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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

The idea [of therapy] isn\u2019t to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.
\n\u2014 John O\u2019Donohue<\/p>\n

We\u2019re out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
\n\u2014 Plato<\/p>\n

Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.
\n\u2014 David Whyte<\/p>\n

Love’s function is to fabricate unknownness
\n\u2014 e. e. cummings<\/p>\n

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
\n\u2014 Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
\n\u2014 Abigail Adams<\/p>\n

I want to live the real life.
\nI want to my live life close to the bone.
\n\u2014 John Mellencamp, The Real Life, The Lonesome Jubilee<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s more than just one answer to these questions
\nPointing me in a crooked line.
\nThe less I seek my source for some definitive,
\nThe closer I am to fine.
\n\u2014 Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not always about survival, this life we are given; it\u2019s usually so much easier than that. It\u2019s about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us\u2014letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
\n\u2014 Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open<\/em><\/p>\n

The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places.
\n\u2014 Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n

It is not only that some [people] become strong at the broken places; it is also that, through trauma, others become strong, and discover that they are strong in ways they never knew.
\n\u2014 Diana Fosha, Trauma Reveals the Roots of Resilience<\/em><\/p>\n

Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn\u2019t you\u2014all of the expectations, all of the beliefs\u2014and becoming who you are. Not a better you, but a realer you.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
\n\u2014 Carl Rogers<\/p>\n

As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.
\n\u2014 Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance<\/em><\/p>\n

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
\n\u2014 Romaine Rolland<\/p>\n

To the world you may be just one person. To one person you may be the world.
\n\u2014 Anonymous<\/p>\n

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.
\n\u2014 Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That\u2019s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can\u2019t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
\n\u2014 Tim O\u2019Brien, The Things They Carried<\/em><\/p>\n

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
\n\u2014 Confucius<\/p>\n

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
\n\u2014 Franz Kafka<\/p>\n

Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child\u2019s activity. By the time we\u2019re grown, we\u2019re supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life\u2019s miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.
\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin, Life\u2019s Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
\n\u2014 Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living<\/em><\/p>\n

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.
\n\u2014 Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Between endings and beginnings there is a blank time where nothing is supposed to happen. It\u2019s frustrating, fearful, but it\u2019s supposed to be this way. Like a tree in winter, on the outside there is nothing going on, but inside is hidden growth. This growth explodes in spring. Spring can\u2019t happen without the blank time.
\n\u2014 Peter McDonald<\/p>\n

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
\n\u2014 Marsha Sinetar, Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics<\/em><\/p>\n

To get to the simplicity of a thing, you have to go through the complexity, and only once you\u2019ve gone into and through the complexity can you state the simplicity. What never rings true is the person who states the simplicity without understanding the complexity.
\n\u2014 Susan Slater Blythe<\/p>\n

Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
\n\u2014 Neitzsche<\/p>\n

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. . . . Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
\n\u2014 Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life<\/em><\/p>\n

A collective problem, if not recognized as such, always appears as a personal problem.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.
\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin, Life\u2019s Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

In the dark times, will there be singing?
\nYes. There will be singing about the dark times.
\n\u2014 Bertolt Brecht<\/p>\n

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
\n\u2014 Tolstoy<\/p>\n

A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.
\n\u2014 Tobias Wolff<\/p>\n

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
\n\u2014 Vaclav Havel<\/p>\n

Every death is like the burning of a library.
\n\u2014 Alex Haley<\/p>\n

The character of a society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of people.
\n\u2014 Duane Elgin<\/p>\n

The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new places, but in seeing with new eyes.
\n\u2014 Marcel Proust<\/p>\n

The secret to having good ideas is to have a lot of ideas, then throw away the bad ones.
\n\u2014 Linus Pauling<\/p>\n

The rocks in the water don\u2019t know how the rocks in the sun feel.
\n\u2014 Haitian Proverb<\/p>\n

That which is spoken from the heart is heard by the heart.
\n\u2014 Jewish saying<\/p>\n

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
\n\u2014 Ghandi<\/p>\n

Ten times a day something happens to me like this\u2014some strengthening throb of amazement\u2014some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
\n\u2014 Mary Oliver<\/p>\n

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
\n\u2014 George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
\n\u2014 Julia Sorel<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else.
\n\u2014 Shirley Briggs<\/p>\n

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.
\n\u2014 Ellen Gilchrist, The Writing Life<\/em><\/p>\n

A hundred times a every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.
\n\u2014 Ellen Gilchrist, The Writing Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Wisdom resides inherently within experiences of hardship.
\n\u2014 Elizabeth Andrew, Writing the Sacred Journey<\/em><\/p>\n

