Quotes

The mind of a child is a beginner's mind and beginner's mind is about having sort of an attitude of openness and eagerness and a lack of preconceptions, when it comes to studying a subject. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. So by approaching a subject, the way a beginner or a child would, we st... See more

‘Wonder requires a person not to forget themselves but to feel themselves so acutely that their connectedness to every created thing comes into focus. In sacred awe, we are a part of the story.’ - CA Riley

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

—JH Newman

Life cannot be made to conform to a system, it cannot be forced into a framework, however nobly conceived; and a mind that has merely been trained in factual knowledge is incapable of meeting life with its variety, its subtlety, its depths and great heights.

— Krishnamurti

I love the quote from author Kent Nerburn that, “Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die.

“If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own.”

—Richard Rohr

“ Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic .”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

— Gustave Flaubert