A selection of Quotations read by Will Senior
Spiritual and Psychotherapy Quotations
I yearn for understanding, and yet I fear, I am further from the answers, than ever before ~ Abigail Baker
Satsang is here to wash off the minds face and to reveal the face of God ~ Mooji
If it is conditional, it is not love ~ Sadhguru
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections ~ Sandra Bierig
If loving you is wrong then lock me up ~ Will Senior
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply ~ Stephen R. Covey
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? ~ Shantideva
What I am trying to find is what I already am ~ Will Senior
Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times ~ Ram Dass
You’ve got to take the ego out of it ~ Will Senior
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpiller is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar ~ Bradley Millar
Do not fight, judge or condemn. Just lay silent and still when the thought and emotion clouds pass your way ~ Will Senior
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day – unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour ~ Zen proverb
We are nature. Lets be around what we are. That is natural ~ Will Senior
If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh
We are so influenced by others spiritual paths. As if they hold the key to the secret of being. Just be quiet and watch yourself ~ Will Senior
What are transferred to the analyst are primarily those urges of the self that have been denied experience ~ Lomas
I know you want the answers but life is a mystery to be lived ~ Will Senior
When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders ~ Osho
To know anything you have to beguin with yourself. Throw away the books and the noise and look inside ~ Will Senior
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain ~ Osho
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday? ~ Ram Dass
Lost in thought, found in silence ~ Will Senior
Allowing opposite sides of our nature, like passion and fear, to coexist makes us more fully present ~ Will Senior
It’s never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, the solution is mindfulness in the present moment ~ Peter Shepherd
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed ~ Buddha
We all hurt and have our issues. Don’t hate people that hurt, otherwise you are hating the hurt in you ~ Will Senior
Positive self affirmations work when you have a solid base and enough of a self to affirm ~ Will Senior
Praying to a god that I don’t believe in ~ The Script
Sometimes the strongest people in the morning are the people that have cried all night ~ Unknown
Thoughts without a thinker ~ Mark Epstein
If you rush into relationships you’re more likely to rush out of them ~ Will Senior
Pull out your weeds and give nourishment to your other plants ~ Will Senior
Who tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does ~ Isak Dinesen
It may take a long time to decide to change, but change happens in a heartbeat ~ Andy Andrews
Reaction doesn’t have much space in it ~ Lavinia
Un-met needs for love and safety leave us feeling vulnerable and shape our lives ~ Will Senior
You can’t think yourself out of suffering. Thinking creates a circle of stickiness where we dwell on whats troubling us ~ Will Senior
There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them ~ Tara Brach
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways ~ Stephen Vincent Benet
We must sail, and not drift into a deep abyss of self loathing ~ Will Senior
There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself ~ John MacEnulty
The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand ~ Irene C. Kassorla
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity ~ Einstein
The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect ~ James W. Jones
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds ~ Patanjali
When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way ~ Betty Sue Flowers
It matters not whether your ship sails East or sails West, what matters is that you captain it ~ Will Senior
To ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation ~ Dan Millman
When we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey ~ Wendell Berry
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them ~ B Sills
It’s never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, the solution is mindfulness in the present moment ~ Peter Shepherd
The most common form of despair is not being who you are ~ Søren Kierkegaard
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you ~ Lewis B. Smedes
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life ~ Dalai Lama
You never learn the answer; you can only become the answer ~ Richard Rose
Many people say the world is screwed up, but the world is fine. Our interpretation of each other is screwed up. The world is the world ~ Will Senior
Faith is like a toothbrush. Every person should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn’t try to use someone else’s ~ J. G. Stipe
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate ~ C. G. Jung
You are as old as God and as young as the morning ~ Hilda Charlton
When we feel stuck, going nowhere – even starting to slip backward – we may actually be backing up to get a running start ~ Dan Millman
Tonight the moon is shining out from me up into the sky, and being reflected back into my soul ~ Will Senior
It’s easy to be brave from a safe distance ~ Aesop
Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice ~ Stanley Horowitz
Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality ~ Les Brown
People change and forget to tell each other ~ Lillian Hellman
There is harmony in the tension of opposite ~ Heraclitus
The sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains ~ Jim Morrison
Don’t be so humble; you’re not that great ~ Golda Meir
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been ~ Wayne Gretzky
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
Inside each of us are places where we have never gone ~ Will Senior
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change ~ Darwin
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely ~ Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness ~ Jung
If patients could see what I think about them. If they could really see inside my head, they’d head for the hills, believe me ~ In Treatment
In the end I left everything and everyone, but no-one has ever left me ~ A guide to recognising your saints
As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly ~ St. Maximos the Confessor
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed ~ Buddhist quote
Faith is nourishment, Virtuous deeds are a shelter, Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night ~ The way
You do it to yourself, you do ~ Radiohead
Some people like my advice so much, they frame it upon the wall instead of using it ~ Gordon R. Dickson
It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like ~ Jackie Mason
Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth ~ Spock
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help ~ Miss Manners
Mind matters to the mind as it’s job is to think. Love matters to love as it’s job is to love ~ Will Senior
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth ~ Thoreau
Fear is only excitement without the breath ~ Fritz Perls
If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing this moment ~ Tibetan saying
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor ~ Oliver Holmes, Jr.
