quotes

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own
common sense."
---Gautama Buddha

"Where is the door to God? In the sound of a barking dog, in the
ring of a hammer, in a drop of rain, in the face of everyone I see." --Hafiz

"Mystical experience is the mirror image of paranoia: it sees the
universe as a conspiracy organized for my benefit." --- Andrew Weil

"Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even
though you are awake. " ---Matthew Flickstein

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. ---Charles M. Schultz

"Belief, not doubt, is the enemy of faith, trapping you in a sacred
"ism" whole blinding you to the divine Is...Doubt, if it is allowed
to ripen, strips you of certainty and awakens you to a compassionate
curiosity rooted in a humble not-knowing that is the hallmark of mature
faith." --Rabbi Rami Shapiro

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates
the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery
every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. --- Albert Einstein

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. --- Cherokee Indian saying

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the
power. Facing the truth really will set you free ---Oprah Winfrey

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.---The Dalai Lama

"Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may, at any
moment, become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself: What else is the world interested in? What else do we all want, each one of us,
except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships? God is Love. Love casts out fear. Even the most ardent
revolutionist, seeking to change the world, to overturn the tables of the money changers, is trying to make a world where it is easier for people
to love, to stand in that relationship to each other…There can never be enough of it." --- Dorothy Day

We were made for something cosmic and will not fit peacefully into anything much smaller. And when we try to build our lives around
anything much smaller than cosmos we become grotesque, and our institutions, be they religious or familial or educational or governmental
are asked to do too much. They become misshapen and malformed and turn into instruments of cosmic and personal destruction.
-- Matthew Fox

"Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means;
they are not absolute truth." --- Thich Nhat Hanh

"To me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing. To me they're all about honoring the circle, and they're just different ways of defining
the same understanding. Our society as a whole, because we have placed our love for money above our love for life, has devalued the
sacred love." --- Julia Butterfly Hill

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth."
---Chief Oren Lyons, Onandaga Nation

"I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The
church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth."
-- Bishop John Shelby Spong

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love
through meditation, prayer, sacrifice, and an intense inner life. ---Mother Teresa

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. --- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
-- Marianne Williamson

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. ---Ralph Blum

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne