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Inspirational Quotes

"The Optimist Creed"

Written by Christian D. Larson
Quoted from Science of Mind 71 (June 1998): 50

Promise Yourself...

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.

To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence
of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread,
but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand,
add to it another filament, until it becomes
a great cable and binds us irrevocably,
thought and act."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."

"Man alone, of all creatures on earth, can change his own pattern.
Man alone is the architect of his destiny.
The great revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

"Learn for the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
SAM LEVINSON

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins one moon. - Native American Proverb

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt (CHAP 2)

Man is made by his beliefs; as he believes, so he is. - The Bhagahvad Gita (India)

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude. - Victor Frankl (1905-1997)

Our handicaps exist only in our minds. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.- Mahatma Gandhi (CHAP 2)

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his
attitudes. - William James (CHAP 2)

"It matters not where you are but how you are being wherever you are." -Ramtha (CHAP 2)

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim (CHAP 2)

"Remember: happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." - Roy Goodman (CHAP 2,6)

"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him,
that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life
if aroused and put into action."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates
others."

BY MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
FROM A RETURN TO LOVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF A COURSE IN MIRACLES

"Experience is not what happens to a man;
it is what a man does with what happens to him."

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" ALBERT EINSTEIN

"The reticular formation alerts the brain to incoming information from the senses, and from the centres of thought, memory and feeling. More than that, it adjudicates the relative importance of that information. . . In a way the RAS is like a vigilant secretary, sorting out the trivia from the incoming messages."

"The reticular formation continuously sifts and selects, forwarding only the essential, the unusual, the dangerous to the conscious mind. . . The reticular formation can both send and receive messages. If it suddenly spots one that merits attention, it shoots up an alert through ascending RAS pathways to receiving areas in the cortex. Timed to arrive simultaneously with the impulses sent directly from sensory receptors."

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. - Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)

Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. - Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

"The RAS determines which of the many bits of information are important enough - or novel enough - to report to the higher portions of the brain. . . Normally, the information relating to automatic actions, such as the heartbeat and digestion, is dealt with directly by the RAS, which sends out regulating impulses when they are needed without allowing any awareness of them to filter through to the conscious brain."

SILVERSTEIN, ALVIN & VIRGINIA - WORLD OF THE BRAIN - WILLIAM MORROW & CO. NY 1986

"Gatekeeper to consciousness, spark of the mind, the reticular formation connects with major nerves in the spinal column and brain. It sorts the 100 million impulses that assault the brain each second, deflecting the trivial, letting the vital through to alert the mind. The mind cannot function without this catalytic bundle of cells. Damage to them results in coma - the loss of consciousness."

The answer lies in the fact that Dr. Gary Lynch of the University of California at Irvine has proved that "learning involves a physical change in the circuitry of the brain." When we learn something, new synapses are formed in our brains, or existing connections are strengthened, sometimes in as little as ten minutes. (Aside: perhaps in geniuses, much faster?)

FRANCIS CRICK, ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS: THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR THE SOUL, TOUCHSTONE 1995

"…For example, all the mood-altering drugs, from crack to marijuana, act primarily on what are called the monoaminergic neurons, all of which are located in a few discrete nuclei in the reticular formation."

SEBASTIAN P. GROSSMAN, PH.D., EMERITUS PROFESSOR, CHAIR, BIO-PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
- Plato

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen W. Hawking

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
- Dogen

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- Giordano Bruno

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau

If those who lead you say to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
- (All the sayings of Jesus gathered from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the first time.
Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From The Complete Jesus. (Pg 71) Jesus

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Jelauddin Rumi

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Democritus of Abdera

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become-to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein

Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein

It gives me a deep comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.’
- Helen Keller

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
- Freeman Dyson

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
- Chang-Tzu

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen W. Hawking

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Copernicus

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.
- Ramtha

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein

A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.
- Ken Wilber

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
- Archibald MacLeish

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
- Albert Einstein

Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose.
- J. B. S. Haldane

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen W. Hawking

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.
- Russell Targ

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
- Emily Dickinson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein

We have actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie Ultimate Realities, subtle, far-reaching, wonderful.
- Sir William Crookes, 1879

All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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.
- Chief Seattle

