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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
-Aristotle
For you were once in darkness, but are now Light in the lord. Walk as Children of Light,
-Ephesians 5:8
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
-John F. Kennedy
The essence of the self and the essence of the world – these two are one.
-Joseph Campbell
The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
-Alfred Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
-Alfred Einstein
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
-Alfred Einstein
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
-Alfred Einstein
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
-Aristotle
Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?
Everything is within.
-Yoggswami
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no game with ourselves.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are the prisoners of ideas.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
-Soren Kierkegaard
[F]rom the emptiness comes forth your dream, through the power of
clear intention, through the wisdom of equanimity and compassion,
through right action that builds and brings things to clear conclusion.
These three building fires exist within each of us, as spirals of energy
ever moving, ever bringing forth the fruits of our intention and desire.
- Dhyani Ywahoo
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is awaiting us. . . . The old skin has to be shed before the
new one is to come.
-Joseph Campbell
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world.
-Buddha
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
-Niels Bohr
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of
existence, the direct “actuality” of the world around us, can be
extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible,
however.
-Werner Heisenberg
The smallest units of matter are, in fact, not physical objects in the
ordinary sense of the word; they are forms, structures or—in Plato’s
sense—Ideas, which can be unambiguously spoken of only in the
language of mathematics.
-Werner Heisenberg
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but
nature exposed to our method of questioning.
-Werner Heisenberg
Observation plays a decisive role in the event and . . . the reality
varies, depending upon whether we observe it or not.
-Werner Heisenberg
Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say that the world
exists “out there” independent of us, that view can no longer be upheld.
-J. A. Wheeler
I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics.
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘But how
can it be like that?’ because you will go ‘down the drain’ into a blind
alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
-Richard Feynman
Things are not as they appear to be. Nor are they otherwise.
-The Lankavatara Sutra
Quantum physics tells us ‘the world is very big and very mysterious.
Mechanism is not the answer, but I’m not going to tell you what is.’
-from What the Bleep Do We Know!?
To change a major paradigm is to change our definition of what is
possible.
-Mark B. Woodhouse
What you cannot know in your body you can know nowhere else.
-The Upanishads
‘There is no use trying,’ said Alice. ‘One can’t believe impossible
things.’ ‘I dare say you haven’t had much practice. When I was your
age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’
-Lewis Carroll
Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by
vegetating in one’s little corner of the earth.
-Mark Twain
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the
occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-Abraham Lincoln
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imaginationthat is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
-Sean O’Faolain
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
‘Reality’ is the only word in the English language that should always
be used in quotes.
-Unknown
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-Richard Feynman
Einstein’s space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh’s sky. The glory
of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or
Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist’s discoveries
impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes
his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is
based on the observer’s frame of reference, which differs from period
to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.
-Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-Albert Einstein
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
-Aristotle
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth
becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its
importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.’
-William James
Dear dear! How queer everything is today! And yesterday things wenton just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night. Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost remember feeling a little different.
-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Of all the creatures of earth, only human beings can change their
patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny. . . . Human beings,by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
-William James
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a
habit.
-Aristotle
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their
lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it . . . and change it as times change, truly are powerless because they cannot think new
thoughts.
-Salman Rushdie
The last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
-Viktor Frankl
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state
of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy
attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
-Norman Vincent Peale
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true
or becomes true.
-John Lilly
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you’ve imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
-Patty Hansen
To create means to bring into existence...creativity is, in essence, an
internal process that is going on within us, all the time.
-Peter Russell
The most powerful force behind creation is described as the need of
the creative principle to give love and receive love.
-Stanislav Grof
To know ourselves as this free, creative energy is to know the meaning
of life in this world.
-Bruno Barnhart
When the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image
of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.
-Meister Eckhart
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
-Aristotle
The soul and mind and life are powers of living and can grow, but can not be cut out or made... One can indeed help the being grow... but even so, the growth must still come from within.
-Sri Aurobindo
Man is made by his beliefs. As he believes, so he is.
-The Bhagavad Gita
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
-Marie Curie
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
-Alfred Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Alfred Einstein
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret to success.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success buy yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The never ending task of self improvement.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power which can move the world.
-Mohandas K Gandhi
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
-Aristotle
He is forbidden to descry other sects;
the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor.
-Asoka Edids
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
-Alex de Tocqueville
Ill health is also a blessing.
The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.
-Yogaswami
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
-Alfred Einstein
The soul never thinks without a picture.
-Aristotle
As soon as there is life there is danger.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest poison is time.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is a waking dream.
-Aristotle
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.
