“Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion.”  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Truth is simple and open to all.  Why do you complicate it?  Truth is loving and lovable.”  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The practice of abidance in the Self is to firmly hold the mind in abeyance with the heart.  It is not an act of thinking.”  Sri Muruganar

“From questing inwards in the heart comes knowledge which destroys all false illusions.”  Sri Ramana Maharshi

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”  Peace Pilgrim

“When we are present to only what we are doing – we are honoring the moment by giving it our all.  We experience the moment more fully, which gives us a greater sense of fulfillment, gratitude, and ease.”  Barb Schmidt

“What is worth seeking and discovering is the truth of Self.  Such knowledge comes only to the still, clear intellect not muddied by strenuous search without but questioning for the Truth in silence.”  Sri Ramana Maharshi

“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