“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
“In this hustle and bustle world we live in it takes creativity and resourcefulness to give a gift from the heart.”
- Sherry Nicholson, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul
“A room without books is as a body without a soul.”
- Cicero
“Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?”
Lao-Tzu
“It is a powerful event when we reclaim our hopes and dreams. Many of us have lost hope. We need to find it again. We can’t influence others without it.
Cynicism and apathy are simply defenses against hope. People are afraid to hope. It opens us up to disappointment again. Hope demands action. You cannot feel hope and remain idle. Hope demands that you release your comfortable theories about your own limitations and the limitations you perceive in your environment.”
- Annette Simmons, The Story Factor p.217
“There is a difference in being passionate and being pushy. A catalyst doesn’t try to persuade people but rather relies on a much more subtle technique: meeting people where they are.”
- from The Starfish and the Spider, p 124
“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, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s 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
21st century spiritual teacher
from A Return to Love
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”
- James Allen, in As A Man Thinketh
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