"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky."

Tagore

"Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.
As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard.
This is another paradox. What is soft is strong!"

Lao Tzu

"I have come into the world to see this:
the sword drop from mens' hands
even at the height of their arc of rage,
because we have finally realized
there is just one flesh we can wound."

Hafiz

"Nature never did betray the Heart that loved her."

Wordsworth

The spider dances her web without knowing that there are flies who will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam, gets caught in the net without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them ‘It’ dances, and inside and outside are united in this dance

zen in the art of archery

"The cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek."

Joseph Campbell

"Be prepared, for the time is soon that you will move through the world unfettered like a cloud. You will fly with no boundaries like a bird and rejoice in the message of Truth."
Don Alejandro

"Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self. “Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, ‘I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom!’ “The other creatures laughed out loud and said ‘Fool! let go and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks and you will die quicker than boredom!’’ But the one headed them not and taking a breath, did let go and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.

Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom and he was bruised no more. And the creatures downstream to whom he was a stranger cried ‘see a miracle!’ A creature like ourselves yet he flies! See the Messiah come to save us all! And the one carried in the current said, ‘I am no Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is the voyage, this adventure.’ But they cried the more ‘Saviour!’ all the while clinging to their rocks, and when they looked again, he was gone and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour."

Richard Bach from "Illusions"

"True teachers use themselves as bridges
over which they invite their students to cross;
then, having facilitated their crossing,
joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"Give evil nothing to oppose and it will dissolve of itself"

Lao Tzu

"In the depth of winter I finally learned
that there was in me an invincible summer"

Albert Camus