How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
-Alex de Tocqueville
Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul's emphasis is always right.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you knew what you are.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
-Soren Kierkegaard
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
-Proverb
There are many things that are essential to arriving at the peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
-John Wooden
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
-Source Unknown
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
-Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is yourng, but delightful when one is more mature.
-Albert Einstein
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, buy symmetrical and balanced ones never.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
-Confucius
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;
Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!
Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;
-The Bhagavad Gita
He whose joy is within, whose pleasure is within, and whose light is within, that devotee, being well established in the Supreme, attains to absolute freedom.
-The Bhagavad Gita
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
-Alfred Einstein
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to ear the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to have succeeded.
-Albert Einstein
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
-Soren Kierkegaard
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
-Soren Kierkegaard
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have only one purpose: to make man free, to urge him towards freedom; to help him to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give him eternal happiness, will give him the unconditional realisation of Self.
Because I am free, unconditioned, whole -- not the part, not the relative but the whole Truth that is eternal -- I desire those who seek to understand me to be free, not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect.
Rather should they be free from all fears -- from the fear of religion, from the fear of salvation, from the fear of death, from the fear of life itself.
My purpose is to make man unconditionally free, for I maintain that the only spirituality is the incorruptiobility of the Self which is eternal, is the harmony between reson and love.
This is the absolute, unconditional Truth which is life itself. I therfore to set man free, rejoicing as the bird in the clear sky, unburdened, indipendent, ecstatic in that freedom.
-J Kirshnamurti
A religious man is guided in his activity not by the consepuences of his action, but by the consciousness of the destination of his life.
-Leo Tolstoy
There is a being, wonderful, perfect;
It existed before heaven and earth.
How quiet it is!
I stands alone and it does not change.
It moves around and around, but does not on this account suffer.
All life comes from it.
It wraps everything with its love as a garment,
and yet it claims no honour, for it does not demand to be Lord.
I do not know its name, and so I call it Tao, the Way, and rejoice in its power.
- Lao-tzu
Perhaps the most important and significant book I’ve read in the past ten years.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
...particularly timely ....a significant contribution to understanding and dealing with the problems we face today.
-Lee Iacocca
A beautiful gift of writing. You spread joy, love and compassion through what you write. The fruit of these three is peace, as you know.
-Mother Teresa
I especially appreciate the research and presentation on the attractor patterns of business.
- Sam Walton
The reader will almost certainly be impressed by Hawkins' clear, articulate style and the philosophical strength of his insight and observations....he has indeed helped arm us for the internal struggle.
-Sheldon Deal
We must be the change we want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
My life is my message.
-Mahatma Gandhi
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
-Henry Ford
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
-Lord Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887
People in power are often corrupt, and the more power they possess, the more corrupt they are.
-William Pitt
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
-William Pitt
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
-Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
-Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
-Aristotle
One day we will wake up and find out we are family
-Desmond Tutu
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
-Aristotle
We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot (Quartets)
The unexamined life is not worth living
-Socrates
The unlived life is not worth examining
- Michael Tsarion
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
-Matthew 21:22
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
- Luke 11:9-10
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him [for it would make us no better than him in the end].
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
-Socrates
Words do not teach. True knowing comes from life experience. We offer these words, that they might stimulate your thinking. Truly, a teacher is a stimulator of thought.
-Abraham
JOY is the point. Abraham speaks to the heart. They teach that life is supposed to be fun. They say that is what you intended before you got here. They teach that you can be, do, or have anything you want. They say YOU create your own reality and the universe is simply reflecting back to you the essence of how you're feeling about it! Joseph Campbell said, "Follow your bliss." Abraham shows you where you left your compass. Your compass? Your emotions.
-Abraham
All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.
- Abraham
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
-T.S. Eliot
The falsification of history has done more to mislead humans than any single thing known to mankind.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
-Course in Miracles
Those who know, do
Those who understand, teach
-Aristotle
God exists since mathematics is consistent,
and the Devil exists since its consistency cannot be proved.
-Hermann Weyl, 1885-1955
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
-Mahatma Gandhi
If you find a pathway with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
-Croft M. Pentz
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
-Napoleon
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
-John F Kennedy
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
-Aristotle
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
-Mohandas K Gandhi
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
-Albert Einstein
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
-Joseph Campbell
I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant (who) delivers in time of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely, doing a good straightforward job.
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
-Margaret Thatcher
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knoweth it shall be opened.
-Luke 11:9-11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
-Jeremiah 29:11
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-Sophocles
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.
-Abraham Lincoln
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and everyone of you.
-St. Theresa's Prayer
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
- Physicist Heinz Pagels
The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God!