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein, in The New Convergence

The universe on a very basic level could be a vast web of particles which remain in contact with one another over distance, and in no time.
- R. Nadeau and M. Kafatos

The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
- The Upanishads

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius

Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God!
- Ramtha

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
- William James

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
- Winston Churchill

There is no reality in the absence of observation.
- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
- Ramtha

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
- Physicist Heinz Pagels

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
- Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce, Ulysses

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
- Marianne Williamson

Whoever talks about Planck's constant and does not feel at least a little giddy obviously doesn't appreciate what he is talking about.
- Niels Bohr (quoted by Teller: see French & Kennedy 1985, p.182)

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- Stephen W. Hawking

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
- Aart Van Der Leeuw

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle, and the other is as if
everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

The conveyance of real understanding with mere words is like comparing a grain of sand to the greatest star in the universe, yet the same fire burns in both equally. JBH

"With a sense of humour, hate is all too funny and therefore it loses its power. Love, on the other hand, even with a sense of humour, becomes highly precious and large enough so that it can contain old hatreds quite nicely." - Seth

"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer." - Seth

"One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one." - Mother Meera

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman

"Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." - Madeline Bridges

"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change the cause it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.- Giordano Bruno

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.- Winston Churchill

You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality. - Ramtha

To know, that we know what we know, and to know, that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Copernicus

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. - Albert Einstein

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain
and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.
If you do that, you're in control of your life.
If you don't, life controls you."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain
is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate
of it; and this you have the power to revoke
at any moment."

"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater
pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted
that will terminate in greater pleasures."

"Give me a lever long enough
and a prop strong enough.
I can single-handedly move the world."

"There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion."

"The human organism is not only a product
of the universe but is a universe in itself."

A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth. - Tagalog (Filipino) (on conscience)

A firm tree does not fear the storm. - Dayak (Indonesian) (on strength and weakness)

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best. - Thomas J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956)

If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you. - Moroccan (on courage and fear)

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

It's not what you say; it's how you say it. - American mothers (thanks to J. Martin)

No one can make us feel inferior without our consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young. - Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.- Chinese (on health and wellness)

Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend. - Hebrew (on friends and foes)

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each entity knows before he comes here that he is not coming back to be the grand beauty or the wealthy entity or the wretched pauper. He comes here because he wants to live here and to be enterprising in emotional learning on this level - to obtain EMOTIONAL understandings that he wants to fulfill within his being. That is the true treasure of your life experiences, whether here or on other planes or dimensions, for that is the only thing that remains with you throughout eternity." - Ramtha

"Any pain that comes is to make you understand the nature of joy more deeply and bring you into joy." - Mother Meera

"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'." - Unknown Cowboy

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep
conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M. Bristol

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." - Frank Crane

"...that best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." - William Wordsworth

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Gandhi

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

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - Shakespeare

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of
being. - Carl Jung

"Man is not the creature of circumstances;
circumstances are the creatures of men."

"Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?'
I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.."

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."

"The only way to discover the limits of the
possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

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

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it."

"Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."

"What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them."

"As he passed on Jesus was followed by two blind men, who cried out, "Son of David, have pity on us!" And when he had gone indoors they came to him. Jesus asked, 'Do you believe that I have power to do what you want?' 'Yes, sir', they said. Then he touched their eyes, and said, 'As you have believed, so let it be'; and their sight was restored."

"Whether the object of your faith be real or false, you will nevertheless obtain the same effects. Thus, if I believed in Saint Peter's statue as I should have believed in Saint Peter himself, I shall obtain the same effects that I should have obtain from Saint Peter. But that is superstition. Faith, however, produces miracles; and whether it is true or false faith, it will always produce the same wonders."

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

"(About Prayer) Again I tell you this: if two of you agree on earth about any request you have to make, that request will be granted by my heavenly father. For where two or three have met together in my name, I am there among them."

"I tell you this: whatever you forbid on earth shall be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you allow on earth shall be allowed in heaven."

"Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you."

"Jesus: 'Verily, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these.'"
JOHN 14;12-3

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
SAINT AUGUSTINE

"It is possible to reach your goals, even if they are beyond the limits of anything you have tried before. It is only by challenging yourself that you progress."

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors, try to be better than yourself."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true."

"Man alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality. Man alone, can dream and make his dream come true."

