Feeling Wholeness
“See yourselves fitting into your rightful place, giving what you have to give to the whole, and so feel part and parcel of that wonderful wholeness, no longer separate or divided, One in thought, word, and deed.”
–Eileen Caddy (English Spiritual Writer and Co-Founder of the Findhorn Community in Northern Scotland, 1918-2006)
Expressing Your Potential
“Each life expresses one of nature’s emergent potentials that may prove significant for the whole.”
–Edgar Mitchell (American Scientist, Apollo 14 Astronaut and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1930-)
Systems Within Systems
“Indeed, an outstanding property of all life is the tendency to form multileveled structures of systems within systems. Each of these forms a whole with respect to its parts while at the same time being a part of a larger whole.”
–Fritjof Capra (Austrian-born American Physicist, Futurist and Writer, 1939-)
“The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems” (Fritjof Capra)
Lighting Candles
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
–Buddha (a.k.a. “The Awakened”, a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama, Indian Religious Figure and Founder of Buddhism, c.563 B.C. -c.483 B.C.)
Confluence and Connection
“Once you accept the world-view where everything is connected, no aspect of reality is seen as being separate and unrelated. Neither the universals nor the particulars of matter and non-matter, brain and mind – nor the languages we use to describe these things, science and art – are seen to be in conflict with one another. There is only confluence.”
–Todd Siler (American Visual Artist, Educator, Inventor and Author, 1953-)
Continual Growth and Progress
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
–Benjamin Franklin (American Author, Inventor and Diplomat, 1706-1790)
Your Mind’s True Nature
“Once one has truly realized the mind’s true nature…you just see incredibly expansive interconnection.”
–Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (English-born Buddhist Nun, 1944-)
“Spiritual Genius : The Mastery of Life’s Meaning” (WINIFRED GALLAGHER)
Finding Healing Compassion
“Reflect on all the love expressed by people everywhere who want to give and receive love. Feel the unconditional love of healers everywhere who want to relieve suffering wherever they find it. Remember that you are among them. You can find the source of infinite, healing compassion in the depths of your own heart.”
–Frances Vaughan (American Transpersonal Psychologist and Writer)
“Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions” (Frances Vaughan)
Through Crisis to Growth and Renewal
“This is the supreme purpose of the present human phase of terrestrial history; that the normal crisis which has struck us shall be compensated by the renewal and growth of our beings, in the double form of a necessity and an attraction, of a divine pressure emanating from the Absolute.”
–Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Jesuit Priest, Mystic, Paleontologist and Author, 1881-1955)
Life Needs to Live Ever More
“It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.”
–Wallace D. Wattles (American Poet, Writer and Educator, 1888-1950)
