No overactivity. – Marcus Aurelius

Do you want to know what my secret is? You see, I don't mind what happens. – Krishnamurti

A compassionate mind is a diligent mind. – Mingyur Rinpoche

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Seneca the Younger

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. – Thich Nhat Hanh

The desire for more and more wealth is dangerous. Cultivate the good sense to give up your desires. Wealth is the result of past deeds. Therefore be content with what you have. – Adi Shankaracharya

If you are content with being nobody, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true power. – Karla

It is important to cultivate the inner values of patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, and self-discipline. These inner values help us to remain calm and composed in difficult situations and to be free from the negative emotions of anger, jealousy and hatred. – The 14th Dalai Lama

Be grateful to all – to those who have helped, to those who have hindered, to those who have been indifferent. Be grateful to all, because all together they are creating the context in which Buddhas are born, in which you can become a Buddha. ― Osho

Your friends either go through this inner transformation with you or drift out of your life. Some relationships dissolve, others deepen. – Eckhart Tolle

Without thought and time where is your fear? There is no thought in the now and thus no fear. Fear is a projection into the future of a desire you don’t want. Why mentally go there? Waste of energy! – Pat Croce

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. Be grateful to him who curses you, for he gives you a mirror to show what cursing is, also a chance to practice self-restraint; so bless him and be glad. Without exercise, power cannot come out; without the mirror, we cannot see ourselves. – Vivekananda

If you can't be happy in life, what else is there? – Les Brown

The sense of identity will remain but no longer identification with a particular body. Being-Awareness-Love will shine in full splendor. Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again. – Neale Donald Walsch

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you and you feel joy. – Rumi

A slight mental shift from frustration to fascination can change your world at that moment. Speaking of which, the shift usually abandons the illusory expectations in the future to pure peaceful Awareness in the present. – Pat Croce

How can anybody tell you what you shall become when there is no becoming? You merely discover what you are. All moulding oneself to a pattern is a grievous waste of time. Think neither of the past nor of the future, just be. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before birth and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. – Mark Twain

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama. – Ram Dass

If a man knows not to which port he sails no wind is favorable. – Seneca

Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live is not projected onto you, but by you, your fear comes to an end. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

it is possible to move and to work fast while rooted in presence, provided the majority of your attention is on Being rather than the desired outcome of the activity. – Eckhart Tolle

Attachment is not love. It is based on separation, when two separate people are fixed together, as if stuck with glue. In love, there is no separation - two people become one, with no boundary between them. In attachment, there is imbalance and discord; in love, only harmony. – Steve Taylor

Look into others, and see yourself. - Lama Surya Das

It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more. – Seneca the Younger

Bring in the attitude of pure witnessing, of watching the events without taking part in them.- Nisargadatta Maharaj

This is not a journey from nowhere to nowhere. This is a process. Life is a process. It is a process with purpose and meaning. It is a function of the Universe. It is the Present Action of an Eternal Activity. – Neale Donald Walsch

To the degree that you condemn others, and find evil in others, you are to that degree unconscious of the same thing in yourself. – Alan Watts

The more aware you become, the less attached you will be, because the need for comfort disappears. Only a person who is aware can truly love, because you are not needed for external or internal happiness. And then, Love becomes a Creator, not a personal owned thing. – Karla

If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. – Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is purely being in whatever you’re doing in the moment without additionally seeking something in the future or resisting something from the past. – Pat Croce

You yourself are the eternal energy which appears as this universe. You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here. – Alan Watts

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. – Ramana Maharshi

It's impossible to learn that which you think you already know. – Epictetus

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. – Voltaire

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience. - Carl Sagan

Happiness means loving yourself and being less concerned with the approval of others. – Owen Campbell Jr.

The game isn’t to end up a good meditator; but to end up free. The game isn’t to end up a good Buddhist; it’s to end up Buddha. The game isn’t to end up a good Christian; but to end up Christ. The game isn’t to end up loving; it’s to end up being Love. – Ram Dass

Oneness is one thing too many. Hence, in their wisdom and humility, the ancient sages just said that reality is ‘not two’. - Rupert Spira

Love is a giving not a grasping; a sharing not a seeking; a caring not a complaining. Love is the true you! – Pat Croce

Although our culture tries to convinces us that we have to spend money to be happy, all of the greatest sources of happiness in our lives - contact with nature, love, friendship, exercise, kindness - are all free. – Steve Taylor

And I don't think I can go back to the illusion that told me I was small and separate. I am the entire Universe in a human form. – Hitome Mochizuki