"If one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"As long as you know what it is you desire,
then by simply affirming that it is yours - firmly and positively,
with no 'ifs', 'buts', or 'maybes' - over and over again,
from the minute you arise in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night,
and as many times during the day as your work or activities permit,
you will be drawn to those people, places and events that will bring your desires to you."

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do, doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The one who teaches is the giver of eyes. - Tamil (Asian Indian) (on education)

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, but do not be disheartened, the source they come from is eternal, growing, branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you and this whole world is springing up from it. - Jelauddin Rumi

"When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

"Many have not been told that birth into a physical world is a death in the spiritual worlds from which they came. Hence most are never aware that death in the physical world is merely a birth into other dimensions of life." - Jesse Holmes

"Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act
without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfilment whose limits extend to infinity." - Thomas Merton

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. - Stephen W. Hawking

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.- William James

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.- Albert Einstein, in The New Convergence

Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. - Albert Einstein

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. - Emily Dickinson

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

We learn little from victory, much from defeat. - Japanese (on success and failure)

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

"A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water." - Deepak Chopra

"Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world." - Emerson

"We are what we think.
All that we are arises
with our thoughts.
With our thoughts,
we make our world ."

"As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his
arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you deal, it shall measured to you again."

"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

"The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

A clever person turns great problems into little ones and little ones into none at all. - Chinese (on attitude)

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever. - Chinese Proverb

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)

Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems.- Maori

When the music changes, so does the dance. - Hausa tribe of West Africa (on appropriateness)

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen W. Hawking

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.- Physicist Heinz Pagels

There is no reality in the absence of observation.- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. - Niels Bohr

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and
science. - Albert Einstein

A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behaviour means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.- Ken Wilber

All speech, action, and behaviour are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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.- Chief Seattle

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose.- J. B. S. Haldane

The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one. - The Upanishads

"To open the individual path inward is the most exalted of human endeavours..." - James Perkins

"When we have seen Reality, there is not a grain of dust which has not a sublime meaning." - Vanderleeuw

"Lift the stone and you will find me, cleave the wood and I am there." - Jesus

"If you want to know the past, look at your present life. If you want to know the future, look at your present." - Buddha

"Time has a very elastic quality. It depends upon the will and desire of the individual as to what he or she can accomplish within the time allotted." - Jesse Holmes

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran

"Concerning all acts of initiative and creation,
there is one elementary truth - that the moment
one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

"Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.
Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"How will your children recall who you were?
Will they remember the present you gave?
Will they remember the money you brought home?
Will they remember the cups and the scrolls?
No, they will recall how you laughed, how you loved.
That's how you write in the parchment of the souls."

"The difference between a successful person and others,
is not the lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge.
But rather a lack of will."

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it. - William Danforth (1870-1955)

Even the largest army is nothing without a good general.- Afghan (on leadership)

Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or greater benefit. - Napolean Hill

Every day of your life is a page of your history.- Arabic (on life and living)

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving (1783-1859)

If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's. - American (on planning)

If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain. - Chinese (on rewards and consequences)

It's not enough to know how to ride- one must also know how to fall. - Mexican (on success and failure)

Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake. - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

One who waits for chance, may wait a year.- Yoruba (West African (on opportunity)

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773)

When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out. - Chinese (on adversity)
When you see clouds gathering, prepare to catch rainwater. - African proverb Gola Tribe

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Written By Mother Teresa

"Wisdom is accumulated emotion. That is what makes each entity different from all others who come to this plane. You will not experience the things you have already experienced and understood, for you will have no DESIRE to. The things that you have yet to understand, adventures that hold the promise of fulfilment and wisdom, you will always be drawn to, for they will excite you, tempt you, intrigue you, puzzle you. If you will simply allow yourself to be, and listen to the urgings within your being, the feelings within you, you will always be experiencing what you are most needing in order to expand your wondrous self into greater wisdom and perpetual joy." - Ramtha

"A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water." - Deepak Chopra

"Say to yourself 'That is in the past. Now in this new moment, this new present, I am already beginning to change for the better.'" - Seth

"When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself..." - Mother Meera

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity, and love." - Thomas Merton

"At the root of all war is fear; not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything. It is not merely that they do not trust one another; they do not even trust themselves.... They cannot trust anything, because they have ceased to trust in God." - Thomas Merton

