I Like Your Christ

I like your Christ, I do not
like your Christians. Your
Christians are so unlike
your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wearing Shoes, or Not

People who don't wear shoes
learn the languages of people
who do, not vice versa.

Mary Catherine Bateson

All the Possibilities

The world is not made up
of particles and waves
and beams of light with
a definite existence.
Instead the world works in
a much more exploratory way.
It is aware of all the possibilities
at once and is trying them out
all the time.

Neil Turok

Power

Power is the ability
not to have to learn.

Karl Deutsch

The Ultimate Criteria

Does not the uncertainty of our time
teach us the most important lesson of all -
that the ultimate criteria are the honesty,
integrity, courage, and love of a given
moment of relatedness? If we do not have that,
we are not building for the future anyway;
if we do have it, we can trust the future to itself.

Rollo May

More Love Than You Have Ever Known

Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You're being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your child, or your most intimate lover--anyone. This lover doesn't need anything from you, isn't looking for personal gratification, and only wants your complete fulfillment. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success--none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass

Giving Back

If you are a gifted person, it
doesn't mean that you gained
something. It means you have
something to give back.

Carl Jung

Truly Horrible

Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives
they must lead.

Charles Bukowski