"Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others."

Harriet Lerner, in The Sun magazine, December 2009

"Hell isn't a condition imposed by a judgmental God, but rather the inevitable consequence of one's own decisions - it's the final outcome of constantly choosing the negative and thus isolating oneself from Love. "

David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force

"SOULMATE: The person who makes you the most you you could possibly be; the person who forces your soul to grow the most."

Six Feet Under

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."

Helen Keller

"Parents are as confused by life as anyone else. But they try very hard."

Rohinton Mistry from A Fine Balance

"The first duty of love is to listen."

Paul Tillich from a Good Earth Tea Bag

"The bad news is - time flies. The good news is - you're the pilot. "

Ben from the movie Cashback

"Beat the rush to the familiar and value the GAP between where you are and where you are going...the GAP is just the GAP. It's what you say, think and believe about the GAP that determines the outcome. "

Mary Morrissey

"Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening."

Zen saying

"Patience is natural to those who trust."

From A Course in Miracles, of course!

Human by The Killers

"Once enslaved, few want to burst our from under the leaking roof of the slave hut to freedom and stumble in the cold dark night alone. In the back part of our hearts, we equate freedom with terror. To be free leaves us isolated from the other slaves. Better that we rage until we are palsied, point and squall and wail at fate, shake our fists at God, blame the politicians, blame anybody, everything, because to become free demands that we take responsibility for our bondage. No, we do not want freedom. We were born in slavery. It is too frightening outside the slave hut. We want, instead, a more comfortable slavery, gilded with bountiful excuses for our servitude."

Gerry Spence from his book Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

...as long as you continue to see others as separate from you, a feeling of hostility towards them cannot fail to prevail."

Swami Prajnanpad from Wisdom of the East: 2010 Mini Day-to-Day Calendar