What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

A good dancer or musician allows the music to take over, becomes absorbed in the complex harmonies and tempos, and is the servant of the materials at hand. The secret of a soul-based life is to allow someone or something other than the usual self to be in charge.
- Thomas Moore, The Original Self

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
- Carl Rogers

"I now see the soul as that wild creature way back there in the woods."

- Parker Palmer

Near the rose, in this grove of sun-parched wind-warped madrones
Among half-dead trees. I came upon the true ease of myself,
As if another person appeared out of the depths of my being,
And I stood outside of myself,
Beyond becoming and perishing.
A something wholly other,
As if I swayed out on the wildest wave alive,
And yet was still.
And I rejoiced in being what I was.

-Theodore Roethke

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

Bill Moyers to Joseph Campbell: Do you ever have this sense when you are following your bliss, as I have at moments, of being helped by hidden hands?

Joseph Campbell: All the time. It’s miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time ... namely, that if you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.