"Let nothing disturb you. God alone suffices."
-- Teresa of Avila
"It is my belief that in the Presence of God there is neither male nor female, white nor black, Gentile nor Jew, Protestant nor Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, nor Muslim, but a human spirit stripped to the literal substance of itself before God."
-- Howard Thurman, Creative Encounter
"God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with whole-hearted devotion. One may eat cake with icing either straight or sideways. It will taste sweet either way."
-- Sri Ramakrishna
"Eventually we're all going to dance with God... it's just going to take some of us longer to learn the steps."
-- Deb Booth
"If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein
"When the bird and the book disagree, always believe the bird."
-- James Audobon
"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
-- A.J. Muste
"My religion is kindness."
-- The Dalai Lama
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-- Albert Camus
"Joy comes from God... From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return."
-- The Upanishads
"Not all who wander are lost."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
"God is not God's name. God is our name for that which is greater than all yet present in each."
-- Forrest Church
"People usually consider walking on water or in the air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
-- Thich Nhat Hahn, The Miracle of Mindfulness, pg 12
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”
-- Mother Teresa
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
-- Thoreau, Walden
"The wine of divine grace is limitless: All limits come only from the faults of the cup. Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. Grant a great dignity, my friend, to the cup of your life; Love has designed it to hold His eternal wine."
-- Rumi, Mathnawi
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always."
-- Gandhi
"Hatred does not cease by hate, but only by love; this is the eternal Law"
-- The Buddha, The Dhammapada, Chapter 1
"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you..."
-- Jesus, Luke 6:26-28
"When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths, or two religions."
-- Amma
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plan: that the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings oand material assistance which no one could have dreamt would come one's way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer."
-- Thomas Merton
"Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see."
-- Bill Wilson, Cofounder Alcoholics Anonymous
"Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty"
-- Lao Tzu
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
-- Dawna Markova, Fully Alive
"God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else... Everything that is in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness."
-- Hildegard of Bingen
"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."
-- The Talmud
"Let yourself be silently drawn, by the stronger pull of what you really love."
-- Rumi
"People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."
-- Joseph Campbell
"The soul is happy by nature; the soul is happiness itself. It becomes unhappy when something is the matter with its vehicle, its instrument, its tool through which it experiences life. Care of the body, therefore, is the first & most important principle of religion."
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Healing is not forcing the sun to shine, but letting go of that which blocks the light."
-- Stephen & Ondrea Levine
"Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
-- The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:12-13
"There is no death. Only a change of worlds."
-- Seattle [Seatlh] (1786-1866), Suquamish Chief
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
-- 1 John 4:7-8
"...but all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well."
-- Julian of Norwich
"Why is it so important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you "my beloved daughter," "my beloved son," "my beloved child." To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being."
-- Henri Nouwen
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
--Kahlil Gibran
"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases."
-- Joseph [Hinmaton Yalatkit] (1830-1904), Nez Pierce Chief
"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God."
-- Brother Lawrence
"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers."
-- Bernard Haisch
"...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan."
-- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin [Zitkala-Sa] (1876-1938), Dakota Sioux
“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; To put the nation in order,we must first put the family in order; To put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; We must first set our hearts right.”
-- Confucious
“Now I say to you in conclusion, life is hard, at times as hard as crucible steel. (Mmm)
It has its bleak and difficult moments.
Like the ever-flowing waters of the river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. (Yeah)
Like the ever-changing cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of its summers
and the piercing chill of its winters. (Yeah)
But if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, (Yeah. Well)
and that God is able (Yeah) to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope
and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace. (Mmm)”
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
"But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
Thorton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
"Pleasing God Is the only ritual I do. Without inner experience all rituals mean nothing."
-- Japji Meditation of the Soul - Verse 6
"Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts."
-- Mother Teresa
"Blessed are the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek:
for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
-- Jesus, Matthew 5:3-10
"If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart."
-- Lao Tzu
"It is the nature of the Tao, that even though used continuously, it is replenished naturally, never being emptied, and never being over-filled, as is a goblet which spills its contents upon the ground."
