From The Earth

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round…. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours…. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
~Black Elk~ * Oglala Sioux holy man

This We Know: All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
~Chief Seattle~

“In the Song of the Tai Chi Sword it is said, The Way of the Sword is from the beginning difficult to learn. Like a Dragon or Rainbow it is subtle and mysterious. Should it be used like a hacking Sabre, the immortal Zhang Sanfeng die of laughter.”
~Sam Masich~

“Zen of all the schools of Buddhism is pre-eminently the religion of enlightenment.”
~Dr. D.T. Suzuki~

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.”
~Napoleon Hill~

I am your Creator. You were in my care
even before you were born.
~Isaiah 44:2a(CEV)~

“God doesn’t play dice.”
~Albert Einstein~

“Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
~Walt Whitman~

“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.”
~Maya Angelou~

“A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.”

“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.”

“Faeries show us flow and the possibilities of change. They show us clarity and insight and the fact that everything is connected and that we are all part of one another.”
~Froud~

“Today I am a song on the lips of time.”
~Kahlil Gibran~

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
~Isak Dinesen~

“Poetry, my dear friends is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.”
~Kahlil Gibran~

“HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
~Yeats~

“May your pigs always be in the pink; May they fly very high Like birds in the sky; May they never drop one in your drink!”
~ unknown source ~

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”
~Julius Caesar~

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
~Jimi Hendrix~

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
~Mohandas Ghandi~

“Trees love quietly.”
~bumper sticker~

“And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a
bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anais Nin~

“When the student is ready, the master appears.”
~Buddhist Proverb~

“Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”
~Paramahansa Yogananda~

Ghosts at Cockcrow

“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today…The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once on this earth, once on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow”.

In these days of sunshine and deep blue skies it is difficult to accept the darkness which must befall the light half of the year at midsummer. The wish for warm moonlit nights and soft sunny breezes, of days from such seasons passed, is met by the fading bloom of summer’s flower – time and tide wait for no one. Pause and listen to the song of the birds of summer, breathe the fragrance of a beautiful flower or take a moonlit walk. Soon the shadows of the coming season will turn inward once more.” – Ian Mowll

“Death smiles on all of us, best we can do is smile back”.
~Marcus Aurelius~ Quoted by Maximus in the movie “Gladiator”

“In such uncertainty, believe in these two things — you are stronger than you think, and you are not alone.”
~Maya Angelou~

“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
~Rumi~

“I must see my life as a work in progress. Nothing about me is ever final.”
~Deepak Chopra~

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
~Samuel Johnson~

Cultivate a friend whose ways are seven: He gives what is hard to give, does what is hard to do, bears what is hard to bear, he confesses his own secrets and keeps your secrets, in times of trouble he does not forsake you, and he does not forsake you when you are down.
~Buddha~

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
~Alexander Pope~

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
~George Bernard Shaw~

“Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
~Mark Twain~

“To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.”
~Mohandas Gandhi~

“True love stories never have endings.”
~Richard Bach~

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
~Plato~

A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. she can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
~Alan Beck~

“I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.”
~His Holiness the Dalai Lama~

“I am the hope of the Universe. I am the answer to all living things who cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth… ally to good, nightmare to you!”
~Son Goku~

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ~ Oscar Wilde

My favorite Lost quote: “You even made Locke take a swing at you. Hell, that’s like getting Gandhi to beat his kids.” ~ Sawyer

“An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass” – George Washington *Seen at the end of the show “Into the Pride”*

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” Rilke

“The universe likes speed. Don’t delay, don’t second guess, don’t doubt. When the opportunity is there, act.” The Secret

“The best runner leaves no tracks.” Tao Te Ching

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” Michael Phelps

“Let distractions melt away like clouds disappearing in the sky.” Milarepa

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy, what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” Richard David Bach