“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"We live in a culture that is greatly biased against the imagination, because our culture is very materialistic, objective and literal. Our culture lacks soul, and doesn't know it, although it experiences the consequences. When you don’t know what’s missing, then of course you don’t know what to bring in, even though you feel something is missing."
“We live in a world that needs more soul, more meaning. We, as conscious beings, have, as our primary responsibility, at this time in human history, the task of bringing soul into the world, or releasing soul into the world. We do this, first of all, in ourselves and in our own personal world; then we do it in our groups – including family; then we do it in our society through our work, relationships and presence there.”
-- Andrew Schneider
"When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slip backward -- we may actually be backing up to get a running start."
-- Dan Millman
Books are a uniquely portable magic
-- Stephen King
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, And urge us on to futile activity, And in the end, judge us still more severely, For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?”
-- T. S. Eliot
"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."
-- Dawn Adams
"You can never plan the future by the past"
-Edmund Burke
“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.…”
-- Dinah Craik
“...self-contempt never inspires lasting change.”
-- Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
—Thomas J. Watson
