"If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge, or education, or material comfort you have,
only suffering and confusion will ensue."
-The 14th Dalai Lama

"In Zen they say: "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What does that mean?
Let go of identification with your mind.
Who you are behind the mind then emerges by itself. "
-Eckhart Tolle

"We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality.
All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way."
-Aldous Huxley

"I long for a self which is continous and permanent; which, untouched by all we acquire and all we shed, pushes a green spear through the dead leaves and through the mold, thrusts a scaled bud through years of darkness until, one day, the light discovers it and shakes the flower free- and we are alive-we are flowering for our moment upon the Earth. This is the moment which, after all, we live for."
-Katherine Mansfield

"Culture is not about what is absolute, real, or true. It's about what a group of people agrees to believe. Culture can be healthy or toxic, nurturing or murderous.Culture is made of stories, and those stories can be changed for the better. In changing the stories of our culture, we may find a way to help some of the problems that are afflicting the planet."
-Thom Hartman

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
-Noam Chomsky

-The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

-"You don't need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don't even listen, simply wait.
Don't even wait, be quiet and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you.
To be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstacy at your feet."
-Franz Kafka

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams

"Through lack of basic human feeling, religion, politics, economics, and so on can be rendered dirty.
Instead of serving humanity they become agents of its destruction."
-The 14th Dalai Lama

"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."
-Buddha

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

"The spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation."
-Dr. Albert Hoffman

-"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"
-Douglas Coupland

-"Everything observable by the senses is subject to change and therefore in motion... there are interlocking cycles of change... one cannot bid the winds
and waves to cease, but one can learn to navigate treacherous currents by conducting ourselves in harmony with the prevailing processes of transformation -
and thus weather the storms of life."
- John Blofeld

-"This we know- the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like
the blood that unites a family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth Man did not
weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
- Chief Seattle 1854