Quotes 101-125
Common Sense
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
William James
Changing the World
Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself. The only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.
Gary Zukav
Gary Zukav
Native American Philosophy
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them...The animals had rights: the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness. This concept of life and its relations filled us with joy and mystery of living; it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Spread Your Wings
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
C. JoyBell C.
C. JoyBell C.
Become Loving
Become loving. When you are in the embrace, become the embrace. Become the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that you can say, “I am no more. Only love exists.” Then the heart is not beating, but love is beating. Then the blood is not circulating, but love is circulating. Then eyes are not seeing, love is seeing. Then hands are not moving to touch, love is moving to touch. Become love and enter everlasting life. Love suddenly changes your dimension. You are thrown out of time and you are facing eternity. Love can become a deep meditation, the deepest possible. Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
Osho
Osho
A Rite of Passage
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
Dan Millman
Dan Millman
Sacred Space
The experience of sacred space makes possible the ‘founding of the world’: where the sacred manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
You and I
Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the Universal existence. “You” means to be aware of the Universe in the form of you, and “I” means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors.
Shunrvu Suzuki
Shunrvu Suzuki
We Are Buddha
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas. Like water and ice;
Apart from water, no ice. Outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar.
What a pity.
Hakuin
Apart from water, no ice. Outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar.
What a pity.
Hakuin
The Secret of Everything
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because Oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
The Third Dimensional Self
You are not your body.
Your body is a vehicle.
You are that which animates
Your body and assigns purpose to its being.
You are a Being temporarily being a Human Being.
Some days it is all too easy to lose sight of this, given the dense accumulation of atoms and other physical material indicative of a third-dimensional world. You are not a third-dimensional being, but you have altered your formlessness into a being equipped with unique and specific qualities, one of which is to understand and therefore transcend that which is limiting into that which is limitless.
The sole purpose of the third dimension is to ask and answer the question: Does the physical world contain you, or do you contain it? It is a question well worth asking, but its answer cannot be processed by the mind, regardless of how expansive the mind might be. The answer must be arrived at via experience, both physical and non physical. That is why the answer lies in the journey and not the destination, my friends, which is simply a point in time that exists just prior to the next beginning.
Rev. Angela Peregoff
Your body is a vehicle.
You are that which animates
Your body and assigns purpose to its being.
You are a Being temporarily being a Human Being.
Some days it is all too easy to lose sight of this, given the dense accumulation of atoms and other physical material indicative of a third-dimensional world. You are not a third-dimensional being, but you have altered your formlessness into a being equipped with unique and specific qualities, one of which is to understand and therefore transcend that which is limiting into that which is limitless.
The sole purpose of the third dimension is to ask and answer the question: Does the physical world contain you, or do you contain it? It is a question well worth asking, but its answer cannot be processed by the mind, regardless of how expansive the mind might be. The answer must be arrived at via experience, both physical and non physical. That is why the answer lies in the journey and not the destination, my friends, which is simply a point in time that exists just prior to the next beginning.
Rev. Angela Peregoff
The Way of Love
I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love’s caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith.
Ibn Arabi
and where Love’s caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith.
Ibn Arabi
Sorrow Prepares You
Sorrow prepares you for joy.
It violently sweeps everything out of your house,
So that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
So that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots,
So that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
Far better things will take their place.
Rumi
It violently sweeps everything out of your house,
So that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
So that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots,
So that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
Far better things will take their place.
Rumi
Fierce Embrace
It doesn’t interest me if there
is one God
Or many gods...
I want to know if you belong -
or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared
to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back
with firm eyes
Saying, “this is where I stand.”
I want to know
if you know
how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
David Whyte
is one God
Or many gods...
I want to know if you belong -
or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared
to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back
with firm eyes
Saying, “this is where I stand.”
I want to know
if you know
how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
David Whyte
In Essence
Essence doesn’t mean a little part hidden somewhere in us, the little teeny kernel of essence.
Essence means the totality, the whole thing.
Essence means the truth of you as opposed to the untruth of you.
Essence isn’t a small thing, essence is an immense thing.
The essence of you is everything you ever see, taste, touch, and experience.
Everywhere you go, every step you take,
Every breath you take is actually happening by the essence.
All the rest is noise and chatter.
Adyashanti
Essence means the totality, the whole thing.
Essence means the truth of you as opposed to the untruth of you.
Essence isn’t a small thing, essence is an immense thing.
The essence of you is everything you ever see, taste, touch, and experience.
Everywhere you go, every step you take,
Every breath you take is actually happening by the essence.
All the rest is noise and chatter.
Adyashanti
A Splendid Adventure
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived
If you take it bravely and gallantly,
As a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country,
To meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
If you take it bravely and gallantly,
As a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country,
To meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
Compassion Hurts
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the detainees of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
Andrew Boyd
Andrew Boyd
An Enlightened Soul
Being an enlightened soul is all about
letting go of the gathered corruptions
that are sticking to one’s soul, which are
preventing the divine light of the soul
from shining bright.
Being an enlightened soul is all about
retaining a state of pureness, a state of
innocence, a state of being, where one
transcends all physical senses and
illusions, and able to see and understand
the beauty of life, truth, and love
in their purest form.
Prem Tihan (Shafiq)
letting go of the gathered corruptions
that are sticking to one’s soul, which are
preventing the divine light of the soul
from shining bright.
Being an enlightened soul is all about
retaining a state of pureness, a state of
innocence, a state of being, where one
transcends all physical senses and
illusions, and able to see and understand
the beauty of life, truth, and love
in their purest form.
Prem Tihan (Shafiq)
Your Experiences
Your experiences do not form you. You form yourself by understanding your experiences.
Lauren Zimmerman
Lauren Zimmerman
Patience and Passion
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts.
Patience alone will not build the temple.
Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya Angelou
Patience alone will not build the temple.
Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya Angelou
Newborn
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blessing
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
John O’Donohue
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
John O’Donohue
Personal Is Global
Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson