“Love can flow toward you in every moment: through a flower, in a grain of sand, in a wisp of a cloud, in any one person whom you allow to delight you. You might be experiencing this flow of love when you find yourself smiling at things for no apparent reason.” Fr. Richard Rohr (Let the Flow Happen)

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Carl G. Jung (Psychology and Alchemy)

“On the ‘mountaintop’ we receive new illumination, inspiration, and insight into the providing law… The thing to bear in mind is to take with you and hold on to all that you gain on the mountaintop of prayer, and not let go of it when you meet the thoughts and states of mind on the material plane that need to be spiritualized.” Myrtle Fillmore (Going into the Silence – Myrtle Fillmore’s Healing Letters)

“The most straightforward advice on awakening enlightened mind is this: practice not causing harm to anyone – yourself or others – and every day, do what you can to be helpful. Pema Chödrön (What to Do When the Going Gets Rough)

“Anyplace you don’t want to be, no matter how comfortable, is a prison for you.” Ajahn Brahm (Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? – Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life’s Difficulties)

“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)