"It is this complete willingness to take what comes, as it comes, which constitutes *nirvana*, not the dying and utter cessation of desire nor achievement of ideal fulfillment of desire." --Archie. J. Bahm 'Philosophy of the Buddha'

"To the extent that one is attached to karma, he deviates from the middle way." --Archie J. Bahm, 'Philosophy of the Buddha'

"The middle way involves a willingness to accept either rebirth or no rebirth of consciousness in another life."  --Archie J. Bahm, 'Philosophy of the Buddha'

"The great lesson from the true mystics .... that the sacred is IN the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a *flight* from confronting the sacred----this lesson can be easily missed." --Abraham Maslow

"Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort." --Abraham Maslow

"How is it at all possible that this culture-loving era could be so monstrously amoral? More and more I come to value clarity and love of one's fellow being above everything else. ... All our lauded technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." --Albert Einstein 6 December 1917

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." --Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -- Albert Einstein

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." --Albert Einstein

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." -- Albert Einstein

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." --Albert Einstein

"Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time." --Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... " --Albert Einstein

"I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..." --Albert Einstein

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." --Albert Einstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." --Albert Einstein

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." --Anon.

"Old age is sharpening my awareness, and dulling my intellect." --Anon.

"If the grass seems greener on the other side, you should take more care of your lawn." --Anon.

"'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact", said Sherlock Holmes. --Arthur Conan Doyle

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." --Arthur Schopenhauer

"The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be." --Ashley Montagu

"We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." --Benjamin Franklin

"That desire, that lust, that lure, that craving which is concerned with feeling, or with perception, or with the predisposing mental formations, or with discriminative consciousness-ensnared by it, fast ensnared by it, one is called a being.

"Consider boys or girls playing with little sand castles, ... So long as they are not rid of desire, not rid of affection, not rid of feverish longing and craving for those little sand castles, exactly so long do they delight in them, are amused by them, set store by them, are jealous of them.

"But, ... as soon as those boys or girls are rid of desire, rid of affection, rid of feverish longing and craving for those little sand castles, straightway with hand and foot they scatter them, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them.

"In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana."  --Buddha

"A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head." --Buddha

"We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death."  --Buddha

"To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming."  --Buddha

"Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course."  --Buddha

"It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof."  --Buddha

"A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons."  --Buddha

"For the wakeful one whose mind is unimpassioned, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has given up both virtue and sin, there is no fear." --Buddha

"If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors." --Buddha

"By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure."  --Buddha

"The self does not exist."  --Buddha

"To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss." --Buddha

"It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man."  --Buddha

"Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary."  --Buddha

"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine take as your guide."  --Buddha

"Don't believe everything you think." --Bumper sticker

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." --Bumper sticker

"How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?"  --Carl Jung

"Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside wakes."  --Carl Jung

"The shoe that fits one man pinches another."  --Carl Jung

"If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way." --Chuang-tsu

"Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest." --Chuang-tsu

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."  --Charles Dickens, it is n

"A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water."  --Deepak Chopra

"Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows."  --Emmanuel

"Death is like taking off a tight shoe."  --Emmanuel

"Even when you've seen everything, there is still nothing to see. Seeing nothing, you don't notice it at first."  --George Ziniewicz

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." --George Harrison

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.  If you can fake that, you've got it made." --Groucho Marx

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right." --Hannah Whitall Smith

"Men are afraid to forget their own minds, fearing to fall through the void with nothing to which they can cling." --Hsi Yun

"Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right." --Henry Ford

"A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men." --Herman Melville

"Life is either a daring adventure .... or nothing"--Helen Keller

"To open the individual path inward is the most exalted of human endeavors..." --James Perkins

"And ye shall know the Truth, and the truth shall make you free." --Jesus

"Again I admonish you, you who exist: be like those who do not exist, that you may dwell with those who do not exist." --Jesus  Secret Book of James 8.13

"If you can't find the Truth right where you are where else do you think you will find it?" --Jack Kornfield

"Although I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said." --Joan D'Arc

"In order to be All, do not desire to be anything.  In order to know All, do not desire to know anything. In order to find the joy of All, do not desire to enjoy anything." --St. John of the Cross

"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell and a Hell of Heaven." --John Milton

"In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men." --Kahlil Gibran

"When, through the practice of yoga, the mind ceases its restless movements, and becomes still, he realizes the Atman.  Then he knows that infinite happiness which can be realized by the purified heart but is beyond the grasp of the senses." --Krishna, Bhagavad Gita 6

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." --Leonardo da Vinci

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."--Longfellow

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." --Les Brown

"As we cannot breathe in without breathing out we cannot be reborn without dying." --Dr. Mansukh Patel

"And life is eternal.  And love is immortal.  And death is only an horizon.  And an horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." --Dr. Mansukh Patel

"Repetition is the mother of success." --Dr. Mansukh Patel

"Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen." --Margaret Smith

"I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing." --Mae West

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." --Marcus Aurelius

"My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man" --Martin Luther King

"Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes, So when life fades, as the fading sunset, My spirit may come to you without shame." --Native American Prayer

"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations with myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. --Oscar Wilde

"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." --Pablo Picasso

"God is simple, everything else is complex." --Paramahansa Yogananda

"When I look back at all the crap I learned in High School it's a wonder I can think at all". --Paul Simon

"Your mind transcends limitations, your mind expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world."  --Patanjali

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." --Ram Dass

"The universe is represented in every one of it's particles.  Everything is made of one hidden stuff.  The world globes itself in a drop of dew.  The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Why should the mind be before and after every other thing? Because it can never be found in the world. You can open up any body, any element, with the finest of metal points, you can turn everything inside out and expose all that has been hidden, until matter becomes a whirr of dragonflies. To no end: you will never find so much as a trace, not even the tiniest, of the mind. The banner of its sovereignty is this: its not being there. No one can ever claim to have grasped it. It is like a dazzle on water: you can follow it, but however far you go toward it, it will always move the same distance away." --Roberto Calasso in "Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India,"

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." --Shunryu Suzuki

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." --Seneca

"If you did not do what you did today, the entire world would be in some way different." --Seth

"The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear." --Seng Ts'an

"The Buddha-nature is blank and featureless as space." --Seng Ts'an

"Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world." --Sivananda

"The only difference between a poor man and a wealthy man is that the wealthy man suffers comfortably and the poor man suffers uncomfortably." --Swami Brahmananda

"Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground." --Steve Van Zandt

"What's the name of the word for things not being the same always?  You know... the thing that lets you know time is happening". --The Sandman

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." --The Talmud

"When the people fear the government you have tyranny ... when the government fears the people you have liberty." --Thomas Jefferson

"Knowledge can be perverted, but wisdom cannot be perverted." --Dr. Thurman Fleet

"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear.  Half our fears our baseless and the other half discreditable."   --Upanishads

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." --Ursula K. LeGuin

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind." --William Blake

"The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old." --William James

"It's kinda fun to do the impossible." --Walt Disney

"If you dislike something, do it. If you still dislike it, do it some more. Everything done this way ultimately becomes very interesting. --Zen saying