Deepak Chopra

"The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.  Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life."

Meister Eckhart

"Anyone who truly knows creatures may be excused from listening to sermons, for every creature is full of God, and is a book about God."

Henry Nouwen

"Solitude is the furnace of transformation.  Without solitude we
remain victims of society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self."

Angeles Arrien

"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery...
It's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing,
to the deep wisdom way."

Pat DeWitt Thomas

"Some people simply live their words, silently making noise."

Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Richard Rohr

"Humans are like two way mirrors, both receiving and reflecting.  Humans are like tuning forks that pick up a tone and hand it on as resonance."

Pat DeWitt Thomas

In the beginning of time the first question from God was,
                                     "Where are you?"
       In the end of time the last command from God is,
                                             "Come!"

Richard Rohr

"Too many people join a club instead of going on any journey toward God, love, or truth."

Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he or she contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.  It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday.  Never lose a holy curiosity."

Pat DeWitt Thomas

"I don’ regret the forty years in the wilderness but I am glad to be in a place of rest; where I can simply BE what I AM!  I feel like I can take off my shoes, put on my comfortable clothes, and just be home.  I feel like I can put down my swords, the sword of self defense and the sword of righting all wrongs, for there are NO swords in this place; they have been beaten into plowshares; instruments of planting peace not wielding war."

Pat DeWitt Thomas

"How can one delight in feeding from and living off the fruit of a tree and then turn and despise, deny, and reject the tree?"

Richard Rohr

"Our over reliance upon words and formulations has caused most of the antagonism and violence in the history of religion, which is especially strange for the Christian religion which believes that "the word became flesh".  We seldom burned people at the stake over correct or incorrect enfleshment, but almost always over what they said, wrote, or taught, in words."

Richard Rohr

"Some notion of a 'prayer beyond words' is the deepest meaning of prayer.  Whatever we do, in conscious loving union with God and 'what is' is prayer...and the best prayer, for sure."

Wendle Berry

" The mind that is not baffled, is not employed."