Courage
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (Italian Dominican Friar, Theologian and Philosopher, 1225-1274)
Movement of Energy in Consciousness
“Vasistha’s Yoga” (Venkatesananda)
“Action is nothing but the movement of energy in consciousness, and it inevitably bears its own fruit.”
–Yoga Vasistha (Hindu Advaita Sacred Book, c.A.D.9th-11th Century)
Prayer and Action
“There is a relationship between prayer and action. Receptive prayer results in an inner receiving, which motivates to right action.”
–“Peace Pilgrim” (a.k.a. Mildred Norman, American Peace Activist, 1908-1981)
Spiritual Work
“This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.”
–Ezra Taft Benson (American Public Servant, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1953-1961 and, from 1985-1994, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1899-1994)
Taking the First Step
“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
–Brian Tracy (Canadian-born American Author and Expert on Business and Personal Development, 1944-)
The Satisfaction of Action
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
–Margaret Thatcher (English Statesman and, from 1979-1990, British Prime Minister, 1925-)
Acting On Your Dreams
“Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality.”
–Glynis Nunn (Australian Heptathlete, 1960-)
A Busy Brain
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
–Virginia Woolf (English Writer, 1882-1941)
Living Life
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them … I shall use my time.”
–Jack London (American Novelist, 1876-1916)
Not “I Think” But “I Can”
“Consciousness is in the first place not a matter of ‘I think’ but of ‘I can.”
–Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French Philosopher, Phenomenologist and Social Critic, 1908-1961)
