
-This is what brings about healing in these boys, the example of a teacher believing in and living the Human Values, regardless of the challenges to the ego that are relentless in their onslaught.
-The goal is to be an example to everyone.
-Everyone will behave themselves in the presence of a policemen; only the truly decent will behave the same out of sight of the lawman's eye.
-Presence: moral behavior that is consistent across every aspect of our lives and builds a network of neural connections in our brain and heart that grows more integrated and resilient with each exercise or our good character.
-We will not be able to love our students in the most pure way as long as we regard then as different from each other and from ourselves.
-There needs to be harmony between our thoughts, words and deeds.
-Our environment contributes enormously to our health, happiness, and ability to teach and learn.
-A bright and colorful classroom, with healthy lunch-food provided, wise sayings on wall posters and calming music at times all go a long way to creating healthy student minds and bodies.
-There is only one religion, the religion of Love.
-It is the example we set for the children in virtuous and accomplished living that plays the greatest role. As we change, the whole world changes, for we are all interconnected.
-Noticing, being open-minded, having a beginner's mind, without judgement or labeling.
-When people relax that rigid sense of bodily defined identity and open up to realizing that we are all part of the interconnected whole.
-Every dish you wash is a new dish. Tenzin Palmo.
-The more someone dislikes, insults or attacks us, the more we need to love them.
-Sometimes you think you are the mud. But when you begin to wash off some of the mud, you will be able to get a glimpse of the shiny diamond inside you.
-We are the example of adulthood in a classroom of children.
-We can replay in our memory the scene, visualizing ourselves behaving in a more wise and loving way.
-It is our thoughts that determine our actions.

Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XIX

-We live in forgetfulness, looking for happiness somewhere else. Thich Nhat Hanh.
-Being open to the present moment, without clinging to it or rejecting it, allows teachers and students to let go of the endless chattering of their mind, to be free to experience the true Self, the five Human Values.
-The mind is a product of countless neuronal pathways in the brain, many of which have become set into habitual patterns over the years.
-To become exemplary role models we will need to reprogram the mind. It requires us to make a conscious choice at every moment, as to whether to hold on to a thought, or to let go of it.
-The challenge is how to remember to remember to be aware of each thought, and to exercise our mastery over whether it stays or not.
-When we are being patient, we know that the experience unfolding before our eye of awareness has it own perfect timing. Wishing that this moment will soon pass so that we can enjoy the next is like hoping that a blooming flower on a bush will soon fade so that we can enjoy the next one to appear.
-We can trust that whatever another person says or does to us, it will be perfect for our personal growth and learning.
-Letting go is like putting down two suitcases full of old rubbish.
-When we experience in the present moment the seven qualities of pure mindfulness (non-judging, patience, trust, beginner's mind, non-striving, letting go, acceptance), we see only the best in others.
-As we begin to develop awareness of the mind, it witnesses without judgment and without comment.
-School teachers have the fate of the nation in their hands.
-It is not enough for a teacher to impart information in an efficient manner without any consideration for the moral and ethical awakening of the classroom pupils.
-Today's children are not happy. We cannot stand by while our society's vulnerable ones suffer and go astray.
-Teaching as the most noble of all professions.
-We are all cells in the one body of humanity.
-It is because as students they have gained only information without any thought of transformation to become a true human being who lives and breathes goodness, wisdom and unconditional love, with an irresistible urge to be of service to those who are struggling.
-Be the change we want to see in our students.
-The example of our own behavior that we set before others is highly observable.
-Students who feel truly listened to, heard and understood by their teacher are automatically inclined to behave in this same way towards others.

Deep

Pure Gold

Is this cold enough 
Suitably calculated 
Is it dark enough 
Bold but understated 
Is it falling over backwards 
Is it straining 
Does it feel like my own 
Does it feel like it's out of my hands 
Does it hang there uncertain, insecure 
Guess it's pure gold 

Virgin ears uncovered 
By some shaky pen 
The browbeaten unsmothered 
By some vaporous intent 
Now they're falling over backwards 
And they're straining to hear, so I ask now 
Does it feel like your own 
Does it feel like it's out of your hands 
Does it hang there uncertain, insecure 
Guess it's pure gold 

Does it feel like our own 
Does it feel like it's out of our hands 
Does it hang there uncertain, insecure 
Guess it's pure gold 
Guess it's pure gold 
Guess it's pure gold