“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

“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