Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Consciousness and Healing

To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”
― Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.”
― M. Scott Peck

“Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
― ram dass

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
― Ram Dass

“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
― ram dass

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”
― ram dass

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
― ram dass

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
― Ram Dass

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
― ram dass

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”
― ram dass

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”
― ram dass

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
― Ram Dass

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”
― ram dass

“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation.
Use it!”
― ram dass

“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”
― ram dass

“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”
― ram dass

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”
― ram dass

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”
― Ram Dass

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
― Ram Dass

“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
― ram dass

“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
― ram dass

“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
― ram dass

“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”
― ram dass