A Parliament of Quotes

"A man is ethical only when life is sacred to him, that of animals as well as that of his fellow man, and when he devotes himself helpfully to..."

Dr Albert Schweitzer: Physician, Missionary, Theologian and Nobel Laureate for Peace in 1952 more

The true human can tune to the voice of the river and give it expression. The true human can tune to the voice of the wind and speak the words that the wind cannot speak without a human tongue. more

"They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating." more

“The virtues are the glimmerings within the soul of the spiritual urgings to bring our life into harmony with the rhythms of the cosmos." ~ from The Power of Soul - Living the Twelve Virtues by Robert Sardello more

"You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world." (From A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson) more

"As we journey within to find our own voice, creativity both isolates and connects. Because of this we must find the courage to voice our True Note..." more

"That divine spark is within every heart but before the transformation can take place it has to be fanned..." more

"For too long, we have believed that the divine is outside us. This belief has strained our longing disastrously." more

"We contain the scripture. We contain Divinity. We are Divinity. We are the church, the synagogue, the ashram." more

"From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment." more

“Pushing yourself too hard? Doing too much for others? Break the pattern. Have a giggle. Lighten up. And always remember: Humor is the mildest detergent of them all.” more

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." more

"Know this: you should judge every person by his merits. Even someone who seems completely wicked, you must search for and find that little speck of good, for in that place he is not wicked." more

"Let the whole thing flower: the poem and the person writing the poem. And let us always be kind in this world." more

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." more

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too." (...from The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, by WH Murray) more

The heart actually beats differently in response to the beautiful than in response to the ugly or pernicious ... (from Rudolf Steiner's book, Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres) more

"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties of the earth are never alone or weary in life... Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." more

"If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision?" more

"Your outward search for God culminates in the greatest of all possible discoveries -- finding Him at the center of your own being. Life flows up from within you." more