"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
William Arthur
"All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one, but it is still one light."
Rumi
"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."
Chinese proverb
"Look deeply. Take care, stay aware. It is the amount and quality of attention you bring to bear here and now that counts."
Lama Surya Das
"The Heart simply Loves. The less we empower oppositional relationships with effort and force, resistance and a lot of attention, the more of our attention is freed up to simply notice... Love is already here and is embracing everything."
Ramana Spencer
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
Buddha
"When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are."
Adyashanti
"If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky, without leaving a trace."
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
"This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it."
Adyashanti
"Immersed in illusion, we confuse what is with what is not, and what is not with what truly is. We view the world through the eyes of ignorance. We need to learn to distinguish between the fleeting and the everlasting."
Amma
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
Chinese proverb
"When you let go of the egoistic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe."
Adyashanti
“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”
Chinese proverb
"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."
Madeleine L'Engle
"Growth is not when you don't mess up again. It's when you mess up at a higher level."
Marianne Williamson
"In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine."
Adyashanti
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
Chinese proverb
