- David Dellinger

"...never lose sight of either the internal world or the external world, the peace within and the peace based on justice outside."

- Christopher Bamford

"As a free deed, meditation is naturally individual, uniquely our own. It is where we most fully become ourselves. Its practice is also always individual. There are no rules.

"Just as every potter will elaborate his or her own way of making pots, so every person who meditates will shape his or her own meditation. No two people will do a given meditation in exactly the same way. The same meditation practiced daily will be different every time.

"Every meditation is experimental. One never knows what is going to happen. Improvisation is essential... Meditation is something to play with... There is no 'wrong' way of doing the meditation, except not doing it!"

— Aldous Huxley

"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days... Lightly, lightly - it's the best advice ever given me... So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling..."

— Vincent van Gogh

"I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

— Nikola Tesla

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

— Monica Drake

Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

— Carl Sagan

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. 
There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. 
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the 
climax of creation.

— Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

— Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Found, 5.20.2009

Ego sees what ego does. Pull then shove, pull then shove? God simply sees and smiles and loves. One hand opened, one hand gloved. Dancing the balance of hawk and dove.