“To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now – junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor – then you are free of suffering.” Ajahn Brahm (Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? – Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life’s Difficulties)

“The nature of greed is that it does not satisfy. It is an addiction. You want more and more and more. If something satisfied you, you wouldn’t need more.”  Fr. Richard Rohr (“When it fails you…” homily Sept. 17, 2016)

“Any intention, emotional, or cognitive impulse in us plants a seed in the storehouse that will cause a similar intention, emotion, or thought to arise in the future in the form of fruit. In each moment our experience is determined to a great extent by seeds from the past that are bearing fruit right now.” Ben Connelly (Cleaning Out the Storehouse)

“Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When, out of habit, you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.” Mooji (social media post)

“It is easy to see what is wrong with everyone and everything. But it takes great honesty and great courage to look inside yourself, to stay in your own business, to see if you are being true, honest and real.” Adyashanti (The Way of Liberating Insight study course)

“Care about people as much as you can, but remember that your own alignment to Higher Self comes first. When it comes down to it, people are replaceable, your alignment is not.” Bentinho Massaro (social media post)

“Many of the things we are doing seem so important to us. We haven’t been able to say ‘No’ to them, because they seemed so important. But if we center down as the old phrase goes, and live in that holy Silence which is dearer than life, and take our life program into the silent places of the heart, with complete openness, ready to do, ready to renounce according to His leading, then many of the things we are doing lose their vitality for us.” Thomas R. Kelly (The Simplification of Life)

“Amazing simplification comes when we ‘center down,’ when life is lived with the singleness of eye, from a holy Center where the breath and stillness of Eternity are heavy upon us and we are wholly yielded to God.” Thomas R. Kelly (Holy Obedience)

“Growth happens effortlessly once the willingness to face the self directly has become greater than the attachment to the comfort of avoiding.” Bentinho Massaro (social media post)

“Life will never be perfect, but there will always be something to appreciate. It’s human nature to struggle at times, but we can hurt a lot less often if we consciously choose to recognize the little things we may be tempted to take for granted.”  Jo Ritchie (Gratitude: The Antidote for Painful Feelings and Fuel for Happiness)