In a dark time the eye begins to see. I meet my shadow in the deepening shade. From poem “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke   “At one point in my life I literally lost my vision and it was a very dark time emotionally and physically. Physically, I…

What is yet to happen to our bodies should now take place in our hearts. Saint Leo the Great, Pope 440 AD “As I was doing the research on the book Rainbow Body and Resurrection, I continued my daily prayers as a Catholic priest. Every morning we read something called…

Watching the moon at dawn solitary, mid-sky I knew myself completely no part left out.                                      Japanese poet, Izumi Shikibu   “I love this poem because it suggests that you can’t know yourself…

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou, Ph.D., (1928-1983) American memoirist, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist. “I chose this quote because it reminds me of when I first moved…

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller: American anticipatory design architect, systems theorist, designer, inventor, philosopher, futurist and author of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth and Critical Path “This quote reminds me…

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung, (1865-1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology Hope is being able to see that…

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Activist in India and pioneer of the principle of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience. “I think what’s really powerful about this quote is that it proclaims what we already know—we’re all one thing,…

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. When we listen to people there is an alternating current and this recharges us so…

  First, decide what you will be and then do what you need to do. Epictetus,(Died 135 AD) Greek philosopher   “This quote is one of my guiding lights, because it makes, from my point of view, the distinction from being and doing. I see with a lot of my…

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition . . we have to recognize that we…