““The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth””
— Rumi
“I know that I know nothing”
— Socrates
“For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.”
— Rumi
“one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
— Holy Bible, Ephesians 4:6
“Everywhere are His hands and feet, eyes, heads, and faces. His ears too are in all places, for He pervades everything in the universe.”
— Bhagavad Gita, 13:14
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
— Chief Seattle, Duwamish
“So then, the relationship of self to “other” is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as “other” than yourself.”
— Alan Watts
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
— Albert Einstein
“My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant total amazement.”
— John Patrick Shanley
“I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
”In meditation, go deep in the heart”
— Lao Tzu
“26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
— Galatians 3:26-29
“Let go of today as it becomes yesterday. Move into tomorrow as it becomes today. Eternally present. All is well.”
— Nameless
“The purpose of life is to be happy and have fun.”
— Michael, Age 9
“When we die all that happens is we shed the illusion of the fear body and we identify with our body of Love which is pure Self. Duality ceases.”
— Nameless
“There is only thinking. There is no thinker without thought. The thinker was “born” and the thinker will “die”. Before the thinker was “born” there was only a fearless state of wonder.”
— Nameless
“Life is being done as me”
— Nameless
“I never dreamt with my own two hands that I could touch the sky”
— Seymour Bernstein
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is”
— Bhagavad Gita
“Most of the world is either asleep or dead.”
— Thomas Merton
“In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.”
— Luke 14:33
“Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one’s commitment.”
— Nelson Mandela
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
— Anonymous
“You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you.”
— Fred Rogers
“Sin is not a distance, it is a turn of our gaze in the wrong direction.”
— Simmone Weil
“Should your friend do you wrong then say “I forgive you for what you did to me, but that you did it to yourself how could I forgive that?”
— Neitzche
“When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.”
— Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.”
— George Carlin
“The first time I called myself a ‘Witch’ was the most magical moment of my life.”
— Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
“To Allah belong the east and the west: so whichever way you turn, there is the face of Allah! Allah is indeed all-bounteous, all-knowing.”
— Quran, 2:115 Khalidi
“The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless, it is the origin of all things; as named, it is the Mother of 10,000 things.”
— Tao Te Ching, 1:2
“but you don’t have to take my word for it”
— Levar Burton
“Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”
— John 10:34
“In an Insane World, it is the Sane who are called crazy. ”
— Lumalee
“in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:52
“Don’t believe a goddamn thing anybody says but don’t be foolish enough to disbelieve it either. All you have to do is experiment with it; does it work or doesn’t work? If it works, you keep it, otherwise rubbish it, what’s the problem?”
— Sadhguru
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
— Malcolm X
“If there is fear without, it is due to fear within If there if Love without, it is due to Love within Fear within is simply an illusion caused by a perceived threat within Love within is steadfast and ceaseless Fear is a contradiction to Love There is only Love or fear and one of them is an illusion”
— Nameless
“Love holds no grievances”
— ACIM Lesson 68
“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”
— Bhagavad Gita
“Nothing happens by chance no one goes on a quest without a reason without the pull of the magnet there is no action.”
— Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
“Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.”
— C.G. Jung, The Red Book
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
— Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.”
— Clarence Darrow
“When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists — as it surely will. Then act with courage.”
— Chief White Eagle, Ponca
“Motivated by a Love of music and possessed of a clear understanding of the reasons for practicing you can establish so deep an accord between your musical self and your personal self that eventually music and life will interact in a never-ending cycle of fulfillment.”
— Seymour Bernstein
“Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing “Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!” If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.”
— Dan Barker
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
— Matthew 11:28
“True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism. You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering”
— Urantia Foundation, The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus and Ourselves
“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.”
— Urantia Foundation, The Urantia Book 2:6.8
“The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.”