Day by day I become more infilled and infused with the light that is within. I walk in light and become one with the light until there is no darkness in me. I bring light into the world, knowing that what is within me is reflected without.
Be still and dwell on the wonders of life. You cannot hide a heart full of love and gratitude, for it is reflected for all to see. When you are in a state of joy and thanksgiving, you attract others to you. Everyone enjoys being with someone who overflows with love, for love attracts love.
Adapted from Opening Doors Within by Eileen Caddy, co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland
These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with others, you are in harmony with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
adapted from Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey translated by Stephen Mitchell
We arrived in Liuyuan, which was our destination for the night. "Liuyuan" means "willow garden." "There are no willows in the Willow Garden," I said, observing the brown treelessness around. "It's the dream," Zhongmei said. "Sometimes you name things after what you don't have."
The wind is blowing, and nothing will do till we've run to a pasture below the house... [where] we unreel our kites, feel them twitching at the string like sky fish as they swim into the wind. Satisfied, sun-warmed, we sprawl in the grass and peel Satsumas and watch our kites cavort...
"My, how foolish I am!" my friend cries, suddenly alert, like a woman remembering too late she has biscuits in the oven. "You know what I've always thought?" she asks in a tone of discovery, and not smiling at me but a point beyond. "I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a comfort: to think of that shine taking away all the spooky feeling. But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are...just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
We have cleared off the table, the leftovers saved, Washed the dishes and put them away I have told you a story and tucked you in tight At the end of your knockabout day As the moon sets its sails to carry you to sleep Over the midnight sea I will sing you a song no one sang to me May it keep you good company.
CHORUS: You can be anybody you want to be, You can love whomever you will You can travel any country where your heart leads And know I will love you still You can live by yourself, you can gather friends around, You can choose one special one And the only measure of your words and your deeds Will be the love you leave behind when you're done.
There are girls who grow up strong and bold There are boys quiet and kind Some race on ahead, some follow behind Some go in their own way and time Some women love women, some men love men Some raise children, some never do You can dream all the day never reaching the end Of everything possible for you.
Don't be rattled by names, by taunts, by games But seek out spirits true If you give your friends the best part of yourself They will give the same back to you.
This 16mm film was always a delight for my first graders and me, even when it became old. Sprocket holes got stripped and numerous splices interfered with the action and the out-of-tune piano music. But we loved it anyway. This copy, however, is mint!
I am a thinker; therefore, I am creative. I choose to think in complete harmony with good, giving my time and attention to beholding my world as a place where my life prospers.
In the past, a high tolerance for uncertainty was a quality to be found only in great geniuses like Leonardo [da Vinci]. As change accelerates, we now find that ambiguity multiplies, and illusions of certainty become more difficult to maintain. The ability to thrive with ambiguity must become part of our everyday lives. Poise in the face of paradox is a key not only to effectiveness, but to sanity in a rapidly changing world.
Michael J. Gelb in How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Your mind may be likened to a garden that may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. You are the master gardener of your soul, the director of your life.
When you realize that you are a creative power, and that you may command the hidden soil and seeds of your being out of which your circumstances grow, then you become the rightful master of yourself.
from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (1904) revised and updated as As You Think by Marc Allen (1998)
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
All thought is creative.
When were you last really happy?
In the past, a high tolerance for uncertainty was a quality to be found only in great geniuses like Leonardo [da Vinci]. As change accelerates, we now find that ambiguity multiplies, and illusions of certainty become more difficult to maintain. The ability to thrive with ambiguity must become part of our everyday lives. Poise in the face of paradox is a key not only to effectiveness, but to sanity in a rapidly changing world.
Your mind may be likened to a garden that may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. You are the master gardener of your soul, the director of your life. 
