Search will not produce the immeasurable.

The thoughts that come often unsought,

and, as it were, drop into the mind,

are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

~ John Locke (1600's)

If you know nothing,

be pleased to know nothing.

~ John Newlove

Where there is peace and meditation,

there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

~ St. Francis of Assissi

It takes a lot of time to be genius,

you have to sit around so much doing nothing,

really doing nothing.

~ Gertrude Stein (1900's)

The wise man knows without traveling.

~ Lao-Tsze (1500's)

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath,

no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

~ G.B. Shaw (1900's)

Man - a being in search of meaning.

~ Plato (1600's)

When the mind is no longer seeking,

no longer breeding conflict through its wants and cravings,

when it is silent with understanding,

only then can the immeasurable come into being.

~ J. Krishnamurti (1900's)

Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

~ John Wesley

A palace without affection is a poor hovel,

and the meanest hut with love in it

is a palace for the soul.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

A friend is never chosen.

A secret sympathy,

the attraction of a thousand nameless qualities,

a charm in the expression of the countenance,

even in voice or manner,

a similarity of circumstances ~

these are the things that begin attachment.

~ Anna Barbauld

Life is uncertain...Eat dessert first!

~Sol Gordon

I don't make jokes.

I just watch the government and report the facts.

~ Will Rogers

Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!

~ Zen Master, Paichang

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate,

and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being."

~ Osho

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

~ Mother Teresa

Why did they call it World War I,

unless they knew it was the first of series?

~ Paul Krassner

There is no answer to man's ultimate questions

because the questions are absurd,

and moreover, there is no one to answer them.

~ Osho

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient

while nature cures the disease

~ Voltaire

The illusion holds power over you

when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit

that has taken on the physical experience

for the purpose of learning.

~Gary Zukav

Do not cling to anything, to any idea;

because clinging is the bondage,

even to the idea of enlightenment.

~ Osho

The true value of a human being is determined primarily

by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

~ Albert Einstein

Life is a river ongoing from infinity to infinity.

~ Osho

The crew of spaceship Earth is in virtual mutiny

to the order of the Universe

~ astronaut, Edgar Mitchell

Everyone has inside him a piece of good news.

The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!

How much you can love!

What you can accomplish!

And what your potential is!

~ Anne Frank

Rejection is restlessness, acceptance is peace~

and he who reaches total acceptance attains to God.

~ Osho

No two people have the same reality.

~ author unknown

To orient your life around a structure of some other human being's understanding

is to worship a false god.

~ Ken Carey

Being harmless means being so strong,

so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm

is not even a part of your consciousness.

~ author unknown

Now there is more now than there was even a few months ago,

and even more now is on the way.

~ from E.T. 101

Deep within the human soul lies an unfamiliar force

which is stronger than all the external forces that surround us.

The force is unfamiliar because we have forgotten what it sounds like,

and what it needs to release it.

~ H.R.M, Prince Charles

If peace of mind is your goal,

look for the errors in your beliefs and expectations.

Seek to change them, not the world.

And always be prepared to be wrong.

~ Peter Russell

The world is an organic unity.

We are not parts in a mechanical sense,

because in a machine the parts can be replaced.

~ Osho

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts,

and that is where all our battles should be fought.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is a human creation ~

the Universe does not judge.

~ author unknown

The game is not about becoming somebody,

it is about becoming nobody.

In your heart you know the right thing at each moment in time.

~ Dick Sutphen

You see everyone through your fog of opinions and conclusions~your viewpoint.

So you can't see them clearly.

Thus your reactions to others are simply statements of your viewpoint

and may have little to do with what is.

The same is true of the way others view you,

so don't take any compliments or criticisms too seriously.

~ Dick Sutphen

A true leader is not the one with the most followers,

but one who creates the most leaders.

~ God ~ from Conversations with God

There are no goals on the Spiritual Path

~ Coburn Tuller

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed ~

borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

~ Osho

Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself

that you have built against it.

~ from A Course in Miracles.

Reality can destroy the dream;

why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

~ George Moore

Don't wait for the Guru,

Don't wait for the Messiah,

Don't wait for the Second Coming.

The real "I" is here now ~ within.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

~ Bob Toben

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;

what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  from The Little Prince

The belief that Christ was a man

and the worship of the Christ as a person

have blinded the eyes of mankind

to the truth that God is Spirit,

God is love, and God is life.

~ Joel S. Goldsmith

It's the heart afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance.

It s the dream afraid of waking

That never takes a chance.

It's the one who won t be taken

Who cannot seem to give,

And the soul afraid of dying

That never learns to live.

~ from The Rose

Where those who are not an artist are trying to close the book,

The artist opens it and shows there are still more pages.

~ Robert Henri

Another way we limit our effectiveness

is by pretending that life kind of "happens" to us.

The beginning of wisdom is a firm grip on the obvious

It doesn't pay to live in the past.

There's no future in it.

Do I defeat my enemy when I make him my friend?

What games do you play in life when you are not living in your heart?

~ unknown

We were not educated to be alone...

One must learn to love oneself...

with a wholesome and healthy love,

so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

~ Nietzsche (1800's)

The man who goes alone can start today;

but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready,

and it may be a long time before they get off.

~ Thoreau  (1800's)

We're all in this together - by ourselves.

~ Lily Tomlin (1900's)

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  (1900's)

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

~ Walter Lippman (1900's)

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility

has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need

for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country,

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 ~

feelings which increase with the years.

~ Einstein (1900's)

Sitting quietly,

doing nothing,

spring comes,

and the grass grows by itself.

