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I am in prison.
I am a prisoner.
I am also the guard, the warden, and the bars.
I am the cell and the judge.
I am even the crime.
I look out my window and see the blue jays flitting about
and I feel free.
My, oh, my, I am free!
- Author Unknown
...In dream consciousness...we make things happen by wishing them,
because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also
the creator. In our creativity we prolong the magic action of the
Creator of All in the overflow of His imagination, which is all that
reality is, or ever will be.
- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916)
Once the governor of a province in ancient China
spent several days in the mountains with his Zen teacher.
As he was getting ready to leave, the master asked him,
"When you return to the capital, how will you govern your people?"
"With compassion and wisdom," said the governor.
"In that case," said the master,
"every last one of them will suffer."
- Zen story
Some there are that torment themselves afresh
with the memory of what is past;
others, again, afflict themselves
with the apprehension of evils to come;
and very ridiculously both-
for the one does not now concern us,
and the other is not yet...
One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca
There is but one failure, and that is,
not to be true to the very best one knows.
- Frederic William Farrar
The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.
- Cicero (B.C.E 106-43)
Seekers look into the crises that most people shun,
because from hurt or failure or disaster,
one can seize the deepest truth.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
As you believe, so you become.
As you become, so you believe.
- Author Unknown
The only reason I am upset is because
I had the audacity to think I knew what should happen next.
- Anthony S. Dallmann-Jones, Ph.D.
It is impossible to found a lasting stronghold within
on anything less that the understanding that God is a God of joy.
It is through our realization of this truth
that we drink heartily of the wine of life.
- Charles Fillmore (Founder, Unity Church)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim (1882-1932)
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom.
Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
- H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
You can't lose anything because you never had it.
The only thing you've ever really had is yourself.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Beaton
Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
- Peter McWilliams
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement
without emotion.
- Carl G. Jung
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places.
But the spring of joy is in your heart.
The haven of peace is in yourself.
- Satya Sai Baba
Religion is not only to go to God
by forsaking the world
but to find Him in it.
- Soyen Shakyu
Each something is a celebration
of the nothing that supports it.
- John Cage
There is great enlightenment
where there has been great wonder.
- Muso Kokushi
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees
the separation between the natural and the supernatural,
the temporal and the eternal,
as overcome.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we have seen Reality,
there is not a grain of dust which has not a sublime meaning.
- J. Vanderleeuw
You will have to acquire trust
before you can surrender your control.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
Peace, if possible,
but the truth at any rate.
- Martin Luther
For those that have the courage to believe
and the strength to run their own race
victory is certain!
- Gertrude Johnson
Men must be decided on what they will not do,
and then they are able to act with vigor
in what they ought to do.
- Meng-tzu
Under all that we think, lives all we believe,
like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
- Antonio Machado
If the brain were so simple we could understand it,
we would be so simple we couldn't.
- Lyall Watson, biologist
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
- Goethe (1749-1832)
The shortest answer
is doing.
- George Herbert
The integral person does without going;
sees without looking
and accomplishes without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare.
But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
- Saadi of Shiraz (c. 1200 AD)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
- Lincoln (1809-1865)
If I don't manage to fly, someone else will.
The Spirit wants only that there be flying.
As to who happens to do it,
She has only a passing interest.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We are so powerful that we can convince ourselves
that indeed we are not -- then make it come true.
- Anthony S. Dallmann-Jones, Ph.D.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know
that faith is his twin brother.
- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
The mind is it's own place,
and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell,
a Hell of Heav'n.
- John Milton
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast;
in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The whole world is a door of liberation,
but people are unwilling to enter it.
- Hui-Wu
When a man can still the senses
I call him illumined.
- The Bhagavad Gita
He is enlightened, liberated,
Who sees all things as One-Unseparated.
- Angelus Silesius
We all live the magic kingdom -
Some of us see the magic.
- Jodie Bergsma
Every experience that comes to you
is an opportunity to birth your Divinity.
- Richard H. Levy
I saw my Lord with the eye of the Heart,
I said: "Who are you?"
He answered: "You."
- Al-Hallaj
We are meant to ride nature's waves,
not to fight against them.
- Deepak Chopra
Nothing in the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
In the choice between changing one's mind
and proving there's no need to do so,
most people get busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
- Peace Pilgrim (190? - 1981)
If you wish to drown,
do not torture yourself with shallow water.
- Bulgarian Proverb
Genius - To know without having learned;
to draw just conclusions from unknown premises;
to discern the soul of things.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
The measure of a man's real character
is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- Macaulay (1800-1859)
Enter through the narrow gate.
The gate that leads to damnation is wide,
the road is clear, and many choose to travel it.
But how narrow is the gate that leads to life,
how rough the road, and how few there are who find it.
