NAMASTE 2007 The spirit in me honours the spirit in you

The Inner Journey of the Soul

“The spirit in me
 honours the spirit in you”

“Namaste” -  a Himalayan
(Nepalese) greeting





“Tell me,
what is it you want to do
with your one wild
and precious life”

 -Mary Oliver





“Stress is born,
lives and dies
between your ears"





“While I would love to say 'yes' to everyone
it is not possible if I want to have
balance and happiness in my life”

-- Tom Mullholland





“Truth isn’t always beauty,
 but the hunger for it is”

 -- Nadine Gordimer





"Love is the greatest refreshment in life"

 --  Pablo Picasso





"The truth you believe and cling to
 makes you unavailable to hear anything new."

 -- Pema Chodron





"Have you learned the lessons only
 of those who admired you,
 and were tender with you,
 and stood aside for you?

 Have you not learned great lessons
 from those who braced themselves against you,
 and disputed passage with you?"

 -- Walt Whitman





"The possession of knowledge
 does not kill the sense
 of wonder and mystery.
 There is always more mystery."

 -- Anais Nin





"The most beautiful thing we can experience
 is the mysterious. It is the source
 of all true art and all science.
 He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
 who can no longer pause to stand rapt in awe,
 is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

 -- Albert Einstein





 "Desire is Creation"

 -- (unknown)





 "When people are free to do as they please,
  they usually imitate each other."

  -- Eric Hoffer





 "Optimism is the opium of the people"

 -- Milan Kundera





"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul
 and get to know a man,
 don't bother analysing
 his ways of being silent,
 of talking, of weeping,
 of seeing how much
 he is moved by noble ideas;
 you will get better results
 if you just watch him laugh.
 If he laughs well,
 he's a good man."

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky





"That best portion
 of a good man's life..
 His little, nameless, unremembered,
 acts of kindness and of love."

 -- William Wordsworth





"It is difficult to give away kindness.
 It keeps coming back to you"

 -- Cort Flint





"You have to accentuate the positive,
 eliminate the negative,
 and latch on to the affirmative.
 Don't mess with "Mr. In-between".

 -- Louis Armstrong





"Some cause happiness wherever they go;
 others whenever they go."

 -- Oscar Wilde





"Happiness adds and multiplies,
 as we divide it with others.

 -- A. Nielsen





"In seeking happiness for others,
 you find it for yourself."

 -- Unknown





"A feminist is a woman who does not allow
 anyone to think in her place."

 -- Michele Le Doeuff





"I feel we are all islands
 -- in a common sea."





"Good communication is as stimulating
 as black coffee, and just
 as hard to sleep after.





"The most exhausting thing in life
 is being insincere"

 -- Anne Morrow Lindberg





"Very little is needed to make a happy life;
 it is all within yourself,
 in your way of thinking."

 -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus





"Things do not change: we change."

 -- Henry David Thoreau





"We cannot be happy if we expect
 to live all the time at the
 highest peak of intensity.
 Happiness is not a matter of intensity,
 but of balance and order
 and rhythm and harmony."

 -- Thomas Merton





"Literature is strewn with the wreckage
 of those who have minded beyond reason
 the opinion of others."

 -- Virginia Woolfe





"God is definitely
 out of the closet."

 -- Anon





"Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
 As we go, so goes the world, for the World is us.
 The revolution that will save the world
 is ultimately a personal one."





"Some men know that a light touch of the tongue,
 running from a woman's toes to her ears,
 lingering in the softest way possible
 in various places in between,
 given often enough and sincerely enough,
 would add immeasurably to world peace."

 -- Marianne Williamson





"We choose our joys and sorrows
 long before we experience them."

 -- Kahlil Gibran





"You have a right to your opinions.
 I just don't want to hear them."

 -- Anonymous





"The irony of desire is that when
 you receive the object of desire,
 it creates that state of mind
 we call satisfaction
 for only a moment."

 -- Stephen Levine





"Life is a field
 of unlimited possibilities."

 -- Deepak Chopra





"A shot glass of desire
 is greater than a pitcher of talent."

 -- Andy Munthe





"I shut my eyes
 in order to see."

 -- Paul Gauguin





"Know yourself.
 Don't accept your dog's admiration
 as conclusive evidence
 that you are wonderful".

 -- Ann Landers





"Nothing so needs reforming
 as other people's habits."

 -- Mark Twain





"The love we give away
 is the only love we keep."

 -- Elbert Hubbard





"You grow up the day you have
 your first real laugh at yourself."

 -- Ethel Barrymore





"How easily we can forget
 how precious life is!
 So long as we can remember,
 we've just been here, being alive.
 Unlike other things for which
 we have a good comparison --
 black to white, day to night, good to bad;
 we are so immersed in life
 that we can see it only
 in the context of itself.
 We don't see life as compared to anything,
 to not being, for example,
 to never having been born.
 Life just is.

 But life itself is a gift.
 It's a compliment just being born:
 to feel, breathe, think, play, dance,
 sing, work, and make love,
 for this particular lifetime.
 Today, let's give thanks for life.
 For life itself.
 For simply being born!"

-- Daphne Rose Kingman





"Don't compromise yourself.
 You are all you've got."

 -- Janis Joplin





"A house is not a home unless it contains
 food and fire for the mind
 as well as the body."

 -- Benjamin Franklin





"When you go into the space of nothingness,
 everything becomes known."

 -- Buddha





"The first problem for all of us,
 men and women, is not to learn,
 but to unlearn."

 -- Gloria Steinem





"The problems that exist in the world today
 cannot be solved by the level
 of thinking that created them."

