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This collection of Inspirational, meditative, and motivational wisdom quotes (over 600 quotes) is
the result of working through 6 major quote books, books of my personal
library, and many comprehensive internet
collections from around the world. All
together a first harvest, having read some 60,000 Western and Eastern quotes. My only
criteria were that the quote had to make me smile, wow or
be thoughtful. I
avoided those with too much superficial holiness and moral doctrine. Hope you enjoy
what I've found. The quotes pages will be extended every
couple of months. For returning visitors I have marked newly
added quotes with (n). and the date behind. So have a look from
time to time to get some new mind food. Donald
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Accordance
"When your intent is in accordance with the
Universe, things start happening.".
- author unknown |
Act
"However many holy words you read, how many you
speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon
them?".
- The Buddha |
Action
"True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its
seed is action.".
- author unknown |
Activist
"The activist is not the man who says the river is
dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the
river."
- Ross Perot |
Admit
"To admit you don't know everything is the first
step on the road to wisdom."
- author unknown |
Adults
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called
adults."
- Brian Aldiss |
Adventure
"Adventure is not outside a man, it is
within."
- David Grayson |
Aging
"I'm not aging. I'm ripening to perfection."
- author unknown |
Agreement
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must
be wrong."
- Oscar Wilde |
Alone
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how
unlonely being alone can be."
- Ellen Burstyn |
Alone
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do
not properly value the only companion we will have from
birth to death - ourselves."
- Eda LeShan |
Alone
"Spend some time alone every day.".
- The Dalai Lama |
Anger
"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the
intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one
who gets burned."
- The Buddha |
Appearances
"Appearances are but a glimpse of what is
hidden."
- Anaxagoras |
Arriving
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not
intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu |
Art
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine
perfection."
- Michelangelo |
Art
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the
unconscious."
- Jean Cocteau |
Art
" What strikes me is the fact that in our society,
art has become something which is only related to
objects, and not to individuals, or to life. That art is
something which is specialized or which is done by
experts who artists. But couldn't everyone's life become
a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an
art object, but not your life?"
- Michael Foucault |
Art
"The high mission of any art is, by its illusions,
to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize
the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.".
- author unknown |
Astrology
"We are born at a given moment, in a given place
and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities
of the year and of the season of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."
- Carl Gustav Jung |
Astrology
"The stars incline, but do not impel."
- Robert Heinlein |
Atheism
"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."
- author unknown |
Attention
"The greatest gift you can give another is the
purity of your attention.".
- Richard Moss |
Awaken
"Your vision will become clear only when you look
into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks
inside awakens."
- author unknown |
Awareness
"Life is so short we must move very slowly."
- Thai saying |
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Backwards
"Don't go backwards, you have already been
there.".
- Ray Charles |
Balance
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of
letting go and holding on." (
- Havelock Ellis |
Beauty
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
- Emily Dickinson |
Beauty
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from
The Eternal."
- Dante A. |
Beauty
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees
it."
- Confucius |
Beauty
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that
answers to the vibration of beauty."
- Christopher Morley |
Beauty
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never
grows old."
- Franz Kafka |
Begin
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step."
- Chinese Proverb |
Being
"A mature mind is one who understands the
impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this
understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of
being."
- Osho |
Beliefs
"Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to
stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically
dead. Believe in nothing..."
- author unknown |
Believe
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told
it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely
out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after
due examination and analysis, you find to be kind,
conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all
beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take
it as your guide."
- The Buddha |
Believe
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have
heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it
is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on
the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not
believe in traditions because they have been handed down
for many generations. But after observation and
analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it."
- The Buddha |
Believe
"When you are educated, you'll believe only half of
what you hear. When you're intelligent, you know which
half.".
- Jerome Perryman |
Beyond
"If you seek the kernel, then you must break the
shell. And likewise, if you would know the reality of
Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the further
you go beyond the appearance the nearer you will be to
the essence."
- Meister Eckhart |
Beyond
Polarity
"When there is no more separation between 'this'
and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At
the still point in the center of the circle one can see
the infinite in all things."
- Chuang Tzu |
Big Song
"One day we'll all find out that all of our songs
was just little notes in a great big song!".
- Woody Guthrie |
Books
"In the case of good books, the point is not how
many of them you can get through, but rather how many
can get through to you.".
- Mortimer J. Adler |
Books
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any
is left I buy food and clothes.".
- Erasmus |
Bow
"A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow
to Buddha.".
- Suzuki Roshi |
Brain
"A piece of brain the size of
a grain of rice contains 1 million nerve cells, 10
billion synapses and 20 MILES of axons. Each of these
nerve cells both 'hears from' and 'talks to' 10,000
other cells."
- Newsletter on Advances
in Brain Research, The Salk Institute for Biological
Studies |
Brainpower
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call
for brain power."
- Barbara Jordan |
Buddha by
Nature
"You are all the Buddha."
- Last words of The
Buddha |
Buddhism
"If you have no feelings about worldly things, they
are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Buddhism,
it is a worldly thing."
- Zen Saying |
Buddhist
"Don't be a Buddhist - be a Buddha!"
- author unknown |
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Cause &
Effect
"What you are is what you have been, and what you
will be is what you do now."
- The Buddha |
Cause &
Effect
"The future depends on what we do in the
present."
- Mahatma Gandhi |
Challenge
"Life is a constant challenge to know
oneself.".
- Sri Rajneesh, AKA Osho |
Change
"Change your thoughts and you change your
world."
- Norman Vincent Peale |
Change
"Change is not merely necessary to life. It is
life."
- Alvin Toffler |
Change
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody
thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy |
Change
"Not everything you face in life can be changed,
but you can change nothing until you have faced
it."
- author unknown |
Change
"We are tomorrow's past."
- Mary Webb |
Change
"In wisdom we acknowledge that everything changes.
What is born will die. What dies nourishes life in its
many forms.".
- Patricia Lynn Reilly |
Check
"When you check your own mind properly, you stop
blaming others for your problems.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Children
"Some children are wiser than adults.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Child Mind
"Great is the man who does not lose his child
mind."
