Change Yourself

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

The Spirit of God

“In the last days, God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.’”

 Acts 2:17-18

Fear of the Unknown

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

 H. P. Lovecraft

1890-1937

Seeking a Way Out

“The more people wander, looking for a way out, the deeper they get into the wilderness and the more they become lost.”

 Brian Longhurst

Seek ye First the Kingdom

Love We're Not Extending

“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”

 Marianne Williamson

1952+

Our Deepest Fear

“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 most frightens us.”

Marianne Williamson

1952+

Carrying a Promise

“We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.”

Marianne Williamson

1952+

Playing at Life

“What we play is life.”

 Louis Armstrong

1901-1971

Solving the World’s Problems

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

 Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

The Way of Truth and Love

“When I despair, I 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 can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always.

 Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

Feeling Helpless

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone.”

Aung San Suu Kyi

1945+

Power Corrupts

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

 Aung San Suu Kyi

1945+

The Beginning of Love

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

Mother Teresa

1910-97

Death is Smaller than I Thought

My Mother and Father died some years ago

I loved them very much.

When they died my love for them

Did not vanish or fade away.

It stayed just about the same,

Only a sadder colour.

And I can feel their love for me,

Same as it ever was.

Nowadays, in good times or bad,

I sometimes ask my Mother and Father

To walk beside me or to sit with me

So we can talk together

Or be silent.

They always come to me.

I talk to them and listen to them

And think I hear them talk to me.

It’s very simple –

Nothing to do with spiritualism

Or religion or mumbo jumbo.

It is imaginary.

It is real.

It is love.

Adrian Mitchell

1932-2008

Terrorism

“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism, well there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it!”

 Noam Chomsky

1928+

Oslo Accords in 1993

“The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.  Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.”

Noam Chomsky

1928+

Intimations of Immortality

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: the Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”

 William Wordsworth

1770-1850

If You Don't Know Where You are Going

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there,” paraphrase of the Cheshire Cat, in Alice in Wonderland.

 Lewis Carroll

1832-1898

If You Don't Think

“If you don't think, then you shouldn't talk,” March Hare, Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

1832-1898

The More I give the More I have

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep; the more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite.”

 William Shakespeare

1564-1616

It Seems Impossible

“It always seems impossible until it’s done”

 Nelson Mandela

1918-2013

Lost

“Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.”

Martina Navratilova

1956-

Failures

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas Edison

1847-1931

Cuban Prophesy

“The United States will come to talk to us when you have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.”

Fidel Castro speaking to the international press in 1973

Loving Silence

“A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words."

 Rachel Naomi Remen

1938-

Good Advice

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”

 Oscar Wilde

1854-1900

Divine Love

“Love [never says] it owns something, [though] it owns [everything]. Love does not [say, ‘This is mine] or ‘That is mine’, but rather ‘[All that is mine] is yours.’”

Gospel of Philip

150-350AD

[From The Lost Gospel p169]

Loving Happiness

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein

1907-1988

Happiness as a Reward

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

1884-1962

Harmonic Happiness

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

Ready Made Happiness

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

Dalai Lama

1935-

Understanding Better

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

Albert Einstein

1879-1955

Vanishing Difficulties

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”

Isaac Asimov

1920-1992

Passion

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Vincent van Gogh

1853-1890

The Truth

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain

1835-1910

Words We Utter

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

Buddha

Courage

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Winston S Churchill

1874-1965

Dishonesty

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

Blessed are the Righteous

“For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favour as with a shield.”

Psalm 5:12

Curiosity

“The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker

1893-1967

The Intelligent Man

“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.”

Ed Parker

1931-1990

Change

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

Winston Churchill

1874-1965

Governments of the People

“Palestine, the bleeding heart of the Muslim world, the sacred land that held the third holiest city, cannot be liberated until the Muslim world’s corrupt, treasonous regimes are swept away and replaced with legitimate governments of the people.”

Osama bin Laden

1928-2011

More Humbly

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

107-44 BC

Aim High

“Aim high! The future you see is the person you will be.”

Jim Cathcart

1767-1843

Be Yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

1854-1900

Dreamers Who Do

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”

Sarah Ban Breathnach

1947-

In Order to Succeed

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

Bill Cosby

1937-

Perfect Harmony

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do is in perfect harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

Peace and Reconciliation

“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

1926-

Please God

“One thing I absolutely love about my day is that moment I realize I'm trying to determine what I can do to please God.”

Marala Scott

Begin Again

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”

Buddha

563-483 BCE

With Great Love

“God does not command that we do great things, only small things with great love.”

Mother Theresa

1910-1997

Relax

“Relax and notice that which within you is not struggling.”

Adyashanti

(1962- )