"Look to Africa for the root of it all" -- Carlos Santana

"A lumberjack in a tutu does not a ballerina make"

"If you want to learn the craft, one must sit at the knee of the master for years, to learn, and only then are you working for the master. When you become a master yourself, is it yours." -- Qathi H, Fire Arts and Equipment tribe

"Enjoy your body, because a woman is the most beautiful thing in the world." -- Leyla Jouvana

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -- Walt Disney

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -- Dr. Seuss
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
-- Emily Dickinson

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."
-- Bill Vaughan

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."
-- Evan Esar

"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." -- Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." -- Harry S. Truman

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it." -- Cullen Hightower

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself." -- Oscar Wilde

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." -- Anonymous

"There will come a time when we will pick between what is right and what is easy." -- Dumbledore

“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.” -- Calvin Coolidge

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." -- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." -- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence." -- Henrik Tikkanen

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba Eban

"Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things." -- Unknown

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking." -- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything." -- Floyd Dell

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood." -- H. L. Mencken

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. -- Totie Fields

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. -- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." -- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." -- Alfred Korzybski

by Deepak Chopra

I
THE LAW OF PURE POTENTIALITY
The source of all creation is pure consciousness...pure potentaility seekingexpression from the unmanifest to the manifest. And when we realize that our true self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.

II
THE LAW OF GIVING
The universe opertates through dynamic exchange...giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

III
THE LAW OF "KARMA" OR CAUSE AND EFFECT
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.

IV
THE LAW OF LEAST EFFORT
Nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease...with carefreeness, harmony, and love. And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

V
THE LAW OF INTENTION AND DESIRE
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment...intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality having infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

VI
THE LAW OF DETACHMENT
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies freedom from our past, from the unkown, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

VII
THE LAW OF "DHARMA" OR PURPOSE IN LIFE
Everyone has a purpose in life...a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.