Many thanks to all the good people who comment on my blog.  It has
been a quiet weekend, other than my Panthers beating the Giants. 
Should spend more time thinking and meditating…  Anyhow, here
are the daily quotes, hope you need them as much as I do.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirituality is from within, the result of recognition, realization, and reverence.
– Wayne Dyer, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

If you do not try to emulate me, what is the meaning of your belief in me?
– Paul Ferrini, Reflections of the Christ Mind

If you have not opened to love in your life, your belief in me or in anyone else means very little.
– Paul Ferrini, Reflections of the Christ Mind

The pursuit of external power—the ability to control and manipulate—is
insisting that the  circumstances that you prefer are perfect for
others, too.
– Gary Zukav & Linda Francis, The Heart of the Soul

You reshape the world by reshaping yourself. The question is not how to change others, but how to change yourself.
– Gary Zukav & Linda Francis, The Heart of the Soul

A responsible choice is a choice that takes into account the consequences of each of your choices.
– Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul

The unwillingness to actually see
what causes your suffering
is what keeps your mind bound
in cycles of suffering.
– Gangaji

Through morning prayers and meditation, we embark upon the day
spiritually prepared. Without this preparation, we enter the day with
yesterday’s anxieties – our own and those of millions of others.
– Marianne Williamson

Until your knees finally hit the floor, you’re just playing at life,
and on some level you’re scared because you know you’re just playing.
The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.
– Marianne Williamson

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
– Glenn Clark

Evil, (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real substance of its own,
it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by
trying to fight it, stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other
form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to
disappear, you must shine light on it.
– Shakti Gawain

Resign yourself to be happy, for that is what you deserve. Resign
yourself to serve, for that is why you are here. Resign yourself to
forgive, for there is nothing to judge in Truth. Resign yourself to
love, for that is what you are, that is all there is, that is “All that
Is”.
– John and Rev. Ananda McIntosh

Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs
in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that
drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world
will at last be built.
– James Allen

We understand that by giving we receive. We grasp that by lighting
others’ candles, we do not lose our own light. The more candles one
lights, the more enlightened the world becomes.
– John Bradshaw

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose
them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
– Carl Schurz

Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To
manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to
understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional
energies and intentions…. It’s time for human beings to grow up
emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible
citizens. No magic pill will do it.
– Doc Childre

While our situations in life vary, we each have the capacity to alter
the course of our lives. We have the ability to become the person who
controls the transitions in our lives. We can take steps that will
result in restored hope, stimulated motivation, and renewed confidence:
steps that will guarantee a fresh outlook for the future and a new
outcome for our lives. We can attain skills not yet mastered; we can
learn to face our fears; we can set fresh, fulfilling goals and acquire
the means to reach those goals. We do not have to continue being held
captive by the chain of low self-esteem.
– Marilyn J. Sorensen

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.
– Rumi