Right here, Right now

The truth is we always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Does a flower, full of beauty, light, and loveliness say, 'I am giving, helping, serving?'
It is! And because it is not trying to do anything it covers the earth. ~Krishnamurti

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can man be perfected without trials.
~Chinese Proverb

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? ~Elvis Costello


If the people will lead, the leaders will follow. ~David Suzuki


May all that have life be delivered from suffering. ~Buddha


Be open to change. Watch. Wait. Time will unfold and fulfill its purpose. Do not go unconscious while you wait though. Think. Grow. Rejoice and Dream, but kneel and pray...there is holiness in the air today. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own.
~Alice Koller

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy


Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught, only then, will you find that money cannot be eaten. ~Cree Prophecy

where love grows
we seek fruits
but where love deepens
is in the roots

-an excerpt from laurie childers '99
wemoon calendar

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. ~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

We only live once--- (that we know of ) but if you work it right, once is enough.
~Joe E. Lewis


Whatever you wish to accomplish... by visualizing it, makes it an existing fact that is already present in your spirit. It starts happening when you start thinking... start meditating. In stillness lies reality... life... is but the dream.


All that I am, all that we are, shining in Love like an infinite star. One with the all, all becomes one. All has been here since creation began. Break down the walls of illusion and fear, seek for the truth and the truth shall appear. ~Shimshai


I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep. ~Henry David Thoreau


Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself. ~Erasmus


This is the sum of duty: Do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
~Mahabharata


May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely and joyfully in the beauty of each day.
~Native American Proverb


The more one knows, the more one forgives. ~Confucious


How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. ~Shakespeare


Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her and is found by those who seek her. ~Wisdom of Solomon

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~Nelson Mandela


To a sincere student, every day is a fortunate day. ~Zengetsu


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank


The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it has nothing else in the Universe to do.


Aloha! Alo ~ "to share" Ha ~ "breath". Aloha literally meaning "to share breath", or more poetically "to share the breath of life". When this sharing of the Breath of Life is combined with Love & Respect for the Earth and a sense of grateful stewardship, it is called Aloha'aina.

ALOHA! The pulse of the Earth can be felt from Kauai. In silence our hearts beat as One.
The water embraces my skin, purifying, the food enters my soul, nourishing...All coming
from a source that is ALIVE, Mother Earth...growing, expanding, BECOMING...whatever it is
we make of her. Respect & Love. Mahalo!

Aloha!... from PoiPu, Kauai. The island is amazing. It sustains. The trees provide...fruit, nectar, avacado, coco's, beautiful blossoms...and the people respect. It is inspiring to be on an island that gives thanks for all that our mother provides. It's hard sometimes to see the beauty within the buildings, but if you stop for a moment, you'll see that no matter where you are, the wind is singing in the trees. Much gratitude...love.


Inside and outside her head, a billion, trillion stars, beyond count, circled and exploded. A million frogs croaked, trees fell in forests echoing down valleys; children cried. The flux of everything throbbed on and on. Songs were heard in spheres within spheres, electric, crackle, sharp. She heard nothing. How could she, when not once had she even heard the sound of her own breathing. ~Duane Michaels, "Inside and Outside"


The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness. Only when there is stillnes in movement can the spiritual rhythm appear which pervades heaven and earth. ~Ts'ai-Ken T'an, The Tao of Physics


You wouldn't have been given the power to dream without also being given the power to make those dreams comes true. Do the work, Keep the Faith...Create.


The past, the present, the future, is there any difference. Everything is one. The ultimate joy merging all energies with the supreme consciousness, merging completely with God. I love the cosmic consciousness. She gives me freedom to be with everthing, forever and forever.


HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM & JANOMAN...You both are light and love in my life. It is perfect that you share the same day of entry (different time of course). But the guidance and wisdom you share is similar. May God bless you the way you have both blessed my life.
with love, gratitude and respect...rebecca.

Space, empty space. To be filled with changing forms. Energy constantly moving, filling the endless void. I love space. It gives me form so I can change and become one with the Universe.

From day to day the energy circulates without any boundaries. Timeless and effortless it Loves and maintains the ongoing form. I Love the Air. I breathe in her life force and it sustains me.

To my Brother, Kyle...You are a brilliant artist and soul, infinite is your potential...I love you...Happy 30th Birthday. May God Bless You Always...Enjoy!
Bursting forth with expanding energy. Reaching the outer depths of space and beyond. Creating wamth and heat so life can go on. I love the fire. She warms my being and gives me Energy so I can BE.

