... some words for reflection...

...and inspiration...

   Do not accept anythying simply because it has been said by your teacher,

   Or because it has been written in your sacred book,

   Or because it has been believed by many,

   Or because it has been handed down by your ancestors,

   Accept and live only according to what will enable you to see Truth face to face.

   (words of the Buddha to his disciple Kamala)

   Opposition between good and bad

   Is often compared to light and dark,

   But if we look at it in a different way,

   We will see that...

   When light shines, darkness does not disappear.

   It does not leave;

   It merges with the light.

   (from The Sun My Heart, Thich Nhat Hanh)

   The intuitive mind is a sacred gift...

   And the rational mind is a faithful servant.

   We have created a society

   That honors the servant

   And has forgotten the gift.

   (Albert Einstein)

   If you are not friends with yourself, who will be?

   If you are only that, what are you?

   If not now, when?

   (Rabbi Hillel)

   You can never truly, purely fall in love with another
   since you have never truly, purely fallen in love with yourself.

   ('Conversations with God", Neale Donald Walsch)

   May my Actions be linked to my heart,

   May my Heart  be connected to the Truth within me,

   May the Truth within me be connected to the Divine,

   May the Divine be reflected in my Actions.

   (Buddhist prayer)