When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don\u2019t conclude that the road has vanished. How else could we discover the stars?
\n\u2014 Nancy Willard<\/p>\n

Imagination is a memory that, while perhaps not accurate in its facts, is reliable in describing emotional truth.
\n\u2014 Elizabeth Andrew, Writing the Sacred Journey<\/em><\/p>\n

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.
\n\u2014 Pat Schneider, Writing Alone and With Others<\/em><\/p>\n

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn\u2019t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.
\n\u2014 Tim O\u2019Brien, The Things They Carried<\/em><\/p>\n

The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous\u2014completely different from every other structure of matter.
\n\u2014 John O\u2019Donohue<\/p>\n

When I dare to be powerful\u2014to use my strength in the service of my vision\u2014then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
\n\u2014 Audre Lorde<\/p>\n

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
\n\u2014 Bill Moyers<\/p>\n

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.
\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin, Life\u2019s Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Emotional attachment is probably the primary protection against feelings of helplessness and meaninglessness.
\n\u2014 McFarlane and van der Kolk<\/p>\n

There is no such thing as complete independence from others or overdependence. There is only effective or ineffective dependence. Secure dependence fosters autonomy and self-confidence.
\n\u2014 Susan Johnson<\/p>\n

In care of the soul there is trust that nature heals, that much can be accomplished by not-doing.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore<\/p>\n

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
\n\u2014 Zora Neale Hurston<\/p>\n

No one suspects the days to be gods.
\n\u2014 Emerson<\/p>\n

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.
\n\u2014 Annie Dillard, The Writing Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.
\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin, Life\u2019s Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life. . . . Know your own bone: gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw at it still.
\n\u2014 Thoreau<\/p>\n

When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they\u2019ll come to the secret frontier in themselves, some unknown source of energy and healing in themselves, where the divinity of who-ness is protected. This is a spiritual quest.
\n\u2014 John O\u2019Donohue<\/p>\n

Do you have the patience to wait
\ntill your mud settles and the water is clear?
\nCan you remain unmoving
\ntill the right action arises by itself?
\n\u2014 Stephen Mitchell\u2019s translation of the Tao Te Ching<\/p>\n

We cannot solve our problems in the same state of consciousness in which we created them.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
\n\u2014 Confucius<\/p>\n

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won\u2019t feel insecure around you\u2026.As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
\n\u2014- Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that\u2019s both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
\n\u2014 Twila Tharp, The Creative Habit<\/em><\/p>\n

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
\n\u2014 Alan Cohen<\/p>\n

Dare to be na\u00efve.
\n\u2014 Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn\u2019t start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.
\n\u2014 Ellen Gilchrist, The Writing Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
\n\u2014 John Quincy Adams<\/p>\n

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
\n\u2014 Keshavan Nair<\/p>\n

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
\n\u2014 Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
\n\u2014 Confucius<\/p>\n

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
\n\u2014 Soren Kierkegaard<\/p>\n

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it\u2019s time for it to kick in.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.
\n\u2014 Kenneth Patton<\/p>\n

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
\n\u2014 Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
\n\u2014 Benjamin Disraeli<\/p>\n

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
\n\u2014 Pema Chodron<\/p>\n

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
\n\u2014 Albert Schweitzer<\/p>\n

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
\n\u2014 Margaret Cousins<\/p>\n

Be open to unexpected words and adventures. Spend time being in a state of quiet expectation and see what (or who) comes your way.
\n\u2014 Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, Poemcrazy<\/em><\/p>\n

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t keep it all inside.
\nDon\u2019t keep your aching, celebrating,
\nwonder making heart alone. . .
\nWrite your own song.
\n\u2014 Blue October, Inner Glow<\/em><\/p>\n

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin, Life\u2019s Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
\n\u2014 Stephen Levine, Unattended Sorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

Your unconscious can\u2019t work when you are breathing down its neck.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothing to set a man\u2019s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done something wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you\u2019re sorry and get on with it. Don\u2019t haul stuff around with you.
\n\u2014 Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men<\/em><\/p>\n

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
\n\u2014 Twila Tharp, The Creative Habit<\/em><\/p>\n

Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore\u2014just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.
\n\u2014 Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality<\/em><\/p>\n

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one\u2019s ignorance.
\n\u2014 Confucius<\/p>\n

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.
\n\u2014 Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality<\/em><\/p>\n

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.
\n\u2014 Jean Houston<\/p>\n

Satisfaction isn\u2019t so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
\n\u2014 David Myers<\/p>\n

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
\n\u2014 Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj<\/p>\n

