"How willing are you to dance with change?"- Ram Das
"Listen far beyond hearing and call the unheard." -Lao Tzu
"When the soul is attuned to G-D, every action becomes music." -Hazrat Inyat Kahn
"It is only within the heart that one can see rightly what is invisible to the eye." -Antoine de Sant-Eusepry
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius power and magic in it." -Goethe
"Until we lose ourselves there is no hope finding ourselves." -Henry Miller
"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." -Herman Hesse
"Silence is the mother of sound and sound...the mother of silence." -unknown
"Joy is exactly what is happening right now, minus our opinion of it." -Charolette Joko Beck
"Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together." -Merce Cunningham
"Only indiscriminate love can make us free." -Babatunde Olatunji
"....O listen- listen more carefully to what is inside you right now. In my world all that remains is the wonderous call to dance and prayer. Rising up like a thousand suns out of the mouth of a single bird." -unknown
"Events that happen in our lives are less important than what we become through our experience of them."-Jacqueline Westhead
"Words that come from the heart, enter the heart." -Miles Krassen
"No safety without risk and what you risk reveals what you value." -unknown
"Life happens while we are making other plans." -John Lennon
"Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who is there."-Rumi
"The essence of healing does not lie in the efficiency with which my life can be restored to its strength. It lies in the meaning that is added as I suffer difficulty." -David Wolf-Blank
"Often it is the journey itself,not the destination, that is the real reason of setting forth." -unknown
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." -Leonardo DeVinci
"Wisdom begins in wonder." -Socrates
"Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing." -Layne Redmond
"This sound is the sorce of all manifestation..... the knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe." -Hazrat Inyat Kahn
"Sometimes it is the inquiry itself that offers the answer." -Jacqueline Westhead
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Martin Luther King
"To be present in the here, this now. The place where Divine light is shining, this moment, is where love comes to meet you. Love reflects and supports this light and meets you right where you are." -Jacqueline Westhead
"Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers." -Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Faith is a passionate intuition." -Wordsworth
"Let him who would move the world first move himself." -Socrates
"All life is an expirament." -Emerson
"A person of faith is like a bed of coals. As long as a single spark remains, a great fire can be kindled." -Chassidic teaching
"In our spiritual work we need not create anything new. All we need is to illuminate that which is already hidden within us." -Rebbe of Kotsk
"I love.....and then there I am dissolving my fears.....walking on rocks smooth and round. My blood is pumping, beats and roars, like the ocean.....like the ocean." -Jacqueline Westhead
"The quest is to become all that you already are." -unknown
"We do not sing to create music. We sing in order to release the urge that already exists within us."- Frank Barker
"The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced."- John Blacking
"The cure for the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole."- Plato
"Our only job in every situation is to merely let go of our resistance to love." - Anonymous
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."- Emerson
"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, he who can no longer wonder and stand rapt with awe, is as good as dead."- Albert Einstein
"Every object, thought and feeling has pourousness, fluidity and motion… nothing need define us forever." - Anonymous
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul…"- Herman Hesse
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
"At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. More than 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras told his followers that a stone is frozen music, an intuition fully validated by modern science; we now know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. And the same thing is true of all radiation, all forces great and small, all information. Before we make music, music makes us…the way music works is also the way the world of objects and events works…the deep structure of music is the same as the deep structure of everything else." - George Leonard
"Come, I will show you a new way to the Lord, not with words but with song."- Chassidic masters
"We may listen to our inner self--and still not know which ocean we hear roaring."-Martin Buber
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."-Emily Dickinson
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."- Ursula K LeGuin
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...the artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."-Agnes DeMille
"Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void." - Simone Weil
" In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."-Virginia Woolf
" The body is a sacred garment. It is your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and depart life with and it should be treated with honor "-Martha Graham
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."-George Eliot
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." -Helen Keller
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which really you stop and look fear in the face.....you must do the thing you cannot do. "
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"And the day came when the risk (it took) to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to open."-Anais Nin
""If we could...recognize our common humanity...that our destinies are bound up in one anothers......that we can be free only together....then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived together as members of one family, the human family"" - unknown
""To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field it beholds, every hour, a picture which has never been seen before and which shall never be seen again."" - Emerson
""I profess the religion of love wherever its caravan turns, along the way that is the belief, the faith I keep."" - Ibn Arabi
""We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"" - T.S Elliot
"
""a person is a person through (other) persons" (umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu)
"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."" - UBUNTU: South African philosophy of life
"There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
"Nothing, I just helped him cry.²"
"Excerpt for Herman Hesse's 'Wandering'
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one' suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts. Trees have long thought, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve and incomparable joy. Whoever has leaned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness"
""Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth
"You owe me"
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.."" -Hafiz
""Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."" - Marianne Williamson
""We are all asleep; We are all dreaming. We sleep beneath heavy blankets woven from thick fibres to protect us from the cold that we fear outside. These blankets are woven from the fears of the past, from our hopes for the future, from the traumas and triumphs of families, and from the histories of nations. Yet even as we sleep, we dream. And in those dreams, we know there is a potential greatness and creativity. There's a hidden artist in us, a sage, a saint, and a warrior."" -Yogi Bhajan
"³You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it. That is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems,
and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.²" -Krishnamurti
"
"The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
" -Emily Dickinson
""It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end. "
" -Ursula K LeGuin
" "Living is a form of not being sure,
not knowing what next or how...
the artist never entirely knows.
We guess. We may be wrong,
but we take leap after leap in the dark."
" -Agnes DeMille
"Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter
where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself
which makes this void. "
-Simone Weil
"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives,
to our memories, to the details around us. "
-Virginia Woolf
" The body is a sacred garment. It is your first and last garment;
it is what you enter life in and depart life with
and it should be treated with honor."
-Martha Graham
" It is never too late to be what you might have been "
-George Eliot
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,
or sailed to an unchartered land,
or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
-Helen Keller
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which really you stop and look fear in the face....
.you must do the thing you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"And the day came when the risk (it took) to remain tight in the bud
was more Painful than the risk it took to open."
-Anais Nin
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr
A. POWELL DAVIES:
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years.
ALBERT EINSTEIN:
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
ALICE WALKER:
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
ANAIS NIN:
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states
we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish
to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
ANAIS NIN:
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
ANNIE DILLARD:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
BARRY LOPEZ:
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
BUDDHA:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD:
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.
CARL SANDBURG:
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CORITA KENT:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
E. B. WHITE:
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
ELIE WIESEL:
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference._The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. _The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. _And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. (Oct. 1986)
EMILY DICKINSON:
Loveis anterior to Life_Posteriorto Death_Initial of Creation, and_The Exponent of Earth
EMILY DICKINSON:
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
F. FORRESTER CHURCH:
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
FRANKLIN P. JONES:
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FREDERICK BUECHNER:
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE:
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
HELEN KELLER:
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
HENRI FREDERICK AMIEL:
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
HENRY VAN DYKE:
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
ISADORA DUNCAN:
People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life.
JOAN BAEZ:
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
JOHN LENNON:
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
JONI MITCHELL:
I've looked at life from both sides now_From win and lose and still somehow_It's life's illusions I recall_I really don't know life at all.
MARCUS AURELIUS:
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARK TWAIN:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
MARK TWAIN:
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.:
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
MARY OLIVER:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER:
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Blackwater Woods
MATTHEW ARNOLD:
Is it so small a thing _To have enjoy'd the sun, _To have lived light in the spring, _To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:
Where there is love there is life.
NORMAN MACEWAN:
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
OSCAR WILDE:
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
PAUL BEATTIE:
When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,_I can sense my basic humanity,_And then I know that all men and women are my brothers and sisters._Nothing but my own fear and distrust can separate me from the love of friends._If I can trust others, accept them, enjoy them,_Then my life shall surely be richer and more full._If I can accept others, this will help them to be more truly themselves,_And they will be more able to accept me.Then wells within me the urge to live more abundantly,_With greater trust and joy,_With more profound seriousness and earnest service,_And yet more calmly at the heart of life.
