“In short, it’s our reactivity that generates dukkha, keeping us agitated and therefore unable to contemplate the actual, direct, here and now experience of it.”  Thanissara (“Dukkha” is a Sanskrit word used to describe all forms of suffering such as birth, death, sickness, grief, etc.)

“Contemplation is work, so much so that most people give up after their first futile attempts.  But the goal of contemplation is not success, only the continuing practice of itself.”  Richard Rohr

“To know yourself is not a knowledge.  It is only a discovery.  It is not an achievement.  It is not a possession.  Nobody possesses Self-knowledge.  If anything, you can say perhaps say it is an exchange of the non-self for the Self, but who will receive the Self?  No one.  That is why I say it is not an exchange.”  Mooji

“Do not resist your resistance, but rather meet every mind state with truth and love.  Actually, we would say Truth-Love because where you find one you always find the other.”  Adyashanti

“Most people think of silence as the absence of sound but in this world true silence is the absence of personal thought.”  Rita Friedman

“There are physical acts of loving-kindness.  There are verbal acts of loving-kindness.  There are mental acts of loving-kindness.  Practice these without discrimination.”  Buddha

“This “I AM” is an announcement; it is not the real.  What the real is, I am not telling you because words negate it.  Whatever I am telling you, is not the truth, because it has come out of that “I AM”.  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Your mind is the source of the world you experience.  If you aren’t at peace, how can the world be at peace?  Question all thoughts.”  Rita Friedman

“Don’t go back and try to repeat a moment of clarity in the past.  Ask instead, ‘What is awake right now?’  Then your attention is riveted in the present moment.  You’re not discounting your past experiences but focusing on how it is showing up now.  Don’t compare.”  Adyashanti

“Ordinary people despise solitude.  But the Master makes use of it, embracing her aloneness, realizing she is One with the whole universe.”  Tao Te Ching