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
\n\u2014 Helen Keller<\/p>\n

The unexpected brings us light and darkness, joy and sorrow, life and death. And it brings discovery. Some of our most important discoveries are made when we\u2019re not looking.
\n\u2014 Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, Poemcrazy<\/em><\/p>\n

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
\n\u2014 M. Scott Peck<\/p>\n

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
\n\u2014 Annie Dillard, The Writing Life<\/em><\/p>\n

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
\n\u2014 Anais Nin<\/p>\n

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
\n\u2014 Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
\n\u2014 Henry Miller<\/p>\n

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
\n\u2014 James Thurber<\/p>\n

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
\n\u2014 Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p>\n

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
\n\u2014 Annie Sullivan<\/p>\n

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
\n\u2014 Arthur Koestler<\/p>\n

The wisdom we know deep inside ourselves is infinitely richer than anything we can be taught.
\n\u2014 Elizabeth Andrew, Writing the Sacred Journey<\/em><\/p>\n

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
\n\u2014 Eric Hoffer<\/p>\n

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
\n\u2014 Ethel Barrymore<\/p>\n

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
\n\u2014 Patricia Neal<\/p>\n

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
\n\u2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
\n\u2014 Dale Carnegie<\/p>\n

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
\n\u2014 Frank Lloyd Wright<\/p>\n

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.
\n\u2014 Stephen Levine, Unattended Sorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
\n\u2014 Louis Pasteur<\/p>\n

Although seemingly mundane, ordinary experiences contain within them a vivacity, a sense of wholeness, and a will beyond our own.
\n\u2014 Elizabeth Andrew, Writing the Sacred Journey<\/em><\/p>\n

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
\n\u2014 Steve Jobs<\/p>\n

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
\n\u2014 Victor Frankl<\/p>\n

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
\n\u2014 Alan Cohen<\/p>\n

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
\n\u2014 Alfred North Whitehead<\/p>\n

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
\n\u2014 David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest<\/em><\/p>\n

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
\n\u2014 Anais Nin<\/p>\n

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
\n\u2014 Charles Darwin<\/p>\n

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
\n\u2014 George Eliot<\/p>\n

… without darkness?
\nNothing comes to birth,?
\nAs without light?
\nNothing flowers.
\n\u2014 May Sarton<\/p>\n

There are things you can\u2019t reach.\u00a0 But
\nyou can reach out to them, and all day long.<\/p>\n

The wind, the bird flying away.\u00a0 The idea of God.<\/p>\n

And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.
\n\u2014 Mary Oliver,
\nExcerpt from Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does the Temple End?<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
\n\u2014 Denis Diderot<\/p>\n

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.
\n\u2014 Victor Frankl<\/p>\n

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
\n\u2014 Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.
\n\u2014 Mark Doty, Dog Years<\/em><\/p>\n

It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what\u2019s keeping things running right. We\u2019re bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they\u2019re not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
\n\u2014 Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n

There’s nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.
\n\u2014 Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art<\/em><\/p>\n

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
\n\u2014 Frank Lloyd Wright<\/p>\n

Anyone can become angry\u2014that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way\u2014that is not easy.
\n\u2014 Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
\n\u2014 Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence<\/em><\/p>\n

Curiosity in the service of intimacy can be scary and exciting (much like rafting or canoeing down the rapids). . . Shame imprisons curiosity and curiosity, welcomed, banishes shame.
\n\u2014 Ken Benau<\/p>\n

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
\n\u2014 Andy Warhol<\/p>\n

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
\n\u2014 African proverb<\/p>\n

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
\n\u2014 Gilda Radner<\/p>\n

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem…. If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
\n\u2014 Jiddu Krishnamurti<\/p>\n

A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what a ship is for.
\n\u2014 Thomas Aquinas<\/p>\n

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.
\n\u2014 Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships<\/em><\/p>\n

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.
\n\u2014 Leslie Greenberg and Sylvia Paivio, Working With Emotions in Psychotherapy<\/em><\/p>\n

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
\n\u2014 Robert Heinlein<\/p>\n

Help me to find myself as I walk in another\u2019s shoes.
\n\u2014 from prayer song from Ghana<\/p>\n

We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We\u2019re of the earth, but don\u2019t belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren\u2019t full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest.
\n\u2014 John O\u2019Donohue<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think there\u2019s such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
\nLet me keep my company always, with those who say
\nLook! and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
\n\u2014 Mary Oliver, from Mysteries, Yes<\/em><\/p>\n

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
\n\u2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
\n\u2014 Ayn Rand<\/p>\n

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
\n\u2014 Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

