"Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see." ~ Ingmar Bergmann

"The sense-impressions we absorb from the world and the thoughts which run through our minds are like the images on a cinema screen, but our 'true self' is the cinema screen itself, which is still there even when there aren't any images being projected on to it."  


     ~ Steve Taylor, Author of The Fall:  The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of A New Era, of which Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, wrote:  "An important and fascinating book about the origin, history and impending demise of the ego - humanity's collective dysfunction. 'The Fall' is highly enlightening and readable, as the author's acute mind is at all times imbued with the higher faculty of spiritual awareness."

WHEN I compare 
What I have lost with what I have gained, 
What I have missed with what attained, 
Little room do I find for pride. 

I am aware 
How many days have been idly spent; 
How like an arrow the good intent 
Has fallen short or been turned aside. 

But who shall dare 
To measure loss and gain in this wise? 
Defeat may be victory in disguise; 
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. 

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

“Authentic power is the alignment of your personality with your soul.”

"Know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

“The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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