Quotes I find inspiring (or at least interesting)

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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

You've heard the story of the student who wanted to be the best fighter, constantly challenging others? The master said, "All you have to do is control one opponent and you will be a supreme warrior." The student asked who and the master turned him to face a mirror and said Him! - Rich Adzgowski

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. - (Unknown)

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind. - Margaret Atwood

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. - Albert Einstein

Larry King: Do you believe in God?

Stephen Hawking: Yes, if by God is meant the embodiment of the law of the universe.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

- Carl Sagan

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land. - Sitting Bull

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. - Baruch Spinoza

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
- Oprah Winfrey

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my God. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. - Mikhail Gorbachev

The world is a sacred place and a sacred process...and we’re part of it. - Daniel Quinn

Most people are on the world, not in it--have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching, but separate. - John Muir

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred. - N. Scott Momaday (Native American Writer)

The arch of sky and mightiness of storms
Have moved the spirit within me,
Till I am carried away
Trembling with joy.
- Uvavnuk (Inuit shaman)

What is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot (Blackfoot Native American)

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. - J.J. Van der Leeuw

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world. - Jane Smiley

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. - Rudolf Steiner

Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is religion in everything around us, a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things in Nature.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating, there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Standing alone on a mountain top, it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make--leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents of piled stone--we all dwell in a house of one room... - John Muir

My thanksgiving is perpetual...oh how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it--for my wealth is not in possessions but enjoyment.
- Henry David Thoreau

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. - Kabir

While my hand is steady,
While my eyes are good
I will carve the music of the wind
Into the wood.
- Dick Swain

Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time. - Asha Tyson

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding
as it should.
- Max Ehrmann

"I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'thems' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart." - Ram Dass

Oh chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music. O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
- William Butler Yeats