One certain lesson life has taught us: that authentic identity derives from facing reality, not ignoring it.
\n\u2014 Jane Adams, I\u2019m Still Your Mother<\/em><\/p>\n

Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it\u2019ll just leave you stunned.
\n\u2014 Twila Tharp, The Creative Habit<\/em><\/p>\n

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall\u2014think of it, ALWAYS.
\n\u2014 Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
\n\u2014 Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n

Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
\n\u2014 Antoine de Saint-Exupery<\/p>\n

It’s not enough to have a dream unless I’m willing to pursue it. It’s not enough to know what’s right unless I’m strong enough to do it. It’s not enough to join the crowd, to be acknowledged and accepted. I must be true to my ideals, even if I’m excluded and rejected. It’s not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it. It’s not enough to reach for love unless I care enough to give it.
\n\u2014 Source Unknown<\/p>\n

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
\n\u2014 Spencer Johnson<\/p>\n

What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.
\n\u2014 Linda Ellinor<\/p>\n

Keep the company of those who seek the truth. Run from those who have found it.
\n\u2014 Vaclav Havel<\/p>\n

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
\n\u2014 Alfred North Whitehead<\/p>\n

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
\n\u2014 Niels Bohr<\/p>\n

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
\n\u2014 Galileo<\/p>\n

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
\n\u2014 George Orwell<\/p>\n

Love truth, but pardon error.
\n\u2014 Voltaire<\/p>\n

Most people spend their whole lives using their strengths to cover up and hide their weaknesses.\u00a0 They expend tremendous energy in keeping themselves a house divided.\u00a0 But if you surrender to your weakness, therein lies your pathway to genius.\u00a0 A person who knows and utilizes his true weakness and uses his strength to include it is a whole person.\u00a0 He may seem rough around the edges, but there are so few people like that that they lead their generation.
\n\u2014 Feldenkrais<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
\n\u2014 Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
\n\u2014 David Foster Wallace<\/p>\n

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They\u2019re never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos\u2014a cult of two with fallible gods.
\n\u2014 Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love<\/em><\/p>\n

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.
\n\u2014 Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning<\/em><\/p>\n

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . .\u00a0 Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.
\n\u2014 James Hillman, Myth of Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

Owning and integrating our own past\u2014the good and the bad\u2014is the way we can make the present better.
\n\u2014 Jane Adams, I\u2019m Still Your Mother<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
\n\u2014 Steve Jobs<\/p>\n

Meaning emerges from engagement with the world, not from abstract contemplation of it.
\n\u2014 Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning<\/em><\/p>\n

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one\u2019s being, but by integration of the contraries.
\n\u2014 C.G. Jung<\/p>\n

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
\n\u2014 Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin<\/em><\/p>\n

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
\n\u2014 William Butler Yeats<\/p>\n

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
\n\u2014 Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n

If you ever find you\u2019re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
\n\u2014 Austin Kleon<\/p>\n

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
\n\u2014 Mother Teresa<\/p>\n

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
\n\u2014 Winston Churchill<\/p>\n

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
\n\u2014 Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
\n\u2014 Richard Feynman<\/p>\n

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
\n\u2014 Stephen Hawking<\/p>\n

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.
\n\u2014 Tim O\u2019Brien, The Things They Carried<\/em><\/p>\n

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
\n\u2014 Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
\n\u2014 Margaret Mead<\/p>\n

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott<\/p>\n

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
\n\u2014 Helen Keller<\/p>\n

People living deeply have no fear of death.
\n\u2014 Anais Nin<\/p>\n

Take risks and you\u2019ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
\n\u2014 Bobby Flay<\/p>\n

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it\u2019s time to pause and reflect.
\n\u2014 Mark Twain<\/p>\n

There should be a word that means beginning\/end because nothing begins without something dying.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
\n\u2014 Mark Twain<\/p>\n

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
\n\u2014 C.G. Jung<\/p>\n

Don’t ask what the world needs.
\nAsk what makes you come alive, and go do it.
\nBecause what the world needs is people who have come alive.
\n\u2014 Howard Thurman<\/p>\n

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.
\n\u2014 Jack Miles, The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004<\/em><\/p>\n

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder.
\n\u2014 Patricia Monaghan, Physics and Grief\u00a0<\/em> (in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n

In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.
\n\u2014 David Bohm, (in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
\n\u2014 Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love<\/em><\/p>\n

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott<\/p>\n

Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn\u2019t matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
\n\u2014 Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin<\/em><\/p>\n

Collect books, even if you don\u2019t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, \u201cNothing is more important than an unread library.\u201d
\n\u2014 Austin Kleon<\/p>\n

