Inner Guidance
“Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.”
–Gerald G. Jampolsky (American Psychiatrist, Lecturer and Author, 1925-)
A Poison of Life
“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”
–Tryon Edwards (American Theologian, 1809-1894)
Like a Great Thought
“The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.”
–Sir James Jeans (English Physicist, Mathematician, Writer and Proponent of the Continuous-Creation Theory, 1877-1946)
Perspectives and Aspirations
“The confined space I occupy is so minute when compared with the rest of the universe, where I am not and have no business to be; and the fraction of time I shall live is so infinitesimal when contrasted with eternity, in which I have never been and never shall be . . . And yet here, in this atom of myself, in this mathematical point, blood circulates, the brain is active, aspiring to something too . . .”
–Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian Writer, 1818-1883)
“Fathers and Sons (Oxford World’s Classics)” (Ivan Turgenev)
Real Learning
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”
–Doris Lessing (Iranian-born South African Expatriate Writer and, in 2007, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1919-)
The Simplicity of Saints
“Simplicity of nature is the sign of saints.”
–Hazrat Inayat Khan (Indian Founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International, 1882-1927)
Integrating Reason and Intuition
“People with high levels of personal mastery do not set out to integrate reason and intuition. Rather, they achieve it naturally- as a by- product of their commitment to use all the resources at their disposal. They cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.”
–Peter Senge (American Expert on Organizational Development and Head of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, 1947-)
Rules of Life
“Great sages and saints have set certain rules for us to follow. If we followed those rules we shall know what is right what is wrong so that we may avoid certain things.”
–Swami Ramdas (a.k.a. Papa Ramdas, Indian Spiritual Teacher, 1884-1963)
The Sacred Earth
“The whole earth is the altar whereon God pours out His life and love.”
–Agnes Sanford (American Charismatic Christian Healer, teacher and Writer, 1897-1982)
Love and Live in Power
“We love and live in power; it is the spirit’s end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.”
–Philip James Bailey (English Poet, 1816-1902)
