“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

“The liberation of mindfulness is that we can cultivate a different relationship with co-dependent attention suckers.”  Steve Hickman

“The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves — that is the day you will find your way out.”  Michael Singer

“Thoughts are bubbles that are waiting to be popped by awareness.  Once they’ve been popped, the negative emotion often associated with our thoughts will similarly disappear into the thinness of the air.”  Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The biggest illusion about a path of refuge is that we are on our way somewhere else, on our way to becoming a different kind of person.  But ultimately, our refuge is not outside ourselves, not somewhere in the future — it always and already here.”  Tara Brach

“You cannot truly love until you can love your own inability to love sometimes.  You cannot truly heal until you embrace all that is unhealed within yourself, make room for it, treat it as a welcoming guest in your vastness.  You cannot know true freedom until you realize that even feeling unfree is a tremendous gift.”  Jeff Foster