“There must be no waiting for something to happen. This something is happening in every moment.  To wait for it is to miss it.”  Wu Hsin

“Just as gold is the source of ornaments, similarly, the sense ‘I am’ is the source of all words.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Believe it or not, as the mind quiets the ego may, from a lack of stimulation, project feelings of depression, sadness, guilt or even anger. This may be accompanied by thoughts of ‘resist, this isn’t as it should be!’ —  Does it EVER come up with new material?  —  Apparently not.”  Rita Friedman

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing. Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”  Hyakujo

“Mindfulness asks us to simply notice the storylines we create in our minds without trying to change them. Meditation gives us the space to choose to not react to those things that trigger our anxiety.”  Barry Boyce

“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind.The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”  – Nisargadatta

“The questioner cannot be anything other but the question. They both cancel each other out.  No question, no questioner.”  Sailor Bob Adamson

“The ego or shadow identity, which is at its source derived from fear, requires resistance to something in order to appear to exist.” Rita Friedman

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you’ because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Distance cannot separate us, only my false beliefs can do that – Rev. Ken Gibson