I Will Not Die An Unlived Life
I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear
Of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open wide to me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
A torch, a promise
I choose to risk my significance,
To live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom
goes on to fruit
DAWNA MARKOVA
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Leap and the net will appear." Julia Cameron
"If the mind can get quiet enough, something sacred will be revealed."
Helen Tworkov
"Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are our gardeners."
William Shakespeare
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others." Nathaniel Branden
"You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself. William J. H. Boetchker
"There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live." John F. Kennedy
"It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone." Paul Tillich
"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the sitution you happen to be in the now." Epictetus
"When awareness grows, and you become clearly alert, acceptance is a natural consequence." Osho
"The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness." Warren Farrell Ph.D
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside of a man while he lives." Albert Schweitzer
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vtriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
"All your answers lie inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust."
C. Carter-Scott
"In order to grow you need to be sincere and honest with yourself. You are like anybody else, neither better nor worse, just a human being. Your sincerity and your will to be true are the key elements to your realization." Unknown source
"The spiritual joureny is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble." Sogyal Rinpoche
"You can only lose what you cling to." Buddha
"Most of us have so much of our energy stuck in the past, that we can't heal in the present." Unknown
"Let go! Why? To be free of what's holding you tied to your shit." Unknown
"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
"Create a sacred space within yourself, and let this space be so sacred that no matter what comes, it will be transformed into sacredness"- Swami Muktananda
"Make no effort to work or to renounce; your very effort is bondage" -Maharshi
"Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself; the ultimate
security is found only in self knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will
betray you" - Nisargadatta Marharaj
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"- Marcel Proust
"If you can do it or dream it, you can do it. Do it! Boldness has a genius and power to it" - Goethe
"The beginning is always today"- Mary Wollstonecraft
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts"- Nikki Giovanni
"Obtain this outlook, obtain this understanding and attitude: Whever I look I see only consciousness; when I listen, I hear only consciousness; when I speak, the sounds I make are conscious"- Swami Muktananda
"Life is here, life is now; Are you?" - Lorane Gordon
"To meet everyone and everything through stillness, instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universal"- Ekhart Tolle
"To keep an oil lamp burning, you have to keep applying oil"- Mother Teresa
"Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our power, only beyond our present self knowledge"- Theodore Rozak
"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson. To conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world"- Mahatma Gandhi
"Be the change you want to see in the world"-Mahatma Gandhi
"Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat"- B.K.S Iyengar
"To do nothing is the most difficult thing in the world! To be perfectly happy one must be perfectly stupid"- Murphy
"You have your truth and another theirs. They are equally false. The only real truth belongs to no one"- Tai Tsung second emperor of the Tang dynasty
"A quiet mind cureth all"- Robert Burton
"Nothing is more encouraging than the unquestionable human capacity to consciously refine and elevate life"- Henry David Thoreau
"The only reason we don't open our hearts and mind to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with"-Ane Pema Chodron
"Do not seek any rules or method of worship. Say whatever your pained heart chooses"- Rumi
"Worms will not eat living wood where the vital sap is flowing; rust will not hinder the opening of a gate when the hinges are used each day. Movement gives health and life. Stagnation brings disease and death"- Ancient proverb Chinese Medicine
"There are two tragadies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it"- George Bernard Shaw
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is Optional"- M. Kathleen Casey
"Understanding is now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is for the lazy mind, the sluggish mind, the mind that is not interested. Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow"- J. Krishnamurti
"All nationalism is in some way or other a form of fascism. If you think you are an American or a German or a French, you are a facist- and you are a danger to humanity, to peace, to love, to progress"- Unknown
"Look within. Be still free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way"- Buddha
"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
"Of all the fragrances sandal, tagara, blue lotus and jasmine- the fragrance of virtue is the sweetest"- Dhammapada
"Have no destination and you will not get lost"- Thyoar
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"- Carl Jung
