“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”  Arthur Schopenhauer

“With mindfulness, every moment of everyday is a precious jewel.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”  Carl Sagan

“Everyone you meet in life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct is nothing but an illusion.  We are all parts of a larger whole, like the individual cells in a body… When you look at other people, you’re really looking at yourself.”  Steve Pavlina

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.  No man can serve two masters.  Your life is shaped by the end you live for.  You are made in the image of what you desire.”  Thomas Merton

“The words of truth are always paradoxical.  To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”  Lao Tzu

“The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.”  Thomas Merton

“But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to the question.”  Thomas Merton

“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”  Arthur Schopenhauer

“We cannot live only for ourselves.  A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”  Herman Melville