- Meng-Tse |
Church
"Every day people are straying away from church and
going back to God."
- Lenny Bruce |
Cleverness
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
- Euripides |
Clinging
"Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because
clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of
enlightenment."
- Osho |
Closed Mind
"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block
of wood."
- Chinese Proverb |
Cold
"Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines
and cypresses turning green.".
- Chinese Saying |
Color
"I am color."
- Paul Klee |
Comedy
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being
serious."
- Peter Ustinov |
Common
Sense
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or
who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees
with your own reason and your own common sense."
- The Buddha |
Compassion
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us
Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest-a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must
be to free from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole
nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein |
Compassion
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all
living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Albert Schweitzer |
Compassion
"To grow old is to pass from passion to
compassion."
- Albert Camus |
Concept
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a
fuzzy concept."
- Ansel Adams |
Conquer
"You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the
summit a few moments; then the wind blows your
footprints away."
- Arlene Blum |
Consciousness
"The mind is an iceberg - it floats with only
one-seventh of its bulk above water."
- Sigmund Freud |
Conservative
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good
legs who refuses to walk forward.".
- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Contemplation
"All things considered, wisdom requires not only
the investigation of many things, but contemplation of
the mystery."
- Jeremy Narby |
Continuity
"Today is yesterday's pupil."
- Benjamin Franklin |
Convention
"People only see what they are prepared to
see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Convention
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to
comprehend."
- Henri Bergson |
Count
"One should count each day a separate life.".
- Seneca |
Course
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars,
not by the lights of every passing ship."
- Omar N. Bradley |
Crazy
Wisdom
"There was never a genius without a tincture of
madness."
- Aristotle |
Creativity
"The best way to predict your future is to create
it."
- Peter Drucker |
Creativeness
"Most people die before they are fully born.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.".
- Erich Fromm |
Criticize
"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
- Bob Dylan |
Cultivation
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to
the body."
- Cicero |
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Dance
"My life is a my song; I choose to dance to it with
Light, Laughter and Love.".
- Kathryn~WindWillow |
Dance
"Love is the music of the Universe ... just
dance.".
- author unknown |
Dare
"To dare is to lose your "foothold" for a
moment. Not to dare is to lose yourself.".
- Sören Kierkegaard |
Dark
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails
to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
- James A. Michener |
Darkness
"You live through the darkness from what you
learned in the light."
- Hope MacDonald |
Dark/Light
"If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we
cannot see the light."
- John Cowan |
Death
"People sleep, and when they die, they awake."
- Mohammed |
Death
"...death is only an horizon, and an horizon is
only the limit of our sight. Open our eyes to see more
clearly..."
- William Penn |
Death
"For those who seek to understand it, death is a
highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of
life can originate from the thought and study of
death."
- E. Kübler-Ross |
Death
"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a
picnic."
- W H Auden |
Death
"There is but one way to be
born but a hundred ways to die."
- Chinese proverb |
Death/Awakening
"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment
of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment
after death."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Death/Birth
"After your death you will be what you were before
your birth."
- Arthur Schopenhauer |
Dependent
Arising
"All things appear and disappear because of the
concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever
exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to
everything else."
- The Buddha |
Dependent
Arising
"Because there are no phenomena which are not
dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not
void.".
- Nagarjuna |
Depth
"It is not length of life, but depth of life.".
- Ralph Emerson |
Describing
"Just as the mute person has trouble describing the
taste of sugar, we have trouble describing the nature of
mind.".
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Desires
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
- Seneca |
Detail
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to
the details and excellence will come."
- Perry Paxton |
Different
"People have one thing in common: they are all
different."
- Robert Zend |
Direction
"The mind's direction is more important than its
progress.".
- Joseph Joubert |
Discover
"Your work is to discover and then with all your
heart to give yourself to it.".
- The Buddha |
Discovery
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding
new lands, but in seeing with new eyes".
- Marcel Proust |
Discrepancy
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities that one has
to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not
have been better."
- C. G. Jung |
DNA
".....there are approximately
125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your
personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5
million times."
- Jeremy Narby |
Doing
"To do is to be."
- Socrates
"To be is to do."
- Plato
"The way to do is to be."
- Lao-Tzu |
Doubt
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass
before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
- Colton |
Doubt
"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an
element of faith."
- Paul Johannes Tillich |
Doubt
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious
thinkers were doubters."
- Isaac Bashevis |
Dream
"A Dream Is A Wish That Our Heart Makes."
- author unknown |
Dream/Reality
"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the
dream destroy reality?"
- George Moore |
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Earth
"What was most significant about the lunar voyage
was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set
eye on the earth."
- Norman Cousins |
Education
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open mind.".
- Malcolm S. Forbes |
Education
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open mind.".
- Malcolm S. Forbes |
Education
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation
in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with
nowhere to go." +.
- Timothy Leary |
Egg
"A hen is just an egg's way of making another
egg.".
- Samuel Butler |
Ego
"The ego is the ugly troll that lives underneath
the bridge between your mind and your heart."
- Dennis Miller |
Ego
"Big egos are big shields for lots of empty
space."
- Diana Black |
Ego
"The hallucination of being a separate ego will not
stand up to biological tests.".
- Alan Watts |
Ego-Transcendence
"What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which
moves when we inhale and when we exhale. When your mind
is... calm enough to follow this movement, there is
nothing, no world, no mind nor body, just a swinging
door."
- Pema Chodron |
Empty
"The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."
- author unknown |
End
"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the
Horizon as the end of the ocean."
- David Searls |
Enlighten
"You cannot enlighten the unconscious."
- Robert Mellott |
Enlightenment
"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to
take one with a heart."
- Lao Tzu |
Enlightenment
"To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To
study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self
is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things".
- Dogen Lenji |
Enlightenment
"Enlightenment cannot be described, only
experienced."
- author unknown |
Enlightenment
"You may have expected that enlightenment would
come Zap! instantaneous and permanent. This is unlikely.
After the first "ah ha" experience, it can be
thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds..."
