In this age of suicide bombers and unbridled terrorism where innocent lives are cruelly expunged, an age of unprecedented wealth coexisting with extreme poverty, when the greatest human values are viewed with scepticism or disdain, we have as a spiritual counterbalance, the luminous writings of sages and mystics pointing to a reign of truth and light and the dissolution of the adverse forces now so prevalent in our world. These quotations represent the highest reaches of the human psyche, resonant with profound meaning and reverberating through all ages in the journey of the soul on ear.