“We must remember that the heart of our religions is alive and that each person has the ability within to awaken and walk in a sacred manner. The manner with which we walk through life is each man’s most important responsibility and we should remember this with every new sunrise.�

- Thomas Yellow Tail

“What you look for has come, but you do not know it.�

- The Gospel of St. Thomas

“The value of human life lies in the fact of suffering, for where there is no suffering… there can be no power of attaining spiritual experience… Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.�

- D. T. Suzuki

“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.�

- Herman Hesse

“To remain whole, be twisted.
To become straight, let yourself be bent.
To become full, be hollow.�

  - Tao Te Ching

“As The World Tree stands at the center of the vast planes of the cosmos, song stands at the intimate center of the cosmos of the individual. At that moment when the shaman song emerges, when the sacred breath rises up from the depths of the heart, the center is found, and the source of all that is divine has been tapped.�

- Joan Halifax

“Oh, these humans of old knew how to dream and did not need to fall asleep.�

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.�

- Walt Whitman

“There is not limit to your light, except the dark shadows of the ego cast upon the sky which we call the self. Shake your soul! Awaken it from the slumber! The time has come to awaken your divine being.�

- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

“I saw myself on the central mountain of the world, the highest place, and I had a vision because I was seeing in the sacred manner of the world… The central mountain is everywhere.�

- Black Elk, Lakota Sioux

“Man’s best friend, aside from the dog, is the wastebasket.�

- Business Week

“Pray let me have by this evening, on one page, the status of our tank deployment…â€?

- Winston Churchill

“I practice the art of getting more things done rather than getting the really important things done well.�

- R. Alec Mackenzie

“We have met the enemy and they is us.�

- Pogo

“Make everything as simple as possible, but no more so.�

- Albert Einstein

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.�

- George Elliot

“If God held all truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand the persistent striving for the truth… and should say, ‘Choose!’ I should humbly bow before his left hand and say, ‘Father, give me striving. For pure truth is for thee alone.�

- Gotthold Lessing

“Truth is the same thing to the understanding as music to the ear or beauty to the eye.�

- G. N. Clark

“Anything must be true before it can significantly claim other merits. Without Truth, all else is worthless.�

- E. Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

“What would a purely external truth be? It can be recognized only when we participate in it and therefore appropriate it inwardly.�

- M. Eck, Lies and Truth

“Man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essence, like and angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep.�

- Measure for Measure

“La peste de l’homme, c’est l’opinion de savoir. Voila pourquoi l’ignorance nous est tant recommande par notre religion comme pièce propre a la créance et a la obéissance.� 

- Montaigne, Apologie de Raymond Sebon

“I have no exquisite reason, but I have reason good enough.�

- Twelfth Night

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality.�

- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For there seem to pertain to logic a peculiar depth – a universal significance. Logic lay, it seemed, at the bottom of all the sciences. For logical investigation explores the nature of all things. It seeks to see to the bottom of things and is not meat to concern itself whether what actually happens is this or that.�

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“The sacrosanct fetish of today is science. Why don’t you get some of our friends to go for that wooden-faced panjandrum – eh?�

- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

“Empiricism is …a form of self-denial, a moral will to let the object speak for itself. Empiricism holds that if we allow it do so, the object will speak, i.e. that truth is accessible.�

- W. E. Hocking, ‘Chu Hsi’s Theory of Knowledge’

“Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles for truth.�

- Francis Bacon, ‘Of Truth’, Essays

“The man who tells you truth does not exist is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.�

- Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy

“You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.�

  - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

“Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom… Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.�

- Swami Vivekananda

“An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.�

- Lao Tzu

“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see…�

- John Lennon