It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness.  It can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.  Adrienne Rich

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.  Audre Lorde

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds.  When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.  Daisaku Ikeda

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conception of them.  The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom

The cosmos is within us.  We are made of star-stuff.  We are a way for the universe to know itself.  Carl Sagan

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.  Eckhart Tolle