And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais NinThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. YeatsBe tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance. Elder WisdomBe not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. Swami VivekanandaI have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself. Shooter Teton Sioux (Native American)One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs. Steve MaraboliYou and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you. George AlexiouI am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand. Shannon L. AlderYou must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you. Paramahansa YoganandaBring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. Paramahansa YoganandaThe privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are. Carl JungIf your intention is powerful, your action will be powerful. If your action is powerful, your results will be powerful. UnknownThe real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. Swami SivanandaAll power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Swami VivekanandaWalk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. Wilferd PetersonInside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. José SaramagoThe resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go. Elizabeth GilbertYou will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. OshoYou are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. Amit RayYou are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks. Amit RayThe power within you is greater than the power within the world. Rhonda ByrneIf you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family. Ram DassSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart. Erma BombeckBath, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. Ambrose BierceYou can’t have everything… where would you put it? Steven WrightSelf-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go “Uh, I’m kind of an asshole”. Louis C.K.Walk with those seeking truth… Run from those who think they’ve found it. Deepak ChopraTo be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity. OshoUnless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you. OshoBegin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. Wayne DyerRather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. Eckhart TolleWhen everything gets answered, it’s fake. Sean PennThe truth is that you already are what you are seeking. AdyashantiThe truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake. Rhonda ByrneKnock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything. RumiWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de ChardinYou are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too. Shrii Shirr AnandamurtiIf we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. Brené BrownWhen the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan KunderaReligion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there. Vine Deloria Jr (Native American)The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan WattsThe want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. Michel de MontaigneWe are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. Eric Micha’el LeventhalEventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten. Ramana MaharshiLet what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains. Ramana MaharshiThe game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody. Ram DassEnlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. William BlakeRe-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. Walt WhitmanWisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. Jack KornfieldIn a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. Swami VivekanandaAnything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. Swami VivekanandaA life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae BrownEnlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. AdyashantiHelp me never to judge another until I have walked a mile in his moccasins. Indian prayerIt took me forty years on earth to reach this sure conclusion: there is no Heaven but clarity, no Hell except confusion. Jan StrutherYour sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. Joseph CampbellWhere there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of AssisiEverything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Jack KornfieldThere are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong. Hindu proverbYou can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. Anthony de MelloIf you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back. Eido Tai Shimano RoshiI have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Hermann HesseYou are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. Ramana MaharshiThe path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not. Albert SchweitzerThere is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. Tara BrachObserving desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live. Tara BrachDo what is right at a given moment and leave it behind. Ramana MaharshiBe present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya AngelouBig-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. Matthew FoxTo say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”. Ayn RandWhen I give I give myself. Walt WhitmanLord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of AssisiWhen you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. OshoIf 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. OshoBeing love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Ram DassPerform all work carefully, guided by compassion. Ved VyasaIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack KornfieldMuch of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. Jack KornfieldSpiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation. Jack KornfieldTrue love begins when nothing is looked for in return. Antoine De Saint-ExuperyThe most important time in the world is the time you make for yourself. UnknownThe greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. UnknownLove is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. Marianne WilliamsonAll major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness… the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Dalai LamaBlessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Elizabeth BibescoChoose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. Richard CarlsonWhen there is love in your heart, everything outside of you also becomes lovable. VeereshIt is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. Jiddu KrishnamurtiLove gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. Thomas AquinasForgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. Brian Weiss