- Ram Dass |
Enlightenment/Ego
"The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point
of view is extreme death."
- Chögyam Trungpa |
Essential
"It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly; what is essential is invisable to the
eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Establishment
"The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of
mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the
danger of inner discovery is a danger to the
establishment."
- Timothy Leary |
Eternity
"Everything is changeable, everything appears and
disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes
beyond the agony of life and death."
- The Buddha |
Evolution
"The collective unconscious contains the whole
spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in
the brain structure of every individual."
- C.G. Jung |
Examine
"Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own
therapist.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Examination
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Plato |
Experience
"Religious experiences which are as real as life to
some may be incomprehensible to others."
- William O. Douglas |
Experience
"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 Campell |
Experience
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to
welcome the ecstatic experience."
- Emily Dickinson |
Experience
"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!"
- Zen Saying |
Experience
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by
reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which
is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the
bitterest."
- Confucius |
Explore
"We shall not cease from exploration - And the end
of all our exploring - Will be to arrive where we
started - And know the place for the first time."
- T. S. Eliot |
Exploration
"One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
- André Gide |
Expression
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm
between his inner vision and its ultimate
expression."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Eye for Eye
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world
blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi |
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Face
Yourself
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- Jackie Mason |
Failure
"Good people are good because they've come to
wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from
success, you know." +.
- William Saroyan |
Faith
"Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us
through want of faith."
- Heraclitus |
Fantasy
"Fantasy is the ability to think in pictures.".
- Mari |
Fear
"Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own
Self in all beings, loses all fear."
- The Upanishads |
Fear
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be
understood."
- Marie Curie |
Fears
"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make
films about them."
- Alfred Hitchcock |
Fear
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
- Bertrand Russell |
Fear
"Fear always springs from ignorance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are
developed."
- Michael Pritchard |
Fears
"Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of
becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in
becoming complete, there is the fear of
loneliness."
- Krishnamurti |
Flexibility
"Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but
he can adjust the sails."
- author unknown |
Flower
"Some say the Buddha's greatest sermon was his
silent, wordless one: He simply held up a flower and
looked at his followers. Those who smiled,
understood."
- author unknown |
Flying
"Before you can learn to fly, you must first learn
to walk. You cannot fly into flying."
- author unknown |
Forget
"Forget injuries, Never forget kindnesses."
- author unknown |
Free
"The best things in life are free, but it costs
alot to find that out."
- author unknown |
Freedom
"Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from
laws and institutions."
- Clarance Darrow |
Free
yourself
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but
ourselves can free our minds."
- Bob Marley |
Friends
"There are friendships merely for pleasure, some
for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of
one's inmost self."
- Balthasar Gracian |
Friends
"Surround yourself with only people who are going
to lift you higher."
- Oprah Winfrey |
Friendship
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk
in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me
and be my friend."
- Albert Camus |
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Generosity
"Real generosity is doing something nice for
someone who will never find it out."
- author unknown |
Genius
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what
is true for you in your heart is true for all men - that
is genius."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Genius
"Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and
genius paints up its roof.".
- Chang Ch'ao |
Getting
"Remember that not getting what you want is
sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
- The Dalai Lama (?) |
Giving
"Those who give only when asked have already waited
too long."
- author unknown |
Giving
"To receive everything, one must open one's hands
and give."
- Taisen Deshimaru |
Good
"Every good thought you think is contributing its
share to the ultimate result of your life."
- Grenville Kleiser |
Good
"If people are good only because they fear
punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot
indeed.".
- Albert Einstein |
Goodness
"Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness,
saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual
falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.".
- The Buddha |
Good Ideas
"Good ideas is like mushrooms, where you find one
you often find more.".
- Hans Carossa |
Good Pilot
"The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires
firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot;
the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that
understands its nature.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Growth
"Don't go through life, GROW through life."
- Eric Butterworth |
Growth
"Growth begins when we start
to accept our own weakness."
- Jean Vanier |
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Happiness
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared."
- The Buddha |
Happiness
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- The Dalai Lama |
Happiness
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a
destination."
- Roy M. Goodman |
Happiness
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of
happiness and just be happy."
- author unknown |
Happiness
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has
never danced in the rain."
- author unknown |
Happiness
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
- Sophocles |
Happiness
"Happiness is not a place - it is a
direction."
- Bill Sands |
Happiness
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim |
Happiness
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for
happiness."
- Chuang-Tse |
Hate
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him
that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves
doesn't disturb us.".
- Herman Hesse |
Head
"Use your head, or somebody else might.".
- author unknown |
Heart
"The head doesn't hear unless the heart desires to
listen."
- author unknown |
Heart
"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with
the heart."
- Helen Keller |
Heart
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that
never tires, and a touch that never hurts.".
- Charles Dickens |
Heart/Mind
"The heart has its reasons that the mind knows
nothing of."
- Blaise Pascal |
Heaven
"What power would hell have if those imprisoned
there could not dream of heaven?"
- author unknown |
Helping
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt
them."
- The Dalai Lama |
Hidden
"Anything visible is a mask, anything hidden is
real."
- author unknown |
History
"We learn from history that we don't learn anything
from history."
- Bernard Shaw |
Home
"Home is not where you live, it's where people
understands you."
- Chr. Morgenstern |
Horoscope
"The horoscope is a field of imagination and
reflection not only through which we see ourselves, but
by which we see through ourselves to the archetypal
ground that has created this dance we call life."
- Charles Ponce |
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Ideals
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time
after time have given me new courage to face life
cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth."
- Albert Einstein |
Ideals
"Ideals are like stars. We never reach them but,
like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by
them."
- Carl Schurz |
Ideals
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land
among the stars."
- Les Brown |
Ideals
"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are
looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde |
Ignorance
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are
ignorant."
- Lord David Cecil |
Ignorance
"The only thing that costs more money than
education is ignorance."
- author unknown |
Ignorance
"If you think education is expensive, try
ignorance."
- Derek Bok |
Ignorance
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night
without moon or star."
