RON HENGGELER

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Albert Camus

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Og Mandino

You are not your body. You are the sum of all your actions, and they live on after your body dies. You may be mortal, but your brand is eternal.

Jarod Kintz

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Euripides

Knock, And He'll open the door

Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun

Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens

Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Rumi

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

When you're in love with a city, you grope for shadows that vanish at first touch.

Herb Caen

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Your life is your spiritual path.

It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.

Sandy Nathan

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Leo Buscaglia

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

Amit Ray

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Green

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldon Emerson

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Alexandra David Neel

My heart is so small

it's almost invisible.

How can You place

such big sorrows in it?

"Look," He answered,

"your eyes are even smaller,

yet they behold the world.

Rumi

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

What has he found who has lost God?

And what has he lost who has found God?

Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Joseph Campbell

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Stephen Richards

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Buddha

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Rene Magritte

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

A quiet conscience makes one strong.

Anne Frank

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

Amit Ray

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.

Og Mandino

If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.

Chad Sugg

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Michelangelo

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Buddha