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A Collection of Poems, Quotes & Affirmations

Updated on 09/08/2002

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Your ego doesn't want you to awaken and discover the bliss of God.

-- Anon


Each action in the sunlight of Awareness becomes sacred.  In this light, no boundary exists between the sacred and the profane.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh


Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in,
therein to be content.


-- Helen Keller


We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

-- Stephen Covey


The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

-- Larry Dossey


To see a world in a grain of sand 
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

--  William Blake


It is through creating, not possessing that life is revealed.

-- Vida D. Scudder, writer


The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return,
are to me continual spiritual exercises.

-- Leo Buscaglia


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

 --Booker T. Washington, educator


Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

---Sioux Indian Prayer

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.  Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

--- Thich Nhat Hahn, Buddhist monk and poet


Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

-- Krishnamurti, spiritual teacher


Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

-- Raymond Lindquist, writer


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

--
Mahatma Gandhi


Most people love you for who you pretend to be ... To keep their love, you keep pretending--performing. You get to love your pretense ... It's true, we're locked in an image, an act. And, the sad thing is, people get so used to their image--they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And, if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.  

-- James Douglas Morrison


You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

 -- Barbara DeAngelis


When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

--- Harriet Beecher Stowe


If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.

--Mark Houlahan


There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.  You seek such problems because you need their gifts. 

--- Richard Bach, "Illusions..."


It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it

--- W. Somerset Maugham


It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve him.  Serving him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world.  Not serving him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

--- Leo Tolstoy


Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.  Your words are the greatest power you have.  The words you choose and use establish the life you experience.

--- Sonia Choquette


You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing.  As you change your mind, you change your experience.

--- Serge Kahili King


The sun shines not on us, but in us.  The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.

--- John Muir


Trust that the universe is working FOR you and WITH you.

--- Sanaya Roman


Affirmation:

Lack and delay crumble away and I enter my promised land, under grace.

--- Florence Schovel Schinn


It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

--- Edmund Spencer


The ancestor of every action is a thought.

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Man is what he believes.

--- Anton Chekhov


They can because they think they can.

--- Virgil


Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.

--- William Shakespeare


If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

--- H. Thoreau

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