favorite quotes
If you can't see the light, be the light. (One of my own personal mottos)
Learn Everything. Later you will find that nothing was superfluous." Hugh of Saint-Victor
"Everything that lives is holy, life delights in life" William Blake
"Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire
with God:
But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
"Each portion of matter may be conceived as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each
branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a
pond." Leibniz
" It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de
Saint-Exupery
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." G.K. Chesterton
"The Rule is : Jam tomorrow, Jam yesterday, but never Jam today." Lewis Carroll
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has gained liberation from the
self." Albert Einstein
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." Coco Chanel
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me." Meister Eckhart
" If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we
ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is
at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no.' " J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Tragedy is like a strong acid- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth..." D.H. Lawrence
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." Albert Camus
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
" Fire is the test of Gold; Adversity of strong men." Seneca
"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it, for such do always see that in every cloud is an
Angel's face."
St. Jerome
"The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart. Think of other people. Serve other people sincerely. No
cheating..."
The Dalai Lama
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human
experience."
Pere Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"To find God is but the beginning of wisdom, because then for all our lives we have to learn His purpose
with us and to live our lives with Him." H.G. Wells
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding..." Kahlil Gibran
"Pain is a blessing in disguise. Pain is an eye-opener. Pain is your silent teacher. Pain will turn your mind
toward God." Sivananda
"It better befits a man to laugh at life than lament over it" Seneca
"Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace." Amelia Earhart
"if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Anonymous
" All separateness is an illusion, and all things are ultimately interconnected and whole. We fragment
things because we exist at a lower vibration of consciousness and reality- it is our propensity for
fragmentation that keeps us from experiencing the intensity of consciousness, joy, love and delight for
existence that are the norm in these higher and more subtle realms."
Sri Auribindo
"Error is Created. Truth is Eternal. Error, or Creation will be Burned up & then, & not till Then, Truth or
Eternity will appear. It is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it." William Blake
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make the best of everything; think the best of everybody; hope the best of yourself; and do as I have
done - persevere. " Anonymous
"It is easy enough to be happy when life flows by like a song, But the man worthwhile , Is the man with a
smile, When everything goes dead wrong." Anonymous
"In this halt of but a week, to be is not to be, and to come is to go."
Hakim Sanai from 'The Hadiqa-The Walled Garden Of Truth'
"While this world remains, that one cannot be; Whilst you exist, God cannot be yours." Hakim Sanai-
ibid.
"Never stand still on the path: become non-existent; non-existent even to the notion of becoming non-
existent. And when you have abandoned both individuality and understanding, this world will become
that." Hakim Sanai-ibid.
"Unself yourself... Until you see yourself as a speck of dust you cannot possibly reach that place; Self
could never breathe that air, so wend your way there without self." Hakim Sanai-ibid.
" Verily, he who hath seen, heard, comprehended and known the Self, by him is the entire Universe
known"
Tibetan Book of the Dead
" Your self-esteem performs no prayers, since it sees no profit there for you. While self-esteem is at the
helm, I doubt if Gabriel will arrive. When on the path you have slain your self, you will at once be shown
God's favor; to gain admission , come in poverty, if not, you're irrevocably divorced." Hakim Sanai (as
above)
" The separate self dissolves in the sea of pure consciousness, infinite and immortal. Separateness arises
from identifying the Self with the body, which is made up of the elements; When this physical
identification dissolves, there can be no more separate self. This is what I want to tell you, beloved."
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Chapter 2, 4 : 12
"Patience is never more important than when you're on the verge of losing it" Anonymous
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" Mohandas Gandi
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them become what they are capable
of being." Goethe
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives" Confucious
"The more you know the less you understand." Tao Te Ching
"Of all the great things to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest." Leonardo da Vinci
"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." Tao Te Ching
"Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun.
"Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything." Rumi
"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." Anonymous.
"What we accept, we teach." Anonymous
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
"Water which is too pure has no fish." Ts'ai Ken T'an
"Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether." Surya Singer
" The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is
praying." St. Anthony
"Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, raindrop, and dustmote. To See a
world in a Grain of Sand And Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And
Eternity in an hour." William Blake
"Before a person studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into
the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are not waters; after enlightenment,
mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters." Zen saying.
