Quotes on Deep Life

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.