| Pronoia. The opposite of paranoia,
pronoia is the unshakable conviction that life is a vast conspiracy
to liberate you from suffering, make you really smart and shower
you with blessings. It's not as simple as it might appear. The
blessings flowing your way may not be the exact ones you imagine
you want and deserve. They might even annoy or confuse you when
they first show up. But if you welcome the blessings you're
actually given, they will ultimately serve you better than any
you had expected.
- Rob Brezsny, Free
Will Astrology
Good
things happen when you take the bat off your shoulder.
- Popular expression
Good news is on the way.
- Modest
Mouse
When I feel impossible, show me what is possible.
- Michael Franti, Love
Invincible
Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion?
- Jack Kerouac
Keep looking up.
- Jack Horkheimer
Everything is getting better.
- The Beatles
The noblest art is that of making others happy.
- P.T. Barnum
God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the
world's deep hunger meet.
- Frederick
Buechner
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
- Paul Simon
Tell me that the whole world is wonderful.
- Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yell
Fire
Keep on the sunny side
- Poi
Dog Pondering
Like the sun coming out. I just know that something good is
going to happen.
- Kate Bush
These prayers are the constant road across the wilderness.
These prayers are the memory of god.
- Paul Simon
When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would
not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't
be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
What unifies a movement? After we go home from the demonstration,
are we still a movement? Only if we're grounded in a shared
vision … Having a vision means we have some fundamental
idea of how we want the world to be … A movement articulates
something for the future … It's not enough to express our
individualities. What kind of a world do you want for everybody?
And how can that world be demonstrated?
- Michael Ventura, Letters
at 3AM
Know what you want and all the universe conspires to help you
achieve it.
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The oppressed must realize that they fight not merely for freedom
from hunger, but for ... freedom to create and to construct,
to wonder and to venture.
- Paulo Freire, quoted in Original
Blessing
Para mí sólo recorrer los caminos que tienen
corazón, cualquier camino que tenga corazón. (I
only trek the paths that have heart, whatever path that has
heart.)
- Carlos Castaneda, The
Teachings of Don Juan
Don't be a horse race, be marathon. Don't fear the long road,
coz on a long road, u got a long time to sing a simple song.
And it's never too late to start the day over. It's never too
late to pick up the phone.
- Michael Franti, Everyone
deserves music
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
This is the new stuff.
- Peter Gabriel, So
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To
change something, build a new model that makes the existing
model obsolete.
- R.
Buckminster Fuller
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of
human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take
place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of
human nature, in different times or different cultural environments
or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet,
that is, if they are at least so much related to each other
that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that
new and interesting developments may follow.
- Werner Heisenberg
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Take time to be kind.
- Conversation
I will go to my grave claiming that the less you spend, the
more you enjoy, the more authentic the experience it is, the
more profound.
- Arthur Frommer, inerviewed in A Sense of Place
Go to the ugliest or most forlorn place you know--a drugstore
parking lot, the front porch of a crack house, a toxic waste
dump, or the place that symbolizes your secret shame--and build
a shrine devoted to beauty, truth, and love.
- Rob Brezsny, Pronoia
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
Ask yourself: 'Am I ready to stop equating cynicism with insight?
Do I dare take the risk that exposing myself to uplifting entertainment
might dull my intelligence?' If you doubt your ability to handle
relaxing breakthroughs, you should stop reading now.
- Rob Brezsny, Secrets
of Pronoia/The Sun (PDF)
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