"Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe, without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone."  - Albert Einstein

"This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle circa 1850

Be mysterious.  Don't tell everyone everything.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." 
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love Conquers All

"Don't tell Leo the lion, Baloo the bear and Shere Khan the tiger that they're different species...Lion and tiger and bear, oh my! For 13 years, Baloo, Leo and Shere Khan have been best friends. The three animals, who live at Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary in Georgia, were rescued as cubs from a drug dealer who kept them as pets. In the wild, the three species hail from different continents and would have never met."

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:  a time to be born and a time to die."

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” 

― Edith Södergran

"The most significant thing that can happen to a human is the separation process of thinking and awareness" and that awareness is "the space in which thoughts exist." 

- A New Earth

"All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!" - Rumi

Living Each Day in the Present

"There exists only the present instant . . . a Now which always and without end is itself new. . . . There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence." - Meister Ekhart

"Don't try to be Spiritual -- that is only a word in the dictionary."

"Was the first one out of my truck this a.m. at a head-on collision, made sure everyone was breathing and then directed traffic," he wrote. "A solid reminder that our lives can change at any instant, and to be grateful for what I have right now."  - Bill Beckwith

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"Compassion is the basis of all morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”  - Albert Einstein

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." 

- Thomas Edison

“Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission—to be of service to them wherever they require it.
—ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Dr. Christian Bernard performed the world’s first human heart transplant in 1967, had the following to say about his observations of a chimpanzee:

"I bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.”

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." 

- Albert Einstein

"By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe." - Albert Schweitzer

"The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love. Everything is bearable when there is love. The only thing that lives forever is love."
 - Dr.  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

We discover our own courage by our 
willingness to face, feel, 
live through,
 and recover
from difficult events 
such as the loss of a beloved pet.

                               ~ Judy Tatelbaum

• "On this globe there is almost endless diversity. Nevertheless, the greater fact is that when it comes to the treasures of the soul, differences vanish. In the place of the heart, only one light shines. This light is the same in all beings."
  -Gurumayi Chidvilasananda