- Ramtha
...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
- Lord Byron
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein
It gives me a deep comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.’
- Helen Keller
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung
Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
- Taisen Deshimaru
Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
- Winston Churchill
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
Know thyself.
- Socrates
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
- Physicist Heinz Pagels
The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God!
- Ramtha
...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
- Lord Byron
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein
Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
- Winston Churchill
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Christ filling the hearing, sight, touch, taste, and every sense
- Origen
Divine wakefulness
with pure and naked intuition
- Gregory of Nyssa
With the flash of one trembling glance, my mind arrived at THAT WHICH IS, but I could not fix my gaze thereon
-Augustine
Utter pureness,
myriad lightnings,
flashing forth,
beyond all being
-Pseudo-Dionysius
The mind, gazing upon the universe of God's handiwork,
rapt by the divine and infinite light
-Maximus the Confessor
The mind stolen from itself
by the ineffable sweetness
of the Word
-Bernard of Clairvaux
Seeing truth
in purity
and simplicity
-Richard of St. Victor
The alertness
which finds everything plain
and grasps it clearly
with entire apprehension
-Hugh of St. Victor
Receiving the clarity of God
without any means;
a single nakedness
that embraces all things
-Jan Van Ruysbroek
A blind feeling
of one's own being,
stretching unto God
-The Cloud of Unknowing
The enlightening of the understanding, joined to the
joys of God's love
-Walter Hilton
Right understanding,
with true longing, absolute trust,
and sweet grace-giving mindfulness
-Julian of Norwich
Hanging
by God's thread
of pure Love
-Catherine of Genoa
The secret of Christian contemplation
is that it faces us with Jesus Christ
toward our suffering world
in loving service and just action
-Catherine of Siena
Finding God
in all things
-Ignatius of Loyola
Awareness
absorbed and amazed
-Teresa of Avila
The window of the soul
cleansed perfectly
and made completely transparent
by the divine light
-John of the Cross
The pure, loving gaze
that finds God
everywhere
-Brother Lawrence
The mind's loving, unmixed,
permanent attention
to the things of God
-Francis de Sales
Seeing God in everything
and everything in God
with completely extraordinary clearness
and delicacy
-Marie of the Incarnation
The pure, virgin awareness
of a little child
in the state of innocence
-Thomas Traherne
Continual communion
through all things
by quite simply doing everything
in the presence of the Holy Trinity
-Elizabeth of the Trinity
The world becoming luminous
from within
as one plunges
breathlessly
into human activity
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Seeing through exterior things,
and seeing God
in them
-Thomas Merton
A continual condition
of prayerful sensitivity
to what is really going on
-Douglas Steere
Looking deeply at life
as it is
in the very here and now
-Thich Nhat Hanh
A long, loving look...
-William McNamara
A long, loving look at the real
-Walter Burghardt
Continually renewed immediacy
-Thomas Kelly
Awakening to the presence of God in the human heart and in the universe which is around us... knowledge by love.
-Dom Bede Griffiths
To love someone is to identify with them.
-Aristotle
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
That government is best which governs least.
-Thomas Paine
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
-Audrey Hepburn
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
-Albert Einstein
I didn't do it, no one saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
-Bart Simpson
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-Albert Einstein
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-Albert Einstein
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Mahatma Gandhi
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
-Aldous Huxley
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
-Winston Churchill
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
-Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-Albert Einstein
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, third president of the United States. Scholar, scientist, educator, lawyer, diplomat, political philosopher, and architect.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-Carl Sagan
Children are the living messages that we will send to a time we will not see.
-John W Whitehead
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation...
-Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
-Mark Twain
We walk through ourselves,meeting robbers,ghosts,giants, old men,young men,wives,widows,brothers-in-love.But always meeting ourselves.
-J. Joyce
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
-Aristotle
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
-Mark.11:22-24
If we look into the process of gaining knowledge we find there are two sides to knowledge: the object of knowledge, that which we seek to know, and the subject of knowledge, the knower. What the present system of education provides is knowledge of the object; what it misses is knowledge of the subject, knowledge of the knower in the knower's infinite capacity. When the knower is ignorant about the Self, the whole structure of knowledge is as if baseless.
As a result of this educational approach, students grow in the awareness that all streams of knowledge are but modes of their own intelligence. They come to feel at home with everyone and everything. Their creative genius blossoms with increasing confidence and self-sufficiency. They cease to violate Natural Law, and grow in the ability to accomplish anything and spontaneously to think and act free from mistakes - the fruit of all knowledge."
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Contentment is the only real wealth.
-Alfred Nobel
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
-Ephesians 4:3
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
