A Favorite Quote from a New Dimensions Guest : Mark Nepo
Archived Inspirational Quotes
Weep and then smile. Don’t pretend to know something you haven’t experienced. Jalālad-Dīn Rumi, 13 Century Persian poet “Rumi is so familiar these days, wonderfully so. I love this quote from one of his poems because of the sheer authenticity of it. It gives us permission and encourages us that…
A Favorite Quote from a New Dimensions Guest : Mary Mackey
Archived Inspirational Quotes
There are three rules for writing a novel, unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Somerset Maughan (1874-1965) English playwright and novelist “This quote inspires me to remember that novels are not written as a paint by number series and that no one can really tell you how to write…
A Favorite Quote from a New Dimensions Guest : Sarah Van Gelder
Archived Inspirational Quotes
It is only in relationship to other bodies and many somebodies that anybody’s somebody. James Boggs (1919-1993) a political activist and author of The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook This is a quote by James Boggs. He and his wife Grace Lee Boggs were the center of…
A Favorite Quote from a New Dimensions Guest : Robert Atkinson, Ph.D.
Archived Inspirational Quotes
A thought I have long and faithfully entertained of the unity of the human race, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony with its themes irresistibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax. Joseph Campbell,…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Daniel Pinchbeck
Archived Inspirational Quotes
Will the transformation. Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet (1875-1926) “I find this short quote very inspiring because a lot of times we think that things are just happening and we…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Cathy Wild
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Make good by standing place. Cathy Wild’s father “When I was a child my father said to me, “Make good by standing place.” This idea came from Archimedes, who was a Greek mathematician and a leading scientist in the classical age. He said, “Give me a…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Judith Orloff
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Our innate capacity for empathy is the source of the most precious of all human qualities. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Orloff says, “In the depth and intricacies of being human the complexity of empathy is at the center. It’s the alpha; it’s the beginning; it inspires me to…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Will Tuttle
Archived Inspirational Quotes
People wish to be settled. Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American transcendentalist “This quote inspires me because I know, in my own life, in many ways I would like to just be comfortable and go along. However, I…
A Favorite Quote from a New Dimensions Guest: Larry Brilliant, M.D.
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Larry Brilliant, M.D. who served with a team that worked to accomplish the total eradication of the virulent form of smallpox in India, reminds us of the wisdom of Gandhi. He shares that during the fight for freedom for India Mahatma Gandhi had many complicated decisions to make and many…
A Favorite Quote from a New Dimensions Guest: Tara Brach, Ph.D.
Archived Inspirational Quotes
Love tells me I’m everything, wisdom tells me I’m nothing and between the two my life flows. Sri Nisargadatta (1897-1981) Hindu guru of nondualism “This quote is a true guide for me in a daily way. Love tells me I’m everything means to me that wherever I look, whoever…
