“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”  Pema Chödrön

“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.  It’s your restlessness that causes the chaos.”  Sri Nisargadatta

“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.  This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.”  Eckhart Tolle

“You must have a room or a certain hour of the day… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are, and what you might be.  At first you may find nothing’s happening but if you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.  Joseph Campbell

“Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.”  Meister Eckhart

“The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.”  Alan Cohen

“Every time we experience a single day of inner stillness and joy, we are empowered to expand it into a second and a third day.  A space opens in our hearts, and when two hearts recognize and acknowledge each other, a connection happens.  It happens again and again as other hearts are joined in this stillness.”  LaUna Huffines

“Love is what we were born with.  Fear is what we learned here.  The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or the unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our heart.”  Marianne Williamson

“Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”  I Corinthians 12: 4-7 (NIV)