Quotes from Stephen Cope

He who devotes himself" M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001

But at the outset of the tale, Arjuna's central torment is not grasping. Or even its flip side—fear and aversion. No, it's clear to us that Arjuna is not really so much afraid as he is immobilized in a web of doubt. Stuck on the floor of the chariot. In

I think my dharma is to create a safe space for people.

When doubts haunt me" Sabapathy Kulandran. Grace in Christianity and Hinduism. Lutterworth Press: Cambridge, England, 2004

Self begins to reveal its nature. In the depths of meditation, we begin to recognize again that we are One with Brahman—that we are that wave that is nonseparate from the sea. Memory is restored!

I think my dharma is to create a safe space for people. To create a safe container in which people can thrive and be themselves. To be a kind of home base for folks—especially those who have no other home base.

M. K. Gandhi. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 1983

The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947

But Marion realized, overnight, that she had a new dharma. It was called cancer. She wrote in her journal: "When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone." Wow. Not much holding on there. It was an instinctive move: Recognize the winds of change at once. Move with them.

Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997

These are strange days, knowing that I have moved into Destiny, knowing I am in exactly the right place, agonizing as it is." No war here whatsoever.

Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008

Tubman: Myth, Memory and History. Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2007

de Caussade, Abandonment

Abandonment to Divine Providence. Translated and Introduced by John Beevers. Image Books: New York, 1975

We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

That's when my analysis began. That's when Marion began what Carl Jung would call the "night sea journey." That's when Marion began pointing her sails into the wind of the unconscious, and made the journey into the parts of herself that had been exiled to the basement and the attic of her body and soul. With the help of her analyst, she made the irrevocable decision to accept whatever she found there.

James A. McGowan. Station Master on the Underground Railroad. MacFarland and Co.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Back Bay Books: New York, 2004

Do not follow others," Corot exhorted. "He who follows is always behind. You must interpret Nature with entire simplicity and according to your personal sentiment, altogether detaching yourself from what you know of the old masters or of contemporaries. Only in this way will you do work of real feeling.

My two containers, my two soul friends, had come together. I could barely contain my joy. Life was intertwining in wonderful ways.

All of the Eastern contemplative traditions stumbled onto this brilliant principle: When difficulties arise, give yourself to them.

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008