Inspiring Quotes
for Contemplation:
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry David Thoreau
"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking." -Black Elk
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"A dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most sacred recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness." - Carl Jung
"The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world."
- Joseph Campbell
"The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Attention--yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future." - H.H. the Dalai Lama
"I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean." - Rumi
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men." - Black Elk
"If I had only two loaves of bread, I would barter one for hyacinths to nourish my Soul." -Muhammad
"Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation." -Fritjof Capra, physicist and author
"Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely." -Albert Einstein
"There is one common flow, one common breathing. All things are in sympathy." - Hippocrates
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why." - Albert Einstein
"With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry." -Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"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
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes." - Peter Koestenbaum
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny." -Paul Tillich
"A painting is never finished--it simply stops in interesting places." -Paul Gardner
"I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born." - Isadora Duncan
"Play is the exultation of the possible." - Martin Buber
"Do not fear mistakes--there are none." - Miles Davis
"To keep the body in good health is a duty…. Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
- Buddha
"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being." -Black Elk
"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-Tzu
"Only when he no longer knows what his is doing does the painter do good things." -Edgar Degas
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
"The life which is not examined is not worth living." - Plato
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"Be really whole and all things will come to you." - Lao-Tzu
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." - C.G. Jung
"There is no must in art because art is free." - Wassily Kandinsky
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur." -Leo Tolstoy
"Look and you will find it--what is unsought will go undetected." - Sophocles
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind." - W. H. Auden
"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."
- Brenda Ueland
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
- Shakti Gawain
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
- Ovid
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, yo feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
- Shakti Gawain
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." -Henry David Thoreau
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - C.G. Jung
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." - C.G. Jung
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about…. Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe." - Rumi
"Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." - Georgia O'Keefe
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - C.G. Jung
"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness--I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." - Aaron Copland
"Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'" - The Talmud
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." - Piet Mondrian
"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking." -Black Elk
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"A dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most sacred recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness." - Carl Jung
"The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world."
- Joseph Campbell
"The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Attention--yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future." - H.H. the Dalai Lama
"I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean." - Rumi
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men." - Black Elk
"If I had only two loaves of bread, I would barter one for hyacinths to nourish my Soul." -Muhammad
"Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation." -Fritjof Capra, physicist and author
"Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely." -Albert Einstein
"There is one common flow, one common breathing. All things are in sympathy." - Hippocrates
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why." - Albert Einstein
"With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry." -Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"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
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes." - Peter Koestenbaum
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny." -Paul Tillich
"A painting is never finished--it simply stops in interesting places." -Paul Gardner
"I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born." - Isadora Duncan
"Play is the exultation of the possible." - Martin Buber
"Do not fear mistakes--there are none." - Miles Davis
"To keep the body in good health is a duty…. Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
- Buddha
"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being." -Black Elk
"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-Tzu
"Only when he no longer knows what his is doing does the painter do good things." -Edgar Degas
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
"The life which is not examined is not worth living." - Plato
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"Be really whole and all things will come to you." - Lao-Tzu
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." - C.G. Jung
"There is no must in art because art is free." - Wassily Kandinsky
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur." -Leo Tolstoy
"Look and you will find it--what is unsought will go undetected." - Sophocles
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind." - W. H. Auden
"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."
- Brenda Ueland
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
- Shakti Gawain
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
- Ovid
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, yo feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
- Shakti Gawain
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." -Henry David Thoreau
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - C.G. Jung
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." - C.G. Jung
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about…. Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe." - Rumi
"Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." - Georgia O'Keefe
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - C.G. Jung
"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness--I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." - Aaron Copland
"Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'" - The Talmud
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." - Piet Mondrian