“Why not accept ourselves just the way we are, and love ourselves the way we are?  The image of perfection we have learned to search for is one of the biggest lies.”  don Miguel Ruiz

“When you make awakening your first priority, it is like your clothes getting wet.  It seeps into every aspect of your life.”  Thomas Hübl

“Deep spirituality isn’t just about having a rigorous meditation practice or reciting spiritual texts correctly.  It’s about asking questions and challenging our beliefs and the beliefs of others.  Sometimes that means pushing back on things we, at face value, identify as spiritual.”  Sharon Salzberg

“Ironically, the aspiration to be ‘spiritual’, regardless of what that means, can get in the way of being present and feeling connected to ourselves.  We may be seeking Truth yet committing to the idea of a spiritual journey may involve denying the truth about what we are feeling.”  Sharon Salzburg

“Just do your work.  And if the world needs your work it will come and get you.  And if it doesn’t, do your work anyway.  Have fantasies about having control over the world, but know that you barely have control over your kitchen sink.  This is the grace that you are given.”  Kiki Smith

“Each day take down one boundary between you and the Divine.”  Caroline Myss

“Be the teaching, not the teacher.” Matt Kahn

“God is in the universe as its constant ‘breath’ or inspiration; hence it is only necessary to find the point of contact in order to understand the One in whom we all ‘live, and move, and have our being’.”  Charles Fillmore

“Do not try to become anything.  Do not make yourself into anything.  Do not be a meditator.  Do not become enlightened.  When you sit, let it be.  When you walk, let it be.  Grasp at nothing.  Resist nothing.”  Ajahn Chah

“It may be when we no longer know what we have to do, we have come to our real work, and then when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”  Wendell Berry