“I closed my mouth
and spoke to you
in a hundred silent ways.” —Rumi
and spoke to you
in a hundred silent ways.” —Rumi
July 2012
84 posts
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement… get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
—Thomas Merton
“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday. ”
—Brian Andreas
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
—Osho
“As you go the way of life,
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
—Susan Sontag
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
—Vincent van Gogh
“Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then, through His grace one realizes Him in course of time.”
—Ramakrishna
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
—Marcel Proust
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.”
—Miranda July
“But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I’m waiting for, that adventure, that move-score-worthy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets – this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of use will ever experience.”
—Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
“You have been given the highest blessing, the most precious knowledge on this planet. You are the Divine Self… Walk with that confidence. It’s not arrogance. It’s, again, Love.”
—Maestro Ravi Shankar
“The winter will ask what we did all summer.”
—Gypsy Proverb
“Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.”
—Osho
“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared.”
—Jack Kerouac
“Love every person you see today, without judgment. Just be in love all day long, and see the same divine Self in all. The capacity to love everyone without reservation is a very sublime state. Revel in it.”
—D.R. Butler
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”
—Deepak Chopra
“May I live this day compassionate of heart, clear in word, gracious in awareness, courageous in thought, generous in love.”
—John O’Donohue
