Quotes
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear! -Dante The Divine Comedy
"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
"Because psychic affliction often involves a withdrawal from the objects of the world, a dissatisfaction with ordinary things, writing helps writers pay attention to objects outside of their own suffering." -Judith Harris Signifying Pain
"It's memory added to imagination, subtracted by false starts, and multiplied by a fraction of the tons of hard work you've put into the mess." -Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate
"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.”
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin
"What is the source of our first suffering?
It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak.
It was born in the moment
when we accumulated silent things within us."
-Gaston Bachelard