“The moment God is figured out with neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”  Rob Bell

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”  Rumi

“That soft, gentle voice that calls me the Beloved has come to me in countless ways.  My parents, friends, teachers, students, and the many strangers who crossed my path have all sounded that voice in different tones.”  Henri J. M. Nouwen

“Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.”  Caroline Myss

“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