Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
William Hutchison Murray
Whatever you can do or dream you can,
Johann Wolgang von Goethe
begin it,
Boldness has genius, power and magic to it.
Life is like riding a bicycle.
Albert Einstein
To keep your balance,
you must keep moving.
You come to us from another world;
Rumi
From beyond the stars and a void of space
Transcendent, pure – of unimaginable beauty.
Bringing with You the essence of Love.
You transform all who are touched by You –
Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrows dissolve in Your presence
Bringing joy to ruler & ruled, to peasants and kings.
You bewilder us with Your grace;
All evil is transformed into goodness.
You are the Master Alchemist!
You light the fire of Love in earth & sky,
In heart & soul of every being.
Through Your loving, existence & non-existence merge –
All opposites unite –
All that is profane becomes sacred again.
The great teachings unanimously emphasize
Joseph Beus
that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe
are already within us;
we don’t have to gain, develop, or attain them.
We’re like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight.
We don’t need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky;
we merely need to open our eyes and realise what is already here,
who we really are
as soon as we quit pretending we’re small or unholy.
Every human being is an artist,
a freedom being,
called to participate
in transforming and reshapeing
the conditions, thinking and structures
that shape and inform our live.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
If you can keep your head when all about you
Rudyard Kipling, 1895
are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
and stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings
and never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
and – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
All men of action are dreamers.
James Huneker
Your task is not to seek for love,
Rumi
but merely to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you
have built against it.
Guard your thoughts, they become words.
Choose your words, they become actions.
Understand your actions, they become habits.
Study your habits, they mold your character,
it will be your fate.
You can lead a human to knowledge,
but you can’t make him think.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
We are not human beings
Eillen Caddy
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings
having a human experience.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The secret of making something work in your lives is,
first of all, the deep desire to make it work:
then the faith and believe that it can work:
then to hold that clear, definite vision in your consciousness
and see it working out step by step,
without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
Be still and let your heart translate in silence the secret language of the Universe. Then become a brush in the Moonlight’s invisible hand and let your Soul paint all its beauty upon the endless Sky…
Kavafis
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops, the angry Poseidon; don’t fear them: You’ll never find them on your path, if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine emotion touches your spirit and your body. You’ll never encounter them, if you don’t carry them within your soul, if your soul doesn’t set them up before you.
If you have no voice… Scream…, if you have no legs… Run…, if you have no hope… Invent!!!
Samurai Saying
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.
I’m not interested in how people move but in what moves them.
Pina Bausch
Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence lie beside an equator in your heart. Greet Yourself in your thousand other forms and travel back Home. All the hemispheres in Heaven are sitting around a fire, while stitching themselves together into the Great Circle inside of You.
Hafiz
You shall be free when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. And how shall you rise unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around you? That which we call freedom is the strongest chain, though it links glitter in the Sun and dazzle the eyes.
Gibran
Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I’m going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them. Give me the labors of everyday, for that’s what I sing.
Pablo Nerud
They say there is a window from one heart to another. How can there be a window? In the existence of true Love, no wall remains.
Rumi
Lovers, the followers of the path of love, make love their undercurrent. They eat, but they eat with love. The walk, but they walk with love – because the Earth becomes their holy ground. They sit under a tree and they sit with love – because the tree is divine. They look at somebody; they look with love – because there also is divinity. Everywhere they see their beloved, in each movement they remember their beloved. It becomes their constant remembrance.
Osho
Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:
Kabir
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway.
Millions of beings are there: the Sun and the Moon in their courses are there:
Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on.
All swing! the Sky and the Earth and the Air and the Water; and the Lord Himself taking form:
And the sight of this has made Kabir a servant.
Defend me from the opposing forces of the Night, when I am not conscious in my sleep, when my path is uncertain. Take me back in the higher areas, to the ones of your reign of peace. It ‘s time to leave this cycle of lives. Because the joys of the deepest affections or the most subtle yearnings of the heart, are only the shadow of your Light…
Franco Battiato