The world might change, but not because you're trying to change it. – Alan Watts

Work is love made visible. – Kahlil Gibran

Look into others, and see yourself. - Lama Surya Das

Allow the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life, you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life. – Don Miguel Ruiz

Our sorrows provide us with the lesson we most need to learn. - Lama Surya Das

Nothing happens before the time has come. – Sri Anandamayi Ma

I am complete and perfect. I am the beingness of being, the knowingness of knowing, the fulness of happiness. You cannot reduce me to emptiness! – Nisargadatta Maharaj

There will be fear as long as we are protecting ourselves with property, relationship, name, ideas, beliefs, etc. If we let go any of these, we are nothing. – Krishnamurti

Through resentment and hatred, we punish ourselves more than the person who has wronged us. Resentment drains of us our energy and creates inner tension. It allows the person who wronged us to continue hurting us. – Steve Taylor

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! – Ram Dass

Every time you resist self-hatred and choose gratitude, you rewire yourself to react kinder, calmer, and more loving. – Karla

If you happen to be sitting, just sit. If you are smoking a pipe, just smoke it. If you are thinking out a problem, just think. But don’t think and reflect unnecessarily, compulsively, from sheer force of nervous habit. In Zen, they call this having a leaky mind. – Alan Watts

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what is the use of seeing? – Thich Nhat Hanh

True change is within; leave the outside as it is. – The 14th Dalai Lama

If you fear death, you identify with your body and you are not in the Now! This existential fear pervades all other lesser emotional fear-based thoughts and prevents you living Life to it fullest. – Pat Croce

You are in a cocoon of your own bad habits, and you must be freed to spread its wings of beautiful divine qualities. – Paramahansa Yogananda

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. – Seneca the Younger

If a half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Dale Carnegie

If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. – Rumi

Focus on what's in your control and accept what is not. – Ryan Holiday

How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them. — Marcus Aurelius

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl

Compassion is the basis of morality. – Arthur Schopenhauer

A mind that is held in control is not a still mind; it is a stale mind. The mind is still, tranquil, only when it understands the whole process of its own thinking, and then there is a possibility of going beyond.- J.Krishnamurti

Know that you can’t change people unless they want to transform. Meet them where they are without leaving the peaceful loving place where you are. Presence has a mystical way of operating for the Good. – Pat Croce

The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all human beings. – Erwin Schrodinger

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Your beingness is something to which you are entitled. That is your primary capital in life and that will do whatever is to be done. That state which was yours before you were born, and which is yours after the body dies, is your permanent property. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. – Ramana Maharshi

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. – Lao Tzu

Once you give up expectations, you have learned how to live. – Osho

From the perspective of awareness, there are situations; for the ego, there are problems. - Rupert Spira

Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue. — Marcus Aurelius

The ego is sustained by continuous resistance. – Eckhart Tolle

You are the universe experiencing itself. – Alan Watts

Your daily life vibrates between desire and fear. Watch it intently and you will see how the mind assumes innumerable names and shapes, like a river foaming between the boulders. Trace every action to its selfish motive and look at the motive intently till it dissolves. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

The light at the end of the tunnel is not the illusion. The tunnel is. Karla

The universe is a universe, not a multiverse. It is a single, indivisible whole. – Rupert Spira

The smallest thing done with love becomes great, but the greatest thing done without love is useless. – Krishna Dharma

Peace isn’t about eliminating anxiety, anger, fear, etc; it’s about accepting them. As we learn to look inside and be okay with what we find—even love it—there’s no need for violent self-judgement. When we aren’t fearing the contents of our own hearts and minds, that’s peace. – Jason Garner

You are responsible only for what you can change. All you can change is your attitude. There lies your responsibility.- Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous, and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because they don’t know the difference between good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius

Suffering comes down to departing the Now in either the direction of comparison or expectation. Stay right here, right now and enjoy Life as it unfolds without any mental detours. – Pat Croce

Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them. – St. Francis of Assisi

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is. - Eckhart Tolle

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. – Alan Watts

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your unguarded thoughts. – Buddha

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. – Epictetus

The sense of identity pervades the universal. Search and you shall discover the Universal Person, who is yourself and Infinitely more. Anyhow, begin by realizing that the world is in you, not you in the world. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. – Alan Watts

Freedom must be established from the very beginning. A wrong means will produce a wrong end; through a wrong means, the true cannot be found. From the very beginning, awareness must be choiceless. – Krishnamurti

Research shows that losing two hours of sleep promotes inflammation. What’s more, poor sleepers also lose out on the natural increase in cancer-fighting molecules that happens during a good night’s sleep. – Frank Lipman, M.D.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship. – Seneca the Younger

The grip of one singular idea, no matter what it is, cannot replace our connection to the web of life. Intensity is not a substitute for kinship. - Mark Nepo

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity, it will automatically vanish and Reality will shine forth by itself. – Ramana Maharshi

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. – Buddha

Be like bamboo - strongly rooted, open-minded inside, and flexible & flowing with whatever conditions unfold before you. – Pat Croce

How we live from day to day affects our future. Warm-heartedness is the key factor. I think about it always because it’s warm-heartedness that brings us peace of mind. – The 14th Dalai Lama

Seeking propels the ego into the future; resistance drags it into the past. – Rupert Spira

The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you. – Ritu Ghatourey

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life. – Eckhart Tolle

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. – Alan Watts

Who can free himself from achievement
And from fame, descend and be lost
Amid the masses of men?
He will flow like Tao, unseen,
He will go about like Life itself
With no name and no home.
Simple is he, without distinction.
– Chuang Tzu

If you’re like me & create a daily to-do list, then make sure you identify each action step as the most important activity at that moment. Invest your total Being in the doing regardless of how menial you label the task. The means is the end! – Pat Croce

Our body is an elegantly designed and connected system, not just a bunch of individual parts that have nothing to do with each other. – Mark Hyman. M.D.

We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought. – Alan Watts

The birth of the ego is called birth of the person. There is no other kind of birth. Whatever is born is bound to die. Kill the ego: there is no fear of recurring death for what is once dead. The Self remains even after death of ego. That is Bliss - that is Immortality. – Ramana Maharshi

All of us are on a spiritual journey to learn that we are souls, not bodies, and that only love is real. Love dissolves fear and renounces hatred and violence. Our bodies are the transient manifestation of our magnificent, eternal soul energy. – Dr. Brian Weiss

The ego is at war with the now. It is always seeking to replace or resist it. - Rupert Spira

Act without expectation. – Lao Tzu

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusion. – Alan Watts

When you meet a worthy man, you will love and trust him and follow his advice. This is the role of the realized people — to set an example of perfection for others to admire and love. Beauty of life and character is a tremendous contribution to the common good. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. – Rumi

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. – Confucious

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. ― Hippocrates

No one is coming to save you, to give you permission, to choose you, or validate you. This has always been your job. You must love yourself so fiercely and fully that you have no choice but to be strong for yourself, to fight for yourself, to be yourself, and to build yourself. – Cara Leyba

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life. – Neale Donald Walsch

When I realized I could be happy doing anything, I realized I could be happy doing everything. – Ron LaSalvia

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in. – Alan Watts

We believe in so many things on hearsay. We believe in distant lands and people, in heavens and hells, in gods and goddesses, because we were told. Similarly, we were told about ourselves, our parents, name, position, duties and so on. We never cared to verify. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. Ram Dass

Be Ground
Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
You’ve been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.
– Rumi

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. – The 14th Dalai Lama

When we are grateful for the situation previously thought stressful, that gratitude turns stress into celebration & can produce remarkably different results, both internally in the way we are experiencing life, as well as externally in the way that life itself is expressing. – Neale Donald Walsch

The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open. – Rumi

In facing our grief, we are asked to let so many profound things merge in our heart until the potion of life in all its mystery cleanses us and rearranges us. – Mark Nepo

You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently. - Lama Surya Das

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That will be like trying to smooth ripples in water over the flat iron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. – Alan Watts

The best way to dissociate yourself from your difficulty is to be mentally detached, as if you were merely a spectator, while at the same time seeking a remedy. – Paramahansa Yogananda

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha

The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen. – Rumi

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. - Eckhart Tolle

After all, all the Yogas, whatever their source and character, have only one aim: to save you from the calamity of separate existence, of being a meaningless dot in a vast and beautiful picture. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. - Shunryu Suzuki

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama. – Ram Dass

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. – Lao Tzu

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. – Rumi

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is. – Charles Bukowski

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. – Ramana Maharshi

In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go. – Jack Kornfield

Whatever you do, do it slowly and intentionally. You will enjoy it more and become happier. - Haemin Sunim

Therefore I keep on saying that all happens by itself. There is order in my world too, but it is not imposed from outside. It comes spontaneously and immediately, because of its timelessness. Perfection is not in the future. It is now. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

You have to get “out of your head” and into your heart. – Neale Donald Walsch

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life. Nobody can even have an argument with you, no matter how hard he or she tries. You cannot have an argument with a fully conscious person. – Eckhart Tolle

