"The Chinese world-view is circular and self contained. It imagines that the universe is whole, a macrocosm, made up of the constant unfolding and flux of Yin and Yang. Chinese medicine, like Chinese thought in general, begins and ends with this notion of a whole, within which all the parts are related to each other and also to the whole." - Ted Kaptchuk - The Web That Has No Weaver
"The idea that we do not understand something until we have a picture of it in our heads is a by-product of the Newtonian way of looking at the world. If we want to get past Newton, we have to get past that." -Gary Zukav - The Dancing Wu Li Masters
"Whatever joy there is in this world all comes from desiring others to be happy, and whatever suffering there is in this world all comes from desiring myself to be happy at the expense of others. --Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
"Influenced by media imagery and advertising, we have become habituated to look outside ourselves for happiness and in the process have created powerful addictions that drive our choices. Each time we allow an outside stimulus to program our actions, we allow our own inner power of intelligent discrimination to atrophy, leading to further addiction. Many of us have become so out of touch with our innermost selves that we do not know where need ends and want begins." -Sharon Gannon's article Yoga and Money (www.realitysandwich.com)
We mistakenly think that we can master healing by learning the rules. However, for the Shaman it is not about the rules or ideas. It's about vision and Spirit. And while the healing practices often vary from village to village, the Spirit never varies. True Healing is nothing less than an awakening to a vision of our healed nature and the experience of infinity." - Alberto Villoldo - Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to heal yourself and others with the energy medicine of the Americas