- Confucius |
Illusion
"We practise illusory practise in an illusory way,
in order to reach illusory enlightenment and deliver
illusory beings from suffering."
- Khyungpo Naljyor,
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana
Tradition |
Illusion
"All that we see or seen is but a dream within a
dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe |
Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge; for
knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the
entire world."
- author unknown |
Imagination
"Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the
earth."
- Vladimir Nabokov |
Imagination
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
- Muhammad Ali |
Imagination
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain |
Imagination
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against
reality."
- Jules de Gaultier |
Imagination
"The world is but a canvas to the
imagination.".
- Henry David Thoreau |
Impermanence
"We completely deny the existence of a
self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every
aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing,
changing, changing... ".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Impossible
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by
going beyond them into the impossible.".
- Arthur C. Clarke |
Impossible
"We are an impossibility in an impossible
universe.".
- Ray Bradbury |
Infinite
"If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For
man has closed himself up, till he sees all things
through narrow chinks of his cavern."
- William Blake |
Infinity
"I am home, feeling so far away."
- Enya |
Infinite
Library
"The infinite library of the universe is in your
mind."
- Swami Vivekananda |
Inferior
"Nobody can make you feel
inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
Ignorance
"Behind every argument is someone's
ignorance.".
- Louis D. Brandeis |
Innovative
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative
thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones
out."
- Dee Hock |
Insanity
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an
insane world.".
- R. D. Laing |
Inside
"We carry with us the wonders we seek without
us."
- Sir Thomas Browne |
Insight
"Hindsight is good, foresight is better, but
insight is the best of all."
- author unknown |
Insight
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's
experience."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Insignificant
"Who are we? We find that we live on an
insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy
tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in
which there are far more galaxies than people."
- Carl Sagan |
Inspiration
"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind
remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be
ignited with sparks.".
- Johann G. von Herder |
Instinct
"Instinct is the nose of the mind."
- Madame De Girardin |
Integrety
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of
your own mind.".
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Intellect
"There's a big difference between being able to
explain religion intellectually and transforming that
knowledge into spiritual experience.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Interdependence
"All phenomena exist interdependently. Their being
is dependent on their parts and attributes. A flower, a
tree, or a human being all exist interdependently,
relying on their causes, circumstances, attributes and
parts. Our happiness, suffering, growth and degeneration
all exist on the basis of an interdependent relationship
of causes and circumstances.".
- Geshe Rabten |
Internet
"The Internet is like a living window into human
consciousness and perhaps even to the divine... if we
can attune to it... we might well contribute to a
glittering awakening on a cosmic level. We can be
on-line with ourselves and the world all the time!"
- John Osborne |
Intuition
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the
rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a
society that honors the servant and has forgotten the
gift."
- Albert Einstein |
Intuition
"Intuition is the voice of the spirit within
you."
- Morgan Llewllyn |
Journey
"The perfect journey is circular - the joy of
departure and the joy of return."
- Dino Basili |
Judgment
"There is little room left for wisdom when one is
full of judgment."
- Malcolm Hein |
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Karma
"One action produces a reaction; that is
karma."
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Karmic
Awareness
"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the
seeds of today."
- author unknown |
Keep Moving
"Even if your on the right track, you'll get run
over if you just sit there"
- Will Rogers |
Kindness
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the
recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore I. Rubin |
Kindness
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in
thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving
creates love."
- Lao Tzu |
Kindness
"Life is too short not to be kind to others."
- author unknown |
Kindness
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever
wasted."
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
- Sophocles |
Kindness
"Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the
dumb can understand."
- Paramahansa Yogananda |
Kindness
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but
their echoes are truly endless."
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is
bound together."
- J. W. von Goethe |
Kindness
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an
opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca |
Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The
first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the
third is to be kind."
- Henry James |
Knowing
"A wise man never knows all, only fools know
everything."
- African Proverb |
Knowledge
"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater
our ignorance unfolds."
- John F. Kennedy |
Knowledge
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not
ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.".
- Daniel J. Boorstin |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"...Knowledge comes by taking things apart:
analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things
together..."
- John Morrison |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you
make a living; the other helps you make a life."
- Sandra Carey |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it
is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Knowing
"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not
is a fool - Avoid him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep -
Waken him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not wants
beating - Beat him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man -
Know him."
- author unknown |
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Language
"Language is magic: it makes things appear and
disappear."
- Nicole Brossard |
Laughter
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two
people."
- Victor Borge |
Learning
"I have learned silence from the talkative,
tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the
unkind."
- Kahlil Gibran |
Lesson
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."
- The Dalai Lama |
Let go
"Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk.
Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die.
Let go when you let go..."
- Allen Ginsberg |
Let go
"Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the
grass grows by itself."
- Zen saying |
Let go
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a
river? Yet the river flows on."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Letting Go
"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as
you can get yourself back.".
- Mick Jagger |
Life
"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no
house on it."
- author unknown |
Life
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it."
- author unknown |
Life
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be
solved.".
- Van Kaam |
Life
"Do you believe in life before death?".
- author unknown |
Life
"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape
it alive anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard |
Life
"Life is not about what you've gained, but what
you've done.....".
- Wong Ka Kui |
Life
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and
mankind the vessel."
- author unknown |
Life
"Life is a Tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy
to those who think."
- Jean de la Brvyere |
Life
"Life is but a journey; death
is returning home.".
- Chinese proverb |
Light
"People are like stained-glass windows. They
sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the
darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed ONLY if
there is a light from within.".
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross |
Live!
"All of us have life; few of us have an idea of
it."
- J. W. von Goethe |
Light/Hope
"When it is dark enough, you can see the
stars."
- Charles A. Beard |
Limits of
Logic
"You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but
not how many apples are in the seed."
- Ken Kesey |
Listen
"The Universe has many voices. Just listen.".
- author unknown |
Little
Things
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous
consequences come from little things, I am tempted to
think, there are no little things."
- Bruce Barton |
Living
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian
Anderson |
Logic
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Long Before
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we
experience them."
- Kahlil Gibran |
Lost Self
"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep
and powerful yearning for union with one's lost
self.".
- Brendan Francis |
Love
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the
mind."
- author unknown |
Love
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can
do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that."
- Martin Luther King,
Jr. |
Love
"Love creates an "us" without destroying
a "me."
- author unknown |
Love
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but
in looking outwards together in the same
direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Love
"Love lights it's own path. It never get's lost on
it's way home."
- author unknown |
Love
"A life filled with love must have some thorns, but
a life empty of love will have no roses."
- author unknown |
Love
"A religious awakening which does not awaken the
sleeper to love has roused him in vain."
- Jessamyn West |
Love
"With imagination we can capture infinity. With
love we can make infinity worth imagining.".
- Brian Henke |
Love
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
- Swedenborg |
Love
"Love people and use things, don't love things and
use people.".
- Art DeMoss |
Love
"Perhaps love is the process of my leading you
gently back to yourself. - Not to whom I want you to be,
but to who you are".
- Leo Buscaglia |
Love
"Love is your window to the Infinite. Enjoy the
view.".
- author unknown |
Loving
Kindness
"It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's
knowing how the mind functions; only then can you
develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a
spiritual person.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
|
Magic
"The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpots |
Magic
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into
believing in government and business."
- Tom Robbins |
Man
"Man - a being in search of meaning."
- Plato |
Man
"A man is a little soul carrying around a
corpse."
- M. Aurelius |
Master
"Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY
mind.".
- Zen Saying |
Meditation
"Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean
sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply
observing how your mind is responding to the sense world
as you go about your business - walking, talking,
shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation
and bring a perfect result.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Meeting
"The meeting of two personalities is like the
contact of two chemical substances; if there is any
reaction, both are transformed."
- C.G. Jung |
Mental
Workshop
"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do
them. It is like having a mental workshop.".
- Jack Youngblood |
Mind
"Your mind is your religion."
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Mind
"When we speak of mind, we speak of something that
is not a thing in itself. In its most fundamental sense,
mind is not something we can limit. We cannot say it has
a particular shape, size or location, color or form, or
any other limiting characteristic.".
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Mind-Activity
"Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your
mind up."
- Frank Zappa |
Mind-Activity
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson |
Mind-Control
"It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from
the east or from the west; they originate within one's
own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against
misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner
mind uncontrolled."
- The Buddha |
Mind-Creativity
"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist,
surroundings are created by the activities of the
mind."
- The Buddha |
Mindmade
"Westerners think that all that is negative and
positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They
materialize and externalize their experiences, never
understanding the connection between outer and inner
phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for
explanations only from objects through nihilist habit
instead of from the subjective experience of their own
minds."
- Thinley Norbu Rinpoche |
Mindrepair
"Many open minds should be closed for
repairs."
- Toledo Blade |
Miracle
"There are 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 |
Modesty
"No really great man ever thought himself so."
- William Hazlitt |
Modesty
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the
cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau |
Money
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people they
don't like."
- Will Rogers |
Money
"I cannot afford to waste my time making
money."
- Jean Louis Agassiz |
Morality
"Two things fill the mind with ever increasing
wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely
the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens
above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not
properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves
happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of
happiness."
- Immanuel Kant |
Motivation/Work
"The more I want to get something done, the less I
call it work."
- Richard Bach |
Move!
"All suffering is caused by being in the wrong
place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE."
- Timothy Leary |
Music
"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual
life.".
- Ludwig von Beethoven |
Music
"Any musical innovation is full of danger to the
whole State... when modes of music change, the
State always changes with them.".
- Plato |
Mysterious
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the
mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the
cradle of true art and true science."
- A. Einstein |
Mystery
"No mystery is closed to an open mind.".
- author unknown |
Mysteries/Mind
"Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the
mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the
narrowness of the mind."
- Francis Bacon |
Mystery/Science
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of
Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we
ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to
solve."
- Max Planck |
Mystical
"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it
is."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Mystics
"I think that people are born mystics - we are all
mystics as children, but it's taken away from us as we
grow older. It's taken away subtly by education which
trains the left brain and ignores the right brain. They
take away your crayons right when you need them most -
at puberty. When you should be getting to your cosmic
soul they give you football and shopping-malls."
- Matthew Fox |
Mystical
Reality
"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."
- John Milton |
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Narrow
"The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Nature
"Nature is a mutual cloud, which is always and
never the same."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature
"All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure
out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze.
They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs
together. They're all talking. They're talking to
me."
- Laurie Anderson |
Nature
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.".
- Frank Lloyd Wright |
Nature of
Mind
"There has always been the pure nature of mind and
there has always been fundamental ignorance in the
mind.".
- Kalu Rinpoche |
New Age
"We must come to understand the deep mutual
connection or kinship between the various forms of our
spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual
and moral substance, which grew out of the same
essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is
the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense
of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And
at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper
understanding among cultures that will enable them to
work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new
order for the world."
- Václav Havel |
New Age
"It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive
and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual
awareness that is happening around the world."
- Jon Anderson |
New Age
"What the world needs more than anything are
Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers
working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves
and others."
- Sogyal Rinpoche |
New Age
"The unrest you are experiencing is not individual
psychological difficulty but rather, part of a
widespread spiritual awakening."
- Carol Osborn |
New Ideas
"I can't understand why people are frightened of
new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage |
Non-being
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is
the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest
friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
- The Dhammapada |
Nonessentials
"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of
nonessentials."
- Lin Yutang |
No Limits
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney |
Nonsense
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the
wisest men..."
- Roald Dahl |
Nothing
"Nothing is more real than nothing."
- Democritus |
Nothing
Less
"...to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to
think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing
less."
- Katherine Mansfield |
Now!
"The word "now" is like a bomb thrown
through the window, and it ticks."
- Arthur Miller |
|
Ocean
"The Emptiness of mind is the ocean; the luminosity
of mind is the sunlit ocean; and the unimpeded dynamic
quality of mind is the waves of the sunlit ocean.".
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Old
"In order to be old and wise, you have to be young
and naive first.".
