“A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
From the Dhammapada
- Buddha
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
from “The Road Not Taken”
- Robert Frost
“…for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)
- Shakespeare
“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.”
- David R. Hawkins
“Whether my pupil be destined for the army, the church, or the bar, concerns me but little. Regardless of the vocation of his parents, nature summons him to the duties of human life. To live is the trade I wish to teach him. On leaving my hands, he will not, I grant, be a magistrate, a soldier, or a priest. First of all he will be a man; and all that a man ought to be, he can be when the occasion requires it, just as well as any one else can; and fortune will make him change his place in vain, for he will always be in his own.”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The lifestyle and skill-sets that foster happiness will simultaneously foster health and rejuvenation.”
- The Happiness Revolution
