Life
The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. -Joseph Campbell
If I could do everything, then there's no reason for hope. -Michael J. Fox, on the importance of hope, and his experience of Parkinson's Disease
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illness of the mind is real illness....As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. -Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not
Speak
Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it
Break.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller deaf and blind writer
"The lack of meaning in life is a soul sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not as yet begun to comprehend." -Carl Jung
"Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything. Through the creation of meaning...a new cosmos arises." -Carl Jung
"When Americans are asked where God is, they point to the sky; when people from other parts of the world are asked the same question, they point to their hearts. We do not believe that God lives in us." -Ken Hamilton, MD, founder of HOPE (Healing of Persons Exceptional)
The English translation for the Sanskrit word “Namaste” reads, “As I acknowledge and honor the Spirit within myself, so do I acknowledge and honor the Spirit within you.” Longer translations continue, “I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, we are one.”