Steven Gonsalves

“Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive. We are too often indoors, unaware of the elements. The elements are not our enemies: we ourselves are made of the elements. When we connect with them, they inspire us and make us stronger, allowing us to communicate with the world in much subtler ways.”
― Sakyong Mipham, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind

“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
― Thomas Paine

“I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
― Suzy Kassem