More Reflections

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
~James Amay


Don't believe what your eyes are telling you.
All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding,
find out what you already know,
and you'll see the way to fly.
~Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)


Come dance with the west wind and
Touch on the mountain tops,
Sail over canyons and up to the stars.
And reach for the heavens,
and hope for the future,
And all that we can be,
not just what we are.
~John Denver


In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus


When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
~ Rodney Yee


God put me on this earth to do a certain number of things.
Right now I'm so far behind that I will never die! 
~Source Unknown


Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~Cindy Clabough


Most of the shadows of the world are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense
as when you giver offense.
~Ken Keyes, Jr.


The greatest obstacle, in fact the final obstacle, is the belief that there is an obstacle.
~Source Unknown


A young man who died entered heaven shaking his fist at God.
"Why didn't you do something about all the suffering in the world I just left?"

"I did," replied God.
"I created you."
~Gary Zukav


The only reason I am upset is because
I had the audacity to think I knew
what should happen next.
~Anthony S. Dallmann-Jones, Ph.D


Give me beauty in the inward soul
and may the outward and inward be as one
~Plato


Always remember today was the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday!
~Source Unknown


He not busy being born, is busy dying.
~Bob Dylan


As there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads and the infinite heavens,
so is there no bar or wall in the soul
where man, the effect, ceases,
and God, the cause,begins.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


We were born to love people and use things.
Instead we love things and use people.
~Leo Buscaglia


There was never any more inception
than there is now.
Nor any more youth or age
than there is now.
And will never be any more perfection
than there is now.
Nor any more heaven or hell
than there is now.
~Walt Witman


The gift is not what we do, but who we are.
~Source Unknown


A small child looked at a star and began to weep. And the star
said, "Child, why are you weeping?" And the child said, "You are so
far away I will never be able to touch you." And the star answered
"Child, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me."
~John Magliola


Regrets are just lessons we haven't learned yet.
~Beth Orton


One day, reaching for some toilet paper, I noticed an ant on the piece I was about to use. With a puff of air, I blew the ant off the paper. I'm sure to the ant this may have seemed like a huge misfortune ~ unless it considered the alternative!
~Dan Millman (No Ordinary Moments)


What the caterpillar calls the end of the world
the master calls a butterfly.
~Richard Bach (Illusions)


If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
~Mark Nepo


Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are
and listen to the wind singing in your veins.
~John Welwood


There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~Rumi


Allow children to be happy in their own way,
for what better way will they ever find?
~Dr. Johnson


I know where the windflowers blow!
I know. I have been where the little
rabbits run, I and warm yellow sun!
~Diane Jurkovic, Grade 2


When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance...
~Mark Sanders & Tia Sillers


I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe
when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
~Woody Allen


The point of life is not to get anywhere ~ it is to notice
that you are, and have always been, already there.
~Neale Donald Walsch


We are here and it is now. Furthere than that,
all human knowledge is moonshine.
~H.L.Mencken


O what have I forgotten since I took Lessons in logic from a borrowed book?
What was it that I used to understand, but have let slip between my heart and hand?
~Edward Davison


You are that which you are seeking
~St. Francis


...I know who I was when I got up this morning,
but I think I must have changed several times since then.
~Lewis Carol


We are such stuff as dreams are made on
And our little life is rounded with a sleep.
~Shakespeare


Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.


Not in entire forgetfulness
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
~Wordsworth


Finding myself to exist in the world,
I believe I shall, in some shape or other,
always exist.
~Benjamin Franklin


What you are is God's gift to you;
What you make of it is your gift to God.
~Anthony Dalla Villa


Don't be dismayed at good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
~Richard Bach (Illusions)