“When the mind passes through the brain and the five senses, the names and forms [of this world] are projected out from within. When the mind abides in the Heart, they return and lie buried there.” Garland of Guru’s Sayings

“Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.”  Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance)

“You can do anything with the thoughts of your mind. They are yours and under your control.  You can direct them, coerce them, hush them, or crush them… When you fully apprehend this, and begin to exercise your God-given dominion, you begin to find the way to God, the door to God, the door of mind and thought.”  Charles Fillmore (Prosperity)

“Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being.  Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk pain.”  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Life is the energy of love, fully embodied and eager to manifest itself in the world. Everything else life does is merely a prelude to, and a platform for, love’s boundless and eternal self-expression.”  Eileen Workman (social media post)

“Bring your attention to the fact that awareness is only aware. In that sense, it is unconditioned.  Awareness is just aware.  At any time during the day, you can touch into this ground and bring consciousness to it.  You can make the choice to be aware of it.  An important thing is the willingness to make a choice.  Whether there is a chooser or not, there the experience of choice.”  Adyashanti (“The Way of Liberating Insight” study course)

“Meditation is not just a retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is the way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies.  Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.”  Gary Snyder (Just One Breath; The Practice of Poetry and Meditation)

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl G. Jung

“Joy and sorrow are inseparable … together they come and when one sits alone with you … remember that the other is asleep in your bed.” Kahlil Gibran

“Our soul is one to God, unchangeable goodness, and therefore between God and our soul there is neither wrath nor forgiveness because there is no ‘between’. Meditations with Julian of Norwich.