Quotations

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes with which we see reality.
Nicos Kazantzakis

We see what we believe rather than what we see.
Alan Watts

Our belief literally convince us that we are who we think we are, not who we might become.
Mel Ash, Shaving the Inside of the Skull

Come to the edge, he said.
We’re afraid, they said
Come to the edge, he said
We’re afraid, they said
Come to the edge, he said
And they came.
Jump, he said,
And they flew.
Guillame Apollinare

Men go out and gape at mountain peaks
At the boundless tides of the sea
The encircling ocean,
And the motions of the stars,
Yet they leave themselves unnoticed;
They do not marvel at themselves.
St. Augustine, 3^rd Century AD

The moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves too. … A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come this way.
W.H. Murray, The Scottish Himalaya Expedition

We will either create the results we choose,
Or, have the reason, justifications, explanations, and excuses
About why we don’t.
It’s a dis-ease
Seldom healed
Without a conscious choice
To have one or the other.
Brad Brown

There is no God but Reality
To seek Him elsewhere
Is the action of the Fall
an oral teaching attributed to the (mythical) Sarmouni Brotherhood

When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable.
Brad Brown

It is not possible to be true to yourself
without also expanding
your  capacity to create, to serve
and to produce results.
Roy Whitten

What other reason could there be for getting up in the morning except to set ourselves free?
Ann McMaster

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one’s suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one’s suffering is based on sheer lies.
R.D. Laing

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
14^th Century, Catholic

It is in the passing and transient that we can experience the unchanging nature of life and therefore divine its true meaning.
Mel Ash

Everybody’s got a plan until they get hit.
Mike Tyson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inauguration Speech

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you
Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inauguration Speech

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inauguration Speech

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe

God gave me eyes so that I might see you,
and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.
Brad Brown

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
J. Krishnamurti

There are no extraordinary people
only ordinary people
who do extraordinary things
with what they’ve been given
Brad Brown

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. 
Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
M. Scott Peck

What we lack is intensity of life.
Carl Jung

Within every combination of events, however defeating or exalting, lies hidden treasure, a concealed pattern that will, with patience, reveal itself one day as part of a grand inevitable liberating design.
Alex Noble, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (eyelid book)

The difference between a Warrior and ordinary people is that a Warrior takes everything as a challenge, where as ordinary people see everything as either a blessing or a curse.
Carlos Castaneda

In the world to come I shall not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?”  I shall be asked, why were you not Susya?”
Rabbi Susya