“Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing.  it’s opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.” Brené Brown

“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.  Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy, and gratitude into our lives.”  Brené Brown

“Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it’s not, rather that for what it is.”  Suzanne Segal

“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body.  It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world.  It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”  Adi Shankara

“You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination.  Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either.”  Adi Shankara

“You see the world that you have made, but you do not see yourself as the image maker.  You cannot be saved from the world, but you can escape from its cause.  This is what salvation means, for where is the world you see when its cause is gone?”  A Course in Miracles

“In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep.  And in order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in the state of sleep, or hypnosis.  It is absurd to think that this can be done by seeking information from the very source that induces the hypnosis.”  G. I. Gurdjieff

“Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.”  G. I.  Gurdjieff

“Conscious faith is freedom.  Emotional faith is slavery.  Mechanical faith is foolishness.”  G. I. Gurdjieff

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”  Moses Maimonides