The experience of
surprise is a sign of one’s readiness to grow. Amazement and wonder signify
that one’s concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to
be re-formed. When we can be dumbfounded at which comes out of us or what
others are capable of disclosing, we are growing persons.--Sidney Jourard
On Creativity
By holding your breath you
lose life, by letting go you
gain life.--Alan Watts
On Feelings
We all leave
childhood with wounds.In time we
can transform our liabilities into gifts.The injuries we have suffered invite us to assume the most human of all
vocations – to heal ourselves and others.--Sam Keen
On Play
We don’t stop playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop playing.--Satchel Paige
On Play
Warning: Laughter may be
hazardous to your illness.
--
Nurses for Laughter
On Play
Humor is a sort of permissible rebellion against things as they are. --Howard Nemerov
On Surprise
Genuine travelers travel not
to overcome distance but to
discover distance.--J.P. Carse
On Play
He who laughs, lasts.--Mary T. Poole
On Growth
The recurrent moments
of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of
initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the
next.--Jill Purce
On Feelings
Logic and reason sit on the
mental board of directors, but emotions cast the deciding vote.--David Searles
On Feelings
Because feelings form the underlying structural
matrix of thought, they are the key to remembering, to recognizing patterns,
and to generating new ideas.--William Gray
On Play
I thought you could thrash, beat, and pummel an idea
into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its
paws, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.--Ray Bradbury
On Being
Wisdom is the courage to live in the moving resonance of the present.--Sam Keen