Learning to let go begins with understanding why you’ve been hanging on ~ Terri Trespicio
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten ~ G Chesterton
Few is the number of those who think with their own mind and feel with their own heart ~ Albert Einstein
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man ~ Louis Nizer
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is ~ Erich Fromm
The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world ~ William Ross Wallace
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you ~ Robert Braul
When you were small I covered you with blankets against the cold but now that you are tall, I fold my hands & cover you with prayer ~ Cooper
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness ~ Honore de Balzac
learn to surf the wave’s of life and be confident in your own ability to adapt. When one door closes, another opens ~ Will Senior
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to them their own ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Life ain’t easy when you’re a ghetto child ~ Spinners
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies ~ Frank Burgess
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain ~ Llewelyn Powers
Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners ~ Shakespeare
Pain in the body may call attention to an unhealthy state of things inside ~ Will Senior
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man ~ Novalis
The only sin is to be unaware, as if you are aware you will not do wrong ~ Will Senior
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too ~ Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ~ Aristotle
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you ~ R. Kiyosaki
Although your destination may be unclear, this moment is all you have, so be conscious now, and the destination will appear ~ Will Senior
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still ~ Chinese Proverb
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself ~ Hecato
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day ~ A. A. Milne
Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly ~ Padre Pio
To seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will ~ Nassau William Senior
The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often ~ Publius Ovidius Naso
Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you ~ N Hawthorne
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly ~ Marquise du Deffand
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
We shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it ~ Seneca
Don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire ~ Samuel Johnson
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box ~ Italian Proverb
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight ~ Benjamin Franklin
A small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought ~ Sir Aubrey De Vere
Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers ~ Mme. du Deffand
Fractures well cured make us more strong ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm ~ Charles Colton
Exercise assists digestion in the body and the opposite can be said of the mind ~ Will Senior
Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy — you need not make them your problems ~ Osho
Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains ~ Osho
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand break on ~ Maxwell Maltz
If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path ~ Buddha
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes ~ Mary Martin
Oh my god, my fellow man, watch how joy becomes sadness, how sadness becomes joy. Just watch ~ Will Senior
Don’t nourish grievances and they will die of starvation, just watch them pass without judging ~ Will Senior
The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun — the sun gets lost ~ Osho
Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW ~ Osho
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more ~ Mother Teresa
Flowers dancing in the wind and trees enjoying the wind and the stars, always in a state of bliss ~ Osho
The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness ~ Osho
Realise the father and mother in yourself, they are always there for you ~ Will Senior
Keep the innocence…the nobodiness… the vulnerability…the sensitivity… let these be the taste and the flavour of your inner sky ~ S Rajneesh
Art for art’s sake, and creation for creation’s sake, and love for love’s sake ~ Osho
Only a warrior…a being of light… knows how to surrender ~ Swami Rajneesh
Be in love but retain your freedom ~ Will Senior
In love the other is important; in lust you are important ~ Osho
Desires are many, needs are few. Needs can be fulfilled; desires, never. A desire is a need gone crazy. It is impossible to fulfill it ~Osho
Go everywhere, walk everywhere, seek and seek, but your home is inside.. look there ~ Will Senior
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar ~ Adi Shankaracharya
As a little girl ‘I was the same’. …… in the hall of eternity ‘I shall be the same’ ~ Sri Ananandamayi Ma
You don’t throw off your burdens even when you go to bed; you are busy with illusions ~ Yakusan
A therapist’s job is not to make you “better”. A therapist’s job is to help you realise you always were OK ~ Dapper Dan
learn to listen and trust your inner voice ~ Swami Rajneesh
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love ~ Rumi
Be very cautious about your object of love because that is going to decide your destiny ~ Osho
The ego translates what we hear and gives it back to us in a new way ~ Will Senior
The egos lullaby is not a sweet harmony ~ Will Senior
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man ~ Osho
Stop talking and thinking, And there is nothing You will not be able to know ~ Sosan
A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher’s words, but uses his own experience to find the truth ~ Zen
The True Person is detached and humble and to the world appears confusing ~ Lao Tzu
Every child is born with tremendous love for himself which slowly erodes like a rock by the shore ~ Will Senior
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity ~ Osho
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman ~ Lao Tzu
