* God is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. - St. Bonaventure
* If you can do something that you love to do without fear of criticism, you will move. You will find joy in it.
* ...Another awakening took place... that the human spirit is more powerful than any drug. And that is what needs to be nourished... with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. This is what we had forgotten. The simplest things. - Dr. Sayer
* "There is," wrote William Penn," something nearer to us than scriptures, to wit, the word in the heart from which all scriptures come."
* Those that think they know, don't know. Those that know they don't know, know.
* God is not a what; He is a that. - Scotus Erigena
* When enlightenment is perfected, a Bodhisattva is free from the bondage of things, but does not seek to be delivered from things. Samsara (the world of becoming) is not hated by him, nor is nirvana loved. When perfect enlightenment shines it is neither bondage nor deliverance. - Prunabuddha-Sutra
* The ruler of the southern ocean was Shu. The ruler of the northern ocean was Hu, and the ruler of the centre was Chaos. Shu and Hu were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well. They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said:
* The spoils of recent technological imperialism have been enormous; but meanwhile Nemesis has seen to it that we get our kicks as well as halfpence. For example, has the ability to travel in twelve hours from New York to Los Angelous given more pleasure to the human race than the dropping of bombs and fire has given pain? - Aldous Huxley
* Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond. - Sri Ramakrishna
* Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. - Joseph Campbell
* We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
* A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation... "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think."
* Then Almitra spoke again and said, and what of marriage, master? And he answered saying: Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. - Kahlil Gibran
* There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. - Kahlil Gibran
* Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awoke, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. - Chuang Tzu
* Money sometimes prevents trouble; too much money breeds it. - Chinese Proverb
* Talk not of your personal success to one who has failed; forget not your failures in your moment of success. - Chinese Proverb
* If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. - Tao Te Ching
* We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. - Tao Te Ching
* That which is lawful is clear, and that which is unlawful likewise, but there are certain doubtful things between the two from which it is well to abstain.
* The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self, and enter by love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls. - Thomas Merton
* The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same. - Meister Eckhart
* One day when a large assembly of his monks was waiting for the Buddha to begin an address, the Buddha surprised them all by remaining silent. Smiling, he then turned a flower in his fingers and held it silently before his listeners. Only one monk, Kashapa, smiled in full recognition. The Buddha said: "I have the Dharma-eye which is not expressed in words, but specially transmitted from mind to mind. This teaching I have given to the great Kashapa." - Bodhidharma
* Once the noble Ibraham, as he sat on his throne, heard a clamour and noise of cries on the roof, also heavy footsteps on the roof of his palace. He said to himself, "Whose Heavy Feet are these?" He shouted from the windows, "Who goes there?"
* The tree on the mountain height is its own enemy. The grease that feeds the light devours itself. The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down! The Lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it. Every man knows how useful it is to be useful. No one seems to know how useful it is to be useless. - Confucious
* The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it you will never know what justice is. - Howard Zinn
* No doubt Jung's most serious point of contention with christianity was with what he regarded as its failure to recognize that that which we experience as the dark and evil aspects of nature are as much a manifestation of God as that which we regard as the good. - Robert Aziz
* The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it you will never know what justice is. - Howard Zinn
* When I look at the human race all over the world I think there's zero reason for humanity to survive. We're destructive, uncaring, thoughtless, greedy, power hungry. But when I look at a few individuals there seems every reason for humanity to survive. - Robert Winters
* And I am not afraid to make a mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. - James Joyce