Life stands before me like an eternal spring
with new and brilliant clothes.
-Carl Friedrich Gauss
The World is Full of Magical Things
The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
-Eden Phillpotts
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
-Eden Phillpotts
Infinite Passion of Life
There is no end.
There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.
-Federico Fellini
There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.
-Federico Fellini
A Constant State of Birthing
To my inner perceptions,
the whole of creation is constantly in a state of birthing -
myriad possibilities, potentials, insights,
energies and qualities are emerging daily -
and we are deeply woven into that process
as midwives, participants, creations, creatures and co-creators
all rolled into one.
-David Spangler
the whole of creation is constantly in a state of birthing -
myriad possibilities, potentials, insights,
energies and qualities are emerging daily -
and we are deeply woven into that process
as midwives, participants, creations, creatures and co-creators
all rolled into one.
-David Spangler
Potential
The potential of the average person
is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored,
a world of possibilities waiting to be released
and channeled toward some great good.
-Brian Tracy
is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored,
a world of possibilities waiting to be released
and channeled toward some great good.
-Brian Tracy
Vividly Perfectly Alive
For man, as for flower and beast and bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly live.
-D. H. Lawrence
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly live.
-D. H. Lawrence
What Makes You Come Alive
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 Thurman
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 Thurman
Dance!
Dance your sorrows away,
dance yourself away.
Dance your body to the floor,
dance your soul to the sky,
dance your thoughts into a whirlwind,
dance your emotions into a spiral,
dance your soul into the spirit.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
dance yourself away.
Dance your body to the floor,
dance your soul to the sky,
dance your thoughts into a whirlwind,
dance your emotions into a spiral,
dance your soul into the spirit.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Your Desire to Really Live
How alive are you?
Measure you "aliveness"
by the intensity of your desire to really live.
-Rebecca Clark
Measure you "aliveness"
by the intensity of your desire to really live.
-Rebecca Clark
Do What You Love
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
-Henry David Thoreau
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
-Henry David Thoreau
All-Embracing and All-Allowing
We are instinctively attracted
to what is all-embracing and all-allowing.
-Stephen Mitchell
to what is all-embracing and all-allowing.
-Stephen Mitchell
Openness
What the world needs most is openness:
Open hearts
Open doors
Open eyes
Open minds
Open ears
Open souls
-Robert Muller
Open hearts
Open doors
Open eyes
Open minds
Open ears
Open souls
-Robert Muller
Listen
Listen to the wind, it talks
listen to the silence, it speaks
listen to the heart, it knows
-Native American
listen to the silence, it speaks
listen to the heart, it knows
-Native American
Listen to the News
Our task is to listen to the news
that is always arriving out of silence.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
that is always arriving out of silence.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Ancient Teachings Returning
My friend, they will return again,
All over the Earth
They will return again.
Ancient teachings of the Earth,
Ancient songs of the Earth
They are returning again my friend.
-Crazy Horse
All over the Earth
They will return again.
Ancient teachings of the Earth,
Ancient songs of the Earth
They are returning again my friend.
-Crazy Horse
The Spreading Moment
Love the moment
and the energy of the moment
will spread beyond all boundaries.
-Corita Kent
and the energy of the moment
will spread beyond all boundaries.
-Corita Kent
A New and Unique Moment
Every second we live
is a new and unique moment of the universe -
a moment that never was before and never will be again.
-Pablo Casals
is a new and unique moment of the universe -
a moment that never was before and never will be again.
-Pablo Casals
The Golden Plant
Every day a new flower rises from your body's fresh soil.
Don't go around looking for fallen petals in a fairy tale,
when you've got the golden plant right here, now,
shooting forth in light from your eyes,
your awakening crown.
-Dorothy Walters
Don't go around looking for fallen petals in a fairy tale,
when you've got the golden plant right here, now,
shooting forth in light from your eyes,
your awakening crown.
-Dorothy Walters
Many Colors and Many Songs
Love and life and growth
come in many colors
And sing many different songs.
