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Voices for faith

These voices are best suited to faith — but every voice in FindOkay is still visible below.

Henry David Thoreau

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Henry David Thoreau.

Henry David Thoreau

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."

Specializes in

  • career
  • purpose
  • burnout
  • stress

Generated from

  • Transcendentalism
Frederick Douglass

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

Specializes in

  • self confidence
  • purpose
  • leadership
  • career

Generated from

  • Civic
  • Christian contemplative
Sojourner Truth

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sojourner Truth.

Sojourner Truth

"Truth is powerful and it prevails."

Specializes in

  • self confidence
  • loneliness
  • purpose
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Civic
  • Christian contemplative
Bankei Yotaku

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Bankei Yotaku.

Bankei Yotaku

"The Unborn Buddha-mind is fundamentally endowed with all things."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Zen
  • Buddhism
  • Mindfulness
Dogen

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Dogen.

Dogen

"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Zen
  • Buddhism
  • Mindfulness
Hakuin Ekaku

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Hakuin Ekaku.

Hakuin Ekaku

"At the bottom of great doubt lies great enlightenment. If there is no great doubt, there will be no great enlightenment."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Zen
  • Buddhism
  • Contemplative practice
Cicero

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ad Familiares, Shuckburgh translation, public domain).

Cicero

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Specializes in

  • career
  • leadership
  • purpose
  • loss
  • decision

Generated from

  • Stoic
  • Skeptic
  • Roman
Pliny the Younger

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Pliny the Younger (Melmoth translation, public domain).

Pliny the Younger

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Specializes in

  • relationships
  • purpose
  • career
  • parenting

Generated from

  • Stoic
  • Humanist
  • Roman
Liezi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Liezi.

Liezi

"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing, it refuses nothing, it receives but does not keep."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • relationships
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Taoism
  • Zen
  • Nature connection
Abraham Lincoln

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

Specializes in

  • leadership
  • grief
  • purpose
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Existential meaning
  • Grief work
Milarepa

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Milarepa.

Milarepa

"My religion is to live and die without regret."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Contemplative practice
Musonius Rufus

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Musonius Rufus.

Musonius Rufus

"If you accomplish anything good with hard work, the labor passes, but the good endures; if you do anything shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the shame endures."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence
  • purpose
  • relationships
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Self-inquiry
Lao Tzu

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Lao Tzu.

Lao Tzu

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

Specializes in

  • stress
  • burnout
  • career
  • retirement
  • leadership

Generated from

  • Taoism
  • Mindfulness
Nagarjuna

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nagarjuna.

Nagarjuna

"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • grief

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Zen
  • Mindfulness
Patanjali

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Patanjali.

Patanjali

"Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Yoga philosophy
  • Advaita Vedanta
  • Mindfulness
Rainer Maria Rilke

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Rainer Maria Rilke.

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • self confidence
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Existential meaning
  • Contemplative practice
  • Poetry as reflection
Chief Seattle

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Chief Seattle.

Chief Seattle

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • relationships
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Nature connection
  • Acceptance
Seneca

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Seneca.

Seneca

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Cognitive reframing
  • Existential meaning
Mary Shelley

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • grief
  • anxiety
  • self confidence
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Existential meaning
  • Grief work
  • Self-inquiry
Sitting Bull

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sitting Bull.

Sitting Bull

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."

Specializes in

  • relationships
  • purpose
  • stress
  • leadership
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Nature connection
  • Nonviolent resistance
Vincent van Gogh

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Vincent van Gogh.

Vincent van Gogh

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Poetry as reflection
  • Existential meaning
  • Nature connection
Swami Vivekananda

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda

"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • anxiety
  • burnout
  • career
  • leadership

Generated from

  • Advaita Vedanta
  • Yoga philosophy
  • Bhakti
Walt Whitman

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

Specializes in

  • self confidence
  • purpose
  • loneliness
  • anxiety
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Poetry as reflection
  • Nature connection
  • Existential meaning
Zhuangzi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi

"The perfect man uses his mind like a mirror -- going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing. Therefore he can triumph over things without injury."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • relationships
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Taoism
  • Zen
  • Existential meaning