Quotes
In 1998, a full decade after getting sick....I was not getting any better. Memory, abstract reasoning, word finding and other vital cognitive functions remained gravely problematic.... Since I could not presume that I would remember anything, I must live fully in the present. Since I could not presume that I would understand anything, I must feel and experience my life in the moment and not always press to formulate ideas about it. Since I could not escape my body and the limits it had imposed on me, I must learn to be at home in it. Since I could do so little, it was good to live in a place where there is so little to do. And since I could not presume that I would master anything I did, I must relinquish mastery as a goal and seek harmony instead.... Of this necessity had come a [Read More …]
For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed. -Carl Jung
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. -Shunryu Suzuki
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. -Ahjan Chah
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation. And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret B. Runbeck
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. -Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)