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.
\n\u2014 Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning<\/em><\/p>\n

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
\n\u2014 C.G. Jung<\/p>\n

She whispered, as though revealing a secret, \u201cGod waits for us to create Him…\u201d She was telling us that we have the responsibility to reveal God, each in our own way, moment by moment\u2026 as we breathe, as we speak, as we move through our life. We create God by being. Without us God is invisible.
\n\u2014 Fariha de Menil Friedrich, talking about her mother Dominque de Menil\u2019s thoughts and words as she was dying<\/p>\n

Spiritual forces are of consequence in real world affairs and a capacity for reverence sustains a commitment to justice.
\n\u2014 Emilee Dawn Whitehurst<\/p>\n

The attitude of receptivity, indispensible in art, is also the attitude necessary for ecumenism\u2014TO LISTEN.
\n\u2014 Dominique de Menil<\/p>\n

A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.
\n\u2014 Marie-Alain Couturier<\/p>\n

In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together.
\n\u2014 John O\u2019Donohue<\/p>\n

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
\n\u2014 Boris Pasternak<\/p>\n

Reductionism is merciless.
\n\u2014 Douglas Hofstadter<\/p>\n

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
\n\u2014 Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n

Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways\u2014operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes\u2014makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you\u2019re forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them\u2014as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go\u2014end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.
\n\u2014 Daniel Coyle<\/p>\n

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
\n\u2014 Confucius<\/p>\n

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is a triumph of some enthusiasm.
\n\u2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That\u2019s the only way it happens\u2014and when it happens, it lasts.
\n\u2014 John Wooden<\/p>\n

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn\u2019t protect itself and it doesn\u2019t hide. It stands out, like a baby\u2019s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
\n\u2014 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.
\n\u2014 David Whyte<\/p>\n

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage; vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
\n\u2014 Brene Brown<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not prepared to be wrong, you\u2019ll never come up with anything original.
\n\u2014 Ken Robinson<\/p>\n

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn\u2019t exist.
\n\u2014 Eve Ensler<\/p>\n

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
\n\u2014 Confucius<\/p>\n

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
\n\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n

To be seen and understood by the one we love best may be the most powerful weapon against shame.
\n\u2014 Susan Johnson<\/p>\n

Most of us bring to everyday life a somewhat na\u00efve psychological attitude in our expectations that our lives and relationships will be simple. Love of the soul asks for some appreciation for its complexity.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore<\/p>\n

We still and always want waking.
\n\u2014 Annie Dillard, The Writing Life<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.
\n\u2014 Stephen Levine, Unattended Sorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
\n\u2014 Twila Tharp, The Creative Habit<\/em><\/p>\n

Every child is an experiment of nature. Children need their parents\u2019 curiosity about them as an avenue of self-discovery.
\n\u2014 Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships<\/em><\/p>\n

Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
\n\u2014 Leslie Greenberg and Sylvia Paivio, Working With Emotions in Psychotherapy<\/em><\/p>\n

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
\n\u2014 David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.
\n\u2014 Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love<\/em><\/p>\n

The decisions for which we bear responsibility are the ones we make.
\n\u2014 Jane Adams, I\u2019m Still Your Mother<\/em><\/p>\n

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren\u2019t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
\n\u2014 Steve Jobs<\/p>\n

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
\n\u2014 C.G. Jung<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like that man. I must get to know him better.
\n\u2014 Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
\n\u2014 Margaret Mead<\/p>\n

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you\u2019re lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who\u2019ve been around awhile know it\u2019s just a thing that changes day by day.
\n\u2014 Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin<\/em><\/p>\n

If I\u2019d waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started \u201cbeing creative,\u201d well, I\u2019d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it\u2019s in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.
\n\u2014 Austin Kleon<\/p>\n

While the left hemisphere’s raison d’\u00eatre is to narrow things down to a certainty, the right hemisphere’s is to open them up into possibility. In life we need both. In fact for practical purposes, narrowing things down to a certainty, so that we can grasp them, is more helpful. But it is also illusory, since certainty itself is an illusion \u2013 albeit, as I say, a useful one.
\n\u2014 Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning<\/em><\/p>\n

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.
\n\u2014 Dominique de Menil<\/p>\n

Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart.
\n\u2014 John O\u2019Donohue<\/p>\n

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.
\n\u2014 Leon Bloy<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re really listening, if you\u2019re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.
\n\u2014 Andrew Harvey<\/p>\n

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung, \u201cThe Transcendent Function\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
\n\u2014 James Hillman, Healing Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
\n\u2014 Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart<\/em><\/p>\n