~ Zen saying

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

The worst has been done in turmoil.

~ Thomas Alva Edison (1900's)

And does not the word, the name, interfere with attention?

For example, do we ever look at the moon without verbalizing,

or does the word "moon" always interfere with our looking?

Do we ever listen to anything with attention,

or do our thoughts, our interpretations, and so on,

interfere with our listening?

Do we ever really pay attention to anything?

Surely, attention has no motive, no object,

no toy, no struggle, no verbalization.

This is true attention, is it not?

Where there is attention, reality is.

~ Krishnamurti (1900's)

Toys of the mind destract us from meditation / attention:

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed

how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

~ Einstein (1900's)

All men should strive to learn

before they die

what they are running from,

and to,

and why.

~ James Thurber (1900's)

All of us are watchers ~

of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway ~

but few are observers.

Everyone is looking,

not many are seeing.

~ Peter M. Leschak

This aimless running about

one may not unjustly call busy idleness.

~ Seneca (1 AD)

Some are very busy,

and yet do nothing.

~ Thomas Fuller (1700's)

Any excuse for idleness is good enough.

~ Cicero (I BC)

Much reading is an oppression of the mind,

it extinguishes the natural candle,

which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

~ William Penn (1700's)

It is profitable to cast aside toys

and to learn wisdom.

~ Horace (1BC)

Life's too short for chess.

~ Henry J. Byron (1800's)

Is there attention when the toy absorbs the mind?

The toy is the distraction, is it not?

The toy becomes all-important,

and not the mind which is taken over by the toy.

To understand what attention is,

we must be concerned with the mind,

not with the toys of the mind.

~ Krishnamurti (1900's)

LEARN ABOUT FREEDOM FROM THE BIRDS

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose

is that which he is living at the moment.

~ Marcus Aurelius (200BC)

Man is born to live

and not to prepare to live.

~ Boris Pasternack (1900's)

No man can have a peaceful life who

thinks too much about lengthening it.

~ Seneca (100AD)

All of the animals excepting man

knows that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

~ Samuel Burler (1900's)

Animals have these advantages over man:

they never hear the clock strike,

they die without any idea of death,

they have no theologians to instruct them,

their last moments are not disturbed

by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies,

their funeral cost them nothing,

and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

~ Voltaire  (1700's)

The average man,

who does not know what to do with his life,

wants another one which will last forever.

~ Anatole France (1900's)

Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying?

It meets death when death comes;

but it is not concerned about death,

it is much too occupied with living...

It is we human beings who are always

concerned about death ~ because we are not living.

~Krishnamurti (1900's)

The best portion of a good man's life

is his little nameless, unremembered acts

of kindness and love.

~ William Wordswworth

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness

sealed up until your friends are dead.

Fill their lives with sweetness...

speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them

and their hearts be thrilled by them.,..

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Whether a man really loves God

can be determined

by the love he bears his fellow men.

~ Levi Vitzok

There is nothing which cannot be borne

with cheerful alacrity

by those who love one another.

~ Saint Theresa of Avila

The true value of a human being is determined primarily

by the measure and the sense

in which he has attained liberation from the self.

~ Einstein (1900's)

Don't wait for the Last Judgement.

It takes place every day.

~ Albert Camus (1900's)

The heart of the wise, like a mirror,

should reflect all objects,

without being sullied by any.

~ Confucius (500B.C.)

What alone is ours,

the living Now.

~ Wordsworth (1800's)

Every man's life lies within the present,

for the past is spent and done with,

and the future is uncertain.

~ Marcus Antoninus (100's)

A really contented man has yesterdays all filed away,

his present in order,

and his tomorrow subject to instant revision.

~ Charles M. Dwelley

The stupid speak of the past,

the wise of the present,

fools of the future.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1800's)

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

~ Miguel de Cervantes (1600's)

The man is wise

who neither hopesnor fears anything

from the uncertain events of the future.

~ Anatole France (1900's)

Problems become difficult to solve

if they are allowed to take root in the mind.

The mind creates the problems

and then becomes the soil in which they take root;

and once a problem is well established in the mind

it is very difficult to uproot it.

What is essential is

for the mind itself to see the problem

and not give it the soil to grow.

~ Krishnamurti (1900's)

The Gift of Believing in Miracles.

I walk the world in wonder.

~ Oscar Wilde

We are the miracle of miracles...

we cannot understand it,

we know not how to speak of it,

but we may feel and know...that it is verily so.

~  Carlyle

I am unaware of anything

that has a right to be called an impossibility.

~ Thomas H. Huxley

The sun,

with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it,

can still ripen a bunch of grapes

as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

~ Galileo Galilei

UNDERSTAND YOURSELF

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people

come into and go out of the world ignorant of themselves

and of the world they have lived in.

~ William Penn (1600's)

He who conquers others is strong;

He who conquers himself is mighty.

~ Lao-tse (500 B.C.)

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

~ Sigmund Freud (1900's)

Without self-knowledge you cannot pay complete attention.

That is why, in a real school,

the student must not only be taught various subjects

but also helped to be aware of the process of his own thinking.

In understanding himself

he will know what it is to pay attention without resistance,

for the understanding of oneself is the way of meditation.

~ Krishnamurti (1900's)

It is in the ability to deceive oneself

that one shows the greatest talent.

~ Anatole France (1900's)

We are never deceived;

we deceive ourselves.

~ Goethe (1800's)

I am the only person in the world

I should like to know thoroughly.

~ Oscar Wilde (1800's)