The change in worldview changes the world viewed. Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg   “This quote basically encompasses Joe’s life’s work. Everything that his work was about is about the nature of our consciousness and how it relates to the physical world and that…

Anybody can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power, and is not easy.  Aristotle (384 BC –…

  Your sexuality is God’s love letter to you. A miracle of biological engineering that could have been devised only by a mind of vast and humorous generosity. A mind that knew the pain and the sense of confinement earthly beings would feel and wanted to make sure you might…

At the moment of commitment, the entire universe conspires to assist you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet “I like this quote—which has also been attributed to W.H. Murray—because I’ve had a lot of friends and people who say I want to do something. I want to write a…

  [S]ometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness. Excerpt from poem Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) Pulitzer Prize poet.   “I love the idea of reteaching because sometimes we forget we’re lovely. We forget our faces, our bellies, our hungers. We forget and…

Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish has been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. Cree Indian proverb “This is so true and it inspires me because of our addiction to economic growth which is ultimately not sustainable.…

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.  Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French novelist and essayist. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century   “In my own life and journey of exploration, often it isn’t that something new has popped…

  Don’t believe everything you think. Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist. Her books include Happiness is an Inside Job   Grief, I have learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot, all that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your…

  We must go far beyond any transformation of contemporary culture. We must go back to the [genetic] imperative from which human cultures emerge originally and from which they can never be separated without losing their integrity and their survival capacity. None of our existing cultures can deal with this…

  All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) Indian philosopher and spiritual reformer “I think he is taking off from the ancient tantric insight into the view that all existence is a form of vibration, Spanda (which means divine vibration in Sanskrit). The master vibration…