“By noticing what goes on in our bodies and minds, we step out of the loop of reactivity.  Instead of being like a horseman or woman in a frenetic and futile battle with a frightened mount, we stop trying to grapple our way to steadiness but rather become conscious enough to realize our suffering and maybe the patterns that led to the suffering.”  Ed Halliwell

“Though we are conditioned to identify with the thoughts that pass through our awareness rather than awareness itself, the awareness that is our true nature is infinitely flexible.  It is capable of any and every sort of experience.  When we begin to identify with that timeless, pristine awareness rather than with the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that pass through it, we’ve taken the first step toward facing the freedom of our true nature.”  Mingyur Rinpoche

“The truth is of course that there is no journey.  We arriving and departing all at the same time.”  David Bowie

“It doesn’t matter what is going to happen, just know inside and trust everything is fine.  You don’t need to know how to, you only have to trust.  Be and follow the advice you are given.”  Mooji

“Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage ‘Thou are all’ and ‘Thy will be done’.”  Sri Ramana Maharishi

“Remain in me, as I remain in you.  Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.”  John 15:4-5

“If you don’t realize the Source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow.  When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kind-hearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.”  Lao Tzu

“When we see things in an intuitive way, in conscious union with the eyes of God, what we see is qualitatively different.  Basically it is no longer self-referential but very expansive seeing because we are participating in the larger reality of God, which is Love.  This changes everything.”  Fr. Richard Rohr

“When you do not know you need mercy and forgiveness yourself, you invariably become stingy in sharing it with others.”  Fr. Richard Rohr

“What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?”  Oriah Mountain Dreamer