Secrets of Tomorrow

RIC_7581-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   
   What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help
   you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

     Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Optimism

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    Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.
   Because unless you believe that the future can be
   better, you are unlikely to step up and take
   responsibility for making it so.

    Noam Chomsky

What lies within us

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What lies behind us and what lies

before us are small matters when

compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the way to feel

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Whatever happens or don’t. Love is the way to feel.

Alice Walker,

The Same River Twice: Honouring the Difficult

Labyrinth

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There are no blind ends in a labyrinth, the path often doubles back on itself, the direction forward which we are facing is continually changing, and if we do not turn back or give up we will reach the centre to find the rose, the Goddess, the Grail, a symbol representing the sacred feminine. To return to ordinary life, we much again travel the labyrinth to get out, which is also a complex journey for it involves integrating the experience into consciousness, which is what changes us.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, Crossing to Avalon

 

The one and only one

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Only you can make your mind up!

You’re the one and only one.

Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, Hunches in Bunches

Sympathy

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Sympathy is a consequence of inclusion, the affectionate

result of an expanded identity that occurs when “self” and

“other” are recognized as simply “self.”

Lin Jensen, "Having the Lake to Ourselves”
   in The Best Buddhist Writing 2011, ed. by Melvin McLeod

Art

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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Pablo Picasso

What do you want of your life?

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I asked myself the question, "What do

you want of your life?" and I realized

with a start of recognition and terror,

"Exactly what  I have – but to be

commensurate, to handle it all better. 

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Seeing

RIC_9719-3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The meaning of life is to see.

Hui Neng

Art is the mirror

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Art is the mirror, perhaps the only one,

in which we can see our true collective

face. We must honour its sacred

function. We must let art help us.

Alice Walker,
  The Same River Twice: Honouring the Difficult

Doorway to God

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The wailing of broken heart is the doorway to God.

Rumi

Monoculture

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The governing pattern a culture obeys is a master story – one

narrative in society that takes over the others, shrinking

diversity and forming a monoculture. When you’re inside a

master story at a particular time in history, you tend to

accept its definition of reality. You unconsciously believe and

act on certain things, and disbelieve and fail to act on other

things. That’s the power of the monoculture; it’s able to

direct us without us knowing too much about it.

 F. S. Michaels, Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything

Adventure

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Adventure is stepping through brand-new doors with your mouth shut and your eyes wide open.

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

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Learning

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... that is what learning is.
You suddenly understand
something you've understood all your life,
but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

Being Alive

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     I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just
   watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love
   to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

   Anais Nin

Gratitude

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At times our own light goes out and is

rekindled by a spark from another

person.  Each of us has cause to think

with deep gratitude of those who have

lighted the flame within us. 

Albert Schweitzer

the grain of sand

RIC_9880-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

It is not the road ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe. 

Arabian Proverb

Returning thanks

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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Saint Ambrose

But the question

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It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. 

Eugene Ionesco