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Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'
--Erich Fromm

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only with the heart that one sees rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
--Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
--Ayn Rand

There is no room for the arbitrary in any activity of man, least of all in his method of cognition, and just as he has learned to be guided by objective criteria in making his physical tools, so he must be guided by objective criteria in forming his tools of cognition: his concepts.
--Ayn Rand, (1905-1982) Alice Rosenbaum

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
--Ayn Rand

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
--Ayn Rand

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others.--Anais Nin

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you.  --Ben Kingsley

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers, and as psychotic if he makes others suffer.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic--in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea--known to medical science is work.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacles to learning than stupidity.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.

Men and women 'in love' share the mistaken belief that they live in the same world. They come to 'love' one another when they acknowledge that they live in different worlds, but are prepared, once in a while, to cross the chasm that separates them.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.

I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
--Douglas Adams Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
--Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
--Socrates

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Envy and fear cause the face to pale, and love makes it glow.
--Paramhansa Yogananda

From Joy we came; for Joy we live; and in the sacred divine joy we will one day melt again.
--Paramhansa Yogananda

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
--George Balanchine

If I cannot dance, I want no part in your revolution.
--Emma Goldman

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player
--Albert Einstein

Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain.
--Unknown

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. --David Lloyd George

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. --Arthur C. Clarke.  
[rationale for dedicating self to inspired economies.]

[I have no interest in anyone who does not know pain.] - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get.
--Bertrand Russell

You see things as they are and ask "Why?"  I dream things that never were and I ask "Why not?"
--George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
--George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
--George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
--George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
--George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
--George Bernard Shaw.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
--George Bernard Shaw

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part."
--George Bernard Shaw

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
--J. Krishnamurti

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
--Krishnamurti

Beginning the day, I see that life is a miracle.
Attentive to each moment, I keep my mind clear like a calm river.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh 

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, 
to have the life that is waiting for us. 
  ~ ~ ~ ~ 
When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear . . .
when you follow your bliss . . . 
doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . 
and the world will step in and help. 
  ~ ~ ~ ~  
If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track 
that has been there all the while, waiting for you...
You begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. 
Follow your bliss and ... doors will open where you didn’t know they were.... 
  ~ ~ ~ ~ 
~ Joseph Campbell 

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!  
Yesterday is but a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision:
But Today well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
~ Sanskrit poem, author unknown 

We are travelers on a cosmic journey ~
stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.
 Life is eternal,
But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient.
 Gautauma Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, once said,
this existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.
 To watch the birth and death of beings
is like looking at the movements of a dance.
 A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky.
Rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.
 We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other,
to meet, to love, to share.
 This is a precious moment… ~ Deepak Chopra  


Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. 
But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, 
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, 
And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret…. 
  You have been told that life is darkness, 
And in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary. 
And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, 
And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, 
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, 
And all work is empty save when there is love; 
And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, 
and to one another, and to God.   
~ ~ ~ ~ 
Work is love made visible. 
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, 
It is better that you should leave your work and 
Sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. 
  For if you bake bread with indifference, 
You bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. 
  And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, 
Your grudge distils a poison in the wine. 
  And if you sing though as angels and not love the singing, 
You muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. 
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet  

We live our lives entirely inside an illusion—a virtual reality far more convincing than any yet created by computer.
So mesmerized are we by it that we find the greatest difficulty
in imagining that the world could be any other way.
~ David Darling, Astronomer, Writer

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
But in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust

[Conscious Evolution is a Historical Event]
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~William James

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands 
at the cradle of true art and true science.
Whosoever does not know it and can no longer wonder,
No longer marvel, is as good as dead,
And his eyes are dimmed.
~ Albert Einstein


There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns.
We have an excuse not to shine.
We don't have to take responsibility for the world
when we're spending all our time in emotional pain.
~ Marianne Williamson 

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change 
And to preserve change amid order. 
~ Alfred North Whitehead 

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, 
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness 
and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ~ ....

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. 
I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. 
~ Thich Nhat Hanh  

Seek above all a game worth playing.
Play it as if your life and sanity depend on it,
Because they do!
~ Robert de Ropp

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. 
I am the happiest man alive.~ Henry Miller 

"When the winds of change blow, those who succeed build windmills, not huts." - Billy Breeden

"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

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You are God pretending to be whatever you are right now. You have allowed yourself to descend, but by pretending to be less than what you are, you have not ascended back to God.

"Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in."
--Willis Harman

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
--Melody Beattie

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be these things?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won't feel insecure.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically releases others."
--Marriane Williamson, from 'A Return to Love'.

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
--Meister Eckhart

"You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, or by railing against it - you must shine light on it."
  --Shakti Gawain  [edited]

"If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."
--Chinese Proverb

"We see things not as they are, but as we are."
--H.M. Tomlinson

"What we think is less than what we know;
What we know is less than what we love;
What we love is so much less than what there is.
And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are."
--R.D. Laing (The Politics of Experience)

"Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"

"When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect."
--Peace Pilgrim

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
--Albert Einsten

"Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence."
--Hebrew proverb

"Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you."
--Aldous Huxley

"Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
--J. F. Kennedy

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
--George Elliot

"Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason."
--Carl Jung

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?"

"A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today, just the way you are."

"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words."

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
--Charles Darwin

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
--Harold Whitman

"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
--Claude Bernard

"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear."
--Michel de Montaigne

"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions."
--Eckhart Tolle

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
--Goethe

"Our identity is very closely associated with our thoughts and feelings. Usually, when we feel anger, we become angry. We are anger itself. When we feel depressed, we are depression. When we feel greedy we are greed. It's easy to see ourselves in the emotional 'guise du jour' and mistake this costume for who we really are beneath it."
--Marc Gilson

"An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind."
--Mahatma Ghandi

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
--Carl Jung

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Ghandi

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
--Henry Miller

"God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
--Reinhold Niebuhr

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw

"It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it's because we do not dare that they are difficult."
--Seneca

"If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others."
--Dalai Lama

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
--Thomas Szasz

The Dilemma

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before a crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrows, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or love. 

[[compare: investment theory: risk of stock market vs risk of savings account due to inflation and opportunity cost]]

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth."
--Sarah Ban Breathnach

"It is never too late to become what you might have been."
--George Elliot

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
--Carl Bard

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
--Alexander Graham Bell

"It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -- more important now was for me to love them. That turned my whole life around."
--Beverly Sills  (opera singer)

"The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other."

"If he is indeed wise, the teacher does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather he leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
--Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
--Johannes A. Gaertner

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
--Albert Einstein

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
--George Bernard Shaw

"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
--Lao Tzu

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light."
--Plato

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky."
--Rainer Maria Rilke

"Comfort is found among those who agree with you; growth among those who don't."

"I couldn't wait for success....so I went ahead without it."
--Jonathon Winters

"Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
--Calvin Coolidge (President USA)

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
--Robert Service

"Worrying is like being in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but does not get you anywhere."

"Experience is a teacher who gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
--Chinese Proverb

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny."
--Carl Schurz

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
--Henry Van Dyke

"You are up and you are happy.
You are down and you are sad.
Once balanced, no more ups and downs,
but bliss and joy and gratitude."
--Tishan

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

"Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift and that's why we call it the present."

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."

Gratitude:

"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."
--Marcus Aurelius

"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday."
--Kahlil Gibran

"Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing."
--Guy Kawasaki

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
--Plutarch

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
--William James

"If you are seeking revenge, start by digging two graves."
--Ancient Chinese proverb

"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
--Teilhard de Chardin

"All of life is a near-death experience."
--Alan Harris

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond."
--Rumi

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
--Mother Teresa

"Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do."
--Steve Jobs, Apple C.E.O.

"When you're young, you look at most of the programs on television and think, 'There's a conspiracy! The networks have conspired to dumb us down!' But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in the business to make money by giving people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic. You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution!"
--Steve Jobs

"Without death there would be very little progress."
--Steve Jobs

"Don't be so humble; you're not that great."
--Golda Meir, to a visiting diplomat

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
--Susan Ertz

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

"The following sentence is true.
The previous sentence is false."

"All generalizations are false - including this one."

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
--Groucho Marx

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
--H. L. Mencken

"Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it."

"An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true."

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

PRAYER

I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed

MY PRAYER HAS BEEN ANSWERED

"Namaste" is an East Indian greeting (by putting the palms of the hands together in prayer position) which means, "I respect the place in you that is of love, of truth and of Light. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, then we are one."
    Or in other words, "The divine within me recognizes and honors the divine within you."
    Beyond our aching bones, our tired feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a dimension that is more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the 'trappings and the suits of woe' as Hamlet would say --- a dimension where there isn't a 'you' and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all that, a space for the eternal within the temporal.
--Namaste Cafe

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each
guest has been sent as a guide from beyond"   Rumi

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." - Dale Carnegie