People usually consider walking on water or on thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle
is not to walk either on water or in thin air,
but to walk on earth.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle
which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky,
white clouds,
green leaves,
the black, curious eyes of a child --
our own two eyes.

All is a miracle.

~Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- )
Vietnamese Buddhist monk

We live in a moment of history,
where change is so speeded up that
 we begin to see the present only when
it is already disappearing. 
~Ronnie D. Laing, author
(1927-1989)

"It is the state of your vibratory field that determines your experience of any event. In its most simple form, the cultivation of appreciation for the smallest things in your life will give you the greatest results."

I have noticed that when I am in the vibratory field of joy, appreciation and gratitude, I am somehow insulated from the swirling madness of our time. It is as if I am suspended above the conflicts that I was so engrossed in only moments before. And I have also noticed that if these feelings continue long enough, my external circumstances reflect this vibratory field. In other words, reasons to feel joy, appreciation and gratitude pop up all around me through such things as serendipity, and odd coincidences (i.e., synchronicities) that assist me.

When I succumb, however, to the lower vibratory fields of fear, anger and hostility (often after watching or reading too much of the news, or simply indulging in my own bad habits of imagining worst case scenarios), I find myself immersed in a world of conflict. Serendipity and joy disappear, and the world that was so full of magic and possibility evaporates before me.  But I am clear that this is all my own creation.

~ Tom Kenyon

Creativity requires
the courage
to let go
of certainties.

~Erich Fromm,
psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher
(1900– 1980)

It is not the magnitude
of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them
that matters.

The biggest disease today
is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling
of being unwanted.

Mother Theresa
1910-1997

The most important part of prayer
is what we feel, not what we say.
We spend a great deal of time telling God
what we think should be done,
and not enough time
waiting in the stillness
for God to tell us
what to do.

Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981)
Her Life and Works in Her Own Words
(p.76)

It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted to a
profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895-1986)

“Is God a Man or a Woman ?
The answer to this question is neither—
God is That.

But if you must give God a gender,
God is more female than male,
for he is contained in She.”

—Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)
Spiritual Leader
(1953 - )

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), was an
English cleric, writer and collector

We judge ourselves
by what we feel
capable of doing,
while others
judge us
by what
we have already
done.                                        

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Educator and Poet (1807-1882)

To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
to know that even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American Essayist and Poet

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that
I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration,
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated,
and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be,
we help them become what they are capable of becoming."

"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance"

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Only in quiet waters
do things mirror themselves
undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind
is adequate
perception of
the world."

~Hans Margolius (1902-)
German philosopher

The voyage of discovery
is not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust
(1871-1922)
French novelist

Don't ask yourself what the world needs.     
Ask yourself what makes you come alive,     
and then go do that.     
Because what the world needs    
 is people who have come alive."     

~Howard Thurman (1900-1981)
Professor of Theology,
Author, Philosopher

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift,
the rational mind  is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift."

"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from
mediocre minds."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe.
The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you,
but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all you experience
to highest advantage to others.

Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
20th century inventor,
mathematician and futurist

I have come to recognize evolution
not only as an active process
that I am experiencing at the time,
but as something I can guide
by the choices I make. 

~Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
Physician and Research Scientist

Change is not merely necessary to life,
it is life.

Allen Toffler (1928-)
Futurist and Writer

The day will come when, after harnessing
space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
And on that day,
for the second time in the history of the world
we shall have discovered fire.

~Tielhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
Visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist,
and philosopher

To start from the self and try to understand all things
is delusion.

Dogen (1200-1253)
Japanese Zen Buddhist Teacher