"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

- Hannah Arendt

Go to a Forest. Walk slowly. Breathe. Open all your senses.

This is the healing way of Shinrin-yoku Forest Therapy,
the medicine of simply being in the forest.

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

                       - Plato

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win."

- Andrew Sullivan

"A mentor, one day when I was overly checking what people on Twitter were saying about me, she was like . . . 

'Randi, don't let praise go to your head, and don't let criticism go to your heart.' "  

- Randi Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Twitter

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." 

 - Dutch Proverb

"Never take the expected path."

"REJECTION IS A MANDATORY REST STOP ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS"

We are but vessels . . .

“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.” 

- Stephen Covey

"Energy flows where your attention goes."

Outside conditions are but Ripples on the Surface of Being like the wave on an ocean and the calm on the bottom of the sea.

"Neither happiness nor unhappiness go all that deep any more, they are ripples on the surface of your Being.   
The background peace within you remains undisturbed regardless of the nature of the outside conditions."  

- Eckhart Tolle

"I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love.  You have to just be OK with yourself - and that's a long process."

- John Cusack

“Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.” - Dr. Hans Selye 

“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be one of the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.” 

- Socrates

"Every damn fool thing you do in this life, you pay for."

- Edith Piaf

"Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic, and intolerant.  And so is bad science.  But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based in faith.  They think they know the truth."

- Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., University of Cambridge

"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." 

- William James

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." 

- Claude Bernard

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." 

- Carl Jung

"There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come."  

- Victor Hugo

"You can't be friends with someone who wants your life."

- Oprah Winfrey

"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished.  No reality fits an ideology."

"Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose." 

- J. B. S. Haldane

"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."

- Emily Dickinson 

listening is an act of love

"One must learn to love, 

and go through a good deal 

of suffering to get to it ... 

and the journey is always 

towards 

the other soul."

- D. H. Lawrence

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. 
- Ludwig Börne

“Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.” 

- Eckhart Tolle

"Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding." 

- Freeman Dyson