"To be desireless, there is nothing wrong with that at all. I will tell you why. Most that are filled with unquenchable desires never know who they are for they are too busy wanting. When you realize that everything you want is within you, then the Source brings a treasure at your doorstep and leaves it there every moment of being. And you have everything you ever wanted - YOU." - Ramtha

"Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road - turn around!" - Edgar Cayce

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love." - Gandhi

"The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be." - Charles Dubois

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce, Ulysses

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein

The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God! - Ramtha

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: 'I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.' If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane. - Ramtha

"Never see anything that you do as a failure but see it as an accomplishment. Then you have never failed; you have always learned." -Ramtha

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.- Lewis Carroll

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen W. Hawking

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. - Aart Van Der Leeuw

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.- Albert Einstein

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and
unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of the genius." - Gibbon

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Gandhi

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." - A.L. Kitselman

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Goethe

"The less you think of yourself, the less you become. The less you give credit to yourself for having intelligence, the more of an imbecile you become. The less beautiful you think you are, the more ugly you become. The more impoverished you think you are, the more wretched you become - because YOU have ordained it to be so." - Ramtha

"If you who are seeking love and truth cannot rise above the illusion of turmoil, how can those who are locked in it be helped? It is you who are empowered through the strength of your love, your commitment to truth, who will bring about the elevation of consciousness of those who are wracked in such fear that they would destroy the world rather than acknowledge their own terror." - Emmanuel

"In spontaneity there is a discipline that utterly escapes you, and an order beyond any that you know. Spontaneity knows its own order." - Seth

"That is why I am teaching you how to become more unlimited in your thought processes. For the more unlimited your thinking becomes, the more unlimited your life shall become - wherever you are. The greater the heaven you create here, within your own kingdom of thought and emotion, the greater the heaven you will experience when you leave this plane. Those whose thoughts are steeped in guilt, judgment of self and others, and bitterness and hatred toward their brothers, will leave this plane only to continue to experience those attitudes until they learn from them - until they have had their gut full of them and realize that there are grander ways to be and greater heavens to experience." - Ramtha

"There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith
Wharton

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the stream of thought that is forever flowing through one's head." - Mark Twain

"Realise in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirerly to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making. All wealth depends upon clear understanding of the fact that mind-thought- is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstances." - Robert Collier

"Hold a picture of yourself long enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it." Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." William James

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts, and with our thoughts, we make our word." Buddha

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." - Schweitzer

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." - Albert Einstein

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding. - Freeman Dyson

Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of
consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler. - H.D. Thoreau

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.- William Faulkner, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.- Claude Bernard

"Each entity knows before he comes here that he is not coming back to be the grand beauty or the wealthy entity or the wretched pauper. He comes here because he wants to live here and to be enterprising in emotional learning on this level - to obtain EMOTIONAL understandings that he wants to fulfil within his being. That is the true treasure of your life experiences, whether here or on other planes or dimensions, for that is the only thing that remains with you throughout eternity." - Ramtha

"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities.
Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for
creation which God forgot inside one of
His creatures when He made him."

"In a full heart thee is room for everything,
and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."

"Behold, I show you a mystery;
we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye…."

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has the answer; it sings because it has a song."

"I think we have a little voice inside of us that will guide us . If we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice as it will tell us the right thing to do."
CHRISTOPHER REEVE

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Under visualization process

Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.- African-American (on life and living)

The afternoon knows what the morning never expected. - Swedish (on basic truths)

There would be no great men if there were no little ones. - George Herbert (1593-1633)

What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. - unknown, What goes around, comes around. - unknown

Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. - unknown

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that 'things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.' - Helen Keller

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. - Archibald MacLeish

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after
speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.- Dogen

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. - Helen Keller

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. - Plato

"Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity." - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences

"I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science." - Albert Einstein

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"We need the tonic of wilderness... we can never have enough of nature." - Henry David Thoreau

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." - Leo Rosten

"If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide." - Gandhi

"In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it." - Mother Meera

"You can't lose anything because you never had it. The only thing you've ever really had is yourself." - Deepak Chopra

"There is never any justification for violence, for hatred, for murder. Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their [soul] purpose adulterated." - Seth

"It is not so much our friend's help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus