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Quotes for the Spirit
"I'm still learning..."
Michelangelo Buonarotti
"If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness."
Teilhard de Chardin
"A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"We cannot do great things, but we can do small things with great love."
Mother Theresa
"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority."
Henry David Thoreau
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
"We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history - a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world."
Willis Harman
"Take your well disciplined strengths
and stretch them between two
opposing poles. Because inside human beings
is where God learns"
Rainier Maria Rilke - translated from the German by Robert Bly
"There are missions and stages given only to us.
Life is a drama with no written scenario.
Playing ourselves in the way of celebrated actors,
we should live our own role, whatever it entails,
with energy and a ready smile."
Daisaku Ikeda, ISG
"Birds settle on a tree for a while, and then go their separate ways again. The meeting of all living beings must likewise inevitably end in their parting. This world passes away and disappoints the hopes of everlasting attachment. it is therefore unwise to have a sense of ownership for people who are united with us as in a dream---for a while only and not in fact."
Gautama Buddha
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering ."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul"
François Rabelais
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Walker Evans
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali
"Temptation is the Universe's compassionate way of allowing you to run through what would be a harmful negative karmic dynamic if you were to allow it to become physically manifest ... the gracious opportunity to have a dry run at a life lesson ... without creating karma and interaction with other souls."
Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Harold Whitman
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
George Santayana
"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an ocean of illimitable inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land."
Thomas H. Huxley
"I now know that no one thing is true. It's all true."
Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
"The myriad end-of-the-world scenarios filling the air today emerge from a fear-based ego's inevitable argument that if we do not go its way, then there is no way to go. But in fact, there is. There is another way to live, to be, to think, to behave -- and yes, to organize human civilization; the fact that the mind that manufactured the world we live in now cannot imagine what that would be, is certainly no sign that another way does not exist. The change from who we are right now to who we can and shall be once we have embraced this opportunity for change, represents a quantum leap forward in our spiritual as well as our political, economic, and social development."
Marianne Williamson
“Fuse the powers of the sacred heart with the energies of the awakened body and you can transform everything.”
Teilhard de Chardin
"It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember---I need not recall---that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one."
Bernard Berenson
"Thinkest thyself a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?"
Sufi saying
"Between apprehending and naming, is experiencing."
Krishnamurti