Inspirational Quotations 2
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly from the Absolute."
-Rumi
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
-Marcus Aurelius
He who knows others
is clever; He who
knows himself is enlightened.
-Lao Tzu
Sound when stretched is music.
Movement when stretched is dance.
Mind when stretched is meditation.
Life when stretched is celebration.
-Ravi Shankar
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.
-Hildegarde of Bingen
There is nothing permanent except change.
-Heraclitus
We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao Tzu
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today-- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.
-Osho
How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
-Lao Tzu
Man cannot discover new oceans
until he has courage
to lose sight
of the shore.
-unknown
You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
-George Bernard Shaw
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
-Immanuel Kant
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
-Albert Einstein
Sometimes it is not necessary
the problem to solve.
Change the angle of vision
and the problem dissolves.
-John C Lehman
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me
until the last small twig has grown.
-Kathe Kollwitz
We do not live life.
Life lives us.
-Joko Beck
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
-Christian Nestelle
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
-Charles Peguy
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
-Henry David Thoreau
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori Proverb
Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are not a soul,
you are not a mind,
you are not a body.
You are the controller of all three.
-Yogi Bhajan
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
-Thomas Merton
Whatever we lose
(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves
we find in the sea.
-ee cummings
It is still up to you to choose
to join with truth or with illusion.
But remember that to choose one
is to let go of the other.
-A Course In Miracles
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
-John A. Shedd
Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.
-Morihei Ueshiba
You are me, and I am you.
Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"?
You cultivate the flower in yourself,
so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
We cannot teach people anything;
we can only help them discover it
within themselves.
-Galileo Galilei
Not being known doesn't stop the truth
from being true.
-Richard Bach
You are a crowd, a multitude.
Just you have to look more closely, more deeply,
and you will find many people within you.
And they all pretend at times to be you.
-Osho
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
-Navajo Proverb
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the end of the ocean.
-David Searls
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
There is nothing in the universe that is not you.
-Unknown
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9%
of everything you think,
and of everything you do,
is for yourself,
And there isn't one.
-Wei Wu Wei
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
-Native American Proverb
For behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal, or a window opening on something more than itself.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
-Aristotle
The Awakening is no other than
Consciousness becoming acquainted with itself.
-DT Suzuki
You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.
-Ruth E. Renkai
When we think we're separate, we lose power. Whenever I say 'my,' I have lost power. Power is not my power . . . It is only gainable as a part of the larger whole. Then you communicate with the rest of yourself -- which may be a tree. You, reciprocally, are moved by the universe. Whenever you shut down connectedness, you get depressed . . . It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible.
-Glenda Taylor
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
-Blaise Pascal
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together.
-Vincent Van Gogh
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
-Rodney Collin
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-Jimi Hendrix
The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
-Albert Einstein
To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower
hold infinity
in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
Joy is not in things.
It is in us.
-Richard Wagner
Whenever you want to produce something,
do not depend upon the outside source:
go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
to be yourself-
in a world which is doing its best
night and day
to make you everybody else-
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight
and never stop fighting.
-ee cummings
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses - past the headlands -
Into deep Eternity.
-Emily Dickinson
Pain is illusion;
joy, reality.
Pain is but sleep;
joy is awakening.
Pain is deception;
joy alone is truth.
And so again we make
the only choice that ever can be made;
we choose between illusions and truth,
or pain and joy,
or hell and Heaven.
-A Course In Miracles
All serious daring starts from within.
-Eudora Welty
When one tugs at a
single thing in nature,
he finds it attached
to the rest of the world.
-John Muir
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you feel most alive, find out why,
This is one guest you won't greet twice.
-Kabir
We are not bodies with souls. But souls with bodies.
-Kevin R. Bean
Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not problematic, you are the problem.
-Anthony de mello
God has no religion.
-Gandhi
Everything is simple --reality is simple. It seems complex only because of ignorance; otherwise everything is simple. Once you know it, it becomes simple. The knowing is bound to be difficult not because of reality, remember, but because of your mind.
