Quotes

"What if you slept,

and what if in your sleep you dreamed, 

and what if in your dream you went to heaven 

and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, 

and what if when you awoke you had

the flower in your hand?

Oh, what then?"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Free will does not mean

that you establish the curriculum;

only that you can elect what you to to take

at a given time"

A Course in Miracles

"Enlightenment consists

not merely in the seeing of

luminous shapes and visions,

but in making the darkness visible.

The latter procedure is more difficult,

and therefore, unpopular."

Carl Jung

"A ship is safe in harbor-

but that's not what ships are for."

John A. Shedd

"When one

is willing and eager,
the gods join in."

Aeschylus

"What is to give light

must endure burning."

Viktor Frankl

"Healing is a matter of time,

but it is sometimes also 

a matter of opportunity."

Hippocrates, Precepts, Ch. 1

"The clearest way into the Universe

is through

a forest wilderness."

John Muir

"You cannot transcend 

what you do not know.

To go beyond yourself, 

you must know yourself."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"A great teacher

never strives to explain her vision;

she simply invites you

to stand beside her

and see for yourself."

The Rev. R. Inman

"God comforts the disturbed

and disturbs 

the comfortable."

Unknown

"Forget about likes and dislikes.

They are of no consequence.

Just do what must be done.

This may not be happiness,

but it is greatness."

George Bernard Shaw

"Symbolically, then, 

a tower was originally conceived 

as a vehicle for connecting

spirit and matter....

The gods must find a way to enter-

by force, if necessary."

Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot

"Imminent hanging

sharpens a man's wits."

Samuel Johnson

"God gave us memories

so that we might have roses

in December."

James Barrie

"Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Therein lies the peace of God."

A Course in Miracles

"I slept, and I dreamt that life was all joy.

I woke, and saw that life was but service.

I served, and discovered

that service was joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Here are the tears of things;

mortality touches the heart."

Virgil, The Aeneid

"If I am not for myself,

Who will be for me?

And if I am only for myself,

What am I?

And if not now, when?"

Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers

"The seed of God is in us:

Pear seeds grow into pear trees;

Hazel seeds into hazel trees;

and God seeds into God."

Meister Eckehart

"Take time to deliberate;

but when time for action arrives,

stop thinking and go in."

Andrew Jackson

"The secret 

of success in life:

Prepare for opportunity

when it comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"In the sea caves,

there's a thirst, there's a love,

there's an ecstasy, all hard like shells,

you can hold them in your palm."

George Seferis

"True teachers

use themselves as bridges

over which they invite their students to cross;

then, having facilitated their crossing,

joyfully collapse, encouraging them

to create bridges

of their own."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"We must pass

through solitude and

difficulty, isolation and silence

to find that enchanted place where

we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our

sorrowful song. But it that dance, and in

that song, the most ancient rites of our 

conscience fulfill themselves 

in the awareness of 

being human."

Pablo Neruda

"There are no maps;

no more creeds or philosophies.

From here on in, the directions come

straight from the Universe."

Akshara Noor