“What’s authentic for one person at one time does not have to be authentic for another person at one time. However: the act of being authentic with what’s authentic, is authentic for each person at all times.”  Bentinho Massaro

“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” William James

“Focus on the present because you know that there’s work to be done in training the mind, in developing skillful present intentions, and you don’t know how much more time you have to accomplish that training.” Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“Holding a form, it comes into being, and while it holds a form it endures; holding a form, it feeds itself and grows big. Giving up one form it assumes another.  When sought, it takes to flight, this evil spirit, the ego, which has no form of its own.”  Ramana Maharshi

“There is much more to living and being healthy than saying one’s prayers and reading good books. One must study one’s every interest, and inclination, and reaction, and desire in relation to the real Christ wisdom, and love, and power, and life, and substance.”  Myrtle Fillmore

“Our attempts to find lasting pleasure, lasting security, are at odds with the fact that we’re part of a dynamic system in which everything and everyone is in flux.” Pema Chödrön

“Dignity without wisdom can easily be corrupted by pride. Generosity without wisdom can be corrupted by self-flattery.  Without wisdom, you cannot be a perfect person – meaning that you cannot be free from complicated mind.  Without freedom, your good qualities always risk being corrupted.”  Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche

“We need the mind of Christ to process the great questions of love, suffering, death, infinity, and divinity and to be unafraid of diversity and welcoming of union at ever higher and more expansive levels.”  Father Richard Rohr

“Deep acceptance of the way things are is the source of all creative change. The perfect paradox.”  Jeff Foster (Protesting From Inner Peace)

“Through the practice of contemplative prayer … we connect with an Inner Witness – God’s presence within – that gazes back at ourselves and out at reality with an Abiding Love.”  Father Richard Rohr