Favorite Quotes and Inspirations:
For those who believe,
no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. John &
Lun St. Clair Thomas
To find yourself,
think for yourself.Socrates
One does not discover new lands without
consenting to lose sight of the shore for a time. Andre Gide
If you shut your door
to all errors truth will be shut out.Rabindranath
Tagore
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know
that Faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran
The more you depend on forces outside
of yourself, the more you are dominated by them. Harold
Sherman
A sense of purpose is not
something that you find; it is something that you are. Dr.
Wayne Dyer
The creation of something new is not
accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the object it loves. Carl G. Jung
It is simple to calculate
how many seeds are in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many
apples are in a seed? Dr.
Wayne Dyer
...do keep an ear out for
the inaudible and mysterious sounds of silence. There's a lot happening there
too, perhaps more than written expression can capture. And what makes these
sounds most mysterious, and healing, is that it's never quite clear where
they are coming from. Dr.
J. Russo
When love beckons to you, follow him.
Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to
him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks
to you, believe in him. Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north
wind lays waste the garden. Kahlil Gibran
Love is letting go of fear. Gerald
Jampolsky
Do the thing and you will have the
power . Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran
Men are disturbed not by the things
that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. Epictetus
You are never asked to do more than
you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it. Eileen
Caddy
We are what
we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts
we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will
follow you as your shadow, unshakable. The
Dhammapada
The snow goose need not bathe to make
itself white. Neither need you to do anything but be yourself. Lao-tse
We are injured and hurt emotionally-not
so much by other people or what they say or don't say-but by our own attitude
and our own response. Maxwell Maltz
Work is love made visible. Kahlil
Gibran
How soon will you realize that the
only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you
need that you don't already have. Ken Keyes, JR
Don't try to force anything. Let life
be a deep let-go. See God open millions of flowers every day without forcing
the buds. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
You know quite well deep within you,
that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and
that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do
not flee from it. It is only your aversion that hurts, nothing else. Herman
Hesse
Truth is not something
you look for; it is something you live. Dr. Wayne Dyer
Yesterday is but today's
memory and Tomorrow is today's dream. Kahlil Gibran
It is good to have an end to journey
towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.Ursula Le Guin
Realize that you cannot help a soul
unless that soul really wants help and is ready to be helped. I tell you to
send that soul nothing but Love and more love. Be still and wait, but be there
when that soul turns for help. Eileen Caddy
A loving person lives in a loving
world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your
mirror. Ken Keyes, JR
You will decide on
a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on
you always. Bible: JOB 22:28
Life is like a wild
tiger. You can either lie down and let it lay its paw on your head -- Or
sit on its back and ride it. Ride
the Wild Tiger
The most effective way to achieve
right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then
help that best into the fullest expression. J.
Allen Boone
What is of all things
most yielding can overcome that which is most hard. Being substanceless,
it can enter in even where there is no crevice. That is how I know the
value of action which is actionless. But that there can be teaching without
words Value in action what is actionless Few indeed can understand. That
the yielding conquers the resistant and the soft conquers the hard is a
fact known by all but utilized by none. Lao
Tsu
Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning
all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the
ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment
one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Scottish
Himalayan Expedition
Admit the void; accept loss
forever. Not to admit the void is the trouble with those schizophrenics who
treat words as real things. Schizophrenic literalism equates symbol and original
object so as to retain the original object, to avoid object-loss. Freedom
in the use of symbolism ccomes from the capacity to experience loss. Wisdom
is mourning; blessed are they that mourn. Normal
O. Brown, Love's Body
THE INVITATION Oriah
Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder May 1994
It doesn't interest
me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare
to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't matter to me how old you
are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your
dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't matter to me what planets
are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your
own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled
and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with
pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want
to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness
and let ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning
us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story
you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to
be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray
your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty
even if it's not pretty everyday, and if you can source your life from God's
presence.
I want to
know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand
on the edge of a lake and shout to the sliver of the full moon, "Yes!"
It doesn't interest me to know where
you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after
the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs
to be done for the children.
It doesn't matter to me who you are,
how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the
fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what
or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside
when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF LIVING by Joseph Campbell
"The hero's journey
always begins with the call. One way or another a guide must come to say, "Look,
you're in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of
your consciousness, your being, that's not being touched. So you're at
home here? Well, there's not enough of you there." And so it starts. The
call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness
and find the jewel, the center that's impossible to find when you're socially
engaged. You are thrown off center, and when you feel off-center, it's
time to go. This is the departure when the hero feels something has been
lost and goes to find it. You are to cross the threshold into a new life.
It's a dangerous adventure, because you are m |oving out of the sphere
of the knowledge of you and your community. The first step, detachment
or withdrawal, consists in a radical transfer of emphasis from the external
to the internal world, macro- to microcosm, a retreat from the desperations
of the waste land to the peace of the everlasting realm that is within.
It is the realm that we enter in sleep. We carry it within ourselves forever.
All the ogres and secret helpers of our nursery are there, all the magic
of childhood. And more important, all the life-potentialities that we never
managed to bring into adult realization, those other portions of ourself,
are there; for such golden seeds do not die. When one thinks of some reason
for not going or has fear and remains in society because it's safe, the
results are radically different from what happens when one follows the
call. If you refuse to go, then you are someon ¶e else's servant.
When this refusal of the call happens, there is a kind of drying up, a
sense of life lost. Everything in you knows that a required adventure has
been refused. Anxieties build up. What you have refused to experience in
a positive way, you will experience in a negative way. If what you are
following, however, is your own true adventure, if it is something appropriate
to your deep spiritual need or readiness, then magical guides will appear
to help you. If you say,
"Everyone's going on this trip this year, and I'm going too," then no guides
will appear. Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.
If you are ready for it, then doors will open where there were no doors before,
and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have the courage.
When you cross the threshold, you are passing into the dark forest, taking
a plunge into the sea, embarking upon the night sea journey. It involves passing
through classing rocks, narrow gates, or the like, which represent yes and
no, the pairs of opposites. There will be a moment when the walls of the world
seem to open for a second, and you get an insight through . . . What this represents
psychologically is the trip from the realm of consciousness, rational intentions
into the zone of those other energies of the body that are moving from another
center; the center with which you are trying to get in touch. As you now go
towards the center, there will come more aids, as well as more difficult trials.
You have to give up more and more of what you're hanging on to. The final thing
is a total giving up, a yielding all the way. This is a place directly opposite
your life experiences and all that you've be Îen taught. Psychologically,
it's a shift into the unconsciousness; otherwise, it's a move into a field
of action of which you know nothing . . . The deeper you go, and the closer
you get to the final realization, the heavier the resistance. You are coming
down to those areas that are the ones that are repressed, and it's that repression
system that you have to pass through. And there, of course, is where magical
aid is most required. The hero may here discover for the first time that there
is everywhere a benign power supporting him in his superhuman passage. You
come then to the final experience of discovering and making your own that which
was lacking in the place from which you departed."