-Osho
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
-Richard Bach
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
-Chuang Tzu
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a
function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
-Ouspensky
The wind cannot shake a mountain.
Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man.
-Buddha
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
-Eckhart Tolle
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-Mencius
The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that
supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The
world is in you and can become known in you, as you.
-Jean Klein
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-Blaise Pascal
All the true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
-Carl Jung
Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves
and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
-Huston Smith
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
After that, fear has no power,
And the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.
-Jim Morrison
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin
The ability to simplify
means to eliminate the unneccessary,
so that the neccessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann
What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.
-Andrew Harvey
To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
-Lao Tzu
Don't stand by my grave and weep,
for I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on the snow,
I am sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
-Unknown Native American
If the doors of perception were cleansed, all things would appear infinite.
-William Blake
If I accept the sunshine
and warmth,
then I must also accept
the thunder and lightning.
-Kahlil Gibran
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
-Carl Jung
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
-Francois Voltaire
Turn your gaze inward.
Correct yourself and your world will change.
-Kristin Zambucka
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
-Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
-Vernon Howard
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
-Kahlil Gibran
Dance like no one is watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.
-William Purkey
The Great Way is not difficult--
Just cease to cherish opinions.
The Third Zen Patriarch
You can have anything you want
if you are willing to give up the belief
that you can't have it.
-Robert Anthony
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
-Marcus Aurelius
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t.
It is your choice-- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.
-Osho
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.
-Osho
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat
match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
-Joseph Campbell
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness.
-Thomas Merton
One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.
-Mother Meera
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-e.e. cummings
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
-Meher Baba
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
-Lao Tzu
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-Richard Bach
Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.
-Gary Zukav
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...
-Osho
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
-ee cummings
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot."
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
-John Burroughs
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Chuang Tzu
Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision.
Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.
-Rumi
You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
-Hafiz
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung
"...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
-Osho
For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.
-Mother Meera
There is nothing either bad or good, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.
-Eckhart Tolle
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
-Mary Brave Bird
It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Rumi
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
-Marcus Aurelius
He who knows others
is clever; He who
knows himself is enlightened.
-Lao Tzu
Sound when stretched is music.
Movement when stretched is dance.
Mind when stretched is meditation.
Life when stretched is celebration.
-Ravi Shankar
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.
-Hildegarde of Bingen
There is nothing permanent except change.
-Heraclitus
We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao Tzu
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today-- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.
-Osho
How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
-Lao Tzu
Man cannot discover new oceans
until he has courage
to lose sight
of the shore.
-unknown
You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
-George Bernard Shaw
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
-Immanuel Kant
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
-Albert Einstein
Sometimes it is not necessary
the problem to solve.
Change the angle of vision
and the problem dissolves.
-John C Lehman
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me
until the last small twig has grown.
-Kathe Kollwitz
We do not live life.
Life lives us.
-Joko Beck
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
-Christian Nestelle
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
-Charles Peguy
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
-Henry David Thoreau
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori Proverb
Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are not a soul,
you are not a mind,
you are not a body.
You are the controller of all three.
-Yogi Bhajan
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
-Thomas Merton
Whatever we lose
(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves
we find in the sea.
-ee cummings
It is still up to you to choose
to join with truth or with illusion.
But remember that to choose one
is to let go of the other.
-A Course In Miracles
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
-John A. Shedd
Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.
-Morihei Ueshiba
You are me, and I am you.
Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"?
You cultivate the flower in yourself,
so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
We cannot teach people anything;
we can only help them discover it
within themselves.
-Galileo Galilei
Not being known doesn't stop the truth
from being true.
-Richard Bach
You are a crowd, a multitude.
Just you have to look more closely, more deeply,
and you will find many people within you.
And they all pretend at times to be you.
-Osho
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
-Navajo Proverb
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the end of the ocean.
-David Searls
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
There is nothing in the universe that is not you.
-Unknown
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9%
of everything you think,
and of everything you do,
is for yourself,
And there isn't one.
