“A human being – temporary biological form creature – will NEVER be ‘safe’ in the world of form because we are designed to dissolve. Give up the drive to survive at any cost (because it’s an impossible goal) and you set yourself free to discover the ease and grace that arise by focusing instead on being the best, most loving, kindest, most grateful temporary human you can be.” Eileen Workman (social media post)

“Nobody can guide you up a mountain that they themselves haven’t climbed.” Rob Bell (social media post)

“A spiritual question is like an alarm clock thrown into the dream. ‘Who Am I?’ calls into question everything the dreamer believes in, namely him or herself. It disrupts the dream. That’s its purpose. When your alarm clock goes off in the morning, its purpose is not to get an answer. Its purpose is to wake you up.” Adyashanti (My Secret is Silence)

“Mystery isn’t something that you cannot understand – it is something you can endlessly understand! There is no point at which you can say, ‘I’ve got it.’ Always and forever, mystery gets you!” Fr. Richard Rohr (Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation)

“To rest in the Unknown literally means that your mind knows absolutely nothing about how to get you to your goal. It means that you’ve stopped looking toward the mind to tell you how, when, and where. By absolutely ceasing to become, you stop. This stopping is effortless. It comes out to wisdom.” Adyashanti (The Impact of Awakening)

“Ceasing to become means that in the face of that which the mind can never know, you do not move. As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.”  Adyashanti (The Impact of Awakening)

“I do not understand the mystery of Grace – only that it meets where we are and does not leave us where it found us. I can receive gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt.” Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith)

“The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature, then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance.” Ram Dass (Facebook page: Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember)

“The trick is not to believe in the thoughts that make you feel scared of emotional energy. Feelings have not the power to distract you from your truth, unless you think they do.  Avoiding feelings, however, guides you in directions far removed from the desires of your Soul.”  Bentinho Massaro (social media)

“It isn’t the loved ones and gain, per se, that need to be renounced; it’s the unrealistic hopes we place on these things. Wishful thinking can easily become more compelling than the longing of the Bodhi heart.” Pema Chödrön (Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude)