The Universe Smiles

A clever mind and rich imagination are absolutely impotent without the realization of mortality and the need to care for others with the same fate.

Suffering is a reliable friend to those that refuse to let go into the unknown.

The human race is but one blood, one people. May the blazing sun of love and compassion melt the cold, frozen hearts of those that refuse to see it.

The moment most people give up is the very moment they might have irreversibly transformed the world.

Try as you might, affirming an oasis in the desert does not quench thirst unless you have become that water, through and through.

Children carry what we give them into all future generations – therefore, give them only love and compassion.

To be sensitive to this life is to know terror – and from that place arises the deepest, most unconditional love.

For those that will be madly in love with life, life will surely love them back.

Those that love, without restraints, will know deep sorrow, but in so loving will be healed of every darkness.

Reality is saturated with such truth to flood even the smallest mind and overrun it – if only you will listen.

You are are not born who you are – you must choose to become that person.

A priceless gift awaits those that remain strong when everything possible is going wrong.

When the world has told you that your aspirations are impossible, it is your sacred obligation to prove them wrong.

Often, being right has more severe consequences than being wrong.

By steadfastly looking for the strengths in others, you will soon be surrounded by strong people.

Lying to oneself pushes ones conscience farther and farther away from truth, and as truth disappears, so does love.

A child is first shaped before she may shape herself. How that process is guided may either change or threaten the world.

There is no cure for past mistakes other than brave decision to acknowledge and forgive.

As dangerous the perils at sea, there is hardly a compelling reason to stay ashore.

If you are certain you know something well, then you are quite guaranteed to be far from understanding.

Repressing ones passion and is no different than extinguishing all candles in a dimly lit room.

Society’s laws and precepts cannot find a home in the heart of one who lives in the light.

Great transformation surely comes when instead of trying to change yourself, you simply observe who you are.

A lifetime of smiles may leave deep wrinkles on the face, yet a life with no wrinkles leaves nothing behind at all.

There is enough misery in the world to learn from, lest you seek out your own.

Plant your roots firmly in the ground so that your branches might grow far and wide.

The heart’s song, if true and pure, will lift the thickest fog and illuminate the darkest of minds.

While you have yet to awaken from your dream, its shadows, darkness, and pain are all so real. It takes but a moment to open your eyes and wash away lifetimes of deep sleep.

Monuments dedicated to great souls cover the world, but not one of them depicts a critic.

Love your people in both your waking life and dreams, and the world will be your family.

Humility is only for those whose egos have blown up larger than life.

Bumping into walls and falling down is an inevitable part of the process of finding the light switch in a dark room.

Light possesses no velocity when it is everywhere at once – just as time has no past or future when it is only now.

Though the brain is truly nature’s first biological transceiver, we should be less enamored with what it can do and more possessed by the source of messages it receives.

Meditating on others’ perceptions make them your very own. Therefore, hold fast to your heart's vision, lest you become the destiny others create for you.

War is a symptom of the terminal diseases of ignorance, superstition, and malice.

Rare is the person who will hit their target on the first try, but rarer yet is that person who will miss a million times on the way to mastery.

If you will wait until tomorrow to do what your heart commands, you may find yourself waiting forever.

Before you rush to cross a bridge, consider you might do better to burn it.

Thoughts are only camouflage for who you truly are, deep in the Heart.

Were it not for our collective amnesia, humanity's problems could be seen clearly before they have made their mark. Somewhere, sometime – someone has dreamed of a solution for your greatest challenge.

Vulnerability deepens the heart’s wound, making it possible to love without limitation.

Rich is the soul that refuses the nature to trivialize everything in exchange for the meaning in each breath.

If you will make the choice to bring beauty into this world, it will be utterly necessary for you to ignore antagonism from those feeding on a daily diet of tragedy, disappointment, and dark thoughts.

No matter how painful the past or present may be, there will forever be the potential for a brighter future --- only we, alone or in groups, may refuse to allow change.

Deep grief lays the contrast through which we may know and cherish deep love.

Pride may begin with a gentle voice but eventually raises to such a deafening shout so as to drown out all reason.

Every act must in some way, no matter how small, elevate humanity and lead it closer to a radiant future.

Your dreams need not be acknowledged by any other that you might take flight across a sea of worthy challenges.

No room is too small to confine the boundless spirit of one that is truly free.