(sent by a liberal Roman Catholic friend):

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

~ Rumi

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

~Carl Gustav Jung

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

~J.Krishnamurti

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

~Rabindranath Tagore

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

~Louis L'Amour

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

~Stephen Levine

What is to give light must endure burning.

~Viktor Frankl

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

~Deepak Chopra

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

~Kahlil Gibran

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

~Chinese Proverb

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

The only journey is the one within.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

~Rainer Maria Rilke