“If you think you’re too small to make a difference…try sleeping with a mosquito in the room.” – Dalai Lama How do mosquitoes know to buzz in your ear to drive you absolutely crazy? And how do they know to wait until you’re just...
“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” – Rumi Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Islamic scholar. Rumi’s works are written mostly in Persian, but he occasionally used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek in his verse. His Masnavi (Mathnawi), composed in...
Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is happening; it’s about what is really going on.” – Nell Newman, daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. She is an environmentalist,...
“Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” Possibly, Incidentally, the first part of the quote is very similar to the words of the 4th century Greek poet, Palladas, who wrote “Day by day we are born as night...
“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over. For what it’s worth… it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be...
“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” While attributed to many sources, Ma Jaya Sati writes this quote in The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns that Bind You. Through awareness, intuition, and grace, it is possible to choose...