-Danaan Parry
come in many colors
And sing many different songs.
-Danaan Parry
Always at Home
The earth is my alter, the sky is my dome,
mind is my garden, my heart is my home,
and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
-eden ahbez
mind is my garden, my heart is my home,
and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
-eden ahbez
Delight
Delight is a mystery.
And the mystery is this:
to plunge boldly into the immediacy of living,
at the same time as utterly surrendering
to that which lies beyond space and time;
to see life translucently.
-Baal Shem Tov
And the mystery is this:
to plunge boldly into the immediacy of living,
at the same time as utterly surrendering
to that which lies beyond space and time;
to see life translucently.
-Baal Shem Tov
All is Sacred
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint,
all things are friendly and sacred,
all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
all things are friendly and sacred,
all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walk Amidst Beautiful Things
I like to walk about
amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
-George Santayana
amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
-George Santayana
Everything You Need
If you have a garden and a library
you have everything you need.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
you have everything you need.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
By Four Things
By four things do heart and soul and body live:
Stream and garden, wine and happy face.
-Abu Nuwas
Stream and garden, wine and happy face.
-Abu Nuwas
Taste
Taste may be compared that exquisite sense of the bee,
which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower,
and disregards all the rest.
-Fulke Greville
which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower,
and disregards all the rest.
-Fulke Greville
Changes
Our bodily food is changed into us,
but our spiritual food changes us into itself.
-Meister Eckhart
but our spiritual food changes us into itself.
-Meister Eckhart
Know Thyself / Nothing Too Much
There are two sentences inscribed on the Delphic Oracle
"Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"
and upon these all other precepts depend.
-Plutarch
"Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"
and upon these all other precepts depend.
-Plutarch
Be Thyself
"Know thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world.
Over the portal for the new world, "Be thyself" shall be written.
-Oscar Wilde
Over the portal for the new world, "Be thyself" shall be written.
-Oscar Wilde
New Seasons
There are seasons, in human affairs,
of inward and outward revelation,
when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul,
when new wants are unfolded in multitudes,
and a new and undefined good is thirsted for.
There are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.
-William Ellery Channing
of inward and outward revelation,
when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul,
when new wants are unfolded in multitudes,
and a new and undefined good is thirsted for.
There are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.
-William Ellery Channing
Rise To Things
From a certain inward strength arising from the acceptance of truth,
we can build outward, majestically, transcendently,
not by rising above things, but by rising to things.
-Manly P. Hall
we can build outward, majestically, transcendently,
not by rising above things, but by rising to things.
-Manly P. Hall
Look at the Skies
I believe that if one always looked at the skies,
one would end up with wings.
-Gustave Flaubert
one would end up with wings.
-Gustave Flaubert
To What Heights You Can Soar
No one can predict to what heights you can soar.
Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
-Ray Bradbury
Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
-Ray Bradbury
No Boundaries
"Where are the boundaries, please?"
"Imaginary lines on the earth, I suppose.
How can you have boundaries if you fly?"
-T. H. White
"Imaginary lines on the earth, I suppose.
How can you have boundaries if you fly?"
-T. H. White
Let Your Life Dance Lightly
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-Rabindranth Tagore
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-Rabindranth Tagore
My Body Lets the Light Through
Moment by moment things are losing their hardness;
now even my body lets the light through.
-Virginia Woolf
now even my body lets the light through.
-Virginia Woolf
See the Very Thing
Let's see the very thing and nothing else.
Let's see it with the hottest fire of sight.
Burn everything not part of it to ash.
-Wallace Stevens
Let's see it with the hottest fire of sight.
Burn everything not part of it to ash.
-Wallace Stevens
Life Anew Each Day
I can hardly wait for tomorrow,
it means a new life for me each and every day.
-Stanley Kunitz
it means a new life for me each and every day.
-Stanley Kunitz
Growing More Happy Each Day
As you hold loving thoughts
toward every person and animal
and even towards plants, stars, oceans, rivers and hills,
and as you are helpful and of service to the world,
so you will find yourself growing more happy each day.
