“Pain and pleasures are the crests and valleys of the waves of the ocean of bliss.  Deep down there is utter fullness.”   Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.”   Marcus Aurelius

“Never let the future disturb you.  You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”   Marcus Aurelius

“Your problem is that you’re too busy holding on to your unworthiness.  The heart surrenders everything to the moment.  The mind judges and holds back.”   Ram Dass

“Habit is a hell to which people cling in an attempt to stop the flow of change.”   Carolyn Myss

“Sometimes you can get so caught up in pretending to be the way you think you should be so that others will see you the way you would like them to see you that you wind up playing a dishonest game of denial that can only hold you back.”    Benny Silverman

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell.  An assumption is just a lie you are telling yourself.  This creates a big drama inside your mind and you have no idea if it’s really truth or not.  Be aware that most of the drama in your life is caused by an amazing, creative story you have made up in your mind.  Ask questions before creating a story and find peace in truth.”      Don Jose Ruiz

“Acceptance does not mean that you approve or condone another’s behavior.  You are not approving by accepting.  Rather, you are simply acknowledging the ‘reality’ of the person or situation, or ‘what is,’ and deciding what’s best for you based on that reality.  Hence, you can accept someone even though you disapprove of what the person says or does.”    Daniel A. Miller

“We are not guaranteed outcomes.  What we are offered is knowledge of life and ourselves, and if we are awake, glimpses of the wisdom held in the story that our life is telling the world.”  Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all.  It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough and that we are enough.  Sufficiency resides inside each of us and we can call it forward.  It is a consciousness, an attention, an intentional choosing of the way we think of our circumstances.”  Lynne Twist