Alive

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

One and the Same

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. Rumi

Spiritual Journey

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self. Aldous Huxley

Attention

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. Paulo Coelho

Soul Attraction

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. James Allen

Spiritual Path

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart. Jack Kornfield

Eternity

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere. Joseph Campbell

Space

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. Joseph Campbell

Loss

Life is not lost by dying, life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet

Act

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran

Spiritual Evolution

Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind's vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth. David R. Hawkins

Keep me away

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran 

Self-observation

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. G.I. Gurdjieff 

Hurt

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change. Rumi

Open

Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me with your inspiration. So that I may see mine. Rumi 

Waves

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf ~Jon Kabat-Zinn 

Looking

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer

The Mysterious

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

Waiting

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love. David Deida 

Smile

The day always looks brighter from behind a smile. ~Unknown 

Unlearning

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Marianne Williamson

Spiritual Journey

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. Ram Dass

Love

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.  Thomas Merton 

Happiness

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. Buddha 

Worry

Now that all your worry has proved such an un-lucrative business why not find a better job. Hafiz

Harvest

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. A Course in Miracles

Legacy

When we leave this world, how much we have loved will be our true legacy. It is the only thing we will leave behind and carry with us. Anne Siloy