There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

Deepak Chopra

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

William Blake

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan

There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.

Masaaki Hatsumi

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

Meister Eckhart

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.

Pema Chodron

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf