"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being." Black Elk, Lakota The Wild Divine is helping to transform our mass consciousness to one of peace and harmony through a very practical program that allows people to get in intimate touch with the innermost core of their being. To know that they have more power than they have ever realized, to know that they can influence what is happening in their body, in their mind, in their emotions, as well as in the world that they create everyday." Deepak Chopra, M.D "Everyone has his own fingerprints. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that". --Charles R. Brown "...you cannot hope to solve any problem using the same energy that created the problem." Neale Donald Walsh "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." Alice Walker "True lovers do not have to meet in space and time. They are always united in their hearts." Joyce Vissel "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic" Frank Herbert "I am in love with every church, and mosque, and temple, and any kind of shrine; because I know it is there that people say the different names of the one God." Hafiz "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." The Dalai Lama "Straight lines are axiomatically self-contradictory and self cancelling hypothetical ventures" Buckminster Fuller "The intellect is powerless to express thought without the aid of the heart." Henry David Thoreau "Every Action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." Edwin Hubbel Chapin "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart." Helen Keller "Only the heart knows how to find what is precious." Fyodor Dostoyesvsky "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." Sir Isaac Newton "Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit" Antoine De Saint-Exupery "Our aspirations are our possibilities" Samuel Johnson "No bird soars too high if she/he soarswith his/her own wings." William Blake "Nature never did betray the heart that loved Her." William Wordsworth "Take care of each moment and you will take care of all time" Buddha "If we don't change our coursewe will end where we are heading" Chinese proverb "If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean" Yiddish Saying "In real love, you want the other person's good. In "romantic" love you want the other person." Margaret Anderson "Moral indignation...permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue." Erich Fromm "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is." Winston Churchill "We are called hollow bones for our people and for anyone else we can help, and we are not supposed to seek power for our personal use and honor." --Fools Crow, LAKOTA "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." Henry David Thoreau "Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." Satchel Paige "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light." Plato "The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak." Jacques Bousset, 1627-1704 Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk." Dalai Lama, 1935- "Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be "unseen". There's no "going back" to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist...why would you want to?" Dave Sim "We must never forget that spritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules." Paul Coelho "Hell, there are no rules here-we're trying to accomplish something." Thomas Edison "What you see with your eyes closed is what counts." John *Fire* Lame Deer " Be realistic: Plan for a miracle." "Osho" Rajneesh "It does not require many words to speak the truth." Chief Joseph "If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand." Buddha "And the day came when the risk [it took] to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin "Become the change you seek in the world" Mahatma Ghandi "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" Albert Einstein "If you bring forth what lies within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you" Yeshua "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." C.G. Jung "The virtue of the universe is wholeness. It regards al things as equal." Tao Te Ching "The meeting of two people is like the meeting of two chemical substances. If anything happens, both are changed" C.G. Jung "If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire" Simone Weil "Ride the horse in the direction that it's going" Werner Erhard "There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." Rainer Maria Wilke "You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note." Not sure of the source, but it beared repeating... "It is only with the heart that one sees clearly, what is essential is invisible to the human eye." Antoine De Exupery "The entity that says, "I would like to have marvelous experiences, therefore, I must force my brain to be quiet," will never do it. But if you begin to inquire, observe, listen to al the movements of thought, its conditionings, its pursuits, its fears, its pleasures, watch how the brain operates, then you will see that the brain becomes extraordinarily quiet". J. Krishnamurti "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." William Blake "If religions are authentic, they contain the same elements of stability, joy, peace, understanding, and love. The similarities as well as the differences are there. They differ only in terms of emphasis. Glucose and acid are in all fruits but their degrees differ. We cannot say that one is a real fruit and the other is not." Thich Nhat Hanh "Seclude the mind, not the movements; ... remain living in the world of man. ... Lack a tree? Plant a sapling. ... Without a mountain? Look at a picture. ... Living amidst clamor I am not flustered; ... true meaning is found in this." by Ch'iao-jan (734-c.792) Excerpt from "Zen" Edited by Niriam Levering & Lucien Stryk "... Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves." Swami Vivekananda Whenever a feeling is voiced with truth and frankness, Whenever a deed is a clear expression of sentiment, A mysterious and far-reaching influence is exerted. At first it acts on those who are inwardly receptive, But the circle grows larger and larger, The root of all influence lies in one's inner being, Given true and vigorous expression in word and deed, it's effect is great. The I CHING Hexagram 61 Nine in second place p, 239 "A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other." M.C. Richards "If that which you seek, you find not within, you will never find it without: Aradia "...there is no death, but only a change of worlds..." Chief Seattle

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves". Galileo Galilei "The principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open" The Kybalion "To choose is also to begin." Starhawk "There is no roon for honor in the heart that is filled with fear..." Diana L. Paxson and Adrienne Martine-Barnes "We are all sorcerers and live in a wonderland of marvel and beauty if we did but know it." Charles Godfrey Leland "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." George Harrison "We have flowed in the blood of all our human ancestors, and we carry their memories. We remember. We remember that our water will one day flow in the bodies of our children, our grandchildren. We remember to honor every drop of the living water, for it is Who We Are." K.L. Ekholt "When the snake sheds his skin, he leaves it behind. He doesn't take it with him, just in case..." Leave the past behind and keep moving. My Grandmother Antonina "Today I will be recording your EVERY thought and emotion... And everything I record will be played back for you, as soon as possible, as some type of physical manifestation in time and space" The Universe