“Mindful walking changes everything. It trains us, both on the inside and the outside, … It can invite new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new ways of understanding with every step.”  Jonathan Stalls

“Thoughts are not an obstacle in Centering prayer, but an opportunity. Each new thought gives you chance to exercise that ‘muscle’ of letting go.”  Cynthia Bourgeault

“Take them away, names like Buddhism. I’m impatient with them.  There’s something beyond all that, beneath all that that they all share, that they all come from.  They are branches from a single root.”  S. Merwin

“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

“Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.”  Pema Chödrön

“In a real sense, self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your… ideas, concepts, attachments, and conditioning.”  Adyashanti

“There must be a direct way to Truth.  Because if Truth is only found at the end of some practice, it cannot be true.  It means that Truth is limited.  It has a condition.  But Truth must always be True.”  Mooji

“When we approach our feelings of anger with awareness, with mindfulness, it becomes a productive part of our practice. We find, after all, that anger has something to teach us.”  Jules Shuzen Harris Sensei (Uprooting the Seeds of Anger)