-- Lao Tzu
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-- Margaret Mead
"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of what you think, and everything you do, is for yourself... And there isn't one."
-- Wu Wei Wu, Ask The Awakened
"He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts."
-- Plato, The Symposium
"Through love we steal from the time that kills us a few hours which we turn now into paradise and not into hell. In both ways time expands and ceases to be a measure. Beyond happiness and unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity: it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always. In love, everything is two and everything strives to be one."
-- Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"A true seeker must transcend those joys and delights that are just the ray and reflection of the glory of God. He must not let himself grow content with such things, even though they are of God, come from God's grace, and are of the radiance of God's beauty, for they are not eternal; with reference to God they are eternal: with reference to man, they are not.
Think of the rays of the sun shining into houses. They are rays of the sun, and they are light, but they are attached to the sun and not the houses. When the sun sets, their light no more remains.
What we have to do then is to become the Sun itself, so all fear of separation can forever be ended."
-- Rumi, Letters
"Time is an illusion... lunchtime doubly so." :-)
-- Douglas Adams
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meaness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all, even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
Still treat each guest honorably, he may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because he has been sent as a guide from beyond."
-- Rumi
"Of the many great teachers I've met in India and Asia, if you were to bring them to America, get them a house, two cars, a spouse, three kids, a job, insurance, and taxes... they would all have a hard time."
-- Pir Vilayat Khan (Sufi master), as quoted in After the Ectasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield
"It is one of the tragedies of modern culture that we have lost touch with these primal thresholds of nature. The urbanization of modern life has succeeded in exiling us from this fecund kindship with our mother earth. Fashioned from the earth, we are souls in clay form. We need to remain in rhythm with our inner clay voice and longing. Yet this voice is no longer audible in the modern world. We are not even aware of our loss, consequently, the pain of our spiritual exile is more intense in being largely unintelligible."
-- John O'Donahue, Anam Cara, pg 2
“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit... The thought of some work will run in my head, and I am not where my body is; I am out of my senses... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods”
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Consider that you are in God, surrounded and encompassed by God, swimming in God."
-- Mother Teresa
"God, it seems to me, is a verb, not a noun."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
"Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'"
-- Anne Lamott
"I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."
-- Freeman Dyson
"Relation is the essence of everything that is."
-- Meister Eckhart
“For in [God] we live, and move, and have our being...”
-- The Apostle Paul, Acts 17:28
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulis, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded."
-- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, pg 388
"Someday after we have mastered the air, the winds, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love. And then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Jesus said: If your leaders say to you 'Look! The Kingdom of God is in the sky!' then the birds will be there before you are. If they say that the Kingdom is in the sea, then the fish will be there before you are. Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is outside of you."
-- Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas, saying 3a
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows one, like a shadow that never leaves."
-- The Buddha, Dhammapada Chapter 1
"You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God."
-- Sri Ramakrishna
"The winds of grace are always blowing, but we must raise our sails."
-- Sri Ramakrishna
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and affection."
-- The Buddha
"This world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are."
-- Swami Muktananda
"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being."
-- Ba'al Shem Tov
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
-- Rumi
"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him."
-- C.S. Lewis
"You are the endless sea In whom all the worlds like waves Naturally rise and fall. You have nothing to win, Nothing to lose. Child, You are pure awareness, Nothing less. You and the world are one. So who are you to think You can hold on to it, Or let it go? How could you!"
-- Ashtavakra Gita 15: 11-12
"If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'"
-- The Talmud
"Dance as though no one is watching,
Love as though you have never been hurt,
Sing as though no one can hear you,
Live as though heaven is on earth."
-- Souza
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
-- Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
"To love fully and live well requires us to recognize finally that we do not possess or own anything--our homes, our cars, our loved ones, not even our own body. Spiritual joy and wisdom do not come through possession but rather through our capacity to open, to love more fully, and to move and be free in life."
-- Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart, pg.16
"All other spiritual teachings are in vain if we cannot love. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if, with our hearts, we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given. What matters is how we live."
-- Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart, pg.19
"Whether He replies or not, keep calling Him -- ever calling in the chamber of continuous prayer. Whether He comes or not, believe He is ever approaching nearer to you with each command of your heart's love. Whether He answers or not, keep entreating Him. Even if He makes no reply in the way you expect, ever know that in some subtle way He will respond. In the darkness of your deepest prayers, know that with you He is playing hide-and-seek. And in the midst of His dance of life, disease, and death, if you keep calling Him, undepressed by His seeming silence, you will receive His answer."
-- Paramahansa Yogananda
"Even love unreturned has its own rainbow."
-- James Barrie
"It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than the living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless."
-- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"Who says that the same spirit that moved the makers of Scripture and the mystics of our tradition is somehow retired or on vacation in our day as if all wisdom has been expressed or all need for connections to the Divine has been fulfilled? Quite the opposite is the case, I feel. The Spirit is more at work today than ever precisely because our species is at such a moral and survival crossroads. Artists of all kinds are needed today to let art-for-arts-sake ideologies go and learn to serve the community anew with truth-telling. This truth-telling must be about the beauty of our existence and about the ugliness and evil that confronts us and in which we participate."
-- Matthew Fox, One River, Many Wells, pg. 430
"The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.” -- Viktor Frankl
"Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man."
-- Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz
"It may seem absurd to believe that in a "primitive" culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned."
-- Helena Norberg-Hodge (as quoted in the book Three Cups of Tea)
"Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection."
-- Rabindranath Tagore
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust
"Never was the Self born; never shall it cease to be. Without beginning or end, free from birth, free from death, and free from time, how can the Self die when the body dies?"
-- The Bhagavad Gita
"The mystics must come from the same country, for they all speak the same language."
-- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand... In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and the thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, Simplify."
-- Thoreau, Walden
"Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath."
-- Kabir
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it all possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
-- Lao Tzu
"...To become human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others..."
-- David Whyte
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, this, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
-- Victor Frankl
"A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened."
-- Albert Camus
"If at the soul's core we are images, then we must define life as the actualization over time... of that originating seed image, what Michaelangelo called the imagine del cuor, or the image in the heart, and that image--not the time that actualized it--is the primary determinant of your life."
-- James Hillman
"One merges into another, group melts into ecological groups until the time when what we know as life meets and enters what we think of as non-life: barnacle and rock, rock and earth, earth and tree, tree and rain and air... And it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknownable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Bacon, a Charles Darwin, and an Einstein. Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things--plankton, a shimmering phoshorescence on the sea and spinning planets and the expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time."
-- John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts, Sea of Cortez
"Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto Itself. Yielding to these persuasions, gladly committing ourselves in body and sould, utterly and completely to the Light Within, is the beginning of true life."
-- Thomas Kelly, Testament of Devotion, pg. 3
"But theologies and symbols and creeds, though inevitable, are transient and become obsolescent, while the Life of God sweeps on through the souls of men in continued revelation and creative newness. To that divine Life we must cling. In that Current we must bathe. In that abiding yet energizing Center we are all made one, behind and despite the surface differences of our forms and cultures. For the heart of the religious life is in commitment and worship, not in reflection and theory."
-- Thomas Kelly, Testament of Devotion, pg. 11
"Let us agree on this first: I am a part of the whole, all of which is governed by nature. Next, let us agree on this: I am intimately related to the parts which are the same kind as myself. If I remember these two things, I cannot be discontented with anything that arise out of the whole, because I am connected to the whole. Nothing that comes out of the whole can injure a part, because nature cannot generate anything harmful to itself. In remembering, then, that I am a part of the whole, I shall be content with everything that happens."
-- Marcus Aurelius
"Eternity is a child at play with colored balls."
-- Heraclitus
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
"God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing."
-- Rabindranath Tagore
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
-- Pablo Picasso
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"What we think, we become."
-- Mahatma Gandhi