Abound in the ocean of joy, energy moving to every corner. Satisfying, flowing freely...'tis the waters way. I love the water. She cleanses my soul, and connects me To Spirit.


How beautiful the energy taking solid form. Slow vibrations---crystallizing, becoming whole. Holding life together connected, safe and secure. I love the Earth. She is my home. She supports me and gives me strength To Be.

How incredible to see the Universe with eyes closed. To know all knowledge and feel every feeling. To be one with your soul. I love the third eye. She gives me knowledge of the past, present, and future. She allows me to see, and know everything.


I am a pencil in the hand of God who is writing a Love Letter to the World. ~Mother Teresa

"It's something unpredictable but in the end is right...I hope you have the time of your life"!


"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you...while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." ~John Muir


"We never think of how we got here, the continuity that makes our lives possible. A quote I'd heard long ago suddenly made sense to me: 'I am the reason that my ancestors existed for thousands of years.' Just the act of giving thanks for your life and for other people--that expression of gratitude is not something we take time for every day. When I did, I started to feel connected to everything around me."


"...and God said, behold, I have given you every herb--bearing seed which is upon the face of the Earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall be as meat..." ~Genesis 1:29


Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time: The need for us to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. We must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


Are you able to look beyond what the eyes can see and honor the root of that creation?


Creating laughter, simple abundance, and gratitude for loved ones. Remebering those who have come before us to spread the message of love. Our possibility to live with compassion and hope no different than that of Jesus or Mother Teresa or Gandhi. Without all the commercialism, holidays can remind us to give, give thanks, and live & love from the heart. May we all continue to recognize our blessings in this life. Peace be with you.


I love space, it gives me form so I can change and become one with the Universe...
How incredible to see the Universe with closed eyes. To know all knowledge and feel every feeling. To be one with your Soul.


It's simple...
Let there be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin with Me.


The Happy Heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.


Happy Winter...
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time Adoring our Families, Cherishing our Friends and Living our Lives. ~Maya Angelou


The Essence of Compassion:
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong...because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.


Faith shall help my way, and Faith shall find my way. ~Mystic India


One should so conduct oneself as to avoid anger from others. Mild speech and demanding little of others are ways to avoid their anger.
Friendship and brotherhood are cardinal virtues. One should gather about many friends and should love them as brothers. But a wise man will choose friends worthy of brotherly love.
~Confucius


It is only a mind that looks at a tree or the stars or the sparkling waters of the river with complete abandonment that knows what beauty is, and when we are actually seeing,
we are in a state of love. ~Krishnamurti


The more one knows, the more one forgives. ~Confucious


If all were of the same religious opinion, there would be no religion. No sooner does a religion start than it breaks into pieces. The process is for the religion to go on dividing until each man has his own religion, until each man has thought out his own thoughts and carved out for himself his own religion. ~Swami Vivekananda


When water joins with water, it is not a meeting but a unification. ~Swami Prajnanpad


The fact that there are so many men still alive in the world shows that it is based not on the force of arms but on the force of truth or love. Therefore, the greatest and most impeachable evidence of the success of this force is to be found in the fact that, in spite of all the wars in the world...it still lives on.
~Mahatma Gandhi


It is quite evident that our world is useful and that it provides for our needs, but our connection to it does not end there. We are united to it by a connection much larger and more truthful than that of necessity. Our soul is drawn to it; our love of life is in reality a desire in us to seek our connection with this universe. And this connection is Love. ~ Rabindranath Tagore


The symbol of the Sun is a circle with a dot in the center. The circle represents the eternal self that did not start herre and does not finish here on earth. The dot in the middle represents the divine spark at the center of every living cell; the "light" which lighteth every man which cometh into the world. It is the point of Light at the center of every living cell. In the blueprint the Sun represents the main expression of the individual-- the heart and core of beingness: the will, vital energy... prana, fuel on which the total personality operates, rules the heart and spine of the physical body, and rules the sign, Leo. Evoke the Sun's power to hold, energize, attract and fascinate by chanting the sound Hrim.


