Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.
Deepak Chopra
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
C. G. Jung
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent van Gogh
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
Ram Dass
Don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
Adyashanti
You can’t control the world. You can only control your reaction to the world.
Gary R. McClain
As long as you identify with a ‘you’ who is either awake or not awake, you are still dreaming. Awakening is awakening from the dream of a separate you into simply being awakeness.
Adyashanti
Do not speak to foolish people about the Truth, just share the Love and Happiness, because the greatest gift is an empty mind. But even if you do not speak your Silence will reach the whole planet as a silent rose radiates beauty. Sit Quietly and send peace from your heart to all beings of all the worlds. Oceans may empty, but there is no end to Love and Peace, so share it always in selfless service; this is worship.
Papaji
All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
Aleksandar Hemon
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.
Jack Kornfield
You want your ego stroked, but truly need your soul caressed.
Awakened Vibrations
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
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit — to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
Alan Watts