When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.

The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews