dyed

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

sun

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

today

Just for today,
I will not worry
I will not be angry
I will do my work honestly
I will give thanks for my many blessings
I will be kind to my neighbor
and all living things.

The Reiki Affirmation

past

The past is never fully gone. it is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do.

Sir william Deane, Governor-General of Australia

actions

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

prisoner

Care about what other people think of you and you'll always be a prisoner.

Lao Tzu

joy

Joy is not meant to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver

ignorance

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

me, you

Your perception of me is a reflection of you;
my reaction of you is an an awareness of me.

Anonymous

readjustment

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Kakuzo Okakura

chasing

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

Ai Yazawa

dreamt

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

all

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

reason

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

Ashleigh Brilliant.

love

Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Kafka and the Doll

fear

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

wonderment

...wonderment is the first passion of all.

Descartes

dangerous

The world is a dangerous place to live: not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

before

Before you speak,
Let your words pass through three gates:
Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

attributed to Lord Buddha

end

In the end, it is not darkness that dooms us, but the wrong sort of hope.

Anonymous

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

path

The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.

Seamus Heaney

right

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

dooms

In the end, it is not darkness that dooms us, but the wrong sort of hope.

Anonymous