“If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run away from the thorns.  If you want to love, do not hide from yourself.”  Rumi

“There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.”  Mother Meera

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.” Ram Dass

“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion.  It is an endless river.”  Krishnamurti

“Authentic transformation has to start inside our own walls. Our own inner life needs to be broken open by great love and great suffering in order for us to walk with others, right where they are, and not where we want them to be.” Johnathon Stalls.

“We don’t come to the God-mystery through concepts or theories but by connecting with what is – with God’s immediate, embodied Presence which is all around us.” Father Richard Rohr

“It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering — the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation.”  Pema Chödrön.

“Mindful walking changes everything. It trains us, both on the inside and the outside, … It can invite new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new ways of understanding with every step.”  Jonathan Stalls

“Thoughts are not an obstacle in Centering prayer, but an opportunity. Each new thought gives you chance to exercise that ‘muscle’ of letting go.”  Cynthia Bourgeault

“Take them away, names like Buddhism. I’m impatient with them.  There’s something beyond all that, beneath all that that they all share, that they all come from.  They are branches from a single root.”  S. Merwin