“Our attempts to find lasting pleasure, lasting security, are at odds with the fact that we’re part of a dynamic system in which everything and everyone is in flux.” Pema Chödrön

“Dignity without wisdom can easily be corrupted by pride. Generosity without wisdom can be corrupted by self-flattery.  Without wisdom, you cannot be a perfect person – meaning that you cannot be free from complicated mind.  Without freedom, your good qualities always risk being corrupted.”  Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche

“We need the mind of Christ to process the great questions of love, suffering, death, infinity, and divinity and to be unafraid of diversity and welcoming of union at ever higher and more expansive levels.”  Father Richard Rohr

“Deep acceptance of the way things are is the source of all creative change. The perfect paradox.”  Jeff Foster (Protesting From Inner Peace)

“Through the practice of contemplative prayer … we connect with an Inner Witness – God’s presence within – that gazes back at ourselves and out at reality with an Abiding Love.”  Father Richard Rohr

“I am increasingly convinced that the word ‘prayer,’ which has become a functional and pious thing for believers to do, was meant to be a descriptor and an invitation to inner experience.” Richard Rohr

“A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well.”  Adyashanti (The Impact of Awakening)

“No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching.” Adyashanti (The Impact of Awakening)

“Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” Athena Singh

“The part of you that you want to change the most, that you resist and condemn the most, that is the part of yourself that doesn’t seem to transform or change.  What we condemn within ourselves causes it to continue in a dysfunctional way.”  Adyashanti (“The Way of Liberating Insight”)