The time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our
senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats
Be 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 Wisdom
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.
It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
Swami Vivekananda
I 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 Maraboli
You and your purpose in life are the same thing.
Your purpose is to be you. George Alexiou
I 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. Alder
You 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 Yogananda
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on
the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.
Paramahansa Yogananda
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.
Carl Jung
If your intention is powerful, your action will be powerful.
If your action is powerful, your results will be powerful.
Unknown
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by
he extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda
All 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 Vivekananda
Walk 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 Peterson
Inside us there is something that has no name,
that something is what we are. José Saramago
The 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 Gilbert
You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the
path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. Osho
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with
everyone. Amit Ray
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open
the inner locks. Amit Ray
The power within you is greater than the power within the
world. Rhonda Byrne
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your
family. Ram Dass
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’
who waved off the dessert cart. Erma Bombeck
Bath, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious
worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
Ambrose Bierce
You can’t have everything… where would you put it? Steven Wright
Self-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 Chopra
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity. Osho
Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for
you. Osho
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a
body with a soul. Wayne Dyer
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions,
be the awareness behind them. Eckhart Tolle
When everything gets answered, it’s fake. Sean Penn
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
Adyashanti
The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of
your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are
awake. Rhonda Byrne
Knock, 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. Rumi
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars,
guides you too. Shrii Shirr Anandamurti
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more
meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
Brené Brown
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
Religion 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 Watts
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the
soul is irreparable. Michel de Montaigne
We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to
be powerful. Eric Micha’el Leventhal
Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.
Ramana Maharshi
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
Ramana Maharshi
The game is not about becoming somebody,
it’s about becoming nobody. Ram Dass
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
William Blake
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything.
Between these two our life flows. Jack Kornfield
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
Swami Vivekananda
Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and
spiritually, reject it as poison. Swami Vivekananda
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and
spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and
then being that. Adyashanti
Help me never to judge another until I have walked a mile in
his moccasins. Indian prayer
It took me forty years on earth to reach this sure conclusion:
there is no Heaven but clarity, no Hell except confusion.
Jan Struther
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over
again. Joseph Campbell
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor
ignorance. Francis of Assisi
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your
peace with that and all will be well. Jack Kornfield
There 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 proverb
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and
practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
Anthony de Mello
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and
the warm sun on your back. Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
I 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 Hesse
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you
are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
Ramana Maharshi
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are.
Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
Albert Schweitzer
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying
yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. Tara Brach
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to
choose how we live. Tara Brach
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind.
Ramana Maharshi
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya Angelou
Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual
journey. Matthew Fox
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
Ayn Rand
When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi
When you love, love as if the person is a god,
not less than that. Osho
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
Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only
thing that provides stability. Ram Dass
Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion. Ved Vyasa
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
Jack Kornfield
Spiritual 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 Kornfield
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The most important time in the world is the time you make for
yourself. Unknown
The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation.
Unknown
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
Marianne Williamson
All 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 Lama
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting. Elizabeth Bibesco
Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.
Richard Carlson
When there is love in your heart, everything outside of you
also becomes lovable. Veeresh
It 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 Krishnamurti
Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort
after years of toil. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
Thomas Aquinas
Forgive 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
