“If we get too attached to our views, then we’re going to lose sight of how to live them out.  Every moment we are resisting, we’re creating a sense of self around that.”  Judson Brewer, Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

“Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”  Hazrat Inayat Kha

“It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there.  Don’t be deceived.  All of the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation, and expansion.”  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Our existence is trapped between desire and fear in the context of time.  The core of our problem then lies in thought, which is the creator of time.”  Ramesh Balsekar

“Reject everything for a moment and come to that which cannot be rejected, for that alone is complete.  When you are one with this recognition, all becomes pure and clear.  Only then are you able to exhale the collected tensions and burdens of conceptualism.”  Mooji

“In short, it’s our reactivity that generates dukkha, keeping us agitated and therefore unable to contemplate the actual, direct, here and now experience of it.”  Thanissara (“Dukkha” is a Sanskrit word used to describe all forms of suffering such as birth, death, sickness, grief, etc.)

“Contemplation is work, so much so that most people give up after their first futile attempts.  But the goal of contemplation is not success, only the continuing practice of itself.”  Richard Rohr

“To know yourself is not a knowledge.  It is only a discovery.  It is not an achievement.  It is not a possession.  Nobody possesses Self-knowledge.  If anything, you can say perhaps say it is an exchange of the non-self for the Self, but who will receive the Self?  No one.  That is why I say it is not an exchange.”  Mooji

“Do not resist your resistance, but rather meet every mind state with truth and love.  Actually, we would say Truth-Love because where you find one you always find the other.”  Adyashanti

“Most people think of silence as the absence of sound but in this world true silence is the absence of personal thought.”  Rita Friedman