You’ll never rise higher than you see yourself.  Don’t limit what God can do in your life by focusing on what you see in the natural realm.  Joel Osteen

As you think, you become.  Knowingly or unknowingly, you imbibe the qualities of the thing named.  Sri Swami Satchidananda

When the mind is troubled, it is confused.  It cannot reflect [upon] anything.  It is the stillness of mind that makes one capable of receiving [awarenesses] and of reflecting upon them.  Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan

When we live the personal reality of peace, we become peacemakers. Our individual energy then aligns with the realities of other peacemakers, generating a wave of goodness throughout the world. This is how the phenomenon of faith within our awareness joins with others and becomes a great agency of transformation that creates a new, peaceful reality.  Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”  The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett