Quotes
“Find your passion, something deep in your heart, a thing you love that isn’t love. Pursue it with humour and perseverance and courage – the courage to listen to your deepest instincts and stick with no matter what everyone around you is telling you to do. Don’t give up. Be prepared to risk and fail and risk all over again, because if you keep on trying you might one day succeed.”
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.
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.
Happiness is a journey not a destination, work like you don’t need money, love like you never been hurt, and dance like no ones looking.
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing!
When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people.
One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us, but still one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I do not think so. And then one asks: My God! Is it for long, is it forever, is it for eternity? Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is very deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers [sisters], love, that is what opens the prison by supreme power, by some magic force.
Only when we find the quietness in our own minds can we begin to hear our inner teacher, so that we may receive some in-tuition. Only when we are ready to recognise and value the wisdom that we carry at the core of our being will we turn our attention inwards and ‘listen in’.
