Wayne Teasdale Quotes

#1. Everything is an avenue leading to the experience of Ultimate Reality. The divine communicates itself in all things. There are infinite ways to encounter the source'Ultimate Reality may be eperienced in virtually anything. There is no place, no activity that restricts the divine. It is everywhere.

Wayne Teasdale

#2. Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

William Zinsser

#3. It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

Wayne Teasdale

#4. The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from the various religions and their application to one's own inner life and development.

Wayne Teasdale

#7. As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

Wayne Teasdale

#8. The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

Wayne Teasdale

#9. I love you. Good-by--because I love you.

Kate Chopin

#10. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.

Wayne Teasdale

#11. What transforms us is not what we do but our integration with WHAT IS.

Wayne Teasdale

#12. As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

Amit Kalantri

#13. He had what young and/or terrible people were recently calling swag.

Dave Holmes

#14. One reads not for information, but inspiration.

Wayne Teasdale

#15. I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

Lewis Black

#16. I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in making my own damn tale.

Nicole Williams

#17. Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

Virginia Woolf

#18. Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

Wayne Teasdale