"Know that you yourself are essential to this World."
~Chief Arvol Looking Horse; Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe

" . . . What can you do TODAY...this very moment?
A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish to experience, provide for another.
Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience - in your own life, and in the world.
Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source of that...
~His Holiness, the Dali Lama.
Response to the events of 9/11.

"My people believe the earth to be their mother and that we are children of the earth.
In spirit we are one with our environment.
~Norval Morresseau,Canadian/Anishnaabe Artist

"Men, Good Men: We Need You.
We - - mothers, daughters and sisters - - need your help
to raise healthy young women. We need every ounce of masculine courage
and wit you own, because fathers, more than anyone else,
set the course for a daughter's life."
~Meg Meeker, M.D., Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters,
Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington DC.

"I became a monk at a very early age. It also reflects the fact that we Tibetans had chosen -- mistakenly in my view --
to remain isolated behind the high mountain ranges which separate our country from the rest of the world."
~His Holiness, the Dali Lama. Ethics for the New Millenium, Riverhead Books.

"The best teacher is also a student."
~Chinese fortune cookie.

"True greatness comes only to those in whom strength and proper principles are firmly united."
~The I Ching, or Book of Changes, by Brian Browne Walker.

"Myths of the Great Goddess teach compassion for all living beings.
There you come to appreciate the real sanctity of the earth itself,
because it is the body of the Goddess.
~Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"The world of humanity is possessed of two wings: the male and the female.
So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly."
~Abdul-Baha

"Two wrongs don't make a right."
~Victoria A. Schrab

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."
~Thumper; the movie Bambi

"There is vitality, a life force, an energy. A quickening that is translated
through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly . . . to keep the channel open."
~Martha Graham