PAUL BOWLES:
... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
PEARL S. BUCK:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE:
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. (from Gitanjali)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH:
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
SEAN O'CASEY:
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've en
joyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. WILLIAM JAMES:
These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
Is Life Worth Living?
WINSTON CHURCHILL:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
ZENO:
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.
-Nicholas Malebranche,
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better; it's about befriending who we are already.
-Pema Chrodon
With our thoughts we create the world.
-Buddha
It may be when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
-Wendell Berry
Some doors open only from the inside.
-Sufi saying
The range of what we think and do
is limited by what we fail to notice.
And because we fail to notice
that we fail to notice
there is nothing we can do
to change until we notice
how failing to notice
shapes our thoughts and deeds.
-R.D. Laing
I never came upon any of my discoveries
through the process of rational thinking.
-Einstein
If not me, then who?
If not now, then when?
-Ancient Jewish Teaching
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move towards,
and then we want to sit in their radius.
When we are listened to, it creates us,
makes us unfold and expand.
-Karl Menninger
The soul should always stand ajar.
-Emily Dickenson
Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
-Ramana Maharshi
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body,
in your feelings, in your mind and in the world.
-Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
-June Jordon, also attributed to a Hopi Elder
Just to be is a blessing.
Just to live is holy.
-Rabbi Abraham Heschel
When the soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away,
it appears symptomatically in obsessions,
addictions, violence and loss of meaning.
-Thomas Moore
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute,
day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways.
-Stephen Vincent Benet
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with Truth.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult task of all
the work for which all other work is but a preparation.
It is a high inducement to the individual to ripen
a great exacting claim upon us, something
that chooses us out and calls us to great things.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Our own evolution as an awakening human is a moral obligation, not a luxury.
-Andrew Cohen
Don't worry about what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-Robert Thurman
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms
or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the
answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be
able to live them.
And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps
then, some day far in the future, you will graduallly, without even
noticing it, live your way into the answer."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Use what talent you posess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best"
-Henry Van Dyke
"Wisdom is the knowledge of things human and Divine and the causes by which these things are controlled"
-Cicero
"Our trials are not meant to punish us. They are meant to awaken us"
"When you want something the whole univers conspires in helping you achieve it"
-excerpt from The Alchemist
"It's better to see God in everything then to try to figure it all out."
-Maharishi Neem Karoli Baba
"Haba na Haba Hujaza Kibaba"
(Little by little fills the measure)
Swahili proverb
"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at most.
During that time we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives.
If you can contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal,
the true meaning of life."
-The 14th Dalai Lama
"The scientist and mystic accept everything cannot be known and yet always seek new wisdom"
"St. Theresa's Prayer:
May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly
where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities
that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and
pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you
are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your
soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and
every one of us."
From the Velveteen rabbit:
³What is real² asked the rabbit one dayıdoes it happen all at once or bit by bit?ı
it doesnıt happen all at onceı said the skin horse. you become. It takes a long time.
Thatıs why it doesnıt often happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges
or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are real,
most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the
joints and very shabby. But these things donıt matter at all, because once you are
REAL you canıt be ugly. Except to people who donıt understand.ı
"Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
When your truth forsakes its shyness
when your fears surrender to your strengths
you will begin to experience
that all existence
is a teeming sea of infinite life
in a handful of ocean water
you could not count all the finely tuned
musicians
who are acting stoned
for very intelligent and sane reasons
and of course are becoming extremely sweet and wild
In a handful of the sky and earth
In a handful of g-d
We cannot count
All the ecstatic lovers who are dancing there
Behind the mysterious veil
True art reveals there is no void
Or darkness.
There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic
In this luminous, brimming, playful world"
-Hafiz
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes
to let it go, to let it go. "
-Mary Oliver
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
-Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
-Mary Oliver
"a crystal willow, a poplar of water,
a tall fountain the wind arches over,
a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still,
a course of a river that turns, moves on,
doubles back, and comes full circle,
forever arriving
Octavio Paz
³The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .²
Yeats
³I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers.
Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or
exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than
we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of
body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead
we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit.
In this state we know great torrents of delight.²
-Jean Houston
"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is
to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. "
-Milan Kundera
