Poems & Quotes

...if we allow
whatever exists in the moment
to be just as meaningful
as what will come later,
then we won’t really need patience,
as our full attention
will be absorbed
in the here and now.
Waiting for something “better”
diminishes the worth
of what is right in front of us,
and so we fail
to extract the critical information
that would actually help us
move on toward completion.
––Carlsberg & Anka, Contact Cards

We must be willing to let go
of the life we have planned,
so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
––Joseph Campbell

The option of
living in a magical domain,
in a non-ordinary domain,
is available.
I know that
so many more people
are opting for it
because we’ve come
to the end of reason,
the end of logic.
Not that we
have to toss them out,
but to know their limit’s.
––Dr. Alberto Villolodo

There is Only One Story:
Having...losing...finding,
Knowing...forgetting...remembering,
Hide and seek.
––Keith Varnum
Inner Coach, Outer Power

“Everything that irritates us
about others, can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.”
––Carl Jung

“You’re only given
a little spark of madness,
you mustn’t lose it.”
––Robin Williams

Ideas must work through
the brains and the arms
of good and brave men,
or they are no better than dreams.
––Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing splendid
has ever been achieved
except by those who dared believe that something inside them
was superior to circumstances.
––Bruce Barton

I don’t believe
people are looking
for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking
for the experience of being alive.
--Joseph Campbell

Out beyond the ideas
of right and wrong
there is a field––meet me there.
––Rumi

I believe anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do...
––Eleanor Roosevelt

ATTITUDE

The longer I live,
the more I realize
the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me,
is more important than facts.
It is more important than past,
than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than successes,
than what other people
think or say or do.
It is more important than
appearance, gifted ability, or skill.
It will make or break a company,
a church, a home.
The remarkable thing is
we have a choice everyday
regarding the attitude
we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past,
we cannot change the fact
that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing that we can do
is play on the one string
that we have
and this string is, Attitude.
I am convinced that life
is ten percent what happens to me
and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you....
We are in charge of our Attitudes.

––Charles Swindoll

is the thing which gives life
its deepest significance and meaning.
––Pablo Casals

Nothing is as real as a dream.
The world
can change around you,
but your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it.
Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you,
no one can take it away.
--Tom Clancy

Deep inside you is a patient,
wizened old soul who is waiting
for you to attain soul-realization.
It’s waiting for you
to see through the game,
to see through the illusion,
and to express what you truly are.
Relaxed, and with detached
wisdom, you shall find yourself.
––Mark Barrow,
Common Sense God

The more unlimited your
thinking becomes, the more
unlimited your life shall become.
––Ramtha

“Take the first step in faith.
You don’t have to see the
whole staircase,
just take the first step.”
––Martin Luther King Jr.

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
––Kahlil Gibran

“We make a living by what we get,
we make a life by what we give.”
––Winston Churchill

Miracles do not happen
incontradiction to Nature,
but in contradiction
to what we know about Nature.
––At. Augustine

Nov / Dec 2003

Poems & Quotes