“Remember one thing: except for silence, everything else is your imagination – howsoever beautiful, because only in your silence are you close to the very center of existence.”  OSHO

“Raise your words, not your voice, it is rain that grows the flowers, not thunder.”  Rumi

“Don’t concern yourself with others’ opinions.  Others’ opinions have absolutely nothing to do with you.  With this awareness you become free.  What people think of you is only their perception of you.  A story they have created in their own mind about you.  The real you is beyond everything you know, and, most definitely beyond what others think they know of you.”  don Jose Ruiz

“To really know the world does not exist allows you to be the kindest, most sensitive, most caring and loving person imaginable.  Because you don’t get hooked into anything and so the love automatically flows through you and takes whatever form is most helpful.”  Ken Wapnick

“He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias’.”  John 1:23 (King James New Testament)

“To strive to approach, and understand God is to recede from the world of vanishing forms, because God is the only Truth – the only reality.”  Swami Ramdas

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”  Arthur Schopenhauer

“With mindfulness, every moment of everyday is a precious jewel.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”  Carl Sagan

“Everyone you meet in life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct is nothing but an illusion.  We are all parts of a larger whole, like the individual cells in a body… When you look at other people, you’re really looking at yourself.”  Steve Pavlina