- Jesus Christ, Mathew 7:13-14
A monk: "What is the fundamental teaching?"
Yun-men: " No question, no answer."
- Yun-men
Someone asked, "What is your way?"
Daojian answered, "To be free wherever I am."
- Zen Mondo
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains
is the Zen you bring up there.
- Robert M. Pirsig
He who knows himself
knows his Lord.
- Sufi saying
One knows all one can know
when one knows nothing.
- Marguerite Duras
Responsibility means
not blaming anyone or anything for you situation,
including yourself.
- Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success
What is your original face?
If you turn your light towards the interior,
you will discover the precious secret within yourself.
- Hui Neng
If we pray, we will believe;
If we believe, we will love;
If we love, we will serve.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
To enter one's own self,
it is necessary to go armed to the teeth.
- Paul Valery
You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.
- Juan Gris
Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something.
- Pai-Chang
God has delivered yourself to your care, and says:
I had no one fitter to trust than you.
- Epictetus
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
If an eye never falls asleep,
All dreams will by themselves cease:
If the mind retains its absoluteness,
The ten thousand things are of one suchness.
- Seng-T'San (540?-606 A.D.)
Every man is his own ancestor,
and every man is his own heir.
He devises his own future,
and he inherits his own past.
- Frederick Henry Hedge (1805-1890)
True wisdom is less presuming than folly.
The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind;
the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not;
he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton (c. B.C. 1375)
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
- Emerson (1803-1882)
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- Emerson (1803-1882)
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him,
that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life
if aroused and put into action.
- Orison Swett Marden
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
- Rumi
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen,
for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
The ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The way to gain a good reputation
is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.
- Chinese Proverb
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it;
never desert your own line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
- Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
Better than a thousand useless words
is one single word that gives peace.
Better than a thousand useless verses
is one single verse that gives peace.
Better than a hundred useless poems
is one single poem that gives peace.
- The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
For light I go directly to the Source of light,
not to any of the reflections.
- Peace Pilgrim (190? - 1981)
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher 1500's
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held
is no evidence whatsoever that it is not entirely absurd;
indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind,
a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
If a man's mind becomes pure,
his surroundings will also become pure.
- Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
- The Pope (1688-1744)
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
- Ken Keyes, Jr
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying,
"Make me feel important."
Never forget this message when working with people.
- Mary Kay Ash
We are here on earth to do good to others.
What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W.H. Auden
Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
- Author Unknown
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
Consciously or unconciously, every one of us does render some service or other.
If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately,
our desire for service will steadily grow stronger
and we will make not only our own happiness,
but that of the world at large.
- Mahatma Gandhi
This is my peace message in one sentence:
This is the way of peace -
overcome evil with good,
and falsehood with truth,
and hatred with love.
- Peace Pilgrim (190?-1981)
I finally realized that being a role model
doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me
--they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves.
- Lucy Lawless, "Xena the Warrior Princess"
Intense love does not measure; it just gives.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
It takes a person who is wide awake to make their dream come true.
- Roger Babson (1875-1967)
We are never deceived;
we deceive ourselves.
- Goethe (1749-1832)
Your Biography is reflected in your biology.
- Author Unknown
The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
He who does not attempt to make peace
When small discords arise,
Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey...
Soon, the whole hive collapses.
- Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
A good intention clothes itself with power.
- Emerson (1803-1882)
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel
when you come in contact with a new idea.
- John Nuveen
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Lactantius (260-340 A.D.)
Say yes to your Universe.
- Janet Zuckerman
For the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- II Corinthians 4:18
The real meaning of enlightenment
is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses.
- Kazantzakis
You are what your deep driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5
Your life is conditioned by your own thoughts;
not by the thoughts of anyone else.
- Emmet Fox
Take care that the divinity within you
has a creditable charge to preside over.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Respect yourself most of all.
Pythagoras (B.C. 582-507)
How terrible to watch a man who has the Incomprehensible within his grasp,
doesn't know what to do,
and sits down playing with a toy called God.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really.
There is no Buddha for those who know what he is, really.
- Zen saying
The fundamental delusion of humanity
is to suppose that I am here
and you are there.
- Yasutani Roshi
From Joy I came.
For Joy I live.
And in sacred Joy
I shall melt again.
- Yogananda
In deep silence we return to the ultimate cause, pure being.
There you come face to face with the womb of creation,
the source of all that was, is or will be,
which is simply --
yourself.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
90% of life is showing up.
- Woody Allen
The only service a friend can really render
is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror
in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be willing to be uncomfortable.
Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
It may get tough,
but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
- Peter McWilliams
Whatever you can see in your inner world,
you will bring into existence in the outer world.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful
than a life spent in doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke
While others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper,
I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
- Barbara Gordon b. 1935 American TV producer and writer
Life is too short to be little.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You're never going to "have it all together."
