back to homepage go to poems page Coming soon: QUOTES from John Muir, Temple Grandin, Paramahansa Yogananda, Deepak Chopra, Mahatma Gandhi, Chief Seattle, and Pema Chodron "The mere sense of living is joy enough!" -Emily Dickinson "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -Anais Nin "Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you ARE love." "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -Martin Luther King, Jr. “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” -Rachel Carson "Your eyes are pure if everything that you see inwardly and outwardly appears as God Himself, as Divine Energy, as Consciousness." Swami Omkarananda “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” -Hafiz “We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!” -Hafiz “Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.” -Hafiz “One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.” -Hafiz "Love is a friendship set to music." -Joseph Campbell "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." -Joseph Campbell "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." -Joseph Campbell "Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble." -Joseph Campbell "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought." -Joseph Campbell "It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." -Joseph Campbell "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." -Joseph Campbell "Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy." -Joseph Campbell "The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure." -Joseph Campbell "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." -Joseph Campbell "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." -Joseph Campbell "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about." -Joseph Campbell "What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else." -Joseph Campbell "If you take care of each moment, you will take care of all time." -The Buddha "Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all." -The Buddha "We inter-breathe with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body." -The Buddha "Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement. To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart." -The Buddha "Good-humored patience is necessary with mischievous children and with your own mind." -The Buddha "Take time everyday to sit quietly and listen. If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear." -The Buddha "As rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, let your heart be untroubled by judgments and let your kindness rain on all. Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child." -The Buddha "Gold must pass through fire to achieve its ultimate beauty "Open your mind. Open your heart. Open your life to all that is waiting to be explored. "Let there be a sanctuary where my spirit feels secure. A place reserved for calm and quiet, where my heart is strong and sure. "In the same way a tree draws a ring around itself every year, "My face is turned, not away, but toward challenge and change. "There
is a voice within you that speaks for what you know inside your soul.
There is a voice within you that can tell you what you may have
forgotten or have been afraid to try. There is a voice within you that
truly knows you. Listen" "Today is my day! May I greet it
with a sense of pure wonder and live it so fully in the present that the
past and future have no hold on me. Today is my day to realize an
unshakable, unstoppable belief in my limitless possibilities." (all of these are quotes from "Lifesongs: Giving Voice to the Spirit Within" <3) "Happiness doesn't exist on the far side of distant mountains. It is within you, yourself. It is to be found in the vibrant dynamism of your own life as you struggle to challenge and overcome one obstacle after another, as you clamber up a perilous ridge in pursuit of that which lies beyond. As long as we are alive we will experience sufferings. But that does not mean we have to be unhappy. Unhappiness comes from allowing ourselves to be controlled by life's ups and downs—from feeling defeated, from losing hope, losing courage, losing the will to advance". -Daisaku Ikeda "When you return to the heart, you abide in the silence from which all sound comes. Like a boat on the ocean you feel the waves swell beneath you. You move with the waves, but you know you are not the waves. Thoughts come and go, yet you know you are not the thoughts. You abide with the ebb and flow of the tide, moving in and out, feeling the contraction and expansion of thought. Beneath the thinking mind is a pure, nonjudgmental awareness. When you discover that awareness, you fall into the heart. Then giving and receiving are effortless." Paul Ferrini--"The Silence of the Heart" |