Week 2017-42

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?" (Henry David Thoreau)

"I’ve learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk." (Carlos Wallace)

"There is no such thing as a miracle which violates natural law. There are only occurrences which violate our limited knowledge of natural law." (Saint Augustine)

"The world is a projection of your mind. Good mind, good world. Bad mind, bad world. No mind, no world." (Swami Parthasarathy)

"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." (H. L. Mencken)

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." (Pablo Picasso)

"The future is nothing but a present to organize. You do not have to forecast it, but to allow it." ( Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." (Mary Oliver)

"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature." (Jacob Bronowski, Universities Quarterly, 1956)

"The hours when we are absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live [...] .These are the only hours that absorb the soul and fill it with beauty. This is real life, and all else is illusion, or mere endurance." ( Richard Jefferies )

Week 2017-38

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." (Eden Phillpotts, “A Shadow Passes”, 1918)

"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." (Schopenhauer)

"Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart (Helen Keller )

"[Nansen:] The Way is not a matter of knowing or not knowing. Knowing is delusion; not knowing is confusion. When you have really reached the true Way beyond doubt, you will find it as vast and boundless as space. How can it be talked about on the level of right and wrong?" (Mumon Ekai, Mumonkan)

"The most inspiring leaders are not those who do their job, but those who pursue a calling." (Chris Gardner)

"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success ‘unexpected in common hours’." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself to study the rest of it, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities." (John C. Lilly)

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)

Week 2017-18

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." (Akhenaton)

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." (Herbert Agar)

"An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance." (Richard Hugo, "Triggering Town")

"We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are." (Gene Roddenberry)

"Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous." (Charles F Glassman)

"Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective." ( Hunter S. Thompson )

"Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own." (Charles F Glassman)

"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." (André Malraux)

"I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves." (Louise L. Hay)