That's like trying to eat once and for all!
- Author Unknown
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall
make thee break thy word or lose thy self respect.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you don't stand for something,
you'll fall for anything.
- Author Unknown
What the heart knows today, the head will know tomorrow.
- James Stephens
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Chuang-tzu (fl. B.C. 350)
People change and forget to tell each other.
- Lillian Hellman
Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren
When the grass appears greener on the other
side of the fence...fertilize your grass.
- Author Unknown
You always find whatever you are looking for.
- Author Unknown
A person desperately searching for love
is like a fish desperately searching for water.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
Perseverance alone does not assure success.
No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
- I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Baba Ram Dass (1931-1996)
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses,
women for their strengths.
- Lois Wyse
If you want to make an enemy, try to change someone.
- Robert Anthony
"TIME IS...
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve,
Too short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love...
Time is not."
- Henry Van Dyke
Nothing is less important than the score at halftime.
- Author Unknown
When you have exhausted all possibilities,
Remember this...you haven't.
- Author Unknown
Sometimes what appears to be the end
is really a new beginning.
- Author Unknown
There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.
- Author Unknown
Every one wishes to have truth on his side,
but is is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
- Archbishop Richard Whately
ANGELS ALL AROUND US
I throw myself down in my chamber,
and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither,
and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels,
For the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whinning of a door.
- John Donne
You will always miss 100% of the shots you never take.
- Author Unknown
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Author Unknown
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Throeau
Don't wait for your ship to come in...swim out to it.
- Author Unknown
"Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the
one most surely wasted."
- Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
If you're not riding the wave of change...you'll find yourself beneath it.
- Author Unknown
Leaders are like eagles, they don't flock, you find them one at a time.
- Author Unknown
"Integrity is one of several paths.
It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost."
- M.H. McKee
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
Know that what is truly thine cannot be taken from thee.
- Edgar Cayce
Don't look for the path far away, the path exists under our feet.
- Tung-Chan
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Vauvenargues
"We are what we think: All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world."
- Buddha
One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
- Phaedrus (fl. 25 A.D.)
The energy derived from setting goals comes in large part
from the focus it brings to our lives.
It's like igniting a fire by channeling the gentle rays of the sun
to a single spot through a magnifying glass.
- Author Unknown
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven"
first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
- Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow - your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Kahlil Gibran
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general;
if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope."
Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1959)
The story is told of a British anthropologist who undertook a field trip to India.
One evening he crept through the jungle and caught sight of an old holy man
dancing ecstatically in the forest.
The anthropologist watched this delirious, joyful display in fascination
until he couldn't contain himself.
"Pardon me," he said, "but what makes you dance out here, alone in the jungle?"
The holy man looked bewildered and replied,
"Pardon me, but what makes you think I'm alone?"
- Deepak Chopra
One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank.
"How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!" Chuang-tzu exclaimed.
"You are not a fish," his friend said.
"How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?"
"You are not me," Chuang-tzu said.
"How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?"
- Taoist Mondo
"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
- Author Unknown
"Only the heart knows the correct answer."
From the "Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success" - Deepak Chopra
To make sure that another person loves you unconditionally,
you must not place conditions upon them.
- Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard
...Be glad you had the moment.
- Steve Shagan
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
- May Lamberton Becker
Some trees grow very tall and straight and large in the forest close to each other,
but some must stand by themselves or they won't grow at all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Author Unknown
If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it --
by the blade and by the handle.
- Chinese Proverb
What the heart knows today, the head will know tomorrow.
- James Stephens
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Author Unknown
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it were.
I would only open my eyes a little more.
- Jules Renard
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Self-conquest is the greatest of all victories.
- Plato
You can't change the music of your soul.
- Kathrine Hepburn
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
- Persian Proverb
Life is a journey not a guided tour.
- Author Unknown
At the center of your being you have the answer;
You know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao-tzu
You will never let yourself have more money than you think you are worth.
- Author Unknown
Always we hope someone else has the answer.
Some other place will be better,
some other time it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer.
No other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.
- Lao-tzu
Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which,
guided by the light of reason,
he considers to be true.
- Pope Pius IX
Let me listen to me and not to them.
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.
- Author Unknown
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
- Goldsmith
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Thoreau (1817-1862)
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
Paradise is always where love dwells.
- Richter (1763-1825)
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
- G. C. Lichtenberg
You are not a xerox of anyone else
Each life is an orignal work of art
When are you going to start signing autographs?
- Rusty Berkus
When we talk to God, we're praying.
When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
- Lily Tomlin
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
Reality is something you rise above.
- Lisa Minnelli, born 1946
Why wait for Heaven?...
