If the sun could doubt itself

it would go out in an instant.

~William Blake

in a Native American parable

the Creator gathers all the animals and says:

'I want to hide something from humans
until they are ready for it—the realization that they
create their own reality.'


'Give it to me. I'll fly it to the Moon,' says the Eagle.

'No, one day soon they will go there and find it.'


'How about the bottom of the ocean?' ask the salmon.

'No, they will find it there too.'


'Bury it in the great plains,' say the Buffalo.

'They will soon dig and find it there.'


'Put it inside them,' says the wise grandmother mole.

'Done,' says the Creator. 'It is the last place they
will look.'


(source unattributed)

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

What lies behind us

and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.

(unattributed quote received via email)

Don't try to force anything.

Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.

~Osho

Life is a process of becoming...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

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.

~Anaïs Nin

Twenty-One Love Poems

Here is the URL to some very beautiful poems by Adrienne Rich:

http://www.geocities.com/lovepoems21/

No kind action ever stops with itself.

One kind action leads to another; good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

~Amelia Earhart

So many gods, so many creeds,

So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You do not have a soul.

You ARE a soul. You Have a body.

~C.S. Lewis

Be who you are and say what you feel,

because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

(source unknown)