Leo G. English

Peace, in its most fundamental form, is the connection of one human spirit to another. BISHOP DESMOND TUTU

It isn’t more light we need, it’s putting into practice what light we already have. When we do that, wonderful things will happen within our lives and within our world. PEACE PILGRIM

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being. BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. DESMOND TUTU

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy. ABRAHAM H. MASLOW

The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. ECKHART TOLLE

What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this given life in all its fullness. BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. NIKKI GIOVANNI

In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. KAHLIL GIBRAN

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. VACLAV HAVEL

We crave that deep place within that cannot be touched by the ups and downs of life, but rather just IS – connected and whole. KATIE RUBINSTEIN

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ANDRÉ GIDE

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. ETTY HILLESUM

The challenge before us is this: to treasure and preserve the independence given to us and learn to integrate it in an all-embracing interdependence. BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

Learning to stop and be still is absolutely necessary before we can listen and respond fully and gratefully to Life—moment by moment. BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. JOHN O'DONOHUE