Terry Cozad Taylor

The very time I thought I was lost, the dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

—African American Spiritual

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my #anger with care, with #love, with #tenderness, with #nonviolence.

—Thich Nhat Hanh,

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

—Jeannette Rankin

#Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak…Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to #sacrifice. It is the #patience to win.

—Cesar Chavez

Keep the 3 most difficult tings for humans in front of you: returning love for hate, including the excluded, and admitting you were wrong.

—Anthony de Mello.

The greatest challenge of the day is: How to bring about a #revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us.

—Dorothy Day

That’s all #nonviolence is – organized #love.

—Joan Baez

#Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Don’t wait for a #Guru. Your #life is your Guru.

— Krishna Das

#Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for #love and #wisdom.

— #Rumi

Before enlightenment
Chop wood
Carry water
After enlightenment

#Grace is like grits at a breakfast in a southern restaurant. You don’t have to ask for it; it just shows up.

—Br. Nagasaki Martyrs

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Does it trouble you that nowadays more cars than people have #auras?

—Br. Nagasaki Martyrs

The highest and most #beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, or read about, nor seen, but if one will, are to be lived.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Fallen petals rise
Back to the branch.
Ah, butterflies!

—Basho

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Find your major flaw. There lies your #glory.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

If you want the #truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.

— Kabir

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

#Rumi

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

— Pema Chödrön

#Buddhism

Life is like photography: you use the negative to develop.

—Swami Beyondananda

#Honor the sacred. Honor the #Earth, our Mother. Honor the Elders. Honor all with whom we share the Earth:-Four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones, Swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people. Walk in #balance and #beauty.

-- Native American Elder

#Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the #dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

—Anne Lamott

Forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

— #Unitarian Susan B. Anthony

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of #non-violence has been the organization of #violence.

—Joan Baez

#Quaker

Earth is but one country, and humankind its citizens.

— Bahá’u’lláh

#Baha’i

Be who #God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire.

To be or not to be is not the #question, the #vital question is how to be and how not to be…

— Abraham Joshua #Heschel