“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear … as it is, infinite.”
— William Blake
“You watch your mind to see who you are not. I watch my mind to gain a sense of its content, which has always been my pain. As I watch it, I get a sense of its impermanence. Thoughts come and go as part of a process. I see how content dissolves into process and begin to see the patterns in the process. Realizing it isn’t MY suffering, MY pain, it becomes THE pain. I’ve gone from the tiny, the small, and the individual to the universal. I feel OUR pain. When we do, we go from fear to compassion. Fear is MY pain, compassion is THE pain.”
— Stephen Levine
This is the day which the Lord has made; “we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
— Psalms 118:24
“Patience, persistence, and perseverance. A little more each day, a little better each day.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.”
— E. F. Schumacher
“The winds of grace are always blowing; all we need to do is raise our sails.”
— Anonymous
“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.”
— Saint Augustine
“No action takes place unless it is preceded by thought. If you’re unhappy with the circumstances in which you find yourself, you can improve your situation through the power of thought, just as surely as you can destroy a positive life with negative thinking. Success begins with an honest analysis of your present condition, acceptance of responsibility for your own life, and the development of a workable plan to achieve what you desire.”
— Napoleon Hill
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
— Fred DeVito