 -- Albert Einstein





"People change and forget
 to tell each other."

 -- Lillian Hellmann





"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
 It is the real allegory
 of the tale of Orpheus;
 it moves stones and charms brutes.
 It is the genius of sincerity
 and truth accomplishes
 no victories without it."

 -- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton





"The only thing that makes life possible
 is permanent, intolerable uncertainty:
 Not knowing what comes next."

 -- Ursula K. LeGuin





"Growth is the only evidence of life."

 -- John Henry Newman





"Love,
 and you shall be loved."

 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson





"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act
 but a habit."

 -- Aristotle





"How bold one gets when one
 is sure of being loved."

 -- Sigmund Freud





"There is surely a piece of divinity in us,
 something that was before the elements,
 and owes no homage to the sun."

 -- Sir Thomas Brown





"The moment you have in your heart
 this extraordinary thing called love
 and feel the depth, the delight,
 the ecstasy of it, you will discover
 that for you the world is transformed."

 -- J. Krishnamurti





"Do not believe in anything
 simply because you have heard it.
 Do not believe in anything
 simply because it is spoken
 and rumoured by many.
 Do not believe in anything
 simply because it is found written
 in your religious books.
 Do not believe in anything
 merely on the authority
 of your teachers and elders.
 Do not believe in traditions
 because they have been handed down
 for many generations.
 But after observation and analysis,
 when you find that anything agrees with reason
 and is conducive to the good
 and benefit of one and all,
 then accept it and live up to it."

 -- Buddha





"If you're going through hell,
 keep going."

 -- Winston Churchill





"It is wonderful how much time
 good people spend fighting the devil.
 If they would only expend the same amount of energy
 loving their fellow men, the devil would die
 in his own tracks of ennui."

 -- Helen Keller





"The three grand essentials
 to happiness in this life are
 something to do,
 something to love and
 something to hope for."

 -- Addison





"Maybe this world
 is another planet's hell."

 -- Aldous Huxley





"To the woman who complained
 that riches hadn't made her happy,
 the Master said,

    "You speak as if luxury and comfort
     were ingredients of happiness;
     whereas all you need to be really happy, my dear,
     is something to be enthusiastic about."

 -- Anthony de Mello





"The single biggest problem in communication
 is the illusion that it has taken place."

 -- George Bernard Shaw





"Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
 ask yourself what makes you come alive.
 And then go and do that.
 Because what the world needs
 is people who have come alive."

 -- Harold Whitman





"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
 A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
 without ever having felt sorry for itself."

 -- D. H. Lawrence





"All miseries derive
 from not being able
 to sit quietly
 in a room alone."

 -- Pascal





"Do you want me to tell you
 something really subversive?
 Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
 That's why people are so cynical about it.
 It really is worth fighting for,
 being brave for,
 risking everything for.
 And the trouble is if you don't risk everything, y
 ou risk even more."

 -- Erica Jong





"I've learned from experience
 that the greater part of our happiness or misery
 depends on our dispositions
 and not on our circumstances."

 -- Martha Washington





"Great minds discuss ideas:
 Average minds discuss events:
 Small minds discuss people."

 -- Eleanor Roosevelt





"Health, a light body,
 freedom from cravings,
 a glowing skin, sonorous voice,
 fragrance of body:
 these signs indicate progress
 in the practice of meditation."

 -- Upanishads





"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts
 in eternal awareness or pure consciousness
 without objectification,
 knowing without thinking,
 merging finitude in infinity."

 -- Sivananda





"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
 It turns what we have into enough, and more.
 It turns denial into acceptance,
 chaos into order, and
 confusion to clarity.
 It can turn a meal into a feast,
 a house into a home,
 a stranger into a friend.
 Gratitude makes sense of our past,
 brings peace for today,
 and creates a vision for tomorrow."

 -- Author Unknown





"Meditation is the tongue of the soul
 and the language of our spirit."

 -- Jeremy Taylor





"Every heart that has beat
 strongly and cheerfully,
 has left a hopeful impulse
 behind it in the world,
 and bettered the tradition
 of mankind."

 -- Robert Louis Stevenson





"If you really want to do something,
 you'll find a way; if you don't,
 you'll find an excuse."

 -- Sanskrit Quote





"It's true that we don't know
 what we've got until we lose it,
 but it's also true that
 we don't know what we've been missing
 until it arrives."

 -- (Unknown)





"Of any stopping place in life,
 it is good to ask whether it will
 be a good place from which to go on
 as well as a good place to remain."

 -- Mary Catherine Bateson





"Habit is overcome
 by habit."

 -- Thomas A Kempis





"It is a terrible thing
 To be so open;
 it is as if my heart
 put on a face
 and I walked into the world."

 -- Sylvia Plath





"Many men [at mid-life]
 remain stuck in a shaky myth
 of their won power,
 alienated from the rest
 of themselves."

 -- Samuel Osherson





"We are a divided species-
 head running ahead of heart.
 It is no surprise that coronary thrombosis
 is the characteristic death of our time.
 The heart literally chokes up
 on the impossibility of keeping up."

 -- Brian Alldiss





"Words are the vibrations of nature
 Therefore beautiful words
 create beautiful nature.
 Ugly words create ugly nature.
 This is the root of the universe.”

 -- Masaru Emoto





"Nothing is worth
 more than this day."

 -- Goethe





"Sustained levels of peace and happiness
 of the highest kind
 are this cosmic traveller’s
 ultimate destination".

 -- Ms Hippy





“Namaste”

“The spirit in me
Honours the spirit in you”

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