“Anytime you’re going to grow, you’re going to lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe.  You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”  Carl Jung

“When we reject our relatedness to the poor, the weak, the simple and the unlovable we define the family of creation over and against God.  In place of God we decide who is worthy of our attention and who can be rejected.  Because of our deep fears, we spend time, attention, and money on preserving our boundaries of privacy and increasing our knowledge and power.  We hermetically seal ourselves off from the undesired ‘other’, the stranger, and in doing so, we seal ourselves off from God.  By rejecting God in the neighbor, we reject the love that can heal us.”  Fr. Ilia Delio

“Too often we underestimate the power of the touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all which have the potential to turn a life around.”  Leo Buscaglia

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves, rather than a statement of your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”  Yogi Bhajan

“Where is a single feeling, a single thought, in the mirror image at which I gaze?”  Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“Empty everything from the pockets of your mind.  Each where there is no distance and nothing to do.  It is so easy for you.”  Papaji

“It may be, my dear friend, that you have been trying too hard in a personal way and have not taken time to relax, to let go, and realize that ‘I am in the Father and the Father in me.’  Sometimes our attention becomes so engrossed in the things we are trying to do that we forget to unify ourselves consciously with the source of our being.”  Myrtle Fillmore

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”  Deepak Chopra

“My nature is peace; it’s what God made me to be.  When a negative thought enters into my mind and I think it’s true, peace goes out the window.  When an upsetting event takes place and I make it my story, I push peace even further away.  Both are invitations to become quiet in order to question the thoughts and the stories that are keeping me from the peace the is my divine inheritance.”  Rev. Jean Beach