“Sometimes you can get so caught up in pretending to be the way you think you should be so that others will see you the way you would like them to see you that you wind up playing a dishonest game of denial that can only hold you back.”    Benny Silverman

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell.  An assumption is just a lie you are telling yourself.  This creates a big drama inside your mind and you have no idea if it’s really truth or not.  Be aware that most of the drama in your life is caused by an amazing, creative story you have made up in your mind.  Ask questions before creating a story and find peace in truth.”      Don Jose Ruiz

“Acceptance does not mean that you approve or condone another’s behavior.  You are not approving by accepting.  Rather, you are simply acknowledging the ‘reality’ of the person or situation, or ‘what is,’ and deciding what’s best for you based on that reality.  Hence, you can accept someone even though you disapprove of what the person says or does.”    Daniel A. Miller

“We are not guaranteed outcomes.  What we are offered is knowledge of life and ourselves, and if we are awake, glimpses of the wisdom held in the story that our life is telling the world.”  Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all.  It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough and that we are enough.  Sufficiency resides inside each of us and we can call it forward.  It is a consciousness, an attention, an intentional choosing of the way we think of our circumstances.”  Lynne Twist

“We don’t have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it eludes us.  We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.”  Anita Moorjani

“We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”  Joseph Campbell

“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may.  Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it.  This is certain.  The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”  Ramana Maharshi

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of Love.
~Mother Teresa

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”  Leo Buscaglia