HeartQuotes from January, 2003

Moliere 1622-1673
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

William A. Tiller, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, "Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness" (Walnut Creek, CA: Pavior Publishing, 1997), p. 196.
The shift from incoherence to coherence can bring dramatic effects: a 60-watt light bulb whose light waves could be made coherent as a laser, would have the power to bore a hole through the sun--from 90 million miles away.

Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.

Zubin Mehta
Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.

Richard Bach, Illusions
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours!

Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership
Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

Doc Childre
One of the biggest contributors to low-energy fatigue is blame. Blaming a boss who made you work late or your "impossible, overloaded life" will only drain you. Fatigue from emotional energy drain results in diminished presence during the workday.

Sincere effort to maintain heart presence helps us stay conscious of our energy levels and make needed adjustments to sustain our vitality throughout the day. Maintaining presence means we are more able to hear the heart's intuitions and act on them so that we don't slip into energy drains of anxiety, overwork or blame that lead to fatigue.

Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

Dr. Charles H. Mayo MD, founder of the Mayo Clinic
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action.

Paul Ferrini
The choice between love and fear is made every moment in our hearts and minds. That is where the peace process begins. Without peace within, peace in the world is an empty wish. Like love, peace is extended. It cannot be brought from the world to the heart. It must be brought from each heart to another, and thus to all mankind.

Aaron Antonovsky, Unraveling The Mystery of Health: How People Manage Stress and Stay Well.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program
Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Democritus, (460?-370? BC)
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Whether we're aware of it or not, an energy economy game is going on inside of us throughout life. Our inner experience over the course of each day includes thousands of thoughts, feelings, and impressions that directly impact our energy level.

Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Goethe
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

N. Smith
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Intuition does not always appear as the ingenious breakthrough or something grandiose. Intuitive thoughts, feelings, and solutions often manifest themselves as good old common sense. Common sense is efficient.

Hellen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.