“To listen well we must become aware of the mental static that runs interference: aware of our emotional reactivity; aware of all the ways we interpret (and misinterpret) each other; aware of our haste to prepare a response; aware of how we armor ourselves with judgment.”  Tara Brach

“If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely.  If you see the inside as it really is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.”  Mooji

“When I listen to you, life is teaching me.  To be awake is to never be bored.  Why?  Because we can always be learning from the Book of Life, reality itself.  When I listen to you, life is teaching me if I look deeply enough.”  Thomas Hübl

“If you knew everyone’s story, you would love them.  You can’t hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down.  If you truly know someone, you’d get it.”  Emma Stone

“When fear is in control, we’re never at our best.  It can create a distance in our relationships, stifle our creativity, and cloud our judgment when we need it most.”  Tara Brach

“Sometimes work is required.  Sometimes all we have to do is spread our wings and let the winds carry us.  Wisdom is discerning what is needed in this moment.”  Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in the mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.  We simply have to uncover it.”  Pema Chödrön

“You do not find the Great Love except by finding your True Self along with it, and you cannot find your True Self without falling into the Great Love.”  Fr. Richard Rohr

“The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience.”  Tara Brach

“By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolate, deficient self.  This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.”  Tara Brach