Quotes March 01, 2021

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
Jeff Bezos
 
 
 
 
Soul is that unconditioned, mysterious, untamed, undomesticated, unique individual wild core of ourselves which is inextricably connected to the mysteries of wild nature.
Claire Dunn
 
 
 
 
We’ve replaced what we thought of as superstition with a new superstition, which is the myth of progress.
Peter Kalmus
 
 
 
 
The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.
Charlie Chaplin
 
 
 
 
Listen with a heart, but answer with a soul.
Oscar Auliq-Ice
 
 
 
 
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard
 
 
 
 
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
Pema Chodron
 
 
 
 
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
James Turrell
 
 
 
 
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
Shunryu Suzuki
 
 
 
 
There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
I must go there today —
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter.
Ryokan
 
 
 
 
The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
Joanna Macy
 
 
 
 
Democracy is hard; demagoguery is easy.
Patricia Roberts-Miller
 
 
 
 
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson