“Living with memories isn’t fulfilling God’s plan for your life. God is life within you, eagerly seeking unity and with other life, yearning to picture forth the health and joy and strength and usefulness that there is in all God life.”  Myrtle Fillmore

“Disgusting things get thrown on the earth, but the earth isn’t horrified by them. When you make your mind like the earth, neither agreeable nor disagreeable, sensory impressions will take charge of it.”  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“The only thing you really ever have to offer another person is your own state of being.” Ram Dass

“Leave your front door open and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go.  Just don’t serve them tea.”  Shunryu Suzuki

“Finding … does not come from seeking. Finding … comes from relinquishing the search.  Relax and soften … it will shine … when it shines.”  Wu Hsin

“Every transformation demands as its precondition “the ending of a world” – the collapse of an old philosophy of life.” Carl Jung

“The root of prayer is interior silence.”  Thomas Keating

“God creates our hearts in such a way that only God will satisfy our longing. Scripture says, “God is love” (I John 4).  And so we can say that the infinite love that is the architect of our hearts creates our hearts in such a way that only an infinite union with infinite love will do.”  James Finley

“It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of Love will dissolve it all.”  Emmet Fox

“Destroy the powers of mind by seeking it.  When the mind is examined its activities cease automatically.”  Ramana Maharshi