Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda is a Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder, educator, author and poet. He is the third president of the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist organization and the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which is today one of the world’s largest and most diverse lay Buddhist organizations, promoting a philosophy of character development and social […]

Jack Canfield

As the beloved originator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre – and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of more than 123 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise (and […]

Matthieu Ricard, Ph.D.

Matthieu Ricard, PhD, is a Buddhist monk who went from a scientific career as a molecular biologist in France to the study of Buddhism in the Himalayas 40 years ago. Born in Savoie, France, Matthieu, son of noted French philosopher Jean-Francois Revel grew up in the French intellectual circles. His mother Yahne Le Toumelin, an […]

Quotes by Georgina Cannon

“The vibes we send out through our actions don’t just float into space and dissolve. They actually affect things. The energy of our actions is as real as a sound wave; we just don’t currently have any real way to detect or “hear” it.” “Soul-mate relationships are common and plentiful. You could come across ten or […]

Dr. Georgina Cannon

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An award-winning author, change catalyst, corporate speaker, international facilitator, and practicing consulting hypnotist who brilliantly and skillfully uncovers the powers of the subconscious mind-body connection working through relationship and life issues with clients both personally and for business. With an eclectic background in journalism, the corporate world and counselling, Georgina is a powerful catalyst for change – in a […]

Quotes by Jean Shinoda Bolen

“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output — how much you produce — not in terms of the […]

Happy Thanksgiving! – Sonia Choquette

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Sonia Choquette Ph.D.:  Dear Beloved Six Sensories,  Once again, by the loving grace of God, we find ourselves, (at least in America,) given the privilege of sharing another beautiful Thanksgiving holiday this month,

Jean Shinoda Bolen M.D.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of “The Tao of Psychology,” “Goddesses in Everywoman,” “Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power,” “Crossing to Avalon,” “Close to the Bone,” “The Millionth Circle,” “Goddesses in Older Women,” “Crones Don’t Whine,” “Urgent Message from […]

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 27 January, 1945) is an American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in a now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions. She is a first-generation American who grew up in a rural village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza, and majority Magyar and minority Swabian […]

Roshi Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has worked in the area of death and dying since 1970 and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. For the past twenty-five years, […]

Quotes by Tony Robbins

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“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” “Beliefs have the […]

Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh

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“I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm – two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.” “In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In […]

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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“Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.” “I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.” “Today is a gift from […]

Quotes by Sonia Choquette

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“Accept what is. Your soul’s purpose right now is to respond in a grounded, nonreactive manner to what life deals you, and take nothing personally-good or bad. Instead focus on what you want to create in all circumstances.” “When our personal inner vision is sharp and balanced, it awakens our ability to look at life with […]

Quotes by Richard Bandler

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“We take the very best of what people do, synthesize it down, make it learnable and share it with each other – and that is what the real future of what NLP will be and its gonna stay that way!” “The evolution isn’t over. We are the experience that the universe is having.” “Do you […]

Quotes by Reverend Michael Beckwith

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“You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.” “Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don’t want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.” “There are laws of the universe […]

Quotes by Marianne Williamson

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, […]

Quotes by Marion Woodman

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“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear – stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering – fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now  that could lead to […]

Quotes by Mother Meera

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“God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.” “In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.” “When the divine grace is on man, no manmade creative energy can destroy the world.” “The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great […]