Rules Capricorn and Aquarius...is directly concerned with character building and is one of the greatest angels in the universe. This angel was given the hardest job of all; to test and try man's soul until he learned to break his self imposed bonds (personality) and go free...realize spirit. In Hindu astrology, Saturn is related to the god, Shiva, the destroyer. Saturn's mission is to destroy all that is outgrown in the personality. The destroyers have to break down the past before builders can come in. Saturn represents one's Dharma (duty or responsibility in life) and in the birthchart, indicates where our responsibilties lie and what our life's lessons must be. Tap into self discipline with the help of Saturn's energy by chanting Hlim.


Rules two signs, Taurus and Libra... is the power of cohesion and attraction and draws things together in a synthesis. Represents the spirit overcoming matter through Love.
Venus evokes the power of love, delight, contentment and fulfillment. Connect to the energies of Venus today by silently chanting the seed mantra, Klim.


Natural Ruler of Sagittarius...has rulership over the superconscious Self in each and every earthchild. With the expansive, blossoming and evolving energies of Jupiter, nothing can confine, restrict or limit that Self, for that Self is eternally one with the Divine. Jupiter represents: expansion, aspiration and inspiration, understanding, prosperity and abundance, faith and optimism, religion and philosophy, and friendliness. To connect...Chant the Mantra Strim.


Rules Gemini and Virgo...is the ruling planet of intellect and intelligence. (the mind) Mercury is the link between heaven and earth. Both are within us. The mind is the link between the soul and personality. Mercury has leadership over the nervous system and all communication is possible only through Mercury. A great day to speak clearly what is on your mind for Mercury evokes the power of articulation, calling, guiding and teaching, speaking and writing. Chant the Mantra Aim to get connected.


Rules Aries and Scorpio...is responsible for the power of action, work, motivation, and transformation. Mars is a positive, outgoing energy, masculine in expression, and ruler of the physical self. Emotionally, it gives the drive to out feelings, being responsible for either courage, or the temper. The energy is the same, how you use it differs. Essentially Mars is Fire...the fire of life, without it, there is no enthusiasm and passion for livingness. Tap into the productive energy of Mars by repeating the Mantra Krim for vitality.


Rules Cancer...The Moon moves quickly, and travels one sign of the zodiac every 2 and a half days. Ayurvedically, the Moon is a kapha or watery planet. It is of a sattvic or pure nature. In Sanskrit, the Moon is called "Soma" or "Chandra". On a spiritual level, as the Moon is a receptive planet, it can also indicate taking a path of surrender, or performing an act of service in a caring way. The Moon connects us to the Divine Mother energies. ~ Debra Infante,Vedic astrologer


Inveniam viam aut Facium...I will find a way, or I will make one. ~William Perry


If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his west again,
I shall not live in vain. ~Not in Vain, Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)


The World in its essence is the reconciliation of opposite forces. These forces, like the right hand and left hand of the creator, act in perfect harmony, and yet in opposite directions. ~Kabindranath Tagore


The Earth is but one country and humankind its citizens. ~ Baha-U-Lla'h


True civilization does not mean congregating in the citites and living a foolish life, but going Godward, controlling the senses, and thus becoming the ruler in this house of the Self. ~Swami Vivekananda


"To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you just might be the world."


A state of Harmony with Nature, with all beings of creation, itself leads to our harmony with humans. If we lose our relationship with nature, we lose inevitably our relationship with humans. ~Krishnamurti


May the poor find wealth, Those weak with sorrow find joy.
May the forlorn find new hope, Constant happiness and prosperity.
May the frightened cease to be afraid, And those bound be free.
May the waek find power, And may their hearts join in friendship.
~The Dalai Lama, An Open Heart


Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes~
There is War.~ Bob Marley


Love is the answer.


Water, you arethe one that brings us life. You are the source of nourishment that gives us strength. We rejoice at your existence. We drink you with joy, as babies drink their mothers' milk. And when we swallow you, we receive love. Water, carry away all my sins and my failures, all that has been bad in my life. I seek you today; (and give you thanks) I shall plunge into your wetness. Drown me in splendor (and in gratitude) ~The Vedas


No rain...No Rainbows!


The Autumn comes, a maiden fair. In slenderness and grace, with nodding rice-stems in her hair, and lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; and as she moves along, birds greet her with their cooing glad, like bracelets' tinkling song. ~Kalidasa


First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~Thomas A. Kempis


"All that I am, all that we are, shining in love like an infinite star. One with the all, all become one. All has been here since creation began. Break down the walls of illusion and fear, seek for the truth and the truth shall appear. ~Shimshai
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREE!!!


