"When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself...That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life." Stanley Kunitz
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is the faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." Albert Einstein
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." William Shakespeare
"The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new vistas, but in having new eyes. " Anonymous
"As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson
"So, Charlie Brown, you made a big fool of yourself and you messed everything up and you let everyone down. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown? The world didn't come to an end?" Linus to Charlie Brown...The Peanuts Gang
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
"Shhhh....Baby's sleeping...remember to tell her when she awakens that in this family, love reaches out into far corners and enfolds its own in a patchwork quilt of warmth and comfort that lasts for a lifetime. Kindness, tolerance, compassion, joy -- this is your legacy --we will hold you up with tender hands." Written by my Aunt Jeanne - Jeanne Scheffert - in a letter to my mom in 1999.
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at least a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. " James Boswell
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." Albert Einstein
"When people die they go to Heaven. Then, a stranger talks to them and when he is done talking to them the man or woman puts an angel suit on the people so they can fly away and help people on earth." 6-year-old Ethan from WI
Book Recommendations
These recommendations come from my own personal reading list.
From Whence They Came and Magdalen's Way by Arlene J. Colver
Discover Inner Peace : A Guide to Spiritual Well-Being by Mike George
Adventures of a Psychic by Sylvia Browne
The Lightworker's Way by Doreen Virtue Ph.D.