An assortment of wise words which inspire, inform and guide me…

• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. (Richard Bach)
• You teach best what you most need to learn. (Richard Bach)
• You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. (Richard Bach)
• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. (Richard Bach)
• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours! (Richard Bach)
• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach)
• Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. (Richard Bach)
• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. (Richard Bach)
• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. (Richard Bach)
• Be Here Now. (Ram Dass)
• Work is love made visible. (Khalil Gibran)
• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. (Khalil Gibran)
• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. (Khalil Gibran)

• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. (Khalil Gibran)

• Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. (Khalil Gibran)
• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. (Khalil Gibran)
• Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. (Khalil Gibran)

• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. (Khalil Gibran)

• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are. (Carl Jung)
• You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. (Amit Ray)
• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. (Pierre de Chardin)
• The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. (Marianne Williamson)
• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life. (Eckhardt Tolle)
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. (Eckhardt Tolle)
• Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. (Eckhardt Tolle)
• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is. (Eckhardt Tolle)
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. (Eckhardt Tolle)
• The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you. (Eckhardt Tolle)
• Know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. (Dalai Lama)
• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. (Dalai Lama)

• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. (Dalai Lama)
  
• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself (Rumi)
• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. (Nelson Mandela)
• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. (Nelson Mandela)
• What’s happening is merely what’s happening. How you feel about it is another matter. (Neale Donald Walsch)
• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions–fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions–only two words in the language of the soul…. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. (Neale Donald Walsch)
• Nothing in this universe occurs by accident. (Neale Donald Walsch)
• What the soul is after is – the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul’s desire. This is its purpose. The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge, but the feeling. It already has the knowledge, but knowledge is conceptual. Feeling is experiential. The soul wants to feel itself, and thus to know itself in its own experience. The highest feeling is the experience of unity with All That Is. This is the great return to Truth for which the soul yearns. This is the feeling of perfect love. (Neale Donald Walsch)
• “What is God’s desire?
  
  I desire first to know and experience Myself, in all My glory – to know Who I Am. Before I invented you – and all the worlds of the universe – it was impossible for Me to do so.
  
  Second, I desire that you shall know and experience Who You Really Are, through the power I have given you to create and experience yourself in whatever way you choose.
  
  Third, I desire for the whole life process to be an experience of constant joy, continuous creation, never-ending expansion, and total fulfilment in each moment.” (Neale Donald Walsch)
• For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will. (Neale Donald Walsch)
• Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it.
  It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose. (Gary Zukav)
• When you do not take your interactions so personally, you will be able to see that each offers you a choice—to see yourself as a victim who reacts to the circumstances of your life, or as a creator who chooses your responses to them. (Gary Zukav)
• Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now. (Gary Zukav)
• When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment. (Gary Zukav)
• Of one thing we can be certain: a person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another. (Gary Zukav)
• The body is the instrument of the soul. If the piano player is sick, does it help to repair his or her piano? (Gary Zukav)
• Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you. Rather than serve the fake gods of your mind, serve your heart, the real God. You will not find God in your intellect. Divine Intelligence is in the heart. (Gary Zukav)
• Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives… (Bruce Lipton)
• We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love. (Bruce Lipton)
• A man is but the product of his thoughts: what he thinks, he becomes. (Mahatma Gandhi)

• Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything’s different (Calvin & Hobbes)
• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. (Viktor Frankl)
• Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. (Unknown)
• Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. (David Searls)
• Empathy is your pain in my heart. (Unknown)
• It is essential to our well-being and to our lives that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing. (Marcia Wieder)
• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
• You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. (Abraham-Hicks)
• The cyclone derives its powers from a calm centre. So does a person. (Norman Vincent Peale)
• Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. (Indra Devi)
• If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you. (Unknown)
• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.(Bill Meyer)
• You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. (James Allen)