What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. ~Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road


There is a force within which gives you life~ seek that. In your body lies a priceless gem~ seek that. If you want to find the greatest treasure don't look outside, look inside, and seek that. ~RUMI


From the Garden island of Kauai...We who love the land offer this prayer. May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. May all suffering and the storms of life be transformed in the light of compassion. May peace and unity fill every heart. ~Harmony


I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream. ~Vincent Van Gogh


Let us just keep loving one another. sharing our medicine with each other. We're all learning what it means to be real. So just accept all that comes and together we will heal. ~Manaka


To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~Oscar Wilde
Happy Birthday to me...


The soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature... and this communication is an influx from the divine mind into our mind. ~Plotinus


The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes. ~Marcel Proust


Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.


A simple, divine smile may change more hearts than a thousand windy sermons or learned treatises. ~Swami Kriyananda


When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surpised to discover that they're not in it. ~Source unknown


When your intention is good and your heart is in the right place... that usually takes you where you want to go. ~Anonymous...HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTIN!!!


If Love based upon how another receives it, love can never be. Love is not born in the heart of another, it is born in yours. Be happy that you love and that the capacity of that doth exist in your own kingdom and is fulfilled in your own kingdom. ~Ramtha, Love Yourself into Life


At a time when the world seems to be at a loss, rejecting past values without being able to establish new ones, yoga provides a means for the people to find their own way of connecting with their true selves. Through this connection with their real selves it is possible for people to manifest harmony in the current age, and for compassion to emerge where hitherto there has been none. ~Swami Satyananda Saraswati


Live for You! Do what you want to do! As long as you live for the expectations of others, you will never be happy, you will never lead, you will never accomplish, nor will you ever be remembered. ~Ramtha, Love yourself into Life


Lose you mind and you will come to your senses.


When you have come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.~Ramtha, Love yourself into Life
Happy Birtday Drew...you are a sweetheart!


Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love. ~Lao-Tzu


"Ask God to give you what you want. Help him to justify your wants by the way that you live, and then having given him your prayer, have the faith and courage to rely on his power to do the thing that is right in his eyes."
~Joseph Portnoy, to his wife, Ruthy, after 15 months of patching up wounded men on Europe's battlefields, WWII. God has little to do with war, he wrote Ruthy. "War will go on as long as men's hearts are as they are." ~War Letters, National Geographic


It is a noble thing when you have nothing else to do but to want to serve the world. But has history would have it, everyone that has tried has been burned, hacked, hanged, poisoned, assassinated and done away with! Be who you are- for you. Love what you are and live for the radiance within you- awesome power- and love it and clarify it and exalt it. In the Being, you lift everyone. ~Ramtha, Love Yourself into Life...p.s. I love you.


When people fall in love with the Earth, they are motivated to create environmental change through action. "If one falls in love with the world, pollution becomes as impossible as dumping garbage on the face of your lover." ~Dr. Haberman, Activist of SEVA...p.s. I love you

Yoga literally returns people to their senses and brings people to a higher degree of self awareness and an acceptance of who they are. ~Dr. Chapple...p.s I love You


Yoga brings the practitioner into that center point, into that balance point, which is simultaneously an inward experience of both deep rootedness and exhilaration, but it also leads to a deeper sense of responsibility. ~Dr. Chapple, Dicector of the Yoga Philosophy Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles...p.s. I love you


The posture becomes perfect when the effort of achieving it vanishes. ~Yogabhasa
...p.s. I love you


Do not confuse school with education. ~p.s. I love love you


This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.~ William Shakespear...p.s. I love you more today.


Simply trust your ability to cheerfully rely upon Spirit to express itself through and for you.
ps. i love you.


Realize how little you need in order to be satisfied and at peace.~p.s...I love you.


Taking care of yourself is no reason to harbor guilt. When we take care of ourselves, we can take care of others. Be compassionate today, Venus is ruling.~...p.s. I love you.


"That which you release serves to fertilize the ground around you...just as the bark that falls from the tree." ~Redwood to Scott Little Crow, Secrets of the Earth...ps. I still love you


Today, being ruled by Mercury, is a wonderful day for communication. Take a moment to center yourself, then speak from your heart. The energies from Mercury help us to articulate and express ourselves clearly. There is no better way to know for yourself than to try. Enjoy!...p.s. I Love You.


