"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweat shops."   Stephen Jay Gould

Our Greatest Fear

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others".  Marianne Williamson

Thought

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
-Bertrand Russell

Discovering our Gifts

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."  Shakti Gawain

Depression vs. Dark Night

"One difference between depression and a dark night of the soul is that depression is a mood you endure and try to get through, while a dark night is a process in which your course soul is refined and your intelligence deepened.   How you imagine your ordeal makes all the difference."    Thomas Moore

Soul

"The soul resides in the valleys of life and not on the peaks of intellectual, spiritual or technological efforts.   The soul is the psyches actual life including the present mess it is in, its discontent, dishonesties and thrilling illusions." James Hillman

God

"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect had intended for us to forego their use." Galileo

Illusions

"If you see something as rubbish, if you see that the stones that you carried all this time are not real diamonds, what are you going to do with them?  It will not take great courage or intelligence to drop them.  You were not clinging to those stones, but to the IDEA that the were diamonds.   You were clinging to your fallicy, your illusion.   Buddha has not renounced the world, he has renounced his illusions about it."  Osho

Intelligence

"An intelligent person does not escape from any fact.  If it is fear he will go into it, because the way out is through."   Osho

Belief

"The man of intelligence does not believe in anything and does not disbelieve anything.   The man of intelligence is open to recognizing, whatsoever is the case.   If God is there he will recognize- but not according to his belief.  He has no belief.   He looks into life and whatsoever is there he is ready to see it.   He has no barriers to his vision; his vision is transparent."   Osho