Awakening the Self

 “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”. - Helen Keller

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?”- George Bernard Shaw

“You must focus on healing yourself so you’ll have this healing ability to offer others. If you reach a level of blissful illumination, where you’re reconnected to the Source and are harmonized vibrationally, you begin to radiate the energy that converts disease to health.”— Mahatma Ghandi

 “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” -Norman Vincent Peale

 “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” -Albert Schweitzer

 “When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear – when you simply follow your bliss – doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors – and the world will step in and help.” – Joseph Campbell

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy

 “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.” – Proust

 “Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is-ness of the NOW. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you will suffer.”  -Eckhart Tolle

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King

“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” -Mother Teresa

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?”- Mahatma Gandhi

 “If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.”- Joanna Macy

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is a book and you are its author. You determine its plot and pace and you – only you – turn its pages.”- Beth Mende Conny

 “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

“Love is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.”- Ralph Waldo Trine

“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” - Werner Erhard

 “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”   - Leonardo da Vinci

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”  – Carl Jung

 “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” –Kahlil Gibran

“The privilege of a lifetime is to be yourself” – Joseph Campbell

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”  -Thomas A. Edison

 “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”- Lewis Carroll

“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.”- Sai Baba

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.-” – Nelson Mandela

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”- Helen Keller

”The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.“- Buckminster Fuller

 “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

“Man’s natures are alike; It is their habits that carry them apart”- Confucius

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” -George Herman “Babe” Ruth

 “No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew” - Albert Einstein

 “We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of compassion so we feel connected to all people and all situations.” -Albert Einstein

“Follow your bliss” - Joseph Campbell

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still” - Lao Tzu

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”- Booker T. Washington

“Things do not change; we change. “ -Henry David Thoreau

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh