“I am increasingly convinced that the word ‘prayer,’ which has become a functional and pious thing for believers to do, was meant to be a descriptor and an invitation to inner experience.” Richard Rohr

“A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well.”  Adyashanti (The Impact of Awakening)

“No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching.” Adyashanti (The Impact of Awakening)

“Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” Athena Singh

“The part of you that you want to change the most, that you resist and condemn the most, that is the part of yourself that doesn’t seem to transform or change.  What we condemn within ourselves causes it to continue in a dysfunctional way.”  Adyashanti (“The Way of Liberating Insight”)

“If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run away from the thorns.  If you want to love, do not hide from yourself.”  Rumi

“There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.”  Mother Meera

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.” Ram Dass

“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion.  It is an endless river.”  Krishnamurti

“Authentic transformation has to start inside our own walls. Our own inner life needs to be broken open by great love and great suffering in order for us to walk with others, right where they are, and not where we want them to be.” Johnathon Stalls.