“The refusal to begin our journey doesn’t keep us from having one.”  Julia Cameron

“If you practice looking deeply, you can see the cloud in new forms like the mist or the rain.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

“When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.”  Eknath Easwaran

“When we take the gifts of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, intelligence – and translate them into our own lives, we are serving the One.”  Margaret Stortz

“We release by becoming willing to consider the possibility that the past is over.”  Marianne Williamson

“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart.  We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.”  William Hazlitt

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.  If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers.  To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power to not do.”  Aristotle

“It is indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine.”  George Santayana

“A man consists of the faith that is in him.  Whatever his faith, he is.”   Bhagavaad Gita