“All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.”
— Bayazid al-Bistami
“I do only want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and
expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I am glad that so much movement happens in this stillness.”
— Richard Land
“For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I’m grumpy or mad, I’ll realize that
I’ve not been paying attention to my soul and I’ve not been following my best routine.”
— Robert Fulghum
“There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of
the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.”
— Rumer Godden
“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right
where you are.”
— Julia Cameron
“YOU make a difference to the world.Act on your dreams today.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search,but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“Life is not easy for any of us.But what of that?We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.We must believe that we are gifted for something and
that this thing must be attained.”
— Marie Curie
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.Nothing pains some
people more than having to think.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I live fully in the radiant light of my own divine nature.”
— William DeFoore