Category Archives: Quotation
If You’ve Come to Help Me
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
~ Lila Watson
FollowNo Sign of Health
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~ Krishnamurti
Remove Mutual Enmity ~ Imam Ali
“To remove mutual enmity, ill-feeling and hatred is better than recommended prayers and fasting.”
~ Imam Ali written to Imam Husayn and Hasan. (from “letter 47”)
The Life We Have Planned ~ Joseph Campbell
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
~ Joseph Campbell
Faith
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
~ Clarence Jordan
Strength & Rigidity
Strength and rigidity are not the same thing…
The ability to blend and flow without losing center is the manifestation of strength.
~ a quote posted at Takemusukai Dojo
This quote seems to encompass the essence of my six years of Aikido training … Continue reading
The Longest Journey ~ Daj Hammarskjold
The longest journey
Is the journey inwards
Of him who has chosen his destiny
~ Daj Hammarskjold
Fear ~ Charles Eisenstein
Fear is not the enemy, despite what so many spiritual teachers say. “The opposite of love,” says one. “Frozen joy,” says another. Actually fear is a guardian, holding us in a safe space in which to grow; you can even … Continue reading
The Real Voyage of Discovery ~ Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
Gratitude ~ Marianne Williamson
” I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn’t connect with them. It was as thought I was eating but couldn’t … Continue reading