Obsession can reduce you into a slave, don’t judge it, just watch it with love and care, until you understand it ~ Will Senior
Why don’t we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being? ~ Chogyam Trungpa
Bushes, briars, little wild flowers dotting a hillside, sparing my eyes from long strips of grey flat roadway ~ August Sun
Seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone ~ Dr. Seuss
Worry pretends to be necessary ~ Eckhart Tolle
Have compassion for the ego, it is part of you, don’t try to kill it, just be aware of its voice ~ Will Senior
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it ~ Eckhart Tolle
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative ~ James Redfield
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Keep your eyes on life’s wings and watch the joy that brings ~ Will Senior
The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released ~ Osho
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The philosophy that I’ve embraced isn’t about sitting under a tree and studying my navel ~ Orlando Bloom
Things are gonna be just fine, breathe in this moment and stay with it, breathe out emotional toxins ~ Will Senior
They know not what they do ~ Jesus
As you cease grasping, so you will be freed ~ Digha Nikaya
Deep down in the human spirit there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered ~ Pema Chodron
If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too ~ Dr. Seuss
When the fire of hatred blazes within our mind, it is the cool waters of patience that can put it out ~ Geshe Rabten
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present ~ Terry Brooks
There is no one alive who is Youer than You ~ Dr. Seuss
There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life’s events ~ Ram Dass
You are the student, you are the real teacher and it is you, finally, who is revealed ~ Will Senior
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life ~ James A. Michener
All slaves of the self, be set free ~ Will Senior
To love would be an awfully big adventure ~ J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
When theres a shadow on the things that you know, you have another chance to discover ~ Will Senior
We demand from others only what we fail to give ourselves ~ Edward Edinger
You cannot find peace by avoiding life ~ Virginia Woolf
All things will change, don’t get drenched in pity ~ Will Senior
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace ~ Albert Schweitzer
Every-time I fall, I get up and walk more carefully ~ Will Senior
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop ~ Usman B. Asif
God is the collective ego of the world ~ Osho
Be a rebel and let things be as they are ~ Will Senior
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death ~ Author Unknown
Every answer will make more questions ~ Osho
Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived ~ Osho
Fear is faith that it won’t work out ~ Sister Mary Tricky
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle ~ Dodinsky
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it ~ Eckhart Tolle
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth ~ Thoreau
I am a traveler, You are my road. I go from You to You ~ Rumi
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them ~ Bertrand Russell
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help ~ Bodhidharma
You have learnt so much And read a thousand books. Have you ever read your Self? ~ Baba Bulleh Shah
Before you undertake any work, you should weigh it in terms of karma – good or bad ~ Prahlad Baba
Make yourself your main devotee ~ Will Senior
Your fellow is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless ~ Baal Shem Tov
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ~Buddha
Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
What I am trying to find is what I already am ~ Will Senior
Having money is a way of being free of money ~ Albert Camus
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage ~ Albert Camus
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature ~ Socrates
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel ~ Socrates
Man is the controller of the world, but only his world ~ Will Senior
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light ~ Annie Besant
True service is not paid with wages ~ Will Senior
Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, “What have I to forgive and whom?” ~ Sri Aurobindo
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine ~ Sri Aurobindo
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains ~ Sri Aurobindo
Neurosis the suffering of the soul which has not discovered its meaning ~ Jung
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from ~ Werner Erhard
The art of love… is largely the art of persistence ~ Albert Ellis
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart ~ Kahlil Gibran
Family is forever and we are all related ~ Will Senior
The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence ~ Edward Thomas
To conquer the unknown you must trust ~ Yogi Bhajan
Meditation is nothing but taking a mental shower ~ Yogi Bhajan
Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset ~ Yogi Bhajan
Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way ~ Yogi Bhajan
Self-inquiry must be done continuously. It doesn’t work if you regard it as a part-time activity ~ Annamalai Swami
Open the love window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window ~ Rumi
Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade ~ Rumi
God cannot be explained… God can only be lived ~ Meher Baba
This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached ~ Neem Karoli Baba
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? ~ Rumi
No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing ~ Nisargadatta
My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following ~ Osho
Only those who believe there is a path will ever find one ~ Richard Rose
Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view ~ Swami Rajneesh
People continue to build shrines, chapels, churches, and temples. You don’t have to do this just realize that you are a living shrine ~ S Rama
Do not condemn yourself. You have no right to do that. You are created by Providence and you should learn to respect its creation ~ S Rama