-Wei Wu Wei
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
-Native American Proverb
For behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal, or a window opening on something more than itself.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
-Aristotle
The Awakening is no other than
Consciousness becoming acquainted with itself.
-DT Suzuki
You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.
-Ruth E. Renkai
When we think we're separate, we lose power. Whenever I say 'my,' I have lost power. Power is not my power . . . It is only gainable as a part of the larger whole. Then you communicate with the rest of yourself -- which may be a tree. You, reciprocally, are moved by the universe. Whenever you shut down connectedness, you get depressed . . . It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible.
-Glenda Taylor
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
-Blaise Pascal
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together.
-Vincent Van Gogh
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
-Rodney Collin
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-Jimi Hendrix
The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
-Albert Einstein
To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower
hold infinity
in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
Joy is not in things.
It is in us.
-Richard Wagner
Whenever you want to produce something,
do not depend upon the outside source:
go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
to be yourself-
in a world which is doing its best
night and day
to make you everybody else-
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight
and never stop fighting.
-ee cummings
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses - past the headlands -
Into deep Eternity.
-Emily Dickinson
Pain is illusion;
joy, reality.
Pain is but sleep;
joy is awakening.
Pain is deception;
joy alone is truth.
And so again we make
the only choice that ever can be made;
we choose between illusions and truth,
or pain and joy,
or hell and Heaven.
-A Course In Miracles
All serious daring starts from within.
-Eudora Welty
When one tugs at a
single thing in nature,
he finds it attached
to the rest of the world.
-John Muir
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you feel most alive, find out why,
This is one guest you won't greet twice.
-Kabir
We are not bodies with souls. But souls with bodies.
-Kevin R. Bean
Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not problematic, you are the problem.
-Anthony de mello
God has no religion.
-Gandhi
Everything is simple --reality is simple. It seems complex only because of ignorance; otherwise everything is simple. Once you know it, it becomes simple. The knowing is bound to be difficult not because of reality, remember, but because of your mind.
-Osho
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
-Richard Bach
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
-Chuang Tzu
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a
function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
-Ouspensky
The wind cannot shake a mountain.
Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man.
-Buddha
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
-Eckhart Tolle
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-Mencius
The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that
supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The
world is in you and can become known in you, as you.
-Jean Klein
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-Blaise Pascal
All the true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
-Carl Jung
Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves
and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
-Huston Smith
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
After that, fear has no power,
And the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.
-Jim Morrison
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin
The ability to simplify
means to eliminate the unneccessary,
so that the neccessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann
What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.
-Andrew Harvey
To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
-Lao Tzu
Don't stand by my grave and weep,
for I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on the snow,
I am sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
-Unknown Native American
If the doors of perception were cleansed, all things would appear infinite.
-William Blake
If I accept the sunshine
and warmth,
then I must also accept
the thunder and lightning.
-Kahlil Gibran
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
-Carl Jung
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
-Francois Voltaire
Turn your gaze inward.
Correct yourself and your world will change.
-Kristin Zambucka
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
-Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
-Vernon Howard
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
-Kahlil Gibran
Dance like no one is watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.
-William Purkey
The Great Way is not difficult--
Just cease to cherish opinions.
The Third Zen Patriarch
You can have anything you want
if you are willing to give up the belief
that you can't have it.
-Robert Anthony
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
-Marcus Aurelius
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t.
It is your choice-- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.
-Osho
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.
-Osho
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat
match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
-Joseph Campbell
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness.
-Thomas Merton
One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.
-Mother Meera
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-e.e. cummings
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
-Meher Baba
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
-Lao Tzu
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-Richard Bach
Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.
-Gary Zukav
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...
-Osho
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
-ee cummings
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot."
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
-John Burroughs
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Chuang Tzu
Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision.
Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.
-Rumi
You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
-Hafiz
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung
"...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
-Osho
For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.
-Mother Meera
There is nothing either bad or good, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.
-Eckhart Tolle
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
-Mary Brave Bird
It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson