“Throw a seed in the seemingly empty earth and watch life spring forth from the emptiness. Think of the creative artist. She knows that for all her searching, concentrating, and disciplined effort, the really exciting breakthroughs will come as inspirations from the emptiness.” – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“Life is like a dance and we’re partners. Setbacks, delays, and detours? Heck, they’re just like some of the steps in the mambo, tango, and cha-cha. If you dissected the movements and saw them without regard to the rest of the dance, everyone would look like total dorks. But when you see the big picture…..poetry in motion.

In life, setbacks, delays, and detours are often just my way of keeping you for something way better. Don’t let them discourage you, don’t lose faith, and whatever you do, don’t stop dancing.”  – Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe

“Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.” 

― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

“When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” – Joseph Campbell, twentieth-century scholar and professor

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.” These two, talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake-up calls to your true vocation in life. To ignore either is, in some sense, to lose your soul. – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine — a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time, a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing, a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual teacher and humanitarian, Happy For No Reason

“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude…because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.” – Deepak Chopra, M.D.,physician, author, and speaker

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“Buy a book of blank pages and keep a journal. Even if you only write a few words, record your spiritual and personal thoughts and feelings as you give God time each day.” – Bruce and Stan, God Is In The Small Stuff And It All Matters

“Be passionate about what you love. Don’t let fear or worries of what others think hold you back from being excited about what you’re doing. If you are truly happy in the place God has put you, keep that enthusiasm burning bright because your passion can be the match that lights a spark under someone else.” – Joyce Meyer, I Dare You