e. e. cummings: The First Step To Expanding Your Reality

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the 

tendency to exclude things from possibility.

 

- e. e. cummings 

 

David Bowie: Aging Is An Extraordinary Process

It takes courage  

to grow up and become 

who you really are.

 

- e. e. cummings

  

Virginia Satir: Mindfulness Of the Messages We Give Our Children

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of 

a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. 

It is sad that so many parents don't realize 

what messages they are sending.

 

- Virginia Satir

 

Howard Zinn: A Power Greater Than Money or Weapons

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

- Howard Zinn

Arundhati Roy: A Failure of the Imagination

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

- Arundhati Roy

Sonia Sanchez: Until You Give Birth To Yourself

You can't have relationships with other people 

until you give birth to yourself.

 

- Sonia Sanchez

 

Sonia Sanchez: Being a Student

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess 

being a student, growing and learning something new every day. 

The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

 

- Sonia Sanchez 

 

Nikki Giovanni: Art Offers Sanctuary

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open 

their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

 

- Nikki Giovanni

 

Carl Jung: If Our Religion Is Based On Wonder

If our religion is based on salvation, 

our chief emotions 

will be fear and trembling. 

If our religion is based on wonder, 

our chief emotion 

will be gratitude.

 

- Carl Jung

 

Hafiz: One Regret I Am Determined Not To Have

One regret, dear world,
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that
I did not kiss you enough. 

 
- Hafiz