Free will does not mean that you establish the curriculum;
only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.
- A Course in Miracles.
The important thing is this:
To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
- Charles Dubois
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult, and therefore, unpopular.
- Carl Jung
A ship is safe in harbor-
but that's not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
What is to give light must endure burning.
- Viktor Frankl
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
You cannot transcend what you do not know.
To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there; I did not die...
God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- George Bernard Shaw
I slept, and I dreamt that life was all joy. I woke, and saw that life was but service. I served and discovered that service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The seed of God is in us:
Pear seeds grow into pear trees;
Hazel seeds into hazel trees;
and God seeds into God.
- Meister Eckehart
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George