By your nature you are free; you have forgotten yourself in your state of slavery ~ Swami Ramtirth
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself ~ Swami Vivekananda
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself ~ Swami Vivekananda
The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions ~ Swami Vivekananda
You wouldn’t stomp on a tender young plant, so be gentle on yourself when healing ~ Will Senior
The deeper I know about myself, the clearer I understand others ~ Sambo
If you want something in your life you’ve never had, you’ll have to do something, you’ve never done ~ JD Houston
Don’t let trouble, trouble you, until trouble troubles you ~ Joe A
You’re beautiful. Society is the ugly one ~ Mary
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must include the happiness of others ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be ~ Lao Tzu
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve ~ Napoleon Hill
Till the false is seen as false, truth is not ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Realisation is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell ~ Thomas Merton
It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire’s tremendous energy ~ L Yeshe
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth ~ Pema Chodron
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music ~ Aldous Huxley
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good ~ Achaan Chah
Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing ~ Tilopa
The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars ~ Reggie Ray
I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body ~Saraha
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it ~ Alan Watts
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment ~ A Huxley
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace ~ Dalai Lama
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master ~ Khalil Gibran
The ego is not master in its own house ~ Sigmund Freud
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful ~ Albert Camus
Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer ~ Osho
I used to be into ‘self-help,’ until it became clear that the self I thought needed help doesn’t even exist! ~ Michael Jeffreys
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight ~ Ram Dass
When a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else ~ Meister Eckhart
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back ~ Ram Dass
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for ~ Mother Teresa
What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God? ~ Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah Al-Iskandari
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice ~ Kripalvanandji
Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path ~ Osho
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything ~ Rumi
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
illusions are bound to be shattered ~ Osho
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends ~ Aberjhani
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness ~ Alexandre Dumas
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday ~ Stephen R. Covey
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul ~ Walt Whitman
I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life ~ Maya Angelou
The Holy Land is everywhere ~ Black Elk
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident ~ Louis de Bernières
Head for the Dark! ~ Rev. Sensei Kuzan Genki
Sensation tells us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us ~ Carl Jung
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” ~ Shirley Chisholm
To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is doubtless true that religion has been the world’s psychiatrist throughout the centuries ~ Karl Menninger
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby’s mind the conflicts between love and hate arise ~ Melanie Klein
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free ~ Jack Henry Abbott
The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all ~ Dr Joyce Brothers
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you’ll start feeling like part of the solution ~ Ted Danson
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard ~ Anais Nin
Fascination with the psychic – or the psychological – can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path ~ Starhawk
One does not become fully human painlessly ~ Rollo May
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way ~ Rollo May
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is here in my heart ~ Depeche Mode
Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them ~ Will Senior
That’s one of the best indoor sports, feelin’ sorry for yourself ~ The Hustler
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats ~ A Kinsey
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence ~ Anthony Daniels
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude ~ Anthony Daniels
Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover ~ Edmund Burke
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace ~ Gaston Bachelard
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream ~ Gaston Bachelard
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth ~ Gaston Bachelard
Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest ~ Gaston Bachelard
Often your face is your autobiography ~ Will Durant
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying ~ Ram Dass
There is a wolf and an angel in all of us, let them live in divided harmony ~ Will Senior
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness ~ Ram Dass
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure ~ Jeremy Bentham
Differences of race, color, and creed are natural, when you feel that with your heart racism ceases to exist ~ Will Senior
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner ~ Joyce Meyer
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character ~ Will Durant
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself ~ Chinese Proverb
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Repression of the life force is a diagnosis that would describe most of the emotional problems that clients present in therapy ~ Thomas Moore