It must be obvious that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness. Because life is likewise a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life. – Alan Watts

Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live has not been projected onto you but by you, your fear comes to an end. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

The greatest power does not arise from fame or fortune, but of the power to perceive from an imperturbable Aware Presence in the present moment. Nothing or no one can disrupt or dissolve this desire-less Divine Power that we all share - but few embrace. – Pat Croce

If letting go of everyone and everything were a traumatic or frightening experience, we would dread falling asleep at night. - Rupert Spira

Expect nothing, and take whatever you get. Embrace whatever shows up. Love what it is. Namaste. – Neale Donald Walsch

Every near-death experiencer is convinced that the purpose of life is to grow in our ability to give and receive love. – Neal Grossman

What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. – Eckhart Tolle

The path of enlightenment is what is underneath our feet. – Douglas Penick

To be angry is to let others' mistakes punish yourself. To forgive others is to be good to yourself. - Master ChengYen

We are all here on this planet as tourists. None of us can live here forever. – The 14th Dalai Lama

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience. – Carl Sagan

To the degree that you condemn others, and find evil in others, you are to that degree unconscious of the same thing in yourself. – Alan Watts

You are immortal, you are not going to die; but give up the present meaning which you attach to life. You have only one thing to do: care for others as much as you care for yourself. Behave as if they were all yours; that is all you can do. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Zhuangzi

Thousands of candles can be lit by a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein"

"“Kindly let me help you or you will drown,” said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree. – Alan Watts"

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King Jr."

"Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace. – Adi Shankaracharya"

"There is nothing wrong with your world, it is your thinking yourself to be separate from it that creates disorder. Selfishness is the source of all evil. – Nisargadatta Maharaj"

Our sorrows provide us with the lesson we most need to learn. - Lama Surya Das

For those who aspire for spiritual advancement, there is no rule more important than the avoidance of all injury to living beings by thought, word or action. – Srimad Bhagavata

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. - Paramahansa Yogananda

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. – La Rochefoucauld

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift

There is no thing in this world that is important. As long as you believe it is important, you will never awaken. You can't. For you are caught up in Maya. You are playing the game. You are still involved in the Leela. You're feeling things. You're reacting to things. – R. Adams

The man who inquires into the hereafter is already dead. If you live in the eternal present, the hereafter does not exist; then life is not divided into the past, present and future. Then there is only completeness, and in that there is the ecstasy of life - J Krishnamurti

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody. – Rumi

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. – Alan Watts

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. ― Paulo Coelho

Have you ever thought where thought arises? Do you know your next thought - positive or negative, happy or uneasy? What if you just welcomed ALL thoughts as if you had chosen them - then let them go on their way without any attachment? Enjoy the peace that arises with this inquiry. – Pat Croce

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. – Seneca the Younger

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. – Alan Watts

If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this, I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it. – Rumi

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Whatever is called God or Self is because there is the beingness, the feeling that “I Am.” That is the fundamental principle, the basis behind all your knowledge, but you are identifying yourself with the body.
– Nisargadatta Maharaj

Most people are under the mistaken impression that if their thoughts stop they will ... become a vegetable. On the contrary, you will become spontaneous. You will think just enough to take care of the moment and everything will be taken care of for you. Try it. – Robert Adams

It is love alone that can solve all our human problems. – Krishnamurti

Everything in the universe—yes, everything—is energy, and that includes you. Energy must have a free flow in order for it to be most efficient. Allowing things to flow naturally is the way of the universe.
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters. – Ramana Maharshi

The mind is here to test you, to try and create some doubt in you, to challenge your strength. You must transcend every doubt about who you are. Doubts about other things you can afford, but doubts about yourself, you must clarify until delusions end. You are the immutable awareness, not the psychological mind. As you as you are clear about this, mind begins to merge with you as the single Being. – Mooji

And God said 'Love Your Enemy', and I obeyed him and loved myself. - Kahlil Gibran

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov

Whatever you're doing, you're doing it now. - Pema Chödrön

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near. – Paulo Coelho

Do not feel lonely, The entire universe is inside you! – Rumi

You are not the body, you do not have a personality, you are the universal life. This is all universal life. Why do you consider yourself some particular individual and suffer? – Nisargadatta Maharaj

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in. – Alan Watts

Only the fact of being aware remains consistently present, and therefore only the fact of being aware qualifies as our essential self. - Rupert Spira

Fear arises only when we are unwilling to acknowledge or see what is.- J.Krishnamurti

When you ‘do not know’ something, do not rush through this mental absence of thought. Instead, be still, enjoy this space and rest in the not-knowing — then see what arises from Divine Intelligence. True understanding & creativity only happen between thoughts. – Pat Croce

