- Margaret Drabble
"Whoever enters the way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two day journey."
- Rumi, Mathnavi
"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but the love we are not extending in the present."
- Marianne Williamson
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear, nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings."
- Amelia Earhart
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."
- Anais Nin
"The mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparisons of these with each other, the selection of some and the suppression of the rest by the reinforcing and inhibiting agency of attention...
...our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, while all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
- William James
"Western consciousness is by no means the only kind of consciousness there is; it is historically conditioned and geographically limited, and representative of only one part of mankind. The widening of consciousness ought not to proceed at the expense of the other kinds of consciousness..."
- C.G. Jung
"The universe is a dream woven of dreams: the self alone is awake."
- Frithjof Schon
"All thought begins in wonder."
- Plato
"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
- C.G. Jung
"Consider that you are in God, surrounded and encompassed by God, swimming in God."
- Mother Theresa
"Wouldst thou know my meaning? Lie down in the fire, see and taste the flowing godhead through thy being."
- Mechtild of Magdeburg
"What is to give light must endure burning."
- Victor Frankl
"No one suspects the days to be Gods."
- Emerson
"Beauty is reality seen with the eyes of love."
- Evelyn Underhill
"We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
- Robert Frost
"Prayer is not in time, but time in prayer."
- Martin Buber
"It remained for modern science to despiritualize nature through its so-called objective knowledge of matter. All anthropomorphic projections were withdrawn from the object one after another, with a twofold result: firstly man's mystical identity with nature was curtailed as never before, and secondly the projections falling back into the human soul caused such a terrific activation of the unconscious that in modern times man was compelled to postulate the existence of an unconscious psyche...
...all consciousness seperates; but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, more eternal man dwelling in the darkness of the primordial night. There he is still whole, and the whole is in him, indistinguishable from Nature..."
- C.G. Jung
"In the beauty of the world lies the ultimate redemption of mortality. When we shall become one with Nature in a sense profounder even than the poetic imaginings of most of us, we shall understand what now we fail to discern."
- Fiona MaCleod
"It is not dying that a man should fear, but a man should fear never having lived at all."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"May it be, O Lord, that I seek no so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love; because it is in giving oneself that one receives; it is in forgetting oneself that one is found; it is in pardoning that one obtains pardon; it is in dying that one is raised up to eternal life."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world."
- Wittgenstein
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
- John Muir
"The sickness of human beings is this - they neglect their own fields and go weed the fields of others. What they ask of others is heavy while what they ask of themselves is light."
- Mengzi
"I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long;
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole of the earth."
- Walt Whitman
"To recognize a frontier is to already have gone beyond it."
- Heidegger
"No Journey is too long when you are coming home."
- John O'Donohue