And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
\n\u2014 Herman Melville, Moby Dick<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I\u2019ve never let it keep me from doing a thing I wanted to do.
\n\u2014 Georgia O\u2019Keefe<\/p>\n

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
\n\u2014 Ploteinus<\/p>\n

Melancholy gives the soul an opportunity to express a side of its nature that is as valid as any other but is hidden out of our distaste for its darkness and bitterness.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul<\/em><\/p>\n

Where danger is, there is salvation also.
\n\u2014 Holderlin<\/p>\n

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
\n\u2014 Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation<\/em><\/p>\n

When beliefs need some modification,
\nWe make it with much trepidation,
\nFor our world is then new,
\nAnd things seem all askew,
\n\u2018til we\u2019re used to the new formulation.
\n\u2014 Professor Arnold Tustin<\/p>\n

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
\n\u2014 W. R. Bion<\/p>\n

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
\n\u2014 Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones<\/em><\/p>\n

Then to the depths! \u2013 I could as well say height:
\nIt\u2019s all the same.
\n\u2014 Goethe, Faust<\/em><\/p>\n

If you want the whole thing,
\nthe gods will give it to you.
\nBut you must be ready for it.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
\n\u2014 Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
\n\u2014 Karl Rahner<\/p>\n

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.
\n\u2014 James Hillman, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart<\/em><\/p>\n

These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it\u2019s not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.
\n\u2014 Brian Andreas, Going Somewhere Soon<\/em><\/p>\n

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
\n\u2014 Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
\n\u2014 Gertrude Stein<\/p>\n

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
\n\u2014 Herman Melville, Moby Dick<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a time for departure even when there\u2019s no certain place to go.
\n\u2014 Tennessee Williams<\/p>\n

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Being is the great explainer.
\n\u2014 Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
\n\u2014 Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones<\/em><\/p>\n

The twisting of a familiar theme into a new shape is sometimes more revealing and ultimately more significant than acquiring new knowledge and a new set of principles. Often when imagination twists the commonplace into a slightly new form, suddenly we see soul where formerly it was hidden.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul<\/em><\/p>\n

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
\n\u2014 Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n

If there were already a path,
\nit would have to be someone else\u2019s;
\nthe whole point is to find your own way.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing.
\n\u2014 Helen Keller<\/p>\n

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
\n\u2014 Voltaire<\/p>\n

We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.
\n\u2014 James Hillman, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can\u2019t hear, and not bothering.
\n\u2014 A. A. Milne<\/p>\n

Enjoy what you have.
\nHope for what you lack.
\n\u2014 fortune cookie<\/p>\n

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
\n\u2014 William Shakespeare<\/p>\n

Even in our sleep
\nPain which cannot forget
\nFalls drop by drop upon the heart
\nUntil, in our own despair,
\nAgainst our will,
\nComes wisdom
\nThrough the awful grace of God.
\n\u2014 Aeschylus<\/p>\n

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
\n\u2014 Julia Cameron, The Artist\u2019s Way<\/em><\/p>\n

Doe the Nexte Thinge.
\n\u2014 from an ancient parsonage in England<\/p>\n

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.
\n\u2014 A. A. Milne<\/p>\n

One poem or story doesn\u2019t matter one way or the other. It\u2019s the process of writing and life that matters.
\n\u2014 Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones<\/em><\/p>\n

The soul presents itself in a variety of colors, including all the shades of gray, blue, and black. To care for the soul, we must observe the full range of all its colorings, and resist the temptation to approve only of red, white, and orange\u2014the brilliant colors.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul<\/em><\/p>\n

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don\u2019t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
\n\u2014 Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
\n\u2014 epitaph on the grave of an unknown astronomer<\/p>\n

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
\nEach note is a need coming through one of us,
\na passion, a longing-pain.
\nRemember the lips
\nwhere the wind-breath originated,
\nand let your note be clear.
\nDon\u2019t try to end it.
\nBe your note.
\n\u2014 Rumi, The Essential Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n

Opportunities
\nto find deeper powers
\nwithin ourselves
\ncome when life
\nseems most challenging.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the \u201ctreasure hard to attain.\u201d He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung, Jung on Mythology<\/em><\/p>\n

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.
\n\u2014 Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n

We must be willing to get rid of the life we\u2019ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

What you plan
\nis too small
\nfor you to live.
\n\u2014 David Whyte, excerpt from \u201cWhat to Remember When Waking,<\/em>\u201d in The House of Belonging<\/em><\/p>\n

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you
\nWhich shall be the darkness of God. . . .
\nSo the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
\n\u2014 T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n

