“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“Although we don’t live in the past, we live with the past.” – Rabbi Mark Miller

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?” (Williamson, 1992, p. 165)

Willliamson, M. (1992). A return to love: Reflections on the principles of a course in miracles. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

“If I study, I seek only the learning that … instructs me in how to die well and live well.” – Michel de Montaigne (p. 297) Read the full story

“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” (Mill, 1859, p. 27) Read the full story

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions.” – Mandel Creighton

“In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired; in pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.” – Lao Tzu

“The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.” – Henry David Thoreau

In many ways Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell in 1949 is like an interesting thought experiment about what people with too much control might do and how it would shape society, politics, and individual people’s lives. And by too much power I am referring to a grave imbalance of power shifted from the people to a few “chosen” individuals. Sure, there have been people such as Stalin who tried to make something along the same lines happen but it has turned out nothing like what Orwell is portraying. Though contextually maybe not as relevant as it was when it was first published, the wealth of information and topics being addressed in this little book are in many ways timeless and should not be missed. Read the full story