“To use your mind in a natural way means to avoid trying to control it. The more you try to control your mind, the more stray thoughts will come up to bother you.  In fact, the very fear of stray thoughts is another stray thought.  Therefore, if you have many stray thoughts, consider it a natural phenomenon and do not despise them.”  Master Sheng-yen (Being Natural)

“Simply by surrendering your need, desire, or tendency to fight your mind, fight your feelings, fight your symptoms, fight with others, fight with criticism, or any perceivable struggle or injustice, you become an open space through which the light of Divinity shines through for the evolution of all.” Matt Kahn (My mind is my shelter)

“The ego either needs something to fight for or something to fight against. …  When change isn’t something to fight for or fight against, you become the change you wish to see by allowing life to change you for the better.”  Matt Kahn (My mind is my shelter)

“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning.” Mother Theresa (Love Seeks to Serve)

“Everyone has their own experience. That’s why we are here, to go through our own experience, to learn, to go down those paths and eventually you may have gone down so many paths and learned so much that you don’t have to come back again.”  Prince (social media post)

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” Rabindranath Tagore (Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore)

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher in storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” Cynthia Occelli (Resurrecting Venus)

“When we stand so staunchly in our self-righteousness that we can only see those who disagree with us as ignorant, stupid, or evil, we deprive both ourselves, and the other person, of the opportunity to realize why one of may be wrong. And when we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to realize why we are wrong, we deprive ourselves of the ability to realize what is right, and good, and true.” Eileen Workman (social media post)