When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life. ~...p.s. I love you


The Full Moon activates an excess of water energy so it is important to keep your mind focused. Travel less, avoid making love, and delay the start of important projects during this phase of the moon. ~Tantra Tradition...p.s. I Love you


" If you want to be saved, begin to work as follows: having established perfect contemplation in your heart, act in everything with a pure conscience as though in the presence of God." ~Saint Simeon - A Christian Mystic...p.s. I Love you


"Always love the Divine part of your lover, tolerate what is human in him and avoid the evil aspects of his personality." ~...p.s. I Love You

"That which is here (in my being) is everywhere (outside me). That which is not here is nowhere."


"When Love is Infinite, the impossible becomes easily possible."


Let the beauty we Love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~Rumi


Be and be not afraid


"Always find something to appreciate, whether it's the beauty of a starry night, a frog on a lily pad, a laughing child, or the natural radiance and splendor of the aged." ~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Love the life you live. Lead the life you Love." ~Midnite

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation." ~Krishnamurti

"A man bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause and effect cannot free another."
~Ramakrishna

"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then, will you find that money cannot be eaten." ~Cree Prophecy

There is always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are. Right now, look around you and select beauty as your focus.

I am a Divine expression of life. I love and accept myself where I am right now. I live in the now, each moment is new. I choose to see my self worth. I love and approve of myself. I create a new life with new rules that totally support me. I lovingly release the day and slip into a peaceful sleep knowing tomorrow will take care of itself. See yourself. Be yourself...

Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts. ~Alex Morales

Yesterday is already gone and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ~Anonymous

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all even if they're a crowd of sorrowa, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honorably, he may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~RUMI...p.s. I love you.


"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love." ~Mother Teresa...p.s. I Love You


"Your creative impulses are real, vital, worthy, and they crave expression. The fact that you can conceive of them is proof of this." ...p.s. I love you.


"We know now that toleration is not sufficient toward another religion; we must accept it. Thus it is not a question of subtraction, it is a question of addition. The truth is a result of all these different sides added together. Each religion represents one side, the fullness being the addition of all these." ~Swami Vivekananda...p.s. I love you.


The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere they're in each other all along. ~Rumi...p.s. I love you.


"You get what you intend to create by being in harmony with the power of intention, which is responsible for all of creation." ~...p.s. I Love you!


"Though they may take various roeads, all are on the way." ~Swami Vivekananda...p.s. I love you.


"Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order." ~Mahatma Gandhi....p.s. Happy Birthday Keli in Kauai ~!!!...p.p.s. I love you.


"Every day we see or read of appalling things happening in the world as a result of violence in man. You may say, "I can't do anything about it," or "How can I influence the world?" I think you can tremendously influence the world if you yourself are not violent, if you lead actually every day a peaceful life-----a life which is not competitive, ambitious, envious------a life which does not create enmity. Small fires can become ablaze." ~Krishnamurti...p.s. I Love you.


"When there is space between you and the object you are observing you well know there is no love, and without love, however hard you try to reform the world or bring about a new social order or however much you talk about improvements, you will only create agony. So it is up to you." ~Krishnamurti... p.s. I love you.


"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one." ~Rumi... p.s. I love you.


"The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviors. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom." ~Krishnamurti...p.s. I love you


"The connection of love is total. In love, difference disappears and the human soul accomplishes its object in perfection, exceeding its own boundaries and traversing the threshold of infinity." ~Rabindranath Tagore


"You don't need to work at getting healthy; health is something you already have if you don't disturb it."


"In the physical world there is an indestructible continuity of relations between hot and cold, light and darkness, movement and repose, as well as between the bass and the treble notes of a piano. This is because opposites do not bring confusion to the world; they bring harmony." ~Rabindranath Tagore


"Your feelings are clues about your destiny and potential, and they are seeking the full expression of life through you." ~Dr. Wayne Dyer


"In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realization of fundamental unity." ~Mahatma Gandhi


"Two people who have lived together for a long time have an image of each other which prevents them from really relating to each other. Therefore, it is important to understand, not intellectually, but actually in your daily life, how you have built these images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods-- you have nothing but images. These images create the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is conflict." ~Krishnamurti


"The universe is the energy of the soul; and from this energy comes life, consciousness, and the elements. The universe is the will of the soul; and from this will comes the law of cause and effect. From the soul one became many; but in the soul many are one." ~Mundaka Upanishad


