“Letting your naked self be known by God is always to recognize your need for mercy and your own utter inadequacy and littleness. You realize that even the best things you’ve done have often been for mixed and selfish motives, not really for love. Your need for mercy draws you close to God.”   Fr. Richard Rohr

“What sustains this constant state of wanting is the belief that we can get – somehow, somewhere, someday – what we want. And even more than that, that when we get it, it will make us happy, finally, forever. The closer we get to Truth, the more paradoxes there seem to be. Simply getting what we want doesn’t necessarily make us happy. That condition that we seek is an already existing condition. And even though it is already existing, we seek it, and our seeking obscures it. Not just spiritual seeking, every kind of seeking.

“Liberation is the cessation of the seeker, the seeking, and the sought. It is the end of struggle, separation, and fear. It is beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof. Liberation is what you were born to realize. It is the nature of your own Self.”   Adyashanti

“Most people do not see their beliefs. Instead, their beliefs tell them what they see. This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion.” Matt Kahn

“When your clarity meets your conviction and you apply action to the equation, your world will begin to transform before your eyes.” Lisa Nichols

“When I try to control, I get attached to how I think it should play out; I think that I know the best way for things to happen. But many examples in my life have shown that when I trust and let go of thinking I know best, the outcome is better than anything I could have imagined. Letting go doesn’t mean giving up the desire, it means letting go of the struggle. It’s exhausting needing to be in control all the time, isn’t it? And the truth really is that any sense of control that we think that we have is false anyway.” Sheila Viers

“We should always try to be active coming out of Samadhi. For this, we have to forget things like ‘I should be mindful of this or that.’ If you are mindful, you are already creating a separation (‘I-am-mindful-of-…’). Don’t be mindful, please! When you walk, just walk. Let the walk walk. Let the talk talk. Let the eating eat, the sitting sit, the work work. Let the sleep sleep.” Muho Noelke

“Isn’t it extraordinary to realize that a mere shift in attention will produce the life experience we choose? We don’t have to get rid of people, move, change jobs, rob a bank, or run off to parts unknown. Everything in our lives can be exactly the same, and, with that shift in attention, everything in our lives is completely different.” Cheri Huber

“Once you realize that the road is the goal, and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple. In itself an ecstasy.” Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for misery, for joy.” Pema Chödrön

“Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.”   Dr. David R. Hawkins