“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards other. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” – Etty Hillesum

“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” Lao-Tsu

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi

“If interpretation evolves from context, as Jung certainly believed, then all context is important, including popular culture.” George H. Jensen

“The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.” Edward Albee

“While we may forget our dreams, our dreams do not forget us.” Robert Romanyshyn

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” Matsuo Basho

“In Tibet we say that many illness can be cured by the one medicine of love and compassion. These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and need for them lies at the very core of our being.” Dalai Lama

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Accept the importance of balancing opposites – light and dark, positive and negative, masculine and feminine – for they cannot exist alone.” A Thousand Paths to Tranquility

“It is impossible to separate yourself from the universe. You are one and the same.” A Thousand Paths to Tranquility

“To make any well formed sentence is to make unity out of duality. This is immensely healing and restorative. We are all poets and healers when we use language correctly.” Robert A. Johnson

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” Maryanne Radanbacher

“When we feel that our hearts are breaking as we watch suffering, in actuality our hearts are expanding, allowing us to be stronger and deeper channels of love and light.” Sandra Ingerman

“No intellectual formulation comes anywhere near the richness and expressiveness of mythical imagery.” Carl Jung

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” Ray Bradbury

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” John F. Kennedy

“The future, no matter how threatening, can only come one day at a time.” David Baird  (A Thousand Path to Tranquility)

“Learn to accept that what cannot be cured must be endured.” David Baird  (A Thousand Path to Tranquility)

 “May the seed of your desire invite soul into the dance.” – Stephen Aizenstat (PGI’s founding president)

“…it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When something seems to go wrong, it’s invariably part of a larger right.” – Jed McKenna

“Understood: there is no learning to let go or trying to let go. There is just letting go.” – Lori Deschene

“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” -Proverb

“I know you feel powerless right now, but you’re going to rock the world when you get strong.” – TinyBuddha

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.” – Peace Pilgrim

“Knowing where we are, moving slowly, and determining our action carefully, we are stabilizing our strategy for bringing meaning to our life.” – Sakyong Mipham

“I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.” – Lin-yutang

“No one is really looking for the meaning of life. People are looking for an experience of life.” – Joseph Campbell

“Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – C.S. Lewis

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If you think your life is about DOINGNESS, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living-and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re BEING while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. It is a state of BEINGNESS the soul is after, not a state of doingness.”- Neale Donald Walsch

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

“All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.” – Joseph Campbell

“What really knocked me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

“Don’t try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited.  Use your intuition.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The goal of the hero’s journey is yourself, finding yourself.” – Joseph Campbell

“Life will always be sorrowful. We can’t change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.” – Joseph Campbell

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” – W.E.B. DuBois

“Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and, something you give away.” – Robert Fulghum

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Proverb

“Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their oneness with the universe.” – Black Elk

You don’t know what you’re becoming
Who knows what you’re gonna be
We don’t know where we’re going
We don’t know ‘cause we can’t see

If I could tell your future
I’d say love the world you find
In the dark times and the hard questions
Let some sunshine in your mind

Sun is rising, and I think that’s good
You’re just now realizing
Some things you never thought you would

Flaming Lips: Love the World You Find