There is no more visible sign of a person’s success on the path of goodness than when he restrains his anger and refuses to repay an unkind word with an unkind word, or refuses to strike back at a person who’s offended him. – Leo Tolstoy

We all have the seeds of basic goodness within us. We only have to nourish them" - Pema Chödron

You are home already. Relax. – Karla

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Paramahansa Yogananda

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it. – Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa

If you strive for success (it arrives with its twin - fear of failure) you will most certainly have stress; however, if you do your very best, you can be guaranteed the Divine will do the rest and you will enjoy the ultimate success (Peace & Happiness). – Pat Croce

If you happen to be sitting, just sit. If you are smoking a pipe, just smoke it. If you are thinking out a problem, just think. But don’t think and reflect unnecessarily, compulsively, from sheer force of nervous habit. In Zen, they call this having a leaky mind. – Alan Watts

True change is within; leave the outside as it is. – The 14th Dalai Lama

There is no deepening; you are deep enough already.
There is no completing; you are complete enough already.
There is no freeing from: you are already free.
Change your view. Don't try to change it, just do it!
You don't have to try to be what you already are.
– Wu Hsin

Don’t be too quick to interpret.
Just keep quiet.
My encouragement is:
Never think anything is against you.
Take everything as a blessing.
Why should it be different?
Just be quiet and observe.
See how everything works out beautifully.
– Mooji

We all feel that health is the natural state of the body. Why do we not feel that happiness is the natural state of the mind? – Rupert Spira

There’s a marked difference between acquaintances and friends. Most people really don’t become friends. They become deep and serious acquaintances. But in a friendship you get to know the spirit of another person; and your values coincide. – Maya Angelou

Just Being Aware is magical - in nothing in particular but in everything unfolding before you. When Being Aware, you are Not Knowing. When Not Knowing, you are perfectly in the Now. When in the Now, you are living Life to its fullest (and there’s absolutely no misery). – Pat Croce

Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. Do what you can do. Then let it rest. – Neale Donald Walsch

Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. - Mooji

Put your thoughts to sleep
Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart
Let go of thinking
– Rumi

One of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in sights, sounds, places, and people. – Alan Watts

The true state of the Self, the soul, is bliss, wisdom, love, peace. It is to be so happy that no matter what you are doing you enjoy it. – Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest Guru is helpless as long as the disciple is not eager to learn. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich. – Seneca the Younger

Expand your perception of the world to include the horrible beauty of decay. Look at decay and see how beautiful it is in its own way. – Ram Dass

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. – Charles Addams

Intellectualization creates a gap or lack of rapport between you and your life. You may think about things so much that you get into the state where you are eating the menu instead of the dinner. – Alan Watts

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains. – Ramana Maharshi

Happiness, being found to be something final and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim. – Aristotle

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. – Shunryu Suzuki

Whenever we are seeking happiness, it is in fact our innate happiness that is seeking us. The happiness we seek is the happiness we are. – Rupert Spira

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I was the sought. – Bayazid Bastami

To be open to the source of all happiness is the highest religion. – J. Krishnamurti

To live fully, death is essential; every ending makes a new beginning. On the other hand, do understand that only the dead can die, not the living. That which is alive in you, is immortal. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

Zen Buddhism doesn't attach to special experiences, but values equally all ordinary experiences. – Shunryu Suzuki

If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence. – Eckhart Tolle

Imagine the freedom of leading a life in which we know that our happiness is not dependent on anyone or anything. - Rupert Spira

Know that you have the power to wield the jeweled sword of Presence at your choosing. In any situation you can cut thru the fog of the mind’s miserable thoughts & reside in a clear peaceful state. The more you practice with the sword, the less it is required! – Pat Croce

Like a child clinging to toys you cling to your desires, fear, opinions and ideas. Give it up, forgive and walk without your props. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. – Rumi

God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. – Ramana Maharshi

The secret to waking up from the drama—all these endless cycles—is to realize that only the present exists. It's the only time there is. – Alan Watts

Why is it when we perceive a thought, it’s MY thought; but when we perceive the sunshine or rain, it’s GOD’s weather? When you realize you have as much chance of controlling your thoughts as you do manipulating the weather. Let everything flow! – Pat Croce

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.  – Seneca the Younger

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. – Viktor Frankl

If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out.It will not stay long. – Shunryu Suzuki

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. Gerald Jampolsky

Be happy; without reason - Tsoknyi Rinpoche

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. – Alan Watts

Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. – Thich Nhat Hanh

The way to live without fear is to know that every outcome in life is perfect - including the outcome that you fear the most, which is death. – Neale Donald Walsch

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Seneca the Younger

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is only the free mind that can find out what is true, not the mind that is conditioned by beliefs, ideals and compulsions. – Krishnamurti

When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself. – Eckhart Tolle

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. – Ram Dass

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. – Victor Frankl

Every battle is won before it’s ever fought. – Sun Tzu

What is the one common element of everything in this Divine Universe? Existence. Being. Isness. Amness. I am, she is, it is IS the same Godly Essence of everything and not limited to any one particular thing. When will we realize we are all in this thing together as ONE? – Pat Croce

While we wait for life, life passes. – Seneca the Younger

We are not present in the now – we are the now. – Rupert Spira

Where action is needed, action happens. Man is not the actor. His is to be aware of what is going on. His very presence is action. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Bring me a wave separate from the ocean and I will show you a person separate from the universe. – Alan Watts

In worldly life it is necessary to be mindful of praise and blame. But on the spiritual path, unless one becomes indifferent to both, one cannot remain firm and steadfast. – Sri Anandamayi Ma

The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change. The mind must come to know the true self and respect it and cease covering it up, like the moon which obscures the sun during a solar eclipse. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To be angry is to let others' mistakes punish yourself. To forgive others is to be good to yourself. - Master ChengYen

You yourself are the eternal energy which appears as this universe. You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here. – Alan Watts

The moment we want to be something, we are no longer free. - J. Krishnamurti

The best fighter is never angry. – Lao Tzu

The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change. The mind must come to know the true self and respect it and cease covering it up, like the moon which obscures the sun during a solar eclipse. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. – Alan Watts

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

Wisdom is learning how to live in harmony with the world as it is in any given moment. – Ram Dass

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. – Rumi

We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else. – Shunryu Suzuki

You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state. – Eckhart Tolle

Eliminate the words offensive and annoying from your vocabulary. No one can offend you. No one can annoy you. You choose to be offended. You choose to be annoyed. The only person that hurts is you. Let it go! – Ron LaSalvia

“You know, other people are the path.” - Thich Nhat Hanh responding to a student who was dealing with a difficult person. All present conditions, situations and relationships, especially the difficult ones, are the very Path of Enlightenment. These are necessary elements to help us learn the required lessons (blessings) to dissolve our mental filters (vasanas) and allow our brilliant light to shine (Self) eternally. Unless we can deeply perceive and tolerate the vasanas of seemingly other people, these human expressions will continually cross our path. The Divine Universe has devised plans and ploys for our path far wiser than our finite mind’s wishes and desires. – Pat Croce

Happiness is a decision, not an experience. The same is true of Love. Love is not a reaction. Love is a decision. – Neale Donald Walsch

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. – Alan Watts

In your tremendous helplessness the whole existence suddenly starts helping you. – Osho

lf of us look at each other knowingly, for the feeling that we knew each other in that most distant past conceals something else—tacit, awesome, almost unmentionable—the realization that at the deep center of a time perpendicular to ordinary time we are, and always have been, one. – Alan Watts

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Khalil Gibran

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning. - Eckhart Tolle

True change is within; leave the outside as it is. – The 14th Dalai Lama

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. – Alan Watts

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal. – Eckart Tolle

Be who you really are and go the whole way. – Lao Tzu

Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit. – Eckhart Tolle

Do I want the present moment to be my friend or my enemy? The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with life. - Eckhart Tolle

The fact of the matter is: it all starts right now. – Alan Watts

The recognition of our true nature is not a new experience that happens to us. It is the revealing or the noticing of what we always and already are. - Rupert Spira

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. - Eckhart Tolle

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. – Rumi

This is the spirit which our present day world needs more than anything else: to see that what is truly important in life is what is frivolous. To see that it doesn’t matter two hoots that we achieve a certain success, that we win a certain game, that we live longer than we might live otherwise. – Alan Watts

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you and you feel joy. – Rumi

The thing that is supposed to transpire during meditation is the one thing that is transpiring all the time. That is, the presence of your being. - Rupert Spira

The first step on the Path is to know what you want, not what you ought to want. – Alan Watts

Take a look today at what sweet, simple things of life you may be looking past, or right over, and neither seeing nor enjoying. Look closely. They are likely to be right in front of your face - something you're looking through every day. - Neale Donald Walsch

Exhale only love. – Rumi

You’re only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You’re trying to straighten out a wiggly world and no wonder you’re in trouble. – Alan Watts

Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.

The ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive. - Eckhart Tolle

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it. – Ram Dass

Protect yourself from your own thoughts! – Rumi

Through mindless living, we dissipate our energy and squander our lives. Through mindful living, we inhabit fully the present moment and connect more totally with whomever we are with and with whatever we are doing. Then the smallest act becomes unimaginably blessed. – Lama Surya Das

We think we can solve problems with violence. We think that killing people is an answer to a problem. It’s only temporary. Because if you knock out, say, a Hitler, another one comes up. Because you haven’t understood the problem of this sort of manifestation. Anything that’s destroyed with violence eventually recurs again. – Alan Watts

A teacher is found wherever you are when you’re ready for that teacher. – Ram Dass

The most exquisite paradox…as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible. – Ram Dass

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. - Eckhart Tolle

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. – Buddha

Realize that you only suffer (angst, worry, frustration, etc) when you are seeking happiness because you are resisting ‘what is’ now. Allow whatever form the now takes to flow thru you and it will fulfill you with the peaceful joy you seek. - Pat Croce

If you just try to keep quiet, all will come—the work, the strength for work, the right motive. Must you know everything beforehand? Don’t be anxious about your future—be quiet now and all will fall in place. The unexpected is bound to happen, while the anticipated may never come. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

The thing that is supposed to transpire during meditation is the one thing that is transpiring all the time. That is, the presence of your being. - Rupert Spira

To begin with, just give up any expectations of yourself. That’s a simple good instruction for how to do Buddhist meditation. Let go and observe without judgment. - Pema Chödrön

Increase the space between stimulus & your response, thus no conditioned reaction & bad karma. Decrease the space between what you want & what you have, thus no resistance and subsequent suffering. - Pat Croce

Helping yourself, you help the world. You are in the world – you are the world. You are not different from the world, nor is the world different from you. - Sri Ramana Maharshi

The journey is the pathless path from our self to our self, from the happiness we seek to the happiness we are. - Rupert Spira

When we honor life but don’t make it a big deal, we lighten up, open up, and become more joyous. The fancy name for that is enlightenment. It’s a paradoxical idea, but holding these two attitudes simultaneously is the source of enormous joy: we hold a sense of respect toward all things, along with the ability to let go. - Pema Chödrön

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am. - Eckart Tolle

What you seek is seeking you. - Rumi

Love is about all-inclusiveness; it is who we are. Beingness is Love. Anything which is made up of need, fear, expectation or bondage, has nothing to do with the true nature of Love. Love is flow, not confinement. - Karla

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe. - Ram Dass

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Be victorious over yourself and not over others. When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat.

Though we die to this body when we take our last breath, we don’t die to our greater “body” of influence, extending through all those we have touched directly and indirectly, rippling out and out into who knows what farthest reaches of time & space. - Thich Nhat Hanh

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen. – Rumi

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. – Eckhart Tolle

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. – the 14th Dalai Lama

Everyone wants happiness, but the true way to reach perfect happiness is to bring happiness to others - Patrul Rinpoche

I am living in the eternally happy present. It is not a mundane happiness, which becomes boring after a while so that you welcome a little difficulty just for a change. The joy that has come upon me is a thousand million times more intoxicating—ever-changing, ever-new. In that consciousness you feel all the happiness in the world passing through you. – Paramahansa Yogananda

Consciousness has produced this play. Consciousness has written the script. Consciousness is playing all the characters. And Consciousness is witnessing the play. It’s a one-man show. – Ramesh Balsekar

From adversity we can learn the value of patience. – The 14th Dalai Lama

When I run after what I think I want,
My days are a furnace of distress and anxiety;
If I sit in my own place of patience,
What I need flows to me,
And without any pain.
From this I understand that
What I want also wants me,
Is looking for me
And attracting me;
When it cannot attract me
Any more to go to it,
It has to come to me.
There is a great secret
In this for anyone
Who can grasp it.
– Rumi

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn

Choose happiness, not success, as your life's goal. If you become successful but aren't happy, then what is the point? – Haemin Sunim

It's not what the mind says.
It's how seriously it is taken.
– Mooji

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act. – Ram Dass

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.
- Osho

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, our compassion for others does not change even if they behave negatively. Our sense of responsibility gives rise to a wish to help others actively overcome their problems.

To live is enough. - Shunryu Suzuki

Life is available only in the present moment. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Bodies and minds don’t have Awareness; Awareness has bodies and minds. - Rupert Spira

If the ultimate goal of life is peace & happiness, are you on the right path? If not, do you fear making a change of direction? (As in going inward.) Would you rather stick with the known & suffer than embrace the apparent unknown? – Pat Croce

Awareness does the observing; thought does the judging. - Rupert Spira

You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently" - Lama Surya Das

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists. - Eckhart Tolle

When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean.

