LAO TSU

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A Gaelic blessing

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

CONFUCIUS

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

It is hard for a pure and thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded him by his fellow-creatures.

GEORGE SAND

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning.
I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

ANON

What is Zen?
Zen is nothing else but living life as it is.

LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

GEORGE MOORE

There is always a right way and a wrong way,
and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

ANON

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

LU YU

The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns;
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?

TAOIST SAYING

Those who know do not speak;
those who speak do not know.

DOUG McLEOD

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

DALAI LAMA

I look on religion as medicine. For different complaints, doctors will prescribe different remedies. Therefore, because not everyone’s spiritual 'illness' is the same, different spiritual medicines are required.

ANON

Stop struggling for perfection, and recognise the perfection you already are.

H.L. MENCKEN

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

One lives and learns, doesn’t one? That is certainly one of the more prevalent delusions.

LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

JOHN MAGLIOLA

A small child looked at a star and began to weep.
And the star said "Child, why do you weep?"
The child said "You are so far away; I will never be able to touch you."
And the star answered "Child, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me now."

RUMI

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons.
Knocking on a door, it opens -
I've been knocking from the inside.

ANON

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only way to get a friend is to be one.

A Zen Prayer

Breathing in, I cherish the life I have been given.
Breathing out, I cherish the life of others.
I breathe in, cherishing of the self.
I breathe out, cherishing of others.

HOMER SIMPSON

Three little sentences will get you through life -
1. Cover for me
2. Good idea, boss
3. It was like that when I got here

NISARGADATTA

Wisdom tells me I'm Nothing.
Love tells me I'm Everything.
Between the two my life flows.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth
and be found out by accident

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

DESHAN

All the profound doctrines are but a speck of dust in a vast void.
All the great affairs of the world are but a drop of water cast into a bottomless chasm

WILLIAM BLAKE

It is right it should be so,
Man was made for Joy and Woe,
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the World we safely go.
Joy and Woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the Soul Divine

JAMES OPPENHEIM

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance.
The wise man grows it under his feet.

LUIS MARDEN

One lifetime isn't enough.
Just when you start to learn -
it's time to go.