- author unknown |
One in All
"One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the
one moon."
- Zen Saying |
Oneself
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of
mountains, at huge waves of the sea, at the long courses
of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the
circular motions of the stars; and they pass by
themselves without wondering."
- St. Augustine |
Oneself
"Why not be oneself? That is
the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a
Greyhound, why try to look like a Pekinese?"
- Dame Edith Sitwell |
Open Mind
"The mind is like a parachute ... it must be open
to work."
- author unknown |
Optimism
"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
- Oswald Avery |
Optimist
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new
year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year
leaves."
- Bill Vaughan |
Order
"The world is not to be put in order, the world is
order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison
with this order."
- Henry Miller |
Order/Chaos
"Without order nothing can exist - without chaos
nothing can evolve."
- author unknown |
Originality
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one
has ever said before, but in saying what you think
yourself."
- James Stephens |
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Paid
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
- Aristoteles |
Paradise
"Paradise is where I am."
- Voltaire |
Paradox
Truth
"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
- Japanese Proverb |
Patience
"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear."
- Lao-tse |
Patience
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for
patience."
- Georges Louis Leclerc
de Buffon |
Patience
"Patience! The windmill never strays in search of
the wind."
- Andy J. Sklivis |
Patience
"The patient in spirit is better that the proud in
spirit."
- Ecclesiastes |
Patience
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
- St. Augustine |
Patience
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know
how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it
wrong, without comment."
- Theodore H. White |
Peace
"We can never obtain peace in the world if we
neglect the inner world and don't make peace with
ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner
peace."
- The Dalai Lama |
Peace
"People say 'I want peace'. If you remove I {ego},
and your want {desire}, you are left with peace."
- Sai Baba |
Peace
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be
achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein |
Peace
"If there is light in the soul, There will be
beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony
in the house, There will be order in the nation. If
there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the
world."
- Chinese Proverb |
Perception
"If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake |
Perception
"All our knowledge has its origins in our
perceptions."
- Leonardo da
Vinci |
Perfect
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly."
- Sam Keen |
Perfection
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.".
- Zen Saying |
Persistence
"Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until
you get there."
- Josh Billings |
Pessimist
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too
much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too
little.".
- Mark Twain |
Philosophy
"Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of
wisdom."
- Cicero |
Philosophy
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosophize
"To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare
oneself for death."
- Montaigne |
Pictures
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
- Aristotle |
Plans
"Life is what happens to you when you're making
other plans.".
- John Lennon |
Play your
melody
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it
sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou |
Possibilities
"In the beginners mind there are many
possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are
few.".
- Suzuki |
Prayer
"Seven days without prayer makes one WEAK."
- author unknown |
Prejudice
"It's very depressing to live in a time where it's
easier to break an atom than a prejudice.".
- A. Einstein |
Presence
"Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the
future. Concentrate the mind on the present
moment."
- The Buddha |
Presence
"Let the clock and the earth do their own thing...
Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU
stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the
Eternal Present where it all is."
- Ram Dass |
Present
"I have realized that the past and future are real
illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what
there is and all there is."
- Alan Watts |
Progress
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not
possible."
- Frank Zappa |
Projections
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the
thinker what he thinks into it."
- Ernest Holmes |
Proverb
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long
experience.".
- Miguel de Cervantes |
Psychedelics
"Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50
million young people. I can't be certain of this,
since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank
me.".
- Timothy Leary |
Pure
"Make your mind as pure as the blue sky.".
- author unknown |
Purity
"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings
will also become pure."
- The Buddha |
Purity
"Water which is too pure has no fish."
- Ts'ai Ken T'an |
Pureness
"Our mind is composed of many factors, both
positive and negative, but the essential nature of the
mind is pure. It is like a nugget of pure gold covered
with many layers of dirt.".
- Geshe Rabten |
Quantum
Mechanics
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked
you, you haven't understood it yet.".
- Niels Bohr |
Quiet
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves
undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception
of the world."
- Hans Margolius |
Quote
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute
for wit.".
- W. Somerset Maugham |
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Reading
"To read without reflecting is like eating without
digesting."
- author unknown |
Reading
"If you believe everything you read, you better not
read."
- Japanese proverb |
Real
"Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso |
Reality
"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in
the world of how we perceive reality."
- Bryan Singer |
Reality
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very
persistent one."
- Albert Einstein |
Reality
"HOFUKU (pointing at mountains): Is not this
Reality? CHOKEI: It is, but it’s a pity to say
so."
- Zen story |
Realization
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel
with their own hearts."
- A. Einstein |
Rediscover
"I invent nothing; I rediscover."
- Rodin |
Reduce
"Manifest plainness - Embrace simplicity - Reduce
selfishness - Have few desires."
- Lao-Tzu |
Reflection
"There is one art of which man should be master,
the art of reflection."
- Samuel Coleridge |
Religion
"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."
- The Dalai Lama |
Religion
"Religion is a defence against a religious
experience."
- C.G. Jung |
Religious
"Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help
at all. It does not help you; it does not help others.
In order to really help others, you need to gain
knowledge-wisdom."
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Religious
Feeling
"I maintain the cosmic religious feeling is the
strongest and noblest motive for scientific
research."
- Albert Einstein |
Religion/Humor
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can
joke about it."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Respect
"Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for
others and Responsibility for all your
actions."
- The Dalai Lama |
Rest
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a
beautiful crop."
- Ovid |
Reward
"Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are
only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead,
seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is
in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the
reward represents."
- Ralph Marston |
Rising
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall."
- Confucius |
Risks
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and
building your wings on the way down."
- Ray Bradbury |
Rough Idea
"It is better to be roughly right than to be
precisely wrong."
- John Maynard Keynes |
Rules
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the
fun."
- Katherine Hepburn |
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Safety
"A ship is safe in the harbour but that is not what
ships are for."
- Albert J Nimeth |
Science
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality;
it is a profound source of spirituality."
- Carl Sagan |
Science
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without
science is blind."
- Albert Einstein |
Science
"As long as we do science, some things will always
remain unexplained."
