“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Staying in your own business is a full time job.”  Byron Katie

“Your pains, sorrows, doubts, longings, fearful thoughts, are not asking to be ‘healed,’ they are asking to be held, here, in the healing arms of the present moment.”  Jeff Foster

“What is true meditation?  Being awake and alive to this precious moment.”  Jeff Foster

“Nothing is under your control.  Everything is out of your hands now, as it always was.  So your hands are free to embrace whatever comes; moment by moment.  Out of your hands, into trust.”  Jeff Foster

“Self-focus leads to blindness; service to others leads to true vision”  Ken Gibson

“The words we use for the Creator are a reflection of ourselves.  If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of… But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.”  Shams Tabrizi

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

“If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same.  A dead good man is replaced by a good man; a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man.  While the whole remains the same, every day is different.”  Shams Tabrizi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.  Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”  Rumi