Below are some of my favorite quotes on a variety of different spiritual themes. I find it useful to reflect upon them as I think about the upcoming year. May you find wisdom and inspiration.

Presence
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Embodiment
The Church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta.
- Eduardo Galeano

Paying Attention
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- Simone Weil

Play
The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections, and only a mind which knows how to play can do that.
- Nagle Jackson

Purpose in Life
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian saying

Love
The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Teilhard de Chardin

Dance
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
- Isadora Duncan

Storytelling
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
- Salman Rushdie