“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
Black Elk, Oglala Sioux
Holy Man“I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.” Ghandi
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.”
Patanjali
“There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together. Silence separates us from ourselves, makes us sail the firmament of spirit, and brings us closer to Heaven.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others… And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny, by developing the potential that the soul represents. When you fulfill your soul’s destiny, you will feel “right.”
Rabbi Harold Kushner
“…To a child I shall give wings, but I shall let him fly on his own.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“…All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”
Chief Seattle
“ When we bless others, we free the goodness in them and in ourselves. When we bless life, we restore the world.”
Rachel Naomi Remen
“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”
John F. Kennedy
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal them to their own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“… for we will recover our sense of wonder and our sense of the sacred only if we appreciate the universe beyond ourselves as a revelatory experience of that numinous presence whence all things come into being. Indeed, the universe is the primary sacred reality.”
Thomas Berry
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched… but are felt in the heart.”
Helen Keller
“Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People.”
Mohawk thanksgiving prayer.
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