“Bring your attention to the fact that awareness is only aware. In that sense, it is unconditioned.  Awareness is just aware.  At any time during the day, you can touch into this ground and bring consciousness to it.  You can make the choice to be aware of it.  An important thing is the willingness to make a choice.  Whether there is a chooser or not, there the experience of choice.”  Adyashanti (“The Way of Liberating Insight” study course)

“Meditation is not just a retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is the way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies.  Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.”  Gary Snyder (Just One Breath; The Practice of Poetry and Meditation)

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl G. Jung

“Joy and sorrow are inseparable … together they come and when one sits alone with you … remember that the other is asleep in your bed.” Kahlil Gibran

“Our soul is one to God, unchangeable goodness, and therefore between God and our soul there is neither wrath nor forgiveness because there is no ‘between’. Meditations with Julian of Norwich.

“If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the alter and go; first be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.  One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”  Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

“Truth comes to an innocent mind as a blessing and a sacrament. Truth is a holy thing because it liberates thought from itself and illumines the human heart from the inside out.”  Adyashanti (My Secret is Silence)

“Wisdom is being in the void. To be thoughtless.  Only by being in the void can the light come through.  As long as I have something going on in my mind the Light can’t come through.  The Light can only come in when the mind is clear – – in a state of silence.”  Hew Len, Shamanic Wisdomkeepers.

“Just as a bright sun causes ice cubes to melt, in the moments when we feel connected and kind, we create a warm environment that encourages others around us to relax and open up.” Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance)