"I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy. -Rabindranath Tagore
"SEE that evil no longer overpowers good,. FEEL that hate has lost the battle and love has won...,and KNOW
that love is winning in your life too". --susan k stafford
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are" -Anais Nin
"Helping fellow human beings is the greatest gift any of us can experience. Our opportunity to give begins
with listening. Then with learning. Then with understanding. Sometimes all you have to do is be there..." (quote from"Gift
From Within" website)
Emotional literacy: the capacity for sophisticated utilization of emotional information -(Claude Steiner)
"When we give to the world what we want the most, we heal what is broken inside us." -Eve Enstler-activist
"Live as if every second, every thought, every word, and even the smallest act, matters...because it DOES!
We each have the power to change the world for better or for worse every day" -susan k stafford
"Pssst, say:" 'My life will be redeemed by the extent that I help redeem others' lives.' "Pass it on!" -susan
k stafford
"For me, there is only the following of the path with heart, any path
that may have heart. The
only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its
full length. There I walk, looking, looking breathlessly".
-Don Juan
from Carlos Castaneda
"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"-
T.S Elliot
"Overstating an opposing viewpoint doesn't constitute "balance" -unknown
"Every loving act and word ultimately effects all humanity" (susan k stafford)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has
closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern".—William Blake
"I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names"
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A nation of sheep creates a government of wolves" - Edward R Murrow