" We cannot ask if the part is creating the whole, or the whole is creating the part - the part is the whole-
the dream is the dreaming itself." Kalahari Bushmen Wisdom
" We are all thoughts in the mind of God."
"All the Laws of the Cosmos can be found in the atom or in any other phenomenon which exists as
something completed according to certain laws."
P.D. Ouspensky In Search of the Miraculous
"The ways which lead to the cognition of unity approach like the radii of a circle moving towards the
center; the closer the come to the center, the closer they approach one another."
P.D. Ouspensky In Search of the Miraculous.
" Look how lofty and how huge in breadth The eternal night, which, broken and dispersed over countless
mirrors, yet remains whole, in itself and one, as at the first." Dante's Divine comedy Paradise Canto XX
"The One is without cognition, ignorant even of itself. One cannot see the sun when one is the sun; the
seer cannot see the seen because the seer is the seen." Plotinus
"The seer does not see or distinguish or imagine two things; he becomes another, he ceases to be himself
and to belong to himself. He belongs to Him as is one with Him, like two concentric circles; they are one
when they coincide, and two only when they are separated. It is only in this sense that the soul is other
than God. Therefore this vision is hard to describe. For how can one describe as other than oneself, that
which when one saw it, seemed to be one with oneself."
Plotinus from the Enneads 6:9:11
" For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 2 Corinthians 5:1
" Under Heaven there are no two ways and the wise are ever of the same heart."
Principal of Taoist Zen Alchemy Ko Ch'ang Ken (also known as Po Yu Chuan)
" The changing of bodies into light and light into bodies is very conformable to the course of nature;
which seems delighted with transmutation." Isaac Newton-Opticks
"Before mankind could be ripe for a science which takes in the whole of reality. a second fundamental
truth was needed, which only became property among philosophers with the advent of Kepler and Galileo
: Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality
starts from experience and ends in it." Albert Einstein
"There are two ways to live your life, One as if nothing was a miracle, The other, as though everything
was a miracle." Albert Einstein
" In the pursuit of learning, everyday something is acquired. In the pursuit of the Tao, everyday something
is lost." Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
" Having an open mind, you will be open hearted. Being open hearted you will act royally. Being royal
you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"You should study not only that you should become a mother when your child is born, but also that you
become a child. Dogen
"Everything on Earth lives according to the law of nature, and from that law emerges the glory and joy of
liberty ; but man is denied this fortune because he set for the God-given soul a limited and earthly law of
his own. He made for himself a strict and painful prison in which he secluded his affections and desires.
He dug out a deep grave in which he buried his heart and it's purpose...Will man remain a slave of self-
confinement until the end of the world? Or will he be freed by the passing of time and live in the Spirit for
the Spirit ? Will man insist upon staring downward and backward at the earth ? Or will he turn toward the
sun so he will not see the shadow of his body amongst the skulls and the thorns." Kahlil Gibran
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed." William Blake
"The only way to truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in extreme and
total humiliation." Simone Weil
"If you are going to bow, bow low." Eastern Proverb
"Truth does not change; if it were to change it would not be truth." Anonymous
"Truth is always the same, in spite of the difference in the language employed by those who expound it.
God does not change, the Law remains the same, and Principle is always unaltered and unalterable. Henry
T. Hamblin
"Accept the truth; whatever the source...take pearls from the sea, the gold from the dust, and roses from
amidst the thorns." Emmanuel
"if I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?"
Rabbi Hillel the Elder
"There is no heavier burden than a great potential!" Linus ( Peanuts-Charles Schultz)
" Anyone can count the seeds in an apple; no one can count the apples in a seed." Anonymous
"When God sends rain...rain is my choice." James W. Riley
"Everyday is a good day" Yun-Men
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite." William
Blake
". . . And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist."
Lewis Carroll ( alice through the looking glass)
Luis Ponce de Leon, after returning to his university after 5 years of imprisonment by the Inquisition,
resumed his lectures with the words: " As we were saying yesterday. . . ."
" I am an old man. I have had many worries in my life. Most of which never happened." Mark Twain
" Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time, ' she said, 'than waste it
asking riddles with no answers.'"
"If you knew Time as well as I do, ' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him. '"
Lewis Carroll - A Mad Tea-Party
' Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
'I've had nothing yet, ' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'
'You mean you can't take less , ' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take more than nothing' "
Lewis Carroll - ibid.
" Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice; 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.-- I believe I
can guess that," she added aloud.
" Do you mean you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
" Exactly so," said Alice. "
then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "
I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least-- at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
" Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same
thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
" You might just as well say,' added the March hare, 'that I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what
I like'!"
" You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, "that 'I breathe
when I sleep' is the same thing as ' I sleep when I breathe'!"
Lewis Carroll--A Mad Tea Party
"Science without Religion is lame. Religion without Science is blind". Albert Einstein
" With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?" Thoreau
"The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and doesn't know who to thank." Wendy Ward
The atheist says to God " I don't believe in you"
God says to the atheist, " That's okay, I believe in you." Unknown
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much." Mother
Theresa
"True patience simply means having absolute confidence in God." Anonymous
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." Comte
de Buffon
"Failure is the path of least persistence." Anonymous
"If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different
from earth,
wood or stone? You must seek without seeking." Wu-Men
"Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear." Christian Bovee
"Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me." Edgar A. Guest
"Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others." Goethe
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but playing a poor hand well." Robert L. Stevenson
i thank you God for this most amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of a sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
( i who am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitable earth)
how should the tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-- lifted from the no
of all nothing-- human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
the eyes of my eyes are opened)
e.e. cummings
"I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do for my fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this
way again." William Penn
"Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly." Hildegard von Bingen
"Remember it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery." Kiddushin 4:12
"All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe." Nakagawa Soen-Roshi
"When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing
things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and
become a holy fire in you."
Hasidic Saying
"May all things move and be moved in me and know and be known in me May all creation dance for joy
within me."
Chinook Psalter
"Just to be is a blessing, Just to live is holy." Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for." Sir Thomas More
" Goodnight God I hope you are having a good time being the world.
I like the world very much.
I'm glad you made the plants and trees survive with the rain and summers.
When the summer is nearly near the leaves begin to fall.
I hope you have a good time being the world.
I like how God feels around everyone in the world. God,
I am very happy that I live on you.
Your arms clasp around the world.
I like you and your friends.
Every time I open my eyes I see the gleaming sun.
I like the animals--the deer, and us creatures of the world, the mammals.
I love my dear friends."
Danu Baxter 4 1/2 years old.
"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand." Mother Theresa
"Love is the reduction of the universe to single being." Victor Hugo
"When you are in love with someone, you do indeed see them as divine." Alan Watts
" Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Love comes on strong, consuming herself,
unabashed. Yet, in the midst of suffering, Love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and
straightforward. Having died of self-interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles
away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause, give it back again."
Rumi
"A candle never loses anything when it lights another candle." unknown
"Every stone that bruises the pilgrim's foot will teach him a lesson. Every lesson will yield a pearl." Elinor
MacDonald
"We should take reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss it's point." Lawrence Durrell
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." Shirley Maclaine
"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius..." Edward Gibbon
"Eagles fly alone; sheep herd together" Sufi saying
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner
spring, can best be found through solitude." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Solitude is not out to deceive anyone; it does not pretend or embellish; it has nothing to hide and invents
nothing. It is completely naked and without adornment; it knows nothing of shows or the applause which
poisons the mind. It has God as sole witness of its life and actions." Petrarch
"A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone." Jonathan Swift
Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their
story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and
lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is
a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to
what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the
grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune, but do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe; no less than the
trees and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe
is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God.
Whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all
it's sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful.
Strive to be happy.
The Desiderata - anonymous
"A coincidence is a small miracle where God chose to remain anonymous." Heide Quade
"Death is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a
short time by means of death we shall resume it again with more splendor." John Chrysostom
"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing?
Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change." D.H. Lawrence
"Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly." Hildegard von Bingen
"Remember it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery." Kiddushin 4:12
"No man is your enemy; no man is your friend. All alike are your teachers. Your enemy becomes a
mystery to be solved, even though it takes ages, for man to be understood. Your friend becomes a part of
yourself, an extension of yourself, a riddle hard to read. Only one thing is more difficult to know--your
own heart." Mabel Collins
"Saints are like big steamships which not only cross the ocean themselves but carry many passengers to
the other shore." Ramakrishna
"Believe not that man consists of flesh, skin and veins. the real part of man is his soul, and the things just
mentioned are only outer coverings. they are only veils, not the real man."The Zohar
"Everything that lives is holy, life delights in life" William Blake
"Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire
with God:
But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
"Each portion of matter may be conceived as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each
branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a
pond." Leibniz
" It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de
Saint-Exupery
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." G.K. Chesterton
"The Rule is : Jam tomorrow, Jam yesterday, but never Jam today." Lewis Carroll
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has gained liberation from the
self." Albert Einstein
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." Coco Chanel
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me." Meister Eckhart
" If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we
ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is
at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no.' " J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Tragedy is like a strong acid- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth..." D.H. Lawrence
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." Albert Camus
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
" Fire is the test of Gold; Adversity of strong men." Seneca
"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it, for such do always see that in every cloud is an
Angel's face."
St. Jerome
"The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart. Think of other people. Serve other people sincerely. No
cheating..."
The Dalai Lama
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human
experience."
Pere Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"To find God is but the beginning of wisdom, because then for all our lives we have to learn His purpose
with us and to live our lives with Him." H.G. Wells
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding..." Kahlil Gibran
"Pain is a blessing in disguise. Pain is an eye-opener. Pain is your silent teacher. Pain will turn your mind
toward God." Sivananda
"It better befits a man to laugh at life than lament over it" Seneca
"Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace." Amelia Earhart
"if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Anonymous
" All separateness is an illusion, and all things are ultimately interconnected and whole. We fragment
things because we exist at a lower vibration of consciousness and reality- it is our propensity for
fragmentation that keeps us from experiencing the intensity of consciousness, joy, love and delight for
existence that are the norm in these higher and more subtle realms."
Sri Auribindo
"Error is Created. Truth is Eternal. Error, or Creation will be Burned up & then, & not till Then, Truth or
Eternity will appear. It is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it." William Blake
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make the best of everything; think the best of everybody; hope the best of yourself; and do as I have
done - persevere. " Anonymous
"It is easy enough to be happy when life flows by like a song, But the man worthwhile , Is the man with a
smile, When everything goes dead wrong." Anonymous
"In this halt of but a week, to be is not to be, and to come is to go."
Hakim Sanai from 'The Hadiqa-The Walled Garden Of Truth'
"While this world remains, that one cannot be; Whilst you exist, God cannot be yours." Hakim Sanai-
ibid.
"Never stand still on the path: become non-existent; non-existent even to the notion of becoming non-
existent. And when you have abandoned both individuality and understanding, this world will become
that." Hakim Sanai-ibid.
"Unself yourself... Until you see yourself as a speck of dust you cannot possibly reach that place; Self
could never breathe that air, so wend your way there without self." Hakim Sanai-ibid.
" Verily, he who hath seen, heard, comprehended and known the Self, by him is the entire Universe
known"
Tibetan Book of the Dead
" Your self-esteem performs no prayers, since it sees no profit there for you. While self-esteem is at the
helm, I doubt if Gabriel will arrive. When on the path you have slain your self, you will at once be shown
God's favor; to gain admission , come in poverty, if not, you're irrevocably divorced." Hakim Sanai (as
above)
" The separate self dissolves in the sea of pure consciousness, infinite and immortal. Separateness arises
from identifying the Self with the body, which is made up of the elements; When this physical
identification dissolves, there can be no more separate self. This is what I want to tell you, beloved."
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Chapter 2, 4 : 12
"Patience is never more important than when you're on the verge of losing it" Anonymous
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" Mohandas Gandi
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them become what they are capable
of being." Goethe
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives" Confucious
"The more you know the less you understand." Tao Te Ching
"Of all the great things to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest." Leonardo da Vinci
"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." Tao Te Ching
"Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun.
"Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything." Rumi
"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." Anonymous.
"What we accept, we teach." Anonymous
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
"Water which is too pure has no fish." Ts'ai Ken T'an
"Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether." Surya Singer
" The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is
praying." St. Anthony
"Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, raindrop, and dustmote. To See a
world in a Grain of Sand And Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And
Eternity in an hour." William Blake
"Before a person studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into
the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are not waters; after enlightenment,
mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters." Zen saying.
" We cannot ask if the part is creating the whole, or the whole is creating the part - the part is the whole-
the dream is the dreaming itself." Kalahari Bushmen Wisdom
" We are all thoughts in the mind of God."
"All the Laws of the Cosmos can be found in the atom or in any other phenomenon which exists as
something completed according to certain laws."
P.D. Ouspensky In Search of the Miraculous
"The ways which lead to the cognition of unity approach like the radii of a circle moving towards the
center; the closer the come to the center, the closer they approach one another."
P.D. Ouspensky In Search of the Miraculous.
" Look how lofty and how huge in breadth The eternal night, which, broken and dispersed over countless
mirrors, yet remains whole, in itself and one, as at the first." Dante's Divine comedy Paradise Canto XX
"The One is without cognition, ignorant even of itself. One cannot see the sun when one is the sun; the
seer cannot see the seen because the seer is the seen." Plotinus
"The seer does not see or distinguish or imagine two things; he becomes another, he ceases to be himself
and to belong to himself. He belongs to Him as is one with Him, like two concentric circles; they are one
when they coincide, and two only when they are separated. It is only in this sense that the soul is other
than God. Therefore this vision is hard to describe. For how can one describe as other than oneself, that
which when one saw it, seemed to be one with oneself."
Plotinus from the Enneads 6:9:11
" For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 2 Corinthians 5:1
" Under Heaven there are no two ways and the wise are ever of the same heart."
Principal of Taoist Zen Alchemy Ko Ch'ang Ken (also known as Po Yu Chuan)
" The changing of bodies into light and light into bodies is very conformable to the course of nature;
which seems delighted with transmutation." Isaac Newton-Opticks
"Before mankind could be ripe for a science which takes in the whole of reality. a second fundamental
truth was needed, which only became property among philosophers with the advent of Kepler and Galileo
: Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality
starts from experience and ends in it." Albert Einstein
"There are two ways to live your life, One as if nothing was a miracle, The other, as though everything
was a miracle." Albert Einstein
" In the pursuit of learning, everyday something is acquired. In the pursuit of the Tao, everyday something
is lost." Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
" Having an open mind, you will be open hearted. Being open hearted you will act royally. Being royal
you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"You should study not only that you should become a mother when your child is born, but also that you
become a child. Dogen
"Everything on Earth lives according to the law of nature, and from that law emerges the glory and joy of
liberty ; but man is denied this fortune because he set for the God-given soul a limited and earthly law of
his own. He made for himself a strict and painful prison in which he secluded his affections and desires.
He dug out a deep grave in which he buried his heart and it's purpose...Will man remain a slave of self-
confinement until the end of the world? Or will he be freed by the passing of time and live in the Spirit for
the Spirit ? Will man insist upon staring downward and backward at the earth ? Or will he turn toward the
sun so he will not see the shadow of his body amongst the skulls and the thorns." Kahlil Gibran
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed." William Blake
"The only way to truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in extreme and
total humiliation." Simone Weil
"If you are going to bow, bow low." Eastern Proverb
"Truth does not change; if it were to change it would not be truth." Anonymous
"Truth is always the same, in spite of the difference in the language employed by those who expound it.
God does not change, the Law remains the same, and Principle is always unaltered and unalterable. Henry
T. Hamblin
"Accept the truth; whatever the source...take pearls from the sea, the gold from the dust, and roses from
amidst the thorns." Emmanuel
"if I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?"
Rabbi Hillel the Elder
"There is no heavier burden than a great potential!" Linus ( Peanuts-Charles Schultz)
" Anyone can count the seeds in an apple; no one can count the apples in a seed." Anonymous
"When God sends rain...rain is my choice." James W. Riley
"Everyday is a good day" Yun-Men
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite." William
Blake
". . . And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist."
Lewis Carroll ( alice through the looking glass)
Luis Ponce de Leon, after returning to his university after 5 years of imprisonment by the Inquisition,
resumed his lectures with the words: " As we were saying yesterday. . . ."
" I am an old man. I have had many worries in my life. Most of which never happened." Mark Twain
" Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time, ' she said, 'than waste it
asking riddles with no answers.'"
"If you knew Time as well as I do, ' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him. '"
Lewis Carroll - A Mad Tea-Party
' Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
'I've had nothing yet, ' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'
'You mean you can't take less , ' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take more than nothing' "
Lewis Carroll - ibid.
" Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice; 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.-- I believe I
can guess that," she added aloud.
" Do you mean you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
" Exactly so," said Alice. "
then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "
I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least-- at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
" Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same
thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
" You might just as well say,' added the March hare, 'that I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what
I like'!"
" You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, "that 'I breathe
when I sleep' is the same thing as ' I sleep when I breathe'!"
Lewis Carroll--A Mad Tea Party
"Science without Religion is lame. Religion without Science is blind". Albert Einstein
" With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?" Thoreau
"The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and doesn't know who to thank." Wendy Ward
The atheist says to God " I don't believe in you"
God says to the atheist, " That's okay, I believe in you." Unknown
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much." Mother
Theresa
"True patience simply means having absolute confidence in God." Anonymous
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." Comte
de Buffon
"Failure is the path of least persistence." Anonymous
"If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different
from earth,
wood or stone? You must seek without seeking." Wu-Men
"Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear." Christian Bovee
"Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me." Edgar A. Guest
"Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others." Goethe
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but playing a poor hand well." Robert L. Stevenson
i thank you God for this most amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of a sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
( i who am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitable earth)
how should the tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-- lifted from the no
of all nothing-- human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
the eyes of my eyes are opened)
e.e. cummings
"I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do for my fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this
way again." William Penn
"Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly." Hildegard von Bingen
"Remember it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery." Kiddushin 4:12
"All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe." Nakagawa Soen-Roshi
"When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing
things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and
become a holy fire in you."
Hasidic Saying
"May all things move and be moved in me and know and be known in me May all creation dance for joy
within me."
Chinook Psalter
"Just to be is a blessing, Just to live is holy." Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for." Sir Thomas More
" Goodnight God I hope you are having a good time being the world.
I like the world very much.
I'm glad you made the plants and trees survive with the rain and summers.
When the summer is nearly near the leaves begin to fall.
I hope you have a good time being the world.
I like how God feels around everyone in the world. God,
I am very happy that I live on you.
Your arms clasp around the world.
I like you and your friends.
Every time I open my eyes I see the gleaming sun.
I like the animals--the deer, and us creatures of the world, the mammals.
I love my dear friends."
Danu Baxter 4 1/2 years old.
"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand." Mother Theresa
"Love is the reduction of the universe to single being." Victor Hugo
"When you are in love with someone, you do indeed see them as divine." Alan Watts
" Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Love comes on strong, consuming herself,
unabashed. Yet, in the midst of suffering, Love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and
straightforward. Having died of self-interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles
away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause, give it back again."
Rumi
"A candle never loses anything when it lights another candle." unknown
"Every stone that bruises the pilgrim's foot will teach him a lesson. Every lesson will yield a pearl." Elinor
MacDonald
"We should take reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss it's point." Lawrence Durrell
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." Shirley Maclaine
"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius..." Edward Gibbon
"Eagles fly alone; sheep herd together" Sufi saying
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner
spring, can best be found through solitude." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Solitude is not out to deceive anyone; it does not pretend or embellish; it has nothing to hide and invents
nothing. It is completely naked and without adornment; it knows nothing of shows or the applause which
poisons the mind. It has God as sole witness of its life and actions." Petrarch
"A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone." Jonathan Swift
Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their
story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and
lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is
a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to
what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the
grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune, but do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe; no less than the
trees and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe
is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God.
Whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all
it's sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful.
Strive to be happy.
The Desiderata - anonymous
"A coincidence is a small miracle where God chose to remain anonymous." Heide Quade
"Death is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a
short time by means of death we shall resume it again with more splendor." John Chrysostom
"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing?
Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change." D.H. Lawrence
"Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly." Hildegard von Bingen
"Remember it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery." Kiddushin 4:12
"No man is your enemy; no man is your friend. All alike are your teachers. Your enemy becomes a
mystery to be solved, even though it takes ages, for man to be understood. Your friend becomes a part of
yourself, an extension of yourself, a riddle hard to read. Only one thing is more difficult to know--your
own heart." Mabel Collins
"Saints are like big steamships which not only cross the ocean themselves but carry many passengers to
the other shore." Ramakrishna
"Believe not that man consists of flesh, skin and veins. the real part of man is his soul, and the things just
mentioned are only outer coverings. they are only veils, not the real man."The Zohar