"It is only when we give complete attention to a problem, and solve it immediately- never carrying it over to the next day, the next minute- that there is solitude. To have inward solitude and space is very important because it implies freedom to be, to go, to function, to fly." ~Krishnamurti


"Why is there this division between man and man, between race and race, culture against culture, one series od ideologies set one against another? Why? Why is there this seperation? ~Krishnamurti


"The infinite oneness of the Soul is the eternal sanction of all morality. You and I are not only brothers-- every literature voicing man's struggle towards freedom has preached that-- you and I are really one. This is the dictate of Indian philosophy. This oneness is the rationale of all ethics and all spirituality." ~Swami Vivekananda


"Great men are not more like god than others. But because we believe the opposite, we fall into worshiping other men, rather than the divine...Divinity Shines through man. When we see this, we should rejoice in the truth itself and not rejoice in the mere fact that we have found it. There is an ambition that hurries men after truth and takes away the power of attaining it...Genius in this regard may carry the seed of its own destruction. Genius is not divine when man thinks he is god but when he sees his powers are from god." ~Sampson Reed


"If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God." ~Sri Ramakrishna


"When you look at the unchanging Existence from the outside, you call it God; and when you look at it from the inside, you call it yourself. It is but one." ~Swami Viveknanda


"In life we are meant to create like a god, to command like a king, to work like a slave, to sleep like a child, to love like an angel, to fight like a hero and to die standing like a tree."


"The key to an easy relationship with other people is not to impose your ego, nor to crush the ego of others." ~Svami Prajnanpad


"With closed eyes, I have come to this last thought: even while I am unconscious in sleep, the dance of life will continue in the silent field of my sleeping body, in the same rhythm as the stars above. My heart beats, my blood courses through my arteries, and the millions of atoms that live in my body will vibrate in time with the harp that quivers under the fingers of the great Master." ~Rabindranath Tagore


"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love." ~Mother Teresa


"Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child." ~Krishnamurti


"Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song. Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I may, wear my love like heaven."


"I hold that true education of the intellect can only come through a proper exercise and training of the bodily organs, e.g., hands feet, eyes, ears, nose, etc. In other words an intelligent use of bodily organs in a child provides the best and quickest way of developing his intellect. But unless the development of the mind and body goes hand in hand with a corresponding awakening of the soul, the former alone would prove to be a poor lopsided affair. By spiritual training I mean education of the heart." ~Mahatma Gandhi


"Husband an wife merge in each other. They are one in two or two in one." ~Mahatma Gandhi


"We are taught how to move and behave in the external world, but we are never taught how to be still and examine what is within ourselves. At the same time, learning to be still and calm should not be made a ceremony or a part of any religion; it is a universal requirement of the human body. when one learns to sit still, he or she attains a kind of joy that is inexplicable. The highest of all joys that can ever be attained or experienced by a human being can be attained through meditation. All other joys in the world are trasient and momentary, but the joy of meditation is immemse and everlasting." ~Swami Rama


"In your veins, and in mine, there is only one blood, The same life that animates us all! Since one unique mother begat us all, Where did we learn to divide ourselves?" ~Kabir


"Wherever there is a touch of color, a note of a song, grace in form, this is a call to our love." ~Rabindranath Tagore

...living with compassion...
"When the poor come to you in great need, begging for food, do not harden your hearts against them. Remember that the poor may have once been rich, and you may one day be poor. When you see people who are thin for lack of food, beg them to accept your help; remember that you may need their friendship in times to come." ~Rig Veda


"We must learn to love those who think exactly opposite to us. We have humanity for the background, but each must have his own individuality and his own thoughts. Push the sects forward and forward til each man and woman are sects unto themselves. We must learn to love the man who differs from us in opinion. We must learn that differentiation is the life of thought. We have one common goal, and that is the perfection of the human soul, the god within us."
~Swami Vivekananda


"The important question for me is, is the body a source for creating, for realizing yourself, for realizing what life is all about? You ask this question and you go where it takes you and then you ask another question and then again you follow. So this understanding of the body, of the unity within the body and the innumerable areas which it reveals to you is what I call realization." ~Chandralekha


"Differentiation, infinitely contradictory, must remain, but it is not necessary that we should hate each other; it is not necessary therefore that we should fight each other." ~Swami Vivekananda


"To Love is to understand and feel that the other person is different." ~Svami Prajnanpad


"The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviors. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom." ~Krishnamurti


