“What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your functions to such an extent it takes you over and become the role that you play.  When you play roles, you are unconscious.”  Eckhart Tolle

“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”  Epictetus

“It usually happens that the more faithfully a person follows the inspirations he receives, the more does he experience new inspirations which ask increasingly more of him.”  Joseph De Guibert

“Love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, and so on are essential qualities.  When they are present in our lives, everything we do becomes an instrument to benefit the whole human family.”  The Dalai Lama

“Enlightenment is the end of perfection, and the end of desire, and it can be attained.”   David Hemphill

“Don’t seek happiness.  If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.  Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing ‘what is’ rather than making up stories about ‘what is’.  Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.”   Eckhart Tolle

“Inner space consciousness and who you are in your essence are one and the same.  And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.”   Eckhart Tolle

“Truth is simple and open to all.  Why do you complicate it?  Truth is loving and lovable.”   Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“How much more natural and in keeping with your deeper instincts it is to act out of love than to act out of fear or greed or anger.  Indeed, it is unnatural to act from our wounds and, so, to wound others merely because we are hurting – – unnatural because we are yielding to the power of our shadow instead of the power of Light.”   Carolyn Myss

“No one can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.”   Ernest Holmes