The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first ~ Marion Woodman
Invite awkward emotions in and give them an appropriate place to stay ~ Will Senior
O, Ferryman of souls across the river of illusion, beware, lest thou thyself be stranded upon the wrong shore ~ Katho Upanishad
Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don’t say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference! ~ Rajneesh
It’s not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter ~ Robert Johnson
Never put anyone out of your heart ~ Neem Karoli Baba
Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual ~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering ~ Helen Luke
Nothing is terrible except fear itself ~ Francis Bacon
If you are going to believe in something, believe in your heart and mind ~ Will Senior
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won ~ Mahatma Gandhi
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also ~ Jesus
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness ~ Kahlil Gibran
Love thinks no evil ~ Sivananda
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering ~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief ~ Rajneesh
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper ~ Francis Bacon
My sun sets to rise again ~ Robert Browning
When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth ~ Ram Dass
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying ~ Rumi
Be yourself before you go ~ Will Senior
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning ~ Louis L’Amour
Come, fill the Cup ~ Omar Khayy
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself ~ Chinese Proverb
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him ~ Diogenes Laërtius
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process ~ Will Durant
I AM WHO I AM ~ Exodus
After every storm, there comes clear, open skies ~ Samuel Rutherford
We can all be qualified therapists if we just learn how to say -with absolute sincereity, I-Love-You ~ David Braun
What are transferred to the analyst are primarily those urges of the self that have been denied experience ~ Lomas
It can be easier to transplant oneself across whole worlds than to find the courage it requires to terminate therapy ~ Herman
All God’s angels come to us disguised ~ James Russell Lowell
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him you friend ~ Abraham Lincoln
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two ~ Edwin Markham
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself ~ Robert Ingersoll
Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~ Hugh Kieffer
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed ~ Gandhi
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks ~ John Muir
Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough ~ Arthur Freed
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him ~ James D. Miles
Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right ~ Mario Cuomo
Often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key ~ The Eagles
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better ~ Abraham Lincoln
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads ~ Henry David Thoreau
Let’s fill our minds with thoughts of peace, light and love. These daily thoughts will create our future ~ Will Senior
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~ George Elliston
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you ~ John E. Southard
Yes see through each other, but see each other through ~ Will Senior
Beware the barrenness of a busy life ~ Socrates
I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time ~ Emily Dickinson
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees ~ Kahlil Gibran
Grow your own inner garden and then eat it ~ Will Senior
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet ~ Hedy Lamarr
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist ~ Karen Horney
Yes you can make yourself feel better with positive affirmations, but for true healing, we need to dance with the shadows ~ Will Senior
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself ~ Swami Sivananda
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you ~ Thomas Jefferson
Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? ~ Unknown
I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it ~ Rumi
The trick is you gotta find your swing ~ Will Senior
You can’t make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances ~ Sheldon B. Kopp
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown ~ Rumi
Lose your mind and come to your senses ~ Fritz Perls
Psychotherapy is the Western world’s gift to spirituality ~ Lisbeth Marcher
To affect the quality of the day that is the highest of arts ~ Thoreau
I’m right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed ~ Robert Brault
If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he’s probably willing to give yours as well
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received ~ Antonio Porchia
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves ~ Carl Jung
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in ~ Bill Copeland
The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy ~ D.H. Lawrence
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him ~ Henry David Thoreau
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be ~ Pema Chodron
Often we can’t answer the question; “Is it right?”. We can however ask ;”Is it fruitful? ~ Christopher Clouder and Martin Rawson
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else ~ Tom Stoppard
Make certain, then, that the light in you is not darkness ~ Luke
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water ~ Sigmund Freud
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools ~ William Shakespeare
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning ~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never ~ Rajneesh
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent ~ Bette Davis
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people ~ Carl Jung
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful ~ Sigmund Freud
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings ~ Hodding Carter, Jr.
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway ~ Mary C. Crowley
Lost in thought, found in silence
Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff ~ Robert Eliot
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable ~ Theodore N. Vail
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see ~ Churchill
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none ~ Pliny the Younger
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head ~ Mignon McLaughlin
When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~ Russell Hoban
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic ~ Cullen Hightower
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe ~ Unknown
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one ~ Elbert Hubbard
If things go wrong, don’t go with them ~ Roger Babson
Action is the antidote to despair ~ Joan Baez
We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden ~ Pema Chodron
Let your thoughts be homeless ~ Will Senior
Invite in what you usually avoid ~ Will Senior
You can be right or you can be happy ~ Gerald Jampolsky
Don’t corrupt the will of the young by underrating them ~ Will Senior
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued ~ V Frankl
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel ~ Jean Cocteau
The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes ~ Marcel Proust
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy ~ W Anderson
Insist on yourself; never imitate ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace ~ Will Senior
Power rests in tranquillity ~ Cecil
Education is the vaccine for violence ~ Edward James Olmos
A riot is the language of the unheard ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves ~ Buddha
How other’s treat you is their path, how you respond is yours ~ Will Senior
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men ~ Roald Dahl
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth ~ Peter Abelard
A selection of Quotations by Rumi read by Will Senior
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion ~ Antisthenes
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs ~ Sri Aurobindo
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event ~ Gaston Bachelard
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness ~ Ram Dass
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note ~ Doug Floyd
When a moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart ~ Boris Pasternak
There is a greater nature pressing to be born in us ~ James Redfield | M Murphy
You may spend years in analysis only to find that love is everything ~ Will Senior
Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else ~ Unknown
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read ~ Francis Bacon
You are educated. Your certification are your scars ~ Will Senior
Wherever you go, go with all your heart ~ Confucius
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person ~ Norman Vincent Peale
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself ~ Pietro Aretino
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins ~ Benjamin Franklin
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness ~ Kahlil Gibran
If you loose touch with nature, you loose touch with you ~ Will Senior
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it ~ Frank A. Clark
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody ~ Ram Dass
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me ~ George Bernard Shaw
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared ~ Alan Watts
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us ~ Joseph Campbell
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note ~ Doug Floyd
You should realise you are right where you are supposed to be ~ Will Senior
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed ~ Seneca
Do not worry about your faults, for they will vanish and you will acquire new ones ~ Unknown
How other’s treat you is their path, how you respond is yours ~ Will Senior
When things are not as they seem, life is real ~ Unknown
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be ~ Alan Watts
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality ~ Chogyam Trungpa
The devils greatest weapon is convincing people he doesn’t exist ~ Unknown
Observe the space between your thoughts, then observe the observer ~ Hamilton Boudreaux
Believe in the unseen and observe the seen ~ Rinon Hoxha
Knowledge that goes unchallenged becomes hypnosis ~ Rinon Hoxha
Do you feel so deep you are moved to tears by simple grandeur of the ordinary things? ~ Karin L Burke
Touch is sacred, & the more sacred something is; the less you do it ~ Mathew Paul Miller
When we are in the midst of chaos, let go of the need to control it. Be awash in it, experience it in that moment ~ Leo Babauta
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking ~ Robert H. Schulle
We see things not as they are, but as we are ~ H. M. Tomlinson
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts ~ Chogyal Namkai Norbu
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air ~ Natalie Goldberg
There are lots of homeless people that do not live on the street ~ Will Senior
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip ~ Will Rogers
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points ~ Taisen Deshimaru
When you throw dirt, you lose ground ~ Texas Proverb
Fragments of shrapnel from a deep early wound, working their way to the surface ~ ValerieT
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars ~ Max Ehrmann
Holding on to resentment is like letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head ~ Ann Landers
Mistakes are the portals of discovery ~ James Joyce
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth ~ Albert Camus
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture ~ Nietzsche
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying ~ Albert Camus
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option ~ Unknown
Tears are the silent language of grief ~ Voltaire
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so ~ Boethius
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are ~ Confucius
Every man is his own chief enemy ~ Anacharsis
Its important to remember the more you become involved with something the more it distorts your reality ~ Organicskip
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people ~ André Dubus
The purpose of life is a life of purpose ~ Robert Byrne
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? ~ Pablo Picasso
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him? ~ Calvin and Hobbes
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person ~ Alec Waugh
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there ~ Henry Miller
I can honestly say I love everybody apart from one, and I am trying to forgive them daily ~ Will Senior
No one’s head aches when he is comforting another ~ India
None will improve your lot if you yourself do not ~ Bertolt Brecht
Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise ~ Surangama Sutra
If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate ~ Ajhan Chah
Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little ~ Venerable Cheng Yen
War is out of date ~ Dalai Lama
Know emptiness, Be compassionate ~ Milarepa
At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire for oneself to be happy ~ Shantideva
Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today ~ Lama Yeshe
To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself ~ Master ChengYen
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace ~ M Kundera