If the angel
\ndeigns to come
\nit will be because
\nyou have convinced
\nher, not by tears
\nbut by your humble
\nresolve to be always
\nbeginning; to be a beginner.
\n\u2014 Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
\n\u2014 May Sarton<\/p>\n

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
\n\u2014 Robbie Gass<\/p>\n

It seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates. There lay the fixed threads of the warp subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise interblending of other threads with its own. This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads. Meantime, Queequeg\u2019s impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage\u2019s sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance\u2014aye, chance, freewill, and necessity\u2014no-wise incompatible\u2014all interweavingly working together. The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course\u2014its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions modified by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turn rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.
\n\u2014 Herman Melville, Moby Dick<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.
\n\u2014 Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart<\/em><\/p>\n

More important for our children than merely what happened to us in the past is the way we have come to process and understand it. The opportunity to change and grow continues to be available throughout our lives.
\n\u2014 Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell, Parenting From the Inside Out<\/em><\/p>\n

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
\n\u2014 Joseph Chilton Pearce<\/p>\n

There will be many times when we won\u2019t look good\u2014to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
\n\u2014 Julia Cameron, The Artist\u2019s Way<\/em><\/p>\n

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p>\n

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
\n\u2014 Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n

Roar, lion of the heart,
\nand tear me open!
\n\u2014 Rumi, The Essential Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. . . . Each moment, taken alone, [is] always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right.
\n\u2014 Julia Cameron, The Artist\u2019s Way<\/em><\/p>\n

What we think of as \u201claziness\u201d in ourselves is often simply fear.
\n\u2014 Jeanne Guy<\/p>\n

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
\n\u2014 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi<\/p>\n

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect, there will be a fish.
\n\u2014 Ovid<\/p>\n

Every need brings in what\u2019s needed.
\nPain bears its cure like a child.
\n\u2014 Rumi, The Essential Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
\n\u2014 Herman Melville, Moby Dick<\/em><\/p>\n

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one\u2019s favor all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have believed would have come his way.
\n\u2014 W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition<\/em><\/p>\n

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples\u2019 models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
\n\u2014 Shakti Gawain<\/p>\n

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
\n\u2014 Martha Graham<\/p>\n

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
\n\u2014 W. H. Auden<\/p>\n

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
\n\u2014 Theodore Roethke<\/p>\n

Look and you will find it\u2014what is unsought will go undetected.
\n\u2014 Sophocles<\/p>\n

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
\n\u2014 Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n

Courage is the foundation of integrity.
\n\u2014 Keshavan Nair<\/p>\n

Integrity is its own reward.
\n\u2014 Rod Russell<\/p>\n

A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation:
\n\u201cAs you go the way of life,
\nyou will see a great chasm.
\nJump.
\nIt is not as wide as you think.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Children learn whether it is safe to learn.
\n\u2014 Dorothy Corkille Briggs<\/p>\n

Your desire is your prayer.
\n\u2014 Dr. Joseph Murphy<\/p>\n

Learning is movement from moment to moment.
\n\u2014 J. Krishnamurti<\/p>\n

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river\u2019s pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.
\n\u2014 Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n

Play is the exultation of the possible.
\n\u2014 Martin Buber<\/p>\n

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
\n\u2014 Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart<\/em><\/p>\n

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.
\n\u2014 Von Tepl<\/p>\n

Because life involves taking risks, and thereby kindling fear, you must possess the ability\u2014but more importantly the willingness\u2014to have a relationship with your fears, to examine the experience of fear when it arises. Just as you cannot acquire immunity to a disease without first coming into contact with it, you will never move through your fears until you move through them, not around them.
\n\u2014 Gregg Levoy, This Business of Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
\n\u2014 George Eliot<\/p>\n

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
\n\u2014 Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
\n\u2014 Francis Bacon<\/p>\n

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
\n\u2014 Austin O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

Treat a child as though he already is the person he\u2019s capable of becoming.
\n\u2014 Haim Ginott<\/p>\n

If you want to hit home runs, you\u2019ve go to swing a lot.
\n\u2014 Babe Ruth<\/p>\n

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
\n\u2014 James Baldwin, from “The Threshing Floor”<\/p>\n

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
\n\u2014 Helen Keller<\/p>\n

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in the child\u2019s home.
\n\u2014 William Temple<\/p>\n

A lively understandable spirit
\nOnce entertained you.
\nIt will come again.
\nBe still.
\nWait.
\n\u2014 Theodore Roethke<\/p>\n

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
\n\u2014 Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.
\n\u2014 Colette<\/p>\n

