I searched for God, and found only myself. I searched for myself, and found only God. — Sufi proverb

I know, [there is] no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. — Thomas Jefferson, in an 1820 letter to William C. Jarvis

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain, in Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. — Garrison Keillor, in News from Lake Wobegon

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. — Walt Disney

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. — Albert Einstein, in a response to Alfred Kerr

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei

7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. — Matthew, 7:7 (NKJV)

Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. — Mahatma Gandhi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. — Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud, in an 1897 letter to Wilhelm Fliess

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. — Carl Jung

There is a thing inherent and natural, Which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give it a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme. — Laozi, Ch. 25, Tao Te Ching

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. — Laozi, in Tao Te Ching

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. — Leo Tolstoy

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — Leo Tolstoy, Thoughts of Prince Andrew in War and Peace, Bk XIII, Ch. 16

The truth is more important than the facts." ... "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. — Frank Lloyd Wright

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. — Zhuangzi

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle

The complete is more than the sum of its pieces. — Aristotle

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. — Albert Einstein, in a 1926 letter to Max Born

Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. — Albert Einstein

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him. ... If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter – it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain, in a 1888 letter to George Bainton

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. — Mark Twain, in Following the Equator 1897

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig. — Mark Twain

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. — Mark Twain

13Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.14Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. — Matthew, 7:13-14 (NKJV)

The Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. — Gospel of Thomas, (3)

When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves on your faces and worship him. That one is your father. — Gospel of Thomas, (15)

I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind. — Gospel of Thomas, (17)

His disciples said to him, "When will the repose of the dead come about, and when will the new world come?" He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it." — Gospel of Thomas, (51)

The foxes have their holes and the birds have their nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his head and rest. — Gospel of Thomas, (86)

When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away. — Gospel of Thomas, (106)

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You", that would suffice. — Meister Eckhart

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will finally know peace. — Jimi Hendrix

You are not a human being in search of spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Take giant strides. Leave small footprints. — RichardF

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler. — Albert Einstein

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. [Imam Anwar Al-awlaki] — Islamic proverb

At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want. — Laozi

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Enya A promise lives within you now. — Enya, in May It Be

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. — Confucius

Don't mistake the map for the journey. — RichardF

When you pay it forward to others, the gift you give is to the only one who truly needs it, yourself. — RichardF

Say, I Am You I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun. To the bits of dust I say, Stay. To the sun, Keep moving. I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening. I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff. Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel, I am also the coral reef they founder on. I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches. Silence, thought, and voice. The musical air coming through a flute, a spark of stone, a flickering in metal. Both candle and the moth crazy around it. Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance. I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy, the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away. What is, and what isn't. You who know, Jelaluddin, You the one in all, say who I am. Say I am you. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. — Wayne Dyer

There's always enough time to stop and eat the flowers! — Jackson the Chocolate Lab

Sniffing is its own reward!               — Jackson the Chocolate Lab

Follow Your Bliss.               — Joseph Campbell

The center of the universe is everywhere. — Black Elk

Learning is the constant disruption of an old pattern, a breakthrough that substitutes something new for something old. And then the process starts again. — Cathy Davidson, in Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn 2011

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in. — Will Rogers

There are two keys to success, clarity of purpose and the will to succeed. — Swami Rama

All my talk was madness, filled with dos and don'ts. For ages I knocked on a door. When it opened I found that I was knocking from the inside! — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson, in A Return to Love

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2The same was in the beginning with God.3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. — Gospel of John, 1:1-3

I searched for God, and found only myself. I searched for myself, and found only God. — Sufi proverb

The only step we ever can take is the next one. — RichardF

There exists only the present instant...a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. — Meister Eckhart

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

How can you know which tools you could use if you don’t know which tools you have? — RichardF

What can I offer You, Lord? Everything belongs to You. — Guru Granth Sahib, (887)

The Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam always seems sweet; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I come to taste it. — Guru Granth Sahib

Sometimes, the most effective learning experience is a negative one. — RichardF

Tat Tvam Asi – That Thou Art — Chāndogya Upaniṣad

I Am That I Am     — Exodus, 3:14

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. — Bodhidharma

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. — Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Don't confuse descriptions for judgements. Values give meaning to facts. — RichardF