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves ~ Proverb
Only when the clock stops does time come to life ~ William Faulkner
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without ~ James C Dobson
There seemed to be endless obstacles… it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear ~ Joanna Field
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you’ ~ Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence ~ Erich Fromm
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way ~ Rollo May
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe ~ Carl Sagan
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones ~ Francoise Sagan
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all ~ Alice Miller
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you ~ Roger Ebert
I cry every chance I get ~ Richard Gere
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living ~ Nicholas Negroponte
Do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ~ Mason Cooley
Service the community, it will serve you well ~ Will Senior
It is possible to live in peace ☮ ~ Mahatma Gandhi
There are joys which long to be ours ~ Henry Ward Beecher
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you ~ Robert Braul
Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Camouflage is a game we all like to play ~ Russell Lynes
Why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? ~Macrina Wieherkehr
Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds ~ Henry Van Dyke
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition ~ Alan Alda
In a dream you are never eighty ~ Anne Sexton
A lonely me, a lonely you ~ Richard Wilbur
The years go by in single file ~ Elinor Wyli
Even paranoids have real enemies ~ Delmore Schwartz
Now all my teachers are dead except silence ~ W. S. Merwin
Often times we call a man cold when he is only sad ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let our scars fall in love ~ Galway Kinnell
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them ~ Anthony Hecht
I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that’s only the first step ~ Rita Dove
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell ~ Louise Bogan
The virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill ~ Marcel Proust
The ocean moans over dead men’s bones ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
How shall I speak of Doom ~ Donald Justice
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are ~ Wendell Berry
Direct experiences quieten the melodic mind ~ Will Senior
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful ~ A. R. Ammons
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up ~ Robert Frost
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense ~ Buddha
A wounded deer leaps the highest ~ Emily Dickinson
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity ~ Edgar Allan Poe
You never take notes in a love affair ~ Robert Frost
We are made of water and there is a beautiful river running through ~ Will Senior
I love all religions, but I am in love with my own ~ Mother Teresa
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give ~ Mother Teresa
There is more psychotherapy in art ~ Will Senior
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe ~ Voltaire
That you resist stays ~ David R. Hawkins
Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity ~ Lester Levenson
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books ~ Walt Whitman
Don’t learn to be yourself, be yourself ~ Will Senior
Would you rather be right or free? ~ Byron Katie
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there ~ Bonnie Raitt
Let the children boogie ~ Bowie
If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear ~ Confucius
Old age spiritualizes people naturally ~ Ram Dass
Evil enters like a splinter and spreads like an oak tree ~ Proverb
When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick ~ Bill Lemley
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem ~ David Carradine
Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends ~ Chinese Proverb
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin ~ André Berthiaume
The wound is the place where the Light enters you ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Boredom is the fear of self ~ Marie Joséphine de Suin
Where there’s drama, there’s crap ~ Jincy Willett
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground ~ Rumi
Forever is composed of nows ~ Emily Dickinson
Call on God, but row away from the rocks ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment ~ Rumi
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending ~ Maria Robinson
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever ~ Keri Russell
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference ~ AA
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts ~ Arnold Bennett
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished ~ Benjamin Franklin
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain ~ Mark Twain
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The tragedy is when you’ve got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs ~ D.H. Lawrence
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another ~ Katherine Paterson
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain ~ Carl G. Jung
There would be no will if there were no resistance ~ N. Sri Ram
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires ~ Seneca
You’re as sick as your secrets ~ AA
The true self is not the voice of fear and shame ~ Kenneth Ruge
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions ~ James Redfield
Stop learning. Start knowing ~ Rumi
I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace ~ Eckhart Tolle
The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty ~ James Redfield
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for ~ Barack Obama
Never seek love, it will find you ~ Will Senior
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance ~ George Bernard Shaw
If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing ~ Socrates
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words ~ Eckhart Tolle
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself ~ Maya Angelou
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them ~ George Bernard Shaw
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal ~ Arthur Dobrin
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain is our only teacher and love is our only healer ~ Will Senior
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage ~ Ambrose Bierce
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion ~ Washington Irving
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous ~ Alfred Adler
You can stand tall without standing on someone ~ Harriet Woods
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness ~ George Santayana
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams ~ Jonas Salk
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea ~ E. Nightingale
You always pass failure on the way to success ~ Mickey Rooney
Common sense is not so common ~ Voltaire
Know yourself and you will win all battles ~ Sun Tzu
Every little thing counts in a crisis ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
There are always two forces warring against each other within us ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I have found that there is nothing to find ~ Will Senior
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Choose a job you love, & you will never have to work a day in your life ~ Confucius
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert H. Schuller