- Fritjof Capra |
Science/Divine
"The exquisite order displayed by our scientific
understanding of the physical world calls for the
divine."
- Vera Kistiakowsky |
Science/Religion
"When confronted with the order and beauty of the
universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's
very tempting to take the leap of faith from science
into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only
wish they would admit it."
- Tony Rothman |
Science/Religion
"Religion is science fleeing the investigation of
matter. Science is religion that has forgotten its
origins."
- T. Kun |
Science/Religion
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in
the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He
has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to
conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the
final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who
have been sitting there for centuries."
- Robert Jastrow |
Science/Spirituality
"There is and always was something fundamentally
wrong with spirituality that doesn't embrace all aspects
of life including and, especially, physical
science."
- T. Kun |
Seeing
"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does
the seeing."
- Publilius Syrus |
Seeking
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt
those who find it."
- author unknown |
Self
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the self;
the self is more distant than any star."
- G.K. Chesterton |
Self
"The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere
and whose circumference is nowhere."
- C.G. Jung |
Self
"The whole problem is to establish communication
with one's self."
- E.B. White |
Self
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be
certain of improving, and that's your own self.".
- Aldous Huxley |
Self
"The all knowing Self was never born, nor will it
die. Beyond cause and effect, this self is eternal and
immutable. When the body dies, the Self does not die. If
the slayer believes that he can kill, And the slain
believes that he can be killed, Neither knows the truth.
The eternal Self slays not, nor is ever slain."
- The Upanishads |
Self
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself
is enlightened."
- Lao Tzu |
Self-Acceptance
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself
completely."
- C. G. Jung |
Self-Confidence
"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence.
Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only
truth."
- The Buddha |
Self-Confidence
"Our Own Heart, And Not Other Men's Opinion, Form
Our True Honor."
- Samuel Coleridge |
Self-Education
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind
of education there is."
- Isaac Asimov |
Self-Empowerment
"You, yourself, must make the effort. The Buddhas
are only teachers."
- Buddhist proverb |
Self-Ignorance
"All the powers in the universe are already ours.
It is we who have put our hands before our eyes &
cry that it is dark."
- Swami Vivekananda |
Selfmade
"Most of the shadows of life come from your own
self blocking the sun."
- James Pickett |
Self-Seeking
"Many of us spend our whole lives trying to find
ourselves, forgetting the fact that we ARE
ourselves."
- Joe Viscomi |
Sense
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense
and nonsense, not between right and wrong.".
- C. G. Jung |
Silent
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of
the gods."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Simplicity
"Simplicity of all things, is the hardest to be
copied."
- Sir Richard Steele |
Simplicities
"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities
emerge.".
- Winston Churchill |
Sixties
"Anyone who remembers the 60's wasn't there!"
- Stephen Stills, of
Crosby Stills Nash & Young |
Sky
"The nature of mind is like empty space, like the
sky, which at present is filled with clouds and fog and
mist and periodically has all kinds of activity such as
hailstorms, snowstorms, rainstorms and thunder and
lightning."
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Smile
"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
- Charles Reade |
Smile
"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man
with a million dollars in the bank and no
checkbook."
- Les Giblin |
Smile
"A smile is the light in your window that tells
others that there is a caring, sharing person
inside."
- Denis Waitley |
Society
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be
unpopular."
- Adlai Stevenson |
Softness
"The grass must bend when the wind blows across
it."
- Confucius |
Solitude
"Solitude is the beginning of all freedom."
- William O. Douglas |
Solution
"Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our
problems.".
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Spirits
"We are spirits with clothes on!"
- Amber Jayanti |
Spiritual
Beings
"We are not Human Beings seeking a Spiritual
Experience... We are Spiritual Beings involved in a
Human Experience."
- author unknown |
Spiritual
Variety
"There are many paths to the top of the mountain,
but the view is always the same."
- Chinese Proverb |
Spreading
Light
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the
candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton |
Stars
"A billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head. But IN you is the presence
that will be, when all the stars are dead.".
- R. M. Rilke |
Stay Tuned
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington |
Stories
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms.".
- Muriel Rukeyser |
Strangers
"Think of strangers as friends you not met
yet.".
- Abraham Lincoln |
Stream
"It is better to be a small stream, than a deep
ditch."
- Chinese Saying |
Stupidity
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and
human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former."
- Albert Einstein |
Stupidity
"The difference between genius and stupidity is
that genius has its limits."
- A. Einstein |
Supernatural
"The supernatural is the natural not yet
understood."
- Elbert Hubbard |
Supernatural
Plan
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe
which was created out of nothing, one with the very
delicate balance needed to provide exactly the
conditions required to permit life, and one which has an
underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan."
- Arno Penzias |
Surprised
"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk
for a year and a half."
- Gracie Allen |
Synchronicity
"When the student is ready... the lesson
appears."
- Gene Oliver |
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Talk Wise!
"Wise people talk because they have something to
say; fools, because they have to say something."
- Plato |
Teach
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help
him to find it within himself.".
- Galileo |
Teacher
"A great teacher never strives to explain his
vision - he simply invites you to stand beside him and
see for yourself."
- R. Inman |
Teacher
"One good teacher outweights
a ton of books."
- Chinese proverb |
Telephone
of Mind
"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace,
harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever
doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep
getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my
number.".
- Edith Armstrong |
Think/Act
"Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of
action."
- Thomas Mann |
Thinking
"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."
- author unknown |
Thinking
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with
our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the
world."
- The Buddha |
Thinking
"When the mind is thinking,
it is talking to itself."
- Plato |
Thoughts
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we
think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow
that never leaves."
- The Buddha |
Time
"If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time
would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change
we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time
doesn't exist."
- Julian Barbour |
Time
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- author unknown |
Time
"Time is not a line, but a series of
now-points."
- Taisen Deshimaru |
Time
"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving
away."
- Ben Hecht |
Time
"The best way to save some time is to use it.".
- Carl Hammarén |
Time
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it
kills all its pupils."