"Yoga is concerned with freedom from spiritual disturbance. The first step in yoga is to engage in introspection, and thereby understand the inner obstacles that must be overcome. The purpose of yoga is to weaken the hindrances which obstruct knowledge of the soul. There are five hindrances: ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and tenacity." ~Patanjali


"In Sanskrit, one calls the bird twice born. And this name is also given to the man who submits for at least twelve years to the discipline of mastering his self and the noble thought, who emerges from it with simple needs, with a pure heart, and ready to take upon himself all the responsibilties of life in a broad and disinterested spirit. One estimates that this man is born again from the blind envelopment of the ego to the freedom of the life of the soul, that he has entered into lively connection with his environment, that he has become one with the Whole. ~Rabindranath Tagore


"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ~Mahatma Gandhi


"Expansion is life; contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. We began to die the day we began to contract, to hate others and nothing can prevent our death, until we come back to life, to expansion." ~Swami Vivekananda


"She cherished her family, friends, and this community. Enjoy the moment, live fully, share with others." ~Dedicated in Loving Memory to Heidi Quesenberry, Mount Soledad


"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." ~Seattle (Seatlh) (1786 - 1866) Native American (Suquamish) Chief


"One of the most beautiful compensations of life is that noman can truly help another before first helping the self." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I shut my eyes in order to see." ~Paul Gaugin


"When your intention is pure, you feel good regardless of what goes on around you or what others expect you to feel." ~Anonymous



"Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision...but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope" ~Anonymous


"Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. Who but women, the mother of man, shows this capacity in the largest measure?" ~Mahatma Gandhi


The real ornament of women is her character, her purity." ~Mahatma Gandhi


"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~Lao Tzu


"When you're inspired, you activate dorrmant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life." ~Dr. Wayne Dyer


"Wherever there is a touch of color, a note of a song, grace in form, this is a call to our love." ~Rabindranath Tagore


"When we slow down to a tempo that can only be felt in the heart, a pulse begins, sending us on our way. Realization begins creating a deeper understanding, not in the temple of the mind, but in the pulse of the heart. ~Anonymous


"The intellectual aspect is, that love sees and understands. The emotional aspect is to feel as one with the other person. Love is unity. There is no "me" in love, only "you". The behavioral aspect is, that love inspires us to give. There is no expectation; we do not expect to receive. Such love is wisdom and liberation in itself." ~Swami Prajnanpad


"...I decided to be a human being and not a role." ~Sonia Johnson (B. 1936)


"Kind words can be short and east to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa


"The love we give away is the only love we keep." ~Elbert Hubbard


"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ~Anais Nin


"We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without." ~Immanuel Kant


"Yoga is concerned with freedom from spiritual disturbance. The first step in yoga is to engage in introspection, and thereby understand the inner obstacles that must be overcome. The purpose of yoga is to weaken the hindrances which obstruct knowledge of the soul. There are five hindrances: ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion, tenacity." ~Patanjali


"Fear is man's greatest enemy, as it manifest itself in forms as diverse as shame, jealousy, anger, insolence, arrogence... What causes fear? Lack of confidence in oneself.
~Svami Prajnanpad


"No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give as much of your care and attention as you would the thing you regard as most important." ~Mahatma Gandhi


"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." ~Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer


"Since we are capable of change and modifications, the future will be in many ways only as good as we make it." ~June Tapp (B. 1929) American Writer


"We are our choices." ~Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French Writer


"In all religions of the world you will find it claimed that there is unity within us. Being one with divinity, there cannot be ant further progress in that sense. Knowledge is finding this unity."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"To know our soul apart from our ego is the first step toward accomplishing the supreme deliverance. It is necessary that we know with absolute certainty that in essence, we are spirit. And we can only arrive at this knowledge if we render ourselves masters of our ego, if we rise above all pride, all appetite, all fear, by knowing that material losses and the death of the body can never take away the truth and the greatness of our soul." ~Rabindranath Tagore


"If you want to learn about meditation, you first need to know something about concentration. According to yoga, concentration means focusing the mind on one object. An undisciplined mind- the kind most of us have- tends to shift continually from one object to another. Steadying the mind by focusing it on one object helps you to gradually overcome this ever-wandering habit of the mind. After prolonged practice, the mind is able to focus on one object for longer and longer intervals. When the mind remains concentrated on one object for a period of twelve breaths, this is called meditation. Thus, meditation can be defined as the uninterrupted flow of concentration." ~Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, in Inner Quest, p. 71.


