Place in the universe

I’ve always believed in the idea that each of us has a particular place in the universe where we belong, and that if we find it everything will fall into place and we will flourish.

Patrick O’Connell

Greatest accomplishment

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power within

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Richard Bach

Made nothing

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

D.H. Lawrence

Desire nothing

To reach satisfaction in all
desire its possession in nothing.
To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all
desire to be nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing.

John of the Cross

Treat others

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.

J.W. Von Goethe

The soul you were meant to be

Success is having peace within yourself and joy in serving others
that they too may find it. May you have the light of hope, direction, and strength to be the person, the soul you were meant to be.

Howard T. Rainer

Sanity

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
[Show me a sane woman and I will cure her for you].

Carl Jung

Gratitude

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Albert Schweitzer

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Alfred Painter

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Brother David Steindl-Rast

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Buddha

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

Kabir

I AM

I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it...

Babatunde Olatunji

Rekindle the spirit

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Being awake

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

William James

On becoming a person

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

Carl Rogers

The sane and satisfactory answer

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm

Virtue

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

Mother Earth

We're sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and humility - all the beautiful attributes that we've been given. So turn to one another; love one another; respect one another; respect Mother Earth; respect the waters - because that's life itself!

Phil Lane, Sr. (Yankton Sioux)

Belief

I believe that:
Imagination is stronger than knowledge
Myth is more potent than history
Dreams are more powerful than facts
Hope always triumphs over experience
Laughter is the cure for grief
Love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum

Perception

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true

Buddha

Success in therapy

In the process of psychotherapy the issue of success often arises. "How will I know when I am successful? How will I know when I've learned all I have to learn?" Focus not on learning. Rather concern yourself with unlearning. Uncovering your real self and returning to your original state will bring you peace. Ultimate success arrives when you become comfortable in your own being.

Janette Ayd

Spiritual teacher

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being. The spiritual teacher is there to uncover and reveal to you that dimension of inner depth that is also peace.

Eckhart Tolle

Toxic mind

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms