“Thoughts are bubbles that are waiting to be popped by awareness.  Once they’ve been popped, the negative emotion often associated with our thoughts will similarly disappear into the thinness of the air.”  Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The biggest illusion about a path of refuge is that we are on our way somewhere else, on our way to becoming a different kind of person.  But ultimately, our refuge is not outside ourselves, not somewhere in the future — it always and already here.”  Tara Brach

“You cannot truly love until you can love your own inability to love sometimes.  You cannot truly heal until you embrace all that is unhealed within yourself, make room for it, treat it as a welcoming guest in your vastness.  You cannot know true freedom until you realize that even feeling unfree is a tremendous gift.”  Jeff Foster

“To listen well we must become aware of the mental static that runs interference: aware of our emotional reactivity; aware of all the ways we interpret (and misinterpret) each other; aware of our haste to prepare a response; aware of how we armor ourselves with judgment.”  Tara Brach

“If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely.  If you see the inside as it really is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.”  Mooji

“When I listen to you, life is teaching me.  To be awake is to never be bored.  Why?  Because we can always be learning from the Book of Life, reality itself.  When I listen to you, life is teaching me if I look deeply enough.”  Thomas Hübl

“If you knew everyone’s story, you would love them.  You can’t hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down.  If you truly know someone, you’d get it.”  Emma Stone

“When fear is in control, we’re never at our best.  It can create a distance in our relationships, stifle our creativity, and cloud our judgment when we need it most.”  Tara Brach