Sound Bites

[Sheila]

So I'd like to end with a little quote from Franz Kafka, whom everyone remembers as more or less a writer whose literary reputation rests on his portrayal of acute suffering. But he said something which is a brilliant affirmation of the path to enlightenment. He said, "You do not need to do anything, just remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, just wait. Do not even wait, just be quiet, still and solitary, and the universe will expose itself to you. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

-- From Deepak Chopra lecture, http://www.ascension-research.org/reality.html

[Sheila]

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-- Nietzsche

[Luc]

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Mark Twain

[Sheila]

“This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Sheila]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

-- Albert Einstein

[Sheila]

“Joy is the greatest cleanser, and it is the greatest testimony to our faith.”

-- St. Francis of Assisi

[Luc]

"If we all did the things we're capable of, we would astound ourselves".

Thomas Edison

[Samsara]

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.


Ralph Blum

[Luc]

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Denis Waitley

[Luc]

"We will heal"

The IAWP members