You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Love is an expression of connection without any conditions.
-Veronica
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-Einstein
You are not what you think you are,
What you think, you are.
-Red Pritchard
What you are looking for
is what is looking.
-St. Francis of Assisi
There is nothing permanent except change.
-Heraclitus
A ship is safe in harbour-- but that's not what ships are for.
-John A. Shedd
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
-Osho
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
We either make ourselves miserable or we
make ourselves strong. The amount of work
is the same.
-don Juan Matus
as quoted by Carlos Castaneda
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
You are a crowd, a multitude.
Just you have to look more closely, more deeply,
and you will find many people within you.
And they all pretend at times to be you.
-Osho
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself;
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Progress is impossible without change,
And those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
-George Bernard Shaw
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
-Navajo Proverb
We cannot teach people anything;
we can only help them discover it
within themselves.
-Galileo Galilei
Not being known doesn't stop the truth
from being true.
-Richard Bach
Don’t call it Uncertainty
Call it Wisdom
Don’t call it Insecurity
Call it Freedom
-Osho
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction,
but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.
This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
-Eckhart Tolle
You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
-George Bernard Shaw
This we know: All things are connected
like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life,
We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
-Chief Seattle
You've been walking in circles, searching.
Don't drink by the water's edge.
Throw yourself in. Become the water.
Only then will your thirst end.
-Jeanette Berson
Wherever I go, I meet myself.
-Tozan
You can outdistance that which is running after you,
but not what is running inside you.
-Rwandan Proverb
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving.
Well then, love your suffering.
Do not resist it, do not flee from it.
It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Bashô, Narrow Road to the Interior
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.
-Meher Baba
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
-Bob Marley
What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately,
Each soul is responsible for the whole world.
-Gary Zukav
When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time.
When you know you are divine you can become completely human.
When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself ...
-Mother Meera
Seeking
Why run around sprinkling holy water?
There's an ocean inside you, and when you're
ready you'll drink.
-Kabir
It is eternity now; I am in the midst of it.
It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air.
Nothing has to come; it is now.
Now is eternity; now is immortal life.
-Richard Jefferies
Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth.
Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven.
The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.
-George Harrison The Inner Light
I shut my eyes in order to see.
-Paul Gaugin
Be a lamp unto your self.
Be your own confidence.
Hold to the truth within yourself as to the only Truth.
-Buddha
The true vocation of man is to find his way to
himself.
-Hermann Hesse
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
-Black Elk, Oglala Sioux
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within.
It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud
The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
-Dr. Wayne Dyer
Our own heart,
and not others' opinions of us,
forms our true honour.
-Friedrich von Schiller
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
-Kahlil Gibran
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
-Richard Bach
The ego will not go with laughter or caresses.
It must be chased in sorrow and drowned in tears.
-Persian saying
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being.
Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
-Carl Jung
Sound when stretched is music.
Movement when stretched is dance.
Mind when stretched is meditation.
Life when stretched is celebration.
-Ravi Shankar
We must never cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao Tzu
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
-Immanuel Kant
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
-Albert Einstein
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
-Christian Nestelle
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
-Charles Peguy
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
-Henry David Thoreau
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori Proverb
Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today-- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.
-Osho
How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
-Lao Tzu
Man cannot discover new oceans
until he has courage
to lose sight
of the shore.
-unknown
You are not a soul,
you are not a mind,
you are not a body.
You are the controller of all three.
-Yogi Bhajan
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
-Thomas Merton
Whatever we lose
(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves
we find in the sea.
-ee cummings
It is still up to you to choose
to join with truth or with illusion.
But remember that to choose one
is to let go of the other.
-A Course In Miracles
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
-John A. Shedd
Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.
-Morihei Ueshiba
You are me, and I am you.
Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"?
You cultivate the flower in yourself,
so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together.
-Vincent Van Gogh
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
-Rodney Collin
There is nothing in the universe that is not you.
-Unknown
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9%
of everything you think,
and of everything you do,
is for yourself,
And there isn't one.
-Wei Wu Wei
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the end of the ocean.
-David Searls
Between the banks of pleasure and pain
flows the river of life.
If you spend much time on either bank
you will miss out
on life.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
You cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket the water does not run. To "have" running water you must let go of it and let it run.
-Alan Watts
from The Wisdom of Insecurity
Life is like a river. There is no precharted way; there are no maps to be given to you which are to be followed. Just be alive and alert, and then wheresoever life leads you go with full confidence in it. ......Allow it to lead you, don't force it. Surrender to it and allow it to lead you towards the sea. Just be alert, that is all. While life leads you towards the sea just be alert so that you don't miss anything.
-Osho
