The Universe Smiles

Any dream, no matter how fantastic, will come true if you will only have the courage to embrace it.

Civilizations rise and fall, generation after generation, yet the Sun blazes endlessly, unchanged by time. Your heart, truly your entire being, is that very Sun. Devote your life to that, and all will be transformed.

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

Life created mindfully grows a future full of hope.

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

Only through strength are the depraved weaknesses of hatred and aggression banished.

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

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

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.

Perhaps the biggest shame of all is to accept and surrender to one’s fate, doing nothing to clear the path that your heart might follow.

The form in which you are born can in no way hinder you from becoming a great force of nature.

When love flows through you with the power of a thousand waterfalls, it will transform transform reality into a living dream.

Great is the gift of knowing how your words and actions affect other lives before you have come to know better.

If you spend your life running away from that which scares you, great purpose will never stare you in the eyes.

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

Time passes slowly. Have patience, plant seeds, wait, and grow in your joy.

Tragedy and disappointment require a great commitment of energy and time, both of which would better be spent laughing, loving, and creating beauty in others lives.

One silent, true prayer in the heart is worth one million spoken words.

A bird does not fly high into the sky by avoiding the wind.

If you have spent but a single moment calculating the wrongs committed against you, precious time has been lost on the journey to unconditional happiness.

Indeed, it is difficult to say which is easier to believe in: that which we have never seen or those things seen from multiple diametrically opposed perspectives. Therefore, believe in what your heart shows you to be true.

While inspiration is much like a bolt of lightening, you will have to climb up the highest mountain and into the clouds for it to strike you.

Premeditated inspiration is bound to its own agenda, as a wild dancer that watches himself in the mirror. Your creations will be colored with your weaknesses to the degree you have not surrendered yourself to that dance. Dance wildly or do not dance at all.

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

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

Fear has no place in a heart that has resolved to do what is right.

Slow, careful steps toward grand ideas avoid the destruction of sudden revolution.

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

In order to recognize wolves in sheep’s clothing, it may be necessary to spend a great deal of time with wolves.

If you will look for a reason to bring beauty into this world, the world itself may argue against it. Therefore, do not look for reasons, simply create light rather than shadows.

The more complex you make a problem, the harder it will be to climb out of it.

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

The eyes are only the first frontier in the endless spectrum of perspectives on reality.

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.

Age is absolutely irrelevant when you have an ideal to fight for.

You might search your whole life to belong when, all the while, you’ve been opening vistas into the heart that no one dared dream of.

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

You can trust deeply only those that would trust you with their life and more.

The eyes see nothing the heart does not permit them to.

One that is wildly alive can never be neutral, especially in matters of the heart.

Happiness alone has the power to grant true forgiveness.

A calm ocean cannot know the power and fury of a tidal wave.

Visions come only to those who have freed perception from the limited horizon of self.

Settling on the pleasant can provide many years of comfort, whereas an endlessly evolving perspective affords undying enjoyment.

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

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.

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

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

Who and what we choose to be today forges the very people that will inhabit our future – both our triumphs and failures are magnified in time.