"No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding"  Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who won't do anything about it."  Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."  Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." Albert Camus

“Our kingdom go” is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting."  Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based upon experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do." Aleister Crowley, Magick In Theory and Practice

"The love that you with hold is the pain that you carry from lifetime to lifetime."  Alex Collier

"It is up to you to decide whether or not you’re ready to be free, really free. This pertains to your relationship as well as your activities in the world. You are limitless, if you choose that! Your freedom comes from letting go. Freedom means empowerment to be, do, go, feel, whatever your heart tells you. Only you have kept yourself from having this freedom out of some misunderstanding of what your responsibilities really are. Your responsibilities are to your Self. Serve that truly, fully, and you serve All." Alma Daniel

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Anatole France

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”  Andre Gide

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." Andre Gide

"When asked if he was a man, an angel, or a god, the Buddha answered no to all of these, and then said, “I am awake.” Anguttara Nikaya

"You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival." Anthony Robbins

"One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever."  Anthony de Mello, Awakenings

"To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fight." Anthony de Mello, S.J.

"You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend." Anthony de Mello, S.J.

"That which is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint Exupery

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

"Flowers don't open to the clock but to the sunshine spontaneous;for modern humans that manner of instinct is now extraneous." Astrid Alauda

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine

"Every sinner has a future; Every saint had a past." Baba Ji

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."  Balise Pascal

""Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth." Barry Long

"The divine becomes a moment-to-moment experience. That is in fact what it is. It is not a man with a beard sitting up in the sky watching that you are not stealing, lying, or cheating. It is inside you; it is your sense of the divine inside that gradually changes you from lying, cheating, and stealing to not doing these things. Not because somebody is telling you that it is bad, but because you instinctively know that that is not the right way to live with your fellow human beings." Benjamin Creme

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.” Bertrand Russell

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell

"Most men would rather die than think, and most men do." Bertrand Russell

"The only lasting freedom from self-consciousness comes from a profound awareness that God loves me as I am and not as I should be, that He loves me beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity; that He loves me in the morning sun and the evening rain without caution, regret, boundary, limit or breaking point; that no matter what I do, He can't stop loving me." Fr. Brennan Manning

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” Bruce Lee

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."  Buddha

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddah

"Wonder of wonders!   This very enlightenment is the nature of all beings, and yet they are unhappy for lack of it!"   The Buddha's exclamation at the moment of his Awakening

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain.  People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.  One does not become enlightened by imaginging figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." Carl Jung

"Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics.” C.J. Keyser

"If you were now restored by grace to the integrity man possessed before sin, you would be complete master of these impulses. None would ever go astray, but flee to the one sole good, the goal of all desire, God himself." The Cloud of Unknowing (author unknown)

"To argue with a fool shows that there are two." Confucius

"Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster.  Your nobility of spirit will spark itself." Corri Alius

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else, a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations." C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Be ever mindful, throughout the twenty-four hours of the day, to apply yourselves to the study of the Unthinkable."  Daito Kokushi

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." Dalai Lama

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." Dalai Lama

"At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest commences. The quest turns from without to within and the search for answers begins." David R. Hawkins

"The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so."  David R. Hawkins

"In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king." Desiderius Erasmus

"Joy is love exalted; 
peace is love in repose; 
long-suffering is love enduring; 
gentleness is love in society; 
goodness is love in action; 
faith is love on the battlefield; 
meekness is love in school; 
and temperance is love in training.
—D. L. Moody

"Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what's real." Doc Childre

"I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes." Gen. Douglas MacArthur

"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

"See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness." Eckhart Tolle

"The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,” or the "nation,” which is only a collection of individuals." Emma Goldman

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." Emily Dickinson

"The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" Emma Goldman

"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able tos tand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places." Ephesians 6:10-12

"We should no longer be children, toss to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head - Christ."  Eph 4:14

“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.” Ernest Holmes

"Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Eugene Debs

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene Ionesco

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." Evan Esar

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather, the judgment that something is more important than fear." Everett Hathaway

""Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love and it will decide everything." Finding God in All Things: A Marquette Prayer Book © 2009 Marquette University Press

"Religion is hope, spirituality is life. Why hope when you can live?"  Francis Griffin

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them. Life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."  Gandhi

"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth." Gandhi

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." Gandhi

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."  Gandhi

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position." Gandhi

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances." Gandhi

"Each one prays to God according to his own light." Gandhi

"Earth can provide enough to satisfy everyone's needs but not everyone's greed." Mahatma Gandhi

"Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone." Gandhi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Gandhi

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience." Gandhi

"I have learned 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 transmuted into a power that can move the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." Gandhi

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." Gandhi

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." Gandhi

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."  Gandhi

"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees on the good in all religions"   Gandhi

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." Gandhi

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." Gandhi

"Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being." Gandhi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." Gandhi

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Gandhi

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment." Gandhi

"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality." Gandhi

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion." Gandhi

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." Gandhi

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul." Gandhi

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts." Gandhi

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." Gandhi

"If you do not see God in the next person you see, you need look no further." Mahatma Gandhi

"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust." Gandhi

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." George Carlin

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."  George Washington

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." G. K. Chesterton

"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power, and grace in it." Goethe

