“Sometimes work is required.  Sometimes all we have to do is spread our wings and let the winds carry us.  Wisdom is discerning what is needed in this moment.”  Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in the mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.  We simply have to uncover it.”  Pema Chödrön

“You do not find the Great Love except by finding your True Self along with it, and you cannot find your True Self without falling into the Great Love.”  Fr. Richard Rohr

“The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience.”  Tara Brach

“By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolate, deficient self.  This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.”  Tara Brach

“Mercy is not a virtue that you choose to put on one day.  Mercy has to be your deepest way of seeing, a generosity of spirit that draws from your identity, your deepest dignity, which is love.”  Fr. Richard Rohr

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand mysteries and all knowledge and though I have faith so that I could move mountains but have not love I am nothing.  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned but have not love it profits me nothing.”  1 Corinthians 13:1-3

“If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our heart, to find the soft spot and stay with it.  We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility.  That’s the true practice of peace.”  Pema Chödrön

“The more we see the people around us from the inside, the clearer and more compassionate our communication becomes.  This is the basis of a ‘new we’.”  ThomasHübl

“Most people do not see their beliefs.  Instead, their beliefs tell them what they see.  This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion.”  Matt Kahn