Everything In Its Time
“The Book of the Heart: Embracing the Tao” (Loy Ching-Yuen)
“We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.”
–Loy Ching-Yuen (Chinese Taoist T’ai Chi Ch’uan Master, 1873-1960)
Total Forgiveness
“Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.”
–Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian Spiritual Teacher and, in 1920, Founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, 1893-1952)
Medicine: Quo Vadis?
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
–Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Swiss-born American Psychologist, 1926-2004)
Renewing Yourself
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”
–Pearl S. Buck (a.k.a. “John Sedges,” a.k.a. Sai Zhenzhu, American Missionary in China, Author and, in 1938, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1892-1973)
Virtue
“The Master Said, “The man of virtue makes the difficult to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration, this may be called perfect virtue.”
–Confucius (Chinese Philosopher, 551-479 B.C.)
Moving in Curves
“The movement of every energy and trend takes a curved direction. This is why there is no straight-line, lapse-free evolution in human nature or history. And the curve develops itself with time into a circle, and this again with further time into a spiral.”
–Paul Brunton (a.k.a. Raphael Hurst, English Philosopher, Traveler, Spiritual Teacher and Author, 1898-1981)
Cooperation and Creativity
“Life is a triumph of cooperation and creativity. Indeed, since the creation of the first nucleated cells, evolution has proceeded through ever more intricate arrangements of cooperation and coevolution.”
–Fritjof Capra (Austrian-born American Physicist, Futurist and Writer, 1939-)
“The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems” (Fritjof Capra)
If You Cannot Know Yourself…
“I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself; how then would you have me judge the deeds of others?”
–Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian Poet Writer and, in 1911, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1862-1949)
The True Nature of Things
“The Sioux idea of living creatures is that trees, buffalo and man are temporary energy swirls, turbulent patterns. You find that perception registered so many ways in archaic and primitive lore. I say that it is probably the most basic insight into the nature of things, and that our more common, recent Occidental view of the universe as consisting of fixed things is out of the main stream, a deviation from basic human perception.”
–Gary Snyder (American Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, 1930-)
The Light Remains
“Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.”
–Saint Augustine of Hippo (Numidian-born Theologian, A.D.354-430)
