A noble thought is a prayer. An earnest desire is a prayer.
A pious longing is a prayer. The sincere sighing of a penitent
heart is a Prayer. Zarathustra
May all the good thoughts come to us from every direction.
May I send good thoughts into the worlds. May we all live in
harmony with our good thoughts. May good thoughts nourish me
and strengthen my consciousness An Indian prayer
Truth is not exact. What can be measured is not truth.
J Krishnamurthy.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it
will not be created for years or even generations. Khalil
Gibran
Coincidences are spiritual puns. G. K. Chesterton
There are people who can walk into a room, sit down, and
little more seems to have happened than that a chair has been
occupied. Someone else can come in, and though he neither says
nor does anything further, his presence is like a power ...
hardly a gesture or word is exchanged, yet everything is vitally
alive with their presence. To be present, then, is more than
to sit or kneel in place. It is an act of the spirit and expresses
itself in one's whole bearing. - Romano Guardini, Aquarius
I used to spend whole days without food and whole nights
without sleep in order to meditate. But I made no progress.
Study, I found, was better. Confucius
I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred
years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change
Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either. Bessie Delany.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she
were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care,
kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no
thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while
all the others were making ships. C. S. Lewis
It's easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you
bothering with the immediate ones. - John Osborne (epitaph
for George Dillon).
Real parapsychological knowledge is how to be in contact
with those who think otherwise, how to stand as a connecting
link between groups that think differently... This kind of knowledge
can be achieved only in loneliness and it can't be shared even
with your dearest friends. Every one can preach truth and freedom
to those who do not understand, but only a few can walk into
enemy camp and achieve even their trust. It is understanding
that has nothing to do with, whether iron bent in the hands
of Geller (which I saw myself from close by), whether there
is truth in astrology or whether dreams are valuable. -
Markku Siivola, Finnish psychiatrist.
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you
love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better
every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world
with an all-embracing love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely
great. Willa Cather
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We
are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious. - C. G. Jung
We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to
that is that whatever state of mind we are now, whatever kind
of person we are now: that's what we will be like at the moment
of death, if we do not change. Sogul Rinpoche from the
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
As you progress on the the path, you'll begin to sense who
your teachers are and whose teachings are for you. Some teachers
are obviously still working on themselves, and they feed you
by sharing their experiences. Others serve as living examples
of the detours and pitfalls along the way, which may help you
reflect on how to get on with your own path. They become teachings
for you, whatever the intentions when you started out.
Ram Dass from Be Love Now