"Just sit there right now. Don't do a thing. Just rest. For your separation from God is the hardest work in the world." Hafiz, Love Poems From God

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." Helen Keller

"Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth." Henri Frederic Amiel

"Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God."   Henry Adams

"Pitiful is the one who, fearing failure, makes no beginning." Hindu Saying

"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free." Hubert H. Humphrey

"God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man." Ibn al 'Arabi

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." Immanuel Kant

"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably." Immanuel Kant

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." Indian Saying

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and others will alter towards him." James Allen

"The spirit of man is inseparable from the Infinite, and can be satisfied with nothing less than the Infinite."  James Allen

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness." James Thurber

"Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living." Jaroslav Pelikan

"For whoever has not known himself knows nothing, but he who has known himself has already understood the depth of all things."  Jesus in The Book of Thomas

"What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" Jesus of Nazareth

"You have learnt how it was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I say this to you: offer the wicked man no resistance. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well." Jesus, Matthew 5:38-39

"When the power of Love will overcome the love of Power, the world will know Peace"  Jimi Hendrix

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let us love one another, since love comes from God, and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Anyone who fails to love can never have known God, because God is Love." I John 4:7-8

"The Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." St. John 1:5

"The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven." John Dryden

"Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away." John Goodwin

"Batter my heart, three-personed God . . . 
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, 
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, 
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."
John Donne

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” Kahlil Gibran

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." Kenji Miyazawa

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” Lao Tzu

"Our greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person that risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing." Leo Bulscaglia

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do." Lydia M. Child

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God ... I could be eating a slow learner." Lynda Montgomery

"There is no denying that the artist is someone who is full of questions, who cries them out in great angst, who discovers rainbow answers in the darkness, and then rushes to canvas or paper. An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in this world. Along with Plato's divine madness, there is also divine discontent, a longing to find the melody in the discords of chaos, the rhyme in the cacophony, the surprised smile in time of stress or strain." Madeleine L'Engle

"They who live in present time do not need structure in their lives in the same way as they who live in the past or the future or as they who live with fear, inhibitions and guilt." Malcolm McClure

"A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves." Maharaji

"I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are You?" He said: "You."  Mansur Al Hallaj, Diwan al-Hallaj

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."  Marcel Proust

"When a couple brought home their newborn from the hospital, their 3-year-old daughter insisted on being alone in the baby's room, with the door closed. At first, the parents were apprehensive, until they remembered the baby monitor. They agreed, and listened. The little girl said to her new baby sibling, "tell me about God, I've almost forgotten." related by Marcus Borg in an interview with ECTN.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

"Q: What is the difference between thinking and feeling? 
A: Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do." Marilyn vos Savant

"Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind." Marianne Williamson

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." Marianne Williamson

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" Mark Twain

"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Mark Twain

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King Jr.

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."  Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."  Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." Max DePree

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down.  Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality."  Michael Ellner

"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself." Miguel de Unamuno

"When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you." Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace, 111

"Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries." M. Robin D'Antan

“Just as it is known that an image of one’s face is seen depending on a mirror but does not really exist as a face, so the conception of “I” exists dependent on mind and body, but like the image of a face the “I” does not exist as its own reality at all.” - Nagarjuna

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." Napoleon Bonaparte

"Boredom, anxiety, rejection, fear, envy, sloth -- in TV commercials there are remedies for each of these, and more.  The remedies are called Scope, Comet, Toyota, Bufferin, Alka-Seltzer, and Budweiser.  They take the place of good works, restraint, piety, awe, humility, and transcendence." - Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News

"Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love." Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: All language is prayer.  This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy." Norman Fischer, Shambhala Sun

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other,to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."  Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." Peace Pilgrim

"Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers."  Peter Matthiessen

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." Peyton Conway March

"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things." Phil 4:8, Bible NKJM

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Our duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."  Plato

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous!   A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts.  That which will be the day you laugh is also here and now." Ramana Maharshi

“We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that is and less about the smallness that is us.” Rebecca Goldstein

"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

"Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it." Robbie Gass

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."  Robert F. Kennedy

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast." Robert G. Ingersoll

"If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender, it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again. What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine, neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena." Robert G. Ingersoll

"Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods." Robert G. Ingersoll

"Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage – and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still – the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.” Robert Nathan

"Quit eating off the tree of the knowlege of good and evil - it didn't do anything for us to begin with and it isn't helping us today - just eat from the tree of life. Don't try to figure out whether where you are and what you are doing is good or evil, just figure out how to put you eyes and your heart on Jesus. Eating from the tree of Life is the easiest thing you'll ever do. The fruit is low to the ground where anyone can reach it." Ron Jones

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."  Rumi

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." Samuel Johnson

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.
"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.
- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]

"You are all Buddhas  There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes."  Siddhartha Gautama

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." Sir Francis Bacon

"Past and future are in the mind only - I am now."  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"We are not humans on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey"  Stephen Covey

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." Richard Bach

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."  Steven Weinberg

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

"The Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." St. John 1:5

"The invincible weapon against all our enemies is humility." St. Theophan

"It is more necessary to love much than to think much. Always do that which impels you most to love." St. Teresa of Ávila