“Energy is the currency of the universe.  When you ‘pay’ attention to something, you buy that experience.  So when you allow your consciousness to focus on someone or something that annoys you, you feed it your energy, and it reciprocates the experience of being annoyed.  Be selective in your focus because your attention feeds the energy of it and keeps it alive.  Not just within you, but in the collective consciousness as well.”   Emily Maroutian

“All it takes to be more compassionate is the simple act of noticing.”  Daniel Goleman

“The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything we touch, the more our own touch will bring blessings.”  David Steindl-Rast

“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man.  There is no difference there between a cat or a man.  The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.”  Sri Aurobindo

“Words and affirmations simply give shape to thought; they are not creative.  Feeling is creative, and the more feeling that is put into the word, the greater power it will have over conditions.”  Ernest Holmes

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”  Buddha

“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind.  The goal is to find it.”  Buddha

“We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder

“It can be hard to forgive and let go but it’s important to remember that harboring the resentment and holding a grudge can hurt you even more.  The word “forgive” really means to give something up for yourself, not for them.”  Jack Canfield

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”  Meister Eckhart