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
\n\u2014 Marcel Proust<\/p>\n

Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions.
\n\u2014 Virginia Casey<\/p>\n

I still believe that people are really good at heart.
\n\u2014 Anne Frank<\/p>\n

Education is the best provision for old age.
\n\u2014 Aristotle<\/p>\n

The great man is he who does not lose his child\u2019s heart.
\n\u2014 Mencius<\/p>\n

The mind, stretched to a new idea, can never return to its original dimension.
\n\u2014 Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/p>\n

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
\n\u2014 Antoine de Saint-Exupery<\/p>\n

Feelings refuse to bow to command.
\n\u2014 Dorothy Corkille Briggs<\/p>\n

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it.
\n\u2014 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne<\/p>\n

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.
\n\u2014 Paul Tournier<\/p>\n

Life must be understood backwards.
\n\u2014 Soren Kierkegaard<\/p>\n

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
\n\u2014 William Penn<\/p>\n

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore.
\n\u2014 Andre Gide<\/p>\n

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.
\n\u2014 Gilda Radner<\/p>\n

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung, Psychotherapists or the Clergy<\/em><\/p>\n

Work well done is art.
\n\u2014 Unknown<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
\n\u2014 Unknown<\/p>\n

To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child\u2019s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection. This is happiness.
\n\u2014 J. B. Priestley<\/p>\n

Ritual maintains the world\u2019s holiness. Knowing that everything we do, no matter how simple, has a halo of imagination around it and can serve the soul enriches life and makes the things around us more precious, more worthy of our protection and care.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul<\/em><\/p>\n

Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing by the shape of the spoon.
\n\u2014 E. M. Forster<\/p>\n

Groundless hope, like unconditional love, may be the only kind that counts.
\n\u2014 John Perry Barlow<\/p>\n

Ultimately the only way to get through something is to get through it\u2014not over, not under, or around it, but all the way through it. And it takes as long as it takes.
\n\u2014 Alla Bozarth Campbell<\/p>\n

between the seed
\nand the sprout,
\ndarkness
\n\u2014 Unknown<\/p>\n

The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
\n\u2014 Thomas More<\/p>\n

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit\u2014the two being really one.
\n\u2014 Carl Jung, The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man<\/em><\/p>\n

The irony is this\u2014
\nIf you don\u2019t go in . . .
\nYou can\u2019t find out.
\n\u2014 Richard Stine<\/p>\n

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias. This is inevitable as well as enjoyable\u2026. Creative writing is communication through revelation\u2014it is the Self escaping into the open.
\n\u2014 Strunk and White, The Elements of Style<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are at all faithful to your dreams, they will often lead you to a point of decision. Here you must decide whether to say yes or no, now or later, ready or not. And they will keep coming back until you give them an answer.
\nEach transition requires that you end one thing\u2014a mind-set, a lifestyle, a trade\u2014before beginning another, and as such these transitions involve both fear and elation, terrible anxiety and tremendous freedom, the freedom to make new choices, to redefine your life. Transition is very much about feeling caught in the middle, between the known and the unknown, and I think it is one of the peculiarities of successful people that they can tolerate prolonged periods of uncertainty and, most importantly, hang onto their faith.
\nAt some point you simply have to make a leap of at least some distance. But you also have to be gentle with yourself. Big transitions are by their very nature dramatic and effortful, and growth always in some sense violent and disruptive. Treat yourself as if you were in a cocoon, not a padded cell. On the other hand, do not be so easy on yourself that you cheat yourself out of changes you really need to make.
\n\u2014 Gregg Levoy, This Business of Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

This is enough was always true. We just haven\u2019t seen it.
\n\u2014 Rumi, The Essential Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n

Aging brings out the flavors of a personality. The individual emerges over time, the way fruit matures and ripens. In the Renaissance view, depression, aging, and individuality all go together: the sadness of growing old is part of becoming an individual. Melancholy thoughts care out an interior space where wisdom can take up residence.
\n\u2014 Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul<\/em><\/p>\n

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
\n\u2014 Joseph Campbell, The Joseph Campbell Companion<\/em><\/p>\n

Inside everyone
\nis a great shout of joy
\nwaiting to be born.
\n\u2014 David Whyte, excerpt from \u201cThe Winter of Listening,<\/em>\u201d in The House of Belonging<\/em><\/p>\n

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. . . . It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.
\n\u2014 Julia Cameron, The Artist\u2019s Way<\/em><\/p>\n

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.
\n\u2014 Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.\u00a0 \u2014 Joseph Campbell<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>

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