Week 2017-30

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." (Roald Dahl)

"There is nothing in this world which does not speak. Every thing and every being is continually calling out its nature, its character, its secret; the more the inner sense is open, the more capable it becomes of hearing the voice of all things." (Inayat Khan)

"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
Seek the path that demands your whole being." (Rumi)

"When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence." (Sri Aurobindo)

"Bringing joy to one heart with love is better than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings." (Sufi saying)

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." (Albert Camus)

"Let your mind wander in the pure and simple.
Be one with the infinite.
Let all things take their course." (Zhuangzi)

"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them." (Constantin Brâncuși)

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." (George MacDonald)

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anaïs Nin)

Week 2017-29

"If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless." (Rumi)

"This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness." (Mary Oliver)

"A snowflake never falls in the wrong place." (Zen saying)

"It is useless to fight against people’s rigid ways, or to argue against their irrational concepts. You will only waste time and make yourself rigid in the process. The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, outwardly displaying deference to their need for order. On your own, however, you must work to maintain your open spirit, letting go of bad habits and deliberately cultivating new ideas." (Robert Greene)

"In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." (Bertrand Russell)

"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there - in the imperfection is perfect reality." (Shunryū Suzuki)

"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless." (Rumi)

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." (Khalil Gibran)

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." (Marianne Williamson)

"We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding." (Edward Teller)

Week 2017-28

"Realizing that our inability to control life is not the same as having no way to navigate it, leads to freedom and liberation. Just because I can't control the sea doesn't mean I can't learn how to swim in it." (Rami Shapiro)

"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love." (Rumi)

"What worries you, masters you." (John Locke)

"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ( Nathaniel Hawthorne )

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." (Michel de Montaigne)

"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." (Eric Hoffer)
  
"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace." ( Karl Kraus)

"If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change the way you think about it." (Mary Engelbreit)

"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)

"To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of the idea of what it means to be truly happy or content." (Confucius)

Week 2017-27

"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." (Shunryū Suzuki)

"Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles." (Frank L. Wright)

"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly." (Edward Albee)

"Fear is a distraction from ‘what is', from the present actual moment, preventing us from existing, from being what we are." (Vanda Scaravelli)

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." (Leonardo da Vinci)

"The power of imagination makes us infinite." (John Muir)

"Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things." (Virgil)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." (Lao Tzu)

"The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves" (Roald Dahl)

"The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts." (Shams Tabrizi)

Week 2017-26

"People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets" (Charles Swindoll)

"As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself." (Shunryu Suzuki-roshi)

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

"We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions." (Bruce H. Lipton)

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)

"Only great minds are capable of estimating the magnitude of little things." (Rayon)

"The wit we long for spoils the wit we have." (Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset)

"A miracle does not happen in contradiction to nature, but in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature." (St Augustine)

"To be empty means to be empty of ego, not in the sense that one functions as a vegetable or a wild animal, but in the sense that one ceases to gauge the events, the persons and the things of one's environment in terms of 'I' or 'me' or 'mine'". (Hsu Yun)

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." (Shakti Gawain)