-Luther Burbank
toward every person and animal
and even towards plants, stars, oceans, rivers and hills,
and as you are helpful and of service to the world,
so you will find yourself growing more happy each day.
-Luther Burbank
Shine Through the Windows
Our gifts and attainments
are not only to be light and warmth in our own dwellings,
but are also to shine through the windows into the dark night,
to guide and cheer bewildered travelers on the road.
-Harriet Beecher
are not only to be light and warmth in our own dwellings,
but are also to shine through the windows into the dark night,
to guide and cheer bewildered travelers on the road.
-Harriet Beecher
The Chief Thing
I have seen the truth
It is not as though I had invented it with my mind.
I have seen it, seen it,
and the living image of it
has filled my soul forever...
If in one day, one hour,
everything could be arranged at once
the chief thing is to love.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not as though I had invented it with my mind.
I have seen it, seen it,
and the living image of it
has filled my soul forever...
If in one day, one hour,
everything could be arranged at once
the chief thing is to love.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What One Life Could Be Worth
Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth
and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth,
I wonder what would happen to this world?
-Harry Chapin
and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth,
I wonder what would happen to this world?
-Harry Chapin
Working For All Humanity
There is no joy equal
to that of being able to work for all humanity
and doing what you're doing well.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
to that of being able to work for all humanity
and doing what you're doing well.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
Touch the Heart of the World
I want to touch the heart of the world
and make it smile.
-Charles de Lint
and make it smile.
-Charles de Lint
Spread A New Vision
The best success I can dream for my life:
to have spread a new vision of the world.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
to have spread a new vision of the world.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Your Mission
Here's a test to find whether
your mission on earth is finished:
if you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
your mission on earth is finished:
if you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
You Will Contribute a Verse
The powerful play goes on.
and you will contribute a verse.
-Walt Whitman
and you will contribute a verse.
-Walt Whitman
How Many Sunrises?
If every year is a marble,
how many marbles do you have left?
How many sunrises,
how many opportunities to rise
to the full stature of your being?
-Joy Page
how many marbles do you have left?
How many sunrises,
how many opportunities to rise
to the full stature of your being?
-Joy Page
Is It So Small A Thing?
Is it so small a thing
to have enjoyed the sun,
to have lived light in the spring,
to have loved,
to have thought,
to have done?
-Matthew Arnold
to have enjoyed the sun,
to have lived light in the spring,
to have loved,
to have thought,
to have done?
-Matthew Arnold
Life in Three Words
In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life.
It goes on.
-Robert Frost
everything I've learned about life.
It goes on.
-Robert Frost
What is Really Yours
What is Really yours?
The blessings you bring to yourself,
through you spoken or silent word;
the things you see with your inner eye.
-Florence Scovel Shinn
The blessings you bring to yourself,
through you spoken or silent word;
the things you see with your inner eye.
-Florence Scovel Shinn
The Contemplative Life
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life.
They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
-Elizabeth Janeway
They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
-Elizabeth Janeway
Come to Maturity
The nobler and more perfect a thing is,
the later and more slowly does it come to maturity.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
the later and more slowly does it come to maturity.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Clouds
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
-Rabindranath Tagore
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
-Rabindranath Tagore
At the End of Life
At the end of life you should be able to say,
"Yes, the sun came, and the rain.
I've been enriched by life's experience.
The harvest has been abundant."
-Ashokananda
"Yes, the sun came, and the rain.
I've been enriched by life's experience.
The harvest has been abundant."
-Ashokananda
The Silence of Age
And there is the silence of age,
Too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it
In words intelligible to those who have not lived
The great range of life.
-Edgar Lee Masters
Too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it
In words intelligible to those who have not lived
The great range of life.
-Edgar Lee Masters
When It's All Over
When it's over, I want to say:
all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
-Mary Oliver
all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
-Mary Oliver
I Am Glad I Have Had My Flight
I leave no trace of wings in the air
but I am glad I have had my flight.
-Rabindranath Tagore
but I am glad I have had my flight.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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