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  • #1
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
    David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #3
    David Whyte
    “The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back for the poet once this frontier has been reached; a new territory is visible and what has been said cannot be unsaid. The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat. Poetry is a break for freedom. In a sense all poems are good; all poems are an emblem of courage and the attempt to say the unsayable; but only a few are able to speak to something universal yet personal and distinct at the same time; to create a door through which others can walk into what previously seemed unobtainable realms, in the passage of a few short lines.”
    David Whyte

  • #4
    David Whyte
    “Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.”
    David Whyte

  • #5
    “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
    Hafiz of Shiraz

  • #6
    Marvin Gaye
    “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
    Marvin Gaye

  • #7
    Derek Walcott
    Love After Love

    The time will come
    when, with elation
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror
    and each will smile at the other's welcome,

    and say, sit here. Eat.
    You will love again the stranger who was your self.
    Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
    to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

    all your life, whom you ignored
    for another, who knows you by heart.
    Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

    the photographs, the desperate notes,
    peel your own image from the mirror.
    Sit. Feast on your life.”
    Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984

  • #8
    Margaret Atwood
    “Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #9
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    “In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.”
    Hillary Rodham Clinton

  • #10
    A.A. Milne
    “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
    A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #11
    Bob Marley
    “One love, one heart, one destiny.”
    Robert Marley

  • #12
    W.S. Merwin
    “A BIRTHDAY

    Something continues and I don't know what to call it
    though the language is full of suggestions
    in the way of language
    but they are all anonymous
    and it's almost your birthday music next to my bones

    these nights we hear the horses running in the rain
    it stops and the moon comes out and we are still here
    the leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passed
    smell of ginger flowers slips through the dark house
    down near the sea the slow heart of the beacon flashes

    the long way to you is still tied to me but it brought me to you
    I keep wanting to give you what is already yours
    it is the morning of the mornings together
    breath of summer oh my found one
    the sleep in the same current and each waking to you

    when I open my eyes you are what I wanted to see.”
    W.S. Merwin

  • #13
    W.S. Merwin
    “Separation

    Your absence has gone through me
    Like thread through a needle.
    Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
    W.S. Merwin

  • #14
    W.S. Merwin
    “with the night falling we are saying thank you
    we are stopping on the bridge to bow from the railings
    we are running out of the glass rooms
    with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
    and say thank you
    we are standing by the water looking out
    in different directions

    back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
    after funerals we are saying thank you
    after the news of the dead
    whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you
    in a culture up to its chin in shame
    living in the stench it has chosen we are saying thank you

    over telephones we are saying thank you
    in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
    remembering wars and the police at the back door
    and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
    in the banks that use us we are saying thank you
    with the crooks in office with the rich and fashionable
    unchanged we go on saying thank you thank you

    with the animals dying around us
    our lost feelings we are saying thank you
    with the forests falling faster than the minutes
    of our lives we are saying thank you
    with the words going out like cells of a brain
    with the cities growing over us like the earth
    we are saying thank you faster and faster
    with nobody listening we are saying thank you
    we are saying thank you and waving
    dark though it is”
    W.S. Merwin

  • #15
    “You have taken root in the Beloved.
    I love your golden branches

    And the hundred graceful movements
    Your body now makes each time
    The wind, children and love come near.”
    شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

  • #16
    “Your soul once sat on an easel on my knee.
    For ages I hve been sketching you
    With myriad shapes of sounds and light;

    Now awake, dear pilgrim,
    With your thousand swaying arms
    That need to caress the sky.”
    شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

  • #17
    “In many parts of this world water is
    Scarce and precious.
    People sometimes have to walk
    A great distance
    Then carry heavy jugs upon their
    Heads.
    Because of our wisdom, we will travel
    Far for love.
    All movement is a sign of
    Thirst.
    Most speaking really says
    "I am hungry to know you."
    Every desire of your body is holy;
    Every desire of your body is
    Holy.
    Dear one,
    Why wait until you are dying
    To discover that divine
    Truth?”
    شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “Wrapped in the deep fragrance of the forest, I listen to the flapping of the birds' wings, to the stirring of the ferns. I'm freed from gravity and float up--just a little--from the ground and drift in the air. Of course I can't stay there forever. It's just a momentary sensation--open my eyes and it's gone. Still, it's an overwhelming experience. Being able to float in the air.”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #21
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “Look within,
    There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
    You are always Free.
    There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.”
    H.W.L. Poonja

  • #22
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!”
    H.W.L. Poonja, The Truth Is

  • #23
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “Surrounded by nothingness you have to do nothing. You have to do nothing to be who you are. Nothing at all.”
    Sri H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar: Satsang With H.W.L. Poonja, Vol. 1

  • #24
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “One is always free and one is always alone. The mind is only dreaming.”
    H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar

  • #25
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “Nobody wants to work. Not even the breath wants to work.”
    H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar

  • #26
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.”
    H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar

  • #27
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “No monastery has been successful at producing enlightenment. It has been tried; there are no shortcuts.”
    H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar

  • #28
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “When we go from waking state to sleep, we lose everything that we held in the waking state. Relationships and possessions are lost to us in sleep. We have to let them go.”
    H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar

  • #29
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “Look here and know who you are. Instantly you will find freedom, and this suffering--hitchhiking from womb to womb--will instantly stop. The only way is to look within.”
    Sri H.W.L. Poonja

  • #30
    H.W.L. Poonja
    “The whole world is your own Self. So who is good and who is bad?”
    H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar



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