Soul Care Archives: QUOTES TO PONDER

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"The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong." ~ Desmond Tutu
We Are

Desmond Tutu

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." ~ Jimmi Hendrix
Peace

Jimmi Hendrix

"The divisions, dichotomies, and dualism of the world can only be overcome by a unitive consciousness at every level: personal, relational, social, political, cultural..." ~ Richard Rohr
Unitive Consciousness

Richard Rohr

Thích Nhất Hạnh
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
Lao Tzu
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
Gordon Gee
“The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.”
Sallust
“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes large things decay.”
"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful." ~ Adrienne Rich
Awakened Consciousness

Adrienne Rich

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ~ Herman Melville
Connection

Herman Melville

"Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change."
Creativity

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Mahatma Gandhi
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
Marcus Aurelius
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Patsie Smith
“Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.”
"Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul."
Love

Marianne Williamson

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi
Beyond Ideas

Rumi

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
Build New

Buckminster Fuller