“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”  St. Francis of Assisi

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves:  we do unto others as we do unto ourselves.  We hate others when we hate ourselves.  We are tolerant towards others when we tolerate ourselves.”  Eric Hoffer

“One of the most powerful ways to pray, and a method used throughout the world, is the repetition of the name ‘God’.”  Krishan Chopra

“Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.”  Peace Pilgrim

“Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave.  It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.”  Jack Kornfield

Question to K:  “Why do you condemn the acquisition of knowledge?”  

“I will tell you why.  It is a journey that must be taken alone, and there can be no journeying alone if your companion is knowledge.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There is only attachment; there is no such thing as detachment.  The mind invents detachment as a reaction to the pain of attachment.  All the books say, ‘Be detached’ but what is the truth of the matter?  If you observe your own mind, you will see an extraordinary thing that, through cultivating detachment, your mind is becoming attached to something else.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We are the things we possess, we are that to which we are attached.  Attachment has no nobility.  Attachment to knowledge is not different from any other gratifying addiction.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Fear is always in relation to something; it does not exist by itself.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature.  Every man is divine and strong in his real nature.  What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.”  Sri Ramana Maharshi