- Hector Berlioz |
Time and
Space
"....the unconscious has no time. There is no
trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our
psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an
illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of
our psyche time does not exist at all." -
C. G. Jung |
Today
"The past, the present and the future are one; they
are your today."
- author unknown |
Today
"Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope, today
is getting from one to the other as best we can."
- author unknown |
To Long
"If you think to long on your next step, you will
end up in life standing on one leg.".
- Chinese Proverb |
Tolerance
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment
and happiness. Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
- H. Jackson Browne |
Touch
"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot
touch others."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Tranquility
"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and
the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed,
the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self
when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed."
- Indra Devi |
Transcendence
"True Understanding is Transcendence."
- author unknown |
Truth
"There are only two ways of telling the complete
truth - anonymously and posthumously."
- Thomas Sowell |
Truth
"Truth has no special time of it's own. It's hour
is now ... always."
- Albert Schweitzer |
Truth
"Love truth but pardon error."
- Voltaire |
Truth
"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters
with the spirit of the times.".
- C.G. Jung |
Truth
"What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow
prove to be only amusing.".
- Louis L'Amour |
Truth
"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to
follow the truth is formidable.".
- Chinese Saying |
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Uncertainty
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life.
Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom
at bay and spark creativity."
- R. I. Fitzhenry |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is the only available source of
religious experience. This in certainly not to say that
what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is
set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which
religious experience seems to flow. As to what the
further cause of such experience might be, the answer to
this lies beyond the range of human knowledge."
- C. G. Jung |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a
natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic
taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely
neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious
attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that
we repress it, its danger increases."
- C. G. Jung |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is the unwritten history of
mankind from time unrecorded."
- C. G. Jung |
Understanding
"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
- Carl Sagan |
Understanding
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
- Heraclitus |
Unio
Mystica
"Therefore it is said that the whole universe is
just an illusion unless you immediately... attain the
mystic path... seeing through wordly troubles,
forgetting all about subject and object... If you
effectively understand thus, it will make you happy for
life."
- Hui-Lin |
Unio
Mystica
"He, knowing all, becomes the All."
- The Upanishads |
Unity
"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose
that I am here and you are there."
- Yasutani Roshi |
Universal
Design
"There is for me powerful evidence that there is
something going on behind it all.... It seems as though
somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the
Universe... The impression of design is
overwhelming".
- Paul Davies |
Universal
Design
"The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product
of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must
have a purpose".
- Paul Davies |
Universal
Love
"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous
and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces."
- Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin |
Universal
Mind
"The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I
think, a fairly plausible inference from the present
state of scientific theory."
- Arthur Eddington |
Universal
Mind
"Know thyself, and thou shalt know the
universe."
- Socrates |
Universe
"An infinite universe is at each moment opened to
our view. And this universe is the sign and symbol of
Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity, Bliss, and
Love."
- William Ellery
Channing |
Universe
"The universe was born restless and has never since
been still."
- Rousseau |
Universe
"If you seek to understand the whole universe you
will understand nothing at all but seek to understand
yourself and you will understand the the whole
universe.".
- Druidic Axiom |
Universe
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a
combination but the combination is locked up in the
safe."
- Peter DeVries |
Universe
"If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in
the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a
parkbench has just been painted, he has to touch it to
be sure."
- Lynn |
Unlimited
Mind
"The mind of man is capable of anything -- because
everything is in it, all the past as well as the
future."
- Joseph Conrad |
Unpretentiousness
"My belief is that to have no wants is
divine."
- Socrates |
Using
Others
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead
us to a better understanding of ourselves."
- Carl G. Jung |
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Values
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a
man of value."
- Albert Einstein |
View
"We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of
the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of
the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely
different view."
- Mao Tse-Tung |
Virtue
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing
it."
- David Starr Jordan |
Vision-Activity
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with
without vision is a nightmare."
- Japanese proverb |
Voidness
"As soon as one's mind is known to be of the Wisdom
of the Voidness, concepts like good and evil karma cease
to exist. Seek, therefore, thine own Wisdom within thee.
It is the Vast Deep."
- Guru Padmasambhava |
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What is
"Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the
nature of things is still the nature of things. The
Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what
actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we
simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is."
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche |
Why Not?
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream
things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' "
- George Bernard Shaw |
Window
"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the
window through which you must see the world.".
- G. B. Shaw |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the
body."
- La Rochefoucauld |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you
cannot."
- Balthasar Gracian |
Wisdom
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information.".
- T. S. Eliot |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
- Sophocles |
Wisdom-Activity
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men
say. I just watch what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie |
Wisdom-Activity
"The journey is the reward."
- Chinese Proverb |
Wisdom/Activity
"I give myself very good advice But I very seldom
follow it."
- Alice, Alice in
Wonderland |
Wisdom Ears
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music
is nothing if the audience is deaf."
- Walter Lippmann |
Wisdom
illumination
"As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a
dark room, even so the light of wisdom illumines all
men, whosoever they may be; if they turn towards
it."
- Fo shu-hing-tsan-king |
Wisdom
Search
"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for
wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable,
and more full of joy."
- Aquinas |
Wise
"The wise man knows without traveling."
- Lao-Tsze |
Wise
"A wise man hears one word and understands
two."
- author unknown |
Wise
"A wise mind is a loving mind."
- author unknown |
Wise
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he
poses the right questions."
- author unknown |
Wise
"We get old too soon and wise too late."
- author unknown |
Wise
"If you find you are not as wise today as you
thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today."
- author unknown |
Wise
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what
to overlook."
- William James |
Wisely
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but
in seeing wisely.".
- Sir William Osler |
Within
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wonder
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates |
Wonder
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the
miraculous in the common."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wonder
"To wonder is to begin to understand."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset |
Wonder
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than
one closed by belief."
- Gerry Spence |
Words
"Words without action are the assasins of
idealism."
- Herbert Hoover |
Write
"Better to write for yourself and have no public,
than to write for the public and have no self.".
- Cyril Connolly |
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Your Trip
"Don't think that examining and knowing the nature
of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong
conception. It's your trip."
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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