Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that—an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. – Sue Monk Kidd
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment. – Jane Austen, Persuasion
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotles Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. – Charles Van Doren
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obamas leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz
