" Be Fearless,
Choose Love"
~ Graffiti in
Berkeley, CA
"Work like you don't need
the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
And dance like nobody is watching."
~ [Author unknown]
"I want to spend my heaven doing
good works on earth."
~ Saint Therese of
Lisieux
"Love itself is the healing power
and the remedy for all pain."
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Today, like every other day, we
wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the
door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what
we do.
There are hundreds
of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Rumi,
Translated by Coleman Barks
"
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~ Albert
Einstein
"Tell the truth and run."
~ Yugoslavian proverb
"Those who danced were thought to
be quite insane
by those who could not hear the music."
~ Angela Monet
"My teacher told me one thing -
Live in the soul.
When that was
so, I began to go naked and dance."
~
from "The Soul, like the Moon" by Lalla;
translated by Coleman Barks
"Never trust a god who doesn't dance."
~ Nietzsche
"What do you plan to do with your
one
wild and precious
life?"
~ Mary Oliver
"To know someone here or there with
whom you can feel there is understanding
inspite of distances or thoughts unexpressed that can make this life a
garden."
~ Goethe
"We all connect, like a net we cannot
see."
~ New York cab driver
"Every misunderstanding has at its
center a breakdown of language."
~ John
Irving
"If you cannot pray sincerely, offer
your dry, hypocritical, agnostic prayer;
for God in His mercy accepts bad coin."
~ Rumi