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none ~ Tecumseh
Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative ~ T. S. Eliot
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar ~ Mark Twain
Live to the point of tears ~ Albert Camus
Quieten down, look inside and listen ~ Will Senior
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever ~ Albert Einstein
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity ~ Thomas Moore
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal ~ T. S. Eliot
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was ~ Anne Sexton
Very few people really see things unless they’ve had someone in early life who made them look ~ Denise Levertov
We can only learn to love by loving ~ Iris Murdoch
People living deeply have no fear of death ~ Anais Nin
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there ~ Jacques Lacan
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment ~ Rita Mae Brown
The best way out is always through ~ Robert Frost
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven ~ Henry Ward Beecher
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ~ Andy Warhol
What’s comin’ will come and we’ll meet it when it does ~ J. K. Rowling
Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke ~ Will Rogers
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly ~ G. K. Chesterton
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light ~ Plato
I don’t believe in angels flying around above, but I believe in angels ~ Will Senior
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived ~ Oscar Wilde
It is never too late to have a happy childhood ~Tom Robbins
When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice ~ Charles Varlet de La Grange
Listen to what your body is telling you, it needs love too ~ Will Senior
Childhood is a promise that is never kept ~ Ken Hill
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends ~ Richard Bach
Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE ~ Richard Bach
Children need a good listening to ~ Jacqueline
We are actually more afraid of change than we are of death ~ Caroline Myss
If children were mean’t to hold a marriage together they would have been born as Psychotherapists ~ Will Senior
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger ~ Epictetus
Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement ~ Jack Kornfield
Unless you start doing something different, you are in for more of the same ~ Unknown
The way to ‘get there’ is to ‘be there’ ~ Neale Donald Walsch
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame ~ Erica Jong
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ~ Marianne Williamson
Don’t learn ~ to love ~ yourself ~ Just love ~ yourself ~ Will Senior
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice ~ White Elk
God, grant me Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference ~ R Neibuhr
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me ~ Erica Jong
Fear is an acronym for: False Evidence Appearing Real ~ Unknown
If you are thinking about being with your loved one, you already are ~ Will Senior
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ~ Buddha
You cannot be frightened of the unknown because you do not know what the unknown is and so there is nothing to be afraid of ~ Krishnamurti
Friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, mountains, rivers, oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows ~ Osho
Wise men don’t need to prove their point. Men who need to prove their point aren’t wise ~ Lao Tzu Quote
Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first ~ Muhammad
Art is only a way of expressing pain ~ John Lennon
Learning is agony, unlearning is torture ~ Will Senior
Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark ~ Dan Millman
I am going through changes ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly
What is spiritual is to see the fact as it is and change it ~ Krishnamurti
When one becomes truly sick of a pattern, change happens, its the last piece of the puzzle ~ Will Senior
All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark ~ Richard Rorty
You believe in God, and another does not believe in God, so your beliefs separate you from each other ~ Krishnamurti
Our life is made by the death of others ~ Da Vinci
We spend the first 35 years deciding what to push down into shadow–and the next 35 trying to get back in touch with it ~ Robert Johnson
Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one ~ Rumi
Development of the personality is irretractable. Once begun, it will cost your illusions, your certainty, your innocence ~ Sheldon Kopf
What appears to be the end of the road is often just a bend in the road leading through a narrow pass ~ Robert Schuller
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there ~ Rumi
All disorders serve as messengers for us to learn from ~ Australian Aboriginal Teaching
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t! ~ Joseph Campbell
Repression of the life force is a diagnosis that would describe most of the emotional problems that clients present in therapy ~ Thomas Moore
If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients ~ Ram Dass
If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch ~ Marlo Morgan
While non-reactivity is a principle asset of a therapist, such a trait is useless if it does not coincide with the ability to feel ~ David Schnarch
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance ~ Helen Luke
The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul ~ Robert A. Johnson
Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over ~ C.G. Jung
Peace is the only battle worth waging ~ Albert Camus
For some the road is hard, for others its just a road ~ Will Senior
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it ~ Schopenhauer
There is no favorable wind for those who do not know where to go ~ Unknown
Some people care too much, I think it’s called love ~ Winnie the Pooh
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito ~ Anita Roddick
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself ~ George Bernard Shaw
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it ~ Jonathan Winters
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer ~ Albert Camus
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey ~ Kenji Miyazawa
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence ~ Unknown
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance ~ Gian Carlo Menotti
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone ~ John Maxwell
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life ~ Sandra Carey
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens ~ Carl Jung
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is ~ German proverb
Outside noisy, Inside empty ~ Proverb
A lonely candle, lights the cave ~ Will Senior
Let the winds of love blow between you ~ Khalil Gibran
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rock bottom is a solid place to begin ~ Will Senior
The stronger the breeze, the stronger the trees ~ Proverb
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off ~ Gloria Steinem
Only the wounded healer can truly heal ~ Irvin D. Yalom
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love ~ Gandhi
Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony ~ Leonardo DaVinci
Don’t go through life, grow through life ~ Eric Butterworth
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed – Jane Fonda
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious ~ Carl Jung
We have met the enemy and he is us ~ Carl Jung
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