Work

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. Pema Chodren

Teachings on Love

The Buddha's teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. Thich Nhat Hanh

Mastery

Mastery of the world is achieved by letting things take their natural course. Tao Te Ching 

Travel

You have no need to travel anywhere-journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. Rumi

Love

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. Unknown

Live with Honor

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates

Destiny

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. Osho

Loss

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi

Love Withheld

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from you action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. Gandhi

Tolerance

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama

Help

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. Unknown

Water

The highest good is like water.

Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.

It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.

In dwelling, be close to the land.

In meditation, go deep in the heart.

In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.

In speech, be true.

In ruling, be just.

In business, be competent.

In action, watch the timing.

Tao Te Ching

Begin

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca

Problems

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

You seek problems because you need their gifts. Richard Bach 

New Year

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. G. K. Chesterton

Hope

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. Mignon McLaughlin

Inner Peace

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace. Marianne Williamson

Stop

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

Living?

Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting. David Deida

Healing

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. Ram Dass 

The Cave

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell

Self

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed - borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves. Osho

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

Meaningful

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama

A Threshold Crossed

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again. Gary Zukav

Simple Religion

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

Beginning

How do you begin each day? At what hour do you rise? How do you commence your duties? In what frame of mind do you enter upon the sacred life of a new day? What answer can you give your heart to these important questions? You will find that much happiness or unhappiness follows upon the right or wrong beginning of the day, and that, when every day is wisely begun, happy and harmonious sequences will mark its course, and life in its totality will not fall far short of the ideal blessedness. James Allen

Paradise

The world when seen through a little child's eyes greatly resembles paradise. Unknown