The soul would rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

        -- David Whyte (Author of “The Heart Aroused”)

You are more precious than both heaven and earth;
You know not your own worth.

Sell not yourself at little price,
Being so precious in God’s eyes.

        -- Rumi  (“Essential Sufism”, Fadiman & Frager)

As you continue to work on your understanding of your self and others, you are really engaged in love.

        -- Fred Rogers  (“You Are Special”)

One sure sign of growing awareness is that you “feel” as if you’re getting worse.

        -- Dan Millman  (“The Warrior Athlete”)

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

        -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The goal of your quest for yourself is to find that burning point in yourself, that becoming thing in yourself, which is fearless and desireless, but just becoming.

        -- Joseph Campbell  (“Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth” on PBS)

Instead of worshipping ancestors or deities conceived as parents, we must celebrate the mysterious sacredness of that which is still to be born.

        -- Mary Catherine Bateson  (“Composing a Life”)

Beauty before me
Beauty behind me
Beauty to the right of me
Beauty to the left of me
Beauty above me
Beauty below me
I am on the Pollen Path.

        -- Navajo saying

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life.

        -- Eckhart Tolle  (“The Power of Now”)