Halloween

"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world."
Jean Baudrillard

Open Your Eyes

"Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God."

Jakob Böhme

Our Original Nature

"Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all.  Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself." 

Huang Po

A Garden of Solitude

"To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude."

Henri Nouwen

Eternal Life

"Using an inspirational passage...helps to slow down the furious, fragmented activity of the mind so that we can gain control over it...Whatever we drive deep into consciousness, that we become...I usually recommend the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi:

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. 
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life." 

Eknath Easwaran

Peace

"Each one has to find his peace from within.

And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances." 

Mahatma Gandhi

Castles in the Air

"If you have built castles in the air, 

your work need not be lost;

 that is where they should be. 

Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau

The Power of Thought

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right."

Henry Ford

The Heart

"The heart is like a garden.  It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. 
What seeds will you plant there?" 

Buddha

God

"That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." 

Albert Einstein

Pledge to Veterans

"On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind."
Dan Lipinski

Everyday Life

"When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!" 

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Simplicity

“There is nothing quite so complicated as simplicity.” 

Charles Poore

Justice

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."

Gandalf - The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

The Gateway to All Mysteries

"The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries."

Lao Tzu

Two Ways to Live

"There are 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

Energy

"We're fields of energy in an infinite energy field."

e.e. cummings

Spiritual Beings

"We are not humans trying to be spiritual.

We are spiritual beings trying to be human."

Jacquelyn Small

The Silver Rule

"Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you."

Hillel the Elder

The Golden Rule

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

The Bible - Luke 6:31