“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

“Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.”  Pema Chödrön

“In a real sense, self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your… ideas, concepts, attachments, and conditioning.”  Adyashanti

“There must be a direct way to Truth.  Because if Truth is only found at the end of some practice, it cannot be true.  It means that Truth is limited.  It has a condition.  But Truth must always be True.”  Mooji

“When we approach our feelings of anger with awareness, with mindfulness, it becomes a productive part of our practice. We find, after all, that anger has something to teach us.”  Jules Shuzen Harris Sensei (Uprooting the Seeds of Anger)

“As you awaken more to the truth of your being, you have a greater capacity to be present for more and more challenging experiences, and those experiences find a completion through you instead of getting stuck in you.” Adyashanti (The Way of Liberating Insight” study course)

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, guilt, or possessions – we cannot be free.”  Thich Nhat Hanh (The Heart of Buddha’s Teachings)

“God first has to belong to you before you will ever have the courage to believe that you could belong to God! This is the first and final impact of our belief in an Indwelling Holy Spirit who emanates from God, exemplifies God precisely as us, and then takes us back to where we came from – despite our many resistances and rebellions.  Richard Rohr (homily “God Must Belong”)

“Collectively, we’re moving towards the Omega point; but every time you and I hate, fear, compete, attach, judge, separate – thus avoiding the necessary letting go – we are resisting the full flow of Love, the energy which is driving the universe forward.” Richard Rohr (The Cosmic Christ)

“Christ invests himself organically within all creation, immersing himself in things, in the heart of the matter, and thus unifying the world. The universe is physically impregnated to the very core of its matter by the influence of his superhuman nature.  Everything is physically “christified,” gathered up by the incarnate Word as nourishment that assimilates, transforms, and divinizes.”  Ilia Delio