"The human soul travels from the law to love, from discipline to freedom, from the moral plane to the spiritual plane." ~Rabindranath Tagore


"All humanity shares the sunlight; that sunlight is neither yours nor mine. It is the life-giving energy, which we all share. The beauty of a sunset, if you are watching it sensitively, is shared by all human beings." ~Krishnamurti


"I see things with an intense joy, and while I observe, there is no observer, only a beauty almost like love. For an instant, I am absent, myself and my problems, my anxieties, my troubles: nothing but this wonder exists. ~Krishnamurti


"Vedanta is like the blueprint for a house. It is knowledge about the house, but you cannot live in the blueprint. You have to build the house using bricks and mortar. And that is tantra. So Vedanta give you knowledge about the supreme reality; tantra enables you to experience that supreme reality in yourself." ~Tapasvi Baba, July 17, 2000 (translated by D. C. Rao)


"We ask ourselves is it possible to break through this heavy conditioning of centuries immediately and not enter into another conditioning--to be free, so that the mind can be altogether new, sensitive, alive, aware, intense, capable?" ~Krishnamurti


"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." ~Women's International League for Peace and Freedom


"Never say, O Lord, I am a miserable sinner. Who will help you? It is you who must help the universe." ~Swami Vivekananda


"Thought is crooked because it can invent anything and sees things that are not there. It can perform the most extrodinary tricks, therefore it cannot be depended upon." ~Krishnamurti


"It may be when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to the real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey." ~Wendell Berry


"You are what you think. Your mental projection is the highest projection in the existence in the human body. Nothing comes from the outside." ~Yogi Bhajan


"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." ~Dalai Lama


"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." ~Lynn Hall (B. 1937) American Writer


"AlbertCamus once said 'Live to the point of tears.' That is what I want to do. I want to experience the exquisiteness of of life so that I am more and more in awe." ~R.R.

"There's only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." ~Aldous Huxley (1894 -1963) English Writer

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future." ~Richard Bach (b. 1936) American Writer

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." ~Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

"Life is like a butterfly. You can chase it or you can let it come to you." ~Ruth Brown 20th Century American Writer

"...at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest comes the light."
~Joseph Campbell (1903 - 1987) American Writer


"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."
~Federico Fellini, (1920 - 1994) Italian Film Director

LORD, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me show love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy...

DIVINE MASTER, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

~Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

"Pray to God but keep rowing to shore." ~Russian Proverb


"The more one knows, the more one forgives." ~Confucious

"So act that your princible of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
~Emmanuel Kant


"Guard your toungue, for it is highly dangerous; unguarded words can cause terrible distress. A single bad word can destroy a vast quantity of good. A wound caused by fire with eventually heal; but a wound caused by the toungue leaves a scar that never heals." ~Valluvar


"All things are linked together through cause and effect. There is no such thing as an accident. When we cannot find the link between cause and effect in an event, we call it an accident.
~Svami Prajnanpad


"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anais Nin


"Love the life you lead. Lead the life you love." ~Midnite


"There are two ways to live your life, one as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein


"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the Earth." ~Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

"The next message you need is always right where you are." ~Ram Dass


"Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know that this is the only moment." ~Thich Nhat Hanh


"This Above All: To thy own self be true." ~William Shakespear


"Have patience with all things, but first of all, with yourself." ~St. Francis de Sales


"There is a force within which gives you life...seek that. In your body lies a priceless gem...seek that. O wandering soul, if you want to find the greatest treasure don't look outside, look inside, and seek that." ~Rumi


"The reverse side also has a reverse side." ~Japanese Proverb


"To love another person is to see the face of God." ~Victor Hugo

"One drop of the sea cannot claim to come from one river, and another drop of the sea from another river; the sea is a single consisitent whole. In the same way all beings are one; there is no being that does not come from the soul, and is not part of the soul." -Chandogya Upanishad


"Yoga? Be prepared to spend the rest of your life carefully creating yourself. Why not spend the entire journey in development. You can." -Sabine Vera


"Enlightenment is not about becoming Divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human...It is the end of ignorance." -Lama Surya Das


"Meditate and realize this world is filled with the presence of God" -Shevatashvatara Upanishad


" A journey of a thousand miles must begin with one step." ~Lao Tsu


"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." ~Will Rogers


"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty... Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
~Albert Einstein