But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life. – Thich Nhat Hanh

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky;
Then I awoke. Now I wonder:
Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
Or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
– Chuang Tzu

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. – Maya Angelou

When you realize the purpose of any situation is to help you awaken to the essential Happiness you are, then you become curious rather than emotional to what the situation/person is trying to teach me? The Divine Universe knows exactly what you need, when you need it! – Pat Croce

Enlightenment could be defined as the absence of resistance to what is, the total intimacy with whatever is taking place, without any desire to reject or replace it. - Rupert Spira

The agonized ego is a ring of defense around nothing. – Alan Watts

It is the person you imagine yourself to be that suffers, not you. It is merely a bundle of memories and habits. Dissolve it in awareness. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself. – Rumi

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. – Maya Angelou

Rejection is redirection. Better things are awaiting. Trust in synchronicity. Trust the intuition. Trust the universe. It is not willing to hurt you. How could it be willing to hurt itself? You are That. It is all you. For you. For you to realize your Eternal Self. – Karla

Many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. – Bell Hooks

The discovery that our self is not essentially a body or a mind, but is in fact the aware being or presence that knows or witnesses them, has radical and profound implications. - Rupert Spira

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud. – Thich Nhat Hanh

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. – Maya Angelou

Love breathes Nowness. - Karla

Don't cling to any certainty. This very readiness to remain in uncertainty is courage. Life is uncertain. And an intelligent being always remains uncertain. – Osho

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. – Maya Angelou

Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive. Inner peace does not. – Eckhart Tolle

All desire seeks only the end of desire. - Rupert Spira

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. – Don Miguel Ruiz

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore. – Eckhart Tolle

Love is the name we give reality when we approach it through feeling. – Rupert Spira

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. – Lewis B. Smedes

Only through our connectedness to others can we really see and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others. – Harriet Goldhor Lerner

Recognizing that loneliness is another form of hunger and removing shame and self-judgement is a good first step towards reconnecting with others. – Vivek Murthy

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence. – Thich Nhat Hanh

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. – Maya Angelou

We have to recognize that we are living in a system that has gotten out of balance in which the zeal for independence and individuality has left us alienated from the structures not only of family and community but from nature. – Ram Dass

This body of mine will disintegrate, but my actions will continue me. If you think I am only this body, then you have not truly seen me. When you see someone walking with mindfulness and compassion, you know he is my continuation. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty. – Rumi

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. -Thich Nhat Hanh

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. – Mother Teresa

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

When love prevails, fear departs. – Rumi

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, reveals, shares, heals. You have free choice about which of these to select. – Neale Donald Walsch

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - James Miles

The real source of inner strength and self-confidence is warm-heartedness. – The 14th Dalai Lama

Find the sweetness in your own heart so you may find it in every heart. – Rumi

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I didn't think that progress in necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the. moment. And if you ask m e why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace, Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is do do and get it while you can and good luck at it. – Joan Didion

When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought. – Matthieu Richard

Do not seek love, do not look for the light, but be it, offer it; the joy of loving another is infinitely greater than the joy of fearfully clinging to another’s love, for deep down you know it is only an illusion that what you have always longed for could ever have come from outside of you. You are the One; you have always been the One. The search ends exactly where it began-presence. – Jeff Foster

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Viktor Frankl

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life. – Paramahansa Yoganda

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. – Eckhart Tolle

The impulse to try to solve problems by use of force is out of date and old-fashioned. Since we are now all so interdependent, the appropriate solution is to engage in dialogue—it’s something to which we can all contribute. – The 14th Dalai Lama

Time cannot take us out of time, as space cannot take us out of space. All you get by waiting is more waiting. Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action – here and now. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them. – Ram Dass

Life was meant to be happy. If you don't believe that, then life will have no choice but to play itself out according to your non-belief. – Neale Donald Walsh

Look at the smile on the earth's lips this morning, she laid with me again last night. ― Hafiz

Here’s a great thought from Socrates for the NewYear 2022: “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Leave the old with the past & evolve with the new in the present. Celebrate! – Pat Croce

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Watts

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens, – Sharon Salzberg

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu

You do not need to always conceptualize, interpret, or label everything that comes into your awareness. - Eckhart Tolle

The next message you need is always right where you are. - Ram Dass

I am
A hole in a flute
That the Christ's breath moves through
Listen to this
Music
– Hafiz