Jim Hawes: “One can be so depressed, angry, or agitated about their life that they surrender and find themselves in a different state of conscious awareness. Here at this very moment, we are the Child Awareness.”

Diane Fisher: “When we think of making a difference or going out into the world to do good, so often we think it must be far reaching or grand to be impactful. We need the constant reminder that it is actually the small, thoughtful actions that each of us take every day that change the world for the better.”

Jim Hatton: “Go beyond a male God and a female Goddess there is a field; Out beyond strength and weakness there is a field; Out beyond truth and falsehood there is a field.”

Edward Hirsch: “I realized that I was bringing something original into the world, which I found nowhere else. I was deeply dedicated to providing a vehicle for what was being revealed to me, and evolving within me.”

Sally McKirgan: “It was ‘I’ who had judged these people so many years ago. Before I left, I decided it was time to drop all former judgments. I should call them misjudgments or missed judgments. We cannot really judge, because we don’t really know.”

Edward Hirsch: “By Sacred Mystery, I would call people not to a doctrine, but precisely the opposite, to a sense of openness and reverence before the Mystery that cannot be confined within any doctrine. This doesn’t mean it’s a free-for-all, it’s just that, while we can respect many views, we can also declutch the grasping mind that needs that sense of certainty in the face of insecurity and not knowing.”

Victoria Leo: “Psychologists help us to put our troubles in perspective by getting us to think of our dilemmas in a larger context. The immeasurable universe above us is the largest possible context.”

Jim Hatton: “A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: ‘We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable.’”

Annie Katz: When I’m outside in clean air with mountains, trees and other animals all around me, petty thoughts fall away and gratitude blossoms. I’m alive. The same way the blackberry bushes, oak trees and songbirds are alive. What joy to be alive on Planet Earth!”

Jessica Bryan: “You must turn toward the light. Ask in your heart for guidance and it will come to you as a flash of energy and insight. Get moving! … You are the ‘master of your ship.’ You can choose which direction to take.”