Heaven is within you
and you and I and us and they...
are Home
- Richard Levy
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self,
and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
- Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
"We cannot live in a world that is not our own,
in a world that is interpreted for us by others.
An interpreted world is not a HOME.
Part of the terror is to take back our own listening,
to use our own voice,
to see our own light."
- Hildegard of Bingen, 12th century mystic, writer
"Be a guardian, not an usher, at the portals of your mind..."
- Mary Pickford
Obstacles are what you see when you fail to focus on your goals.
- Author Unknown
Integrity has no need of rules.
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
It is impossible to win unless you begin.
- Author Unknown
Great truths are felt before they are expressed.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life invites you
to live by the Truth
the whole Truth
and nothing but the Truth
- if you dare to.
- Rusty Berkus
Our God is a dancing God,
who moves us in unexpected patterns,
introduces us to unlikely partners,
and en-courages to take new steps -
all that we may dance more freely.
- Jean M. Bloomquist
The first step toward change is recognition.
- Deepak Chopra
The day will come when after harnessing space, the wind, the tides and gravitation,
we shall harness for God the energies of Love -
And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world,
we shall have discovered fire.
- Tielhard de Chardin
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena
only a very large gap in our Knowledge of what is natural.
- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles Schultz
Grace
Quietly, now
The grace that we've been seeking
Has always been there
Patiently waiting
For us to turn around,
Reach out our hand and say,
"Thank you for staying here
While I was sleeping."
And how could it otherwise be?
Our true nature
Waits for us to turn back in gratitude, see
And feel our way, finally,
Home.
- Osha, 4/27/97
Lift the stone and you will find me,
cleave the wood and I am there.
- Jesus
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
Every concept grasped by the mind
becomes an obstacle in the quest
to those who search.
- Gregory of Nyssa
When you really want love
it will be there.
- Oscar Wilde
When it's cold, water freezes into ice;
when it's warm, ice melts into water.
Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind;
when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.
- Muso Kokushi
Madame, there are always two paths to take;
one back towards the comforts and security of death,
the other forward to nowhere.
- Henry Miller
Sleep is the best meditation.
- Dalai Lama
Formula for happiness;
"Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter,
love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like no one is watching you."
- Author Unknown
Inside...
There is only one great adventure
and that is inwards towards the self.
- Henry Miller
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on,
he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
- St. John Of The Cross
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
- H Ross Perot
All forms of love come from the Self.
- Deepak Chopra
If you need to help others,
notice how it keeps them helpless.
- Author Unknown
The more talking and thinking,
The farther from the Truth.
- Seng-Ts'an
Searching for the Truth through words and speech
is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.
- Yuan Wu
In an infinite cosmos, all dreams are true.
- Author Unknown
The life that is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato
The water a cow laps turns into milk;
The water a snake licks changes into poison.
- Zen saying
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth,
the continents, and the oceans
was not ignorance,
but rather the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel Borsten
"I like pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals."
- Winston Churchill
Man can learn nothing
except by going from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard
Inside...
We are all the same age.
- Author Unknown
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard
Any activity becomes creative
when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
- John Updike
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
As I lived up to the highest light I had,
higher and higher light came to me.
- Peace Pilgrim (190? - 1981)
You can have anything you want
if you will give up the belief
that you can't have it.
- Robert Anthony
If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness
than because of our strength.
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
All things in the world come from being.
And being comes from non-being.
- Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
As the same fire assumes different shapes when it consumes objects differing in shape,
so does the one Self take the shape of every creature in whom he is present.
- Upanishads (c. B.C.E 800)
In praise of former "Superman" movie star CHRISTOPHER REEVE;
"He has taught us more in the last two years
about learning to soar than he ever did wearing tights."
- James Brady (former White House press secretary)
No one of you is a believer until he desires
for his brother that which he desires for himself.
- The Sunna
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
A mind at rest is open to new realities.
- William Alan MacQuoid
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
- J. P. Donleavy
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
That is why so many people live such an unreal life.
They take the images outside of them for reality
and never allow the world within to assert itself.
- Herman Hesse
Under all that we think, lives all we believe,
like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
- Antonio Machado
Marriage should be a duet
when one sings, the other claps.
- Joe Murray
It is always there, right where you are;
if you seek it, obviously you do not see it.
- Muso Kokushi
The more you know
the less you understand.
- Tao Te Ching
We don't receive wisdom;
we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life.
The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what
they want.
- Mark Twain
Let go the things in which you are in doubt
for the things in which there is no doubt.
- Mohammed
It is for us to make the effort.
The result is always in God's hands.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road
turn around!
- Edgar Cayce
Nothing...is sweeter than love;
nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger,
nothing more joyful, nothing more fuller, nothing better,
in heaven or on earth.
- Thomas a Kempis
