“What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.”  Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and form; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is a natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish or flying to the bird.”  Hazrat Inayat Khan

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought you were.”  Hazrat Inayat Khan

“People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another.  It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings.  Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.”  Kathleen Winter

“Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust blown about by the wind.  Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.”  Rumi

“Most of us just haven’t learned to pay much attention to the countless hours of love, kindness, and care that surround us each day: a child at the store reaching for her mother’s hand, an elderly stranger at the park who smiles upon a young family, a grocery clerk who beams at you as she hands you your change.”  John Makransky

“Each activity you perform is an opportunity to observe the ways mind and body can work together and how they can sometimes conflict.  The mind can spend hours worrying about a simple task that will take the body only minutes to perform.  Although the music maybe long, the dance itself is short.”  Gary Thorp

“The heart of so many mystical disciplines is “Stay fully present.”  Learn to keep your spirit fully in focus, so that you know where you all of you is at all times.  Such a profound truth is one the mind cannot grasp, because the intellect cannot get this place called “now.”  Only a soul can travel there.  While it may sound easy to say, “Just detach and get on with your life,” there is nothing easy about it.  Holding your consciousness in the present time is the equivalent of entering a different but parallel dimension of reality.”  Caroline Myss

“Every moment in life is absolute in itself.  That’s all there is.  There is nothing other than this present moment; there is no past, there is no future; there is nothing but this.  So when we don’t pay attention to each little ‘this’, we miss the whole thing.”  Charlotte Joko Beck

“Surrender isn’t about giving up.  Nor is it about laying back and going unconscious.  It’s about paying attention in a deeper way.  It’s about listening with every cell of our being.  It’s about watching to see what happens.”  Oriah Mountain Dreamer