Within

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Live

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Guide

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Look Deeply

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh

Harder

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries! Douglas Harding

Turning Point

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt. Unknown

Illusion

Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you? Rumi

Peace of Mind

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind. Dalai Lama

Irritations

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung 

Paths

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. Carlos Castaneda

How it is

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. Ram Dass

Limitations

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Richard Bach

Thoughts

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Heaven

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. Wayne Dyer

No Accidents

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. Deepak Chopra

Now

The mistake people make is to wait for something to happen to them before they begin searching. They want the voice of God, or something, to tell them to get started. Or maybe they know they should be doing something but they procrastinate, hoping that tomorrow they'll have more conviction and be more determined. What they forget is there may be no tomorrow for them. Richard Rose

Awake

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe. The Buddha

Life is Difficult

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. M. Scott Peck

Stillness

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Eckert Tolle 

Difficulty

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. Dalai Lama 

Thinking

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. Eckhart Tolle

Seekers

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers. Peter Matthiessen 

Miracles

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Sitting

Now let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence. Rumi