Aparian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

- Gloria Steinem

Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence.

~ Hz. Ali

Treasure is stored in the ruined places.Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.

~ Rumi

The important thing

is not to think much

but to love much,

and so to do

whatever best awakens you to love

Teresa of Avila

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

~ Rumi

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,

for there you have been and there you will long to return."

by Leonardo Da Vinci

"The self is a style of being, continually expanding in a vital process of definition, affirmation, revision, and growth, a process that is the image, we may say, of the life process of a healthy society itself."

- Robert Penn Warren