Fear

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. Jon Kabat-Zinn

Peace

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Feelings

No feeling is final. Rainer Maria Rilke

Holding / Letting Go

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now? Jack Kornfield

Practice

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. Doug Coupland 

Deliberating

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. Chinese Proverb

Readjusting

The art of life is constant readjusting to your surroundings. Kazuko Okokaura

Adversity

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden

Love

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Unknown

Growing

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. John Maxwell

Ambitions

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. Mark Twain

Trust

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. Walter Anderson

Birth

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Direction

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Ancient Buddhist Saying

Nature

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleanora Duse

Life

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. Krishnamurti

The Wise

The wise see in every form the divine form; in every heart they see the divine light shining. Paramananda

Love

The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so. David R. Hawkins

Consciousness

Our ordinary consciousness is not "natural," but an acquired product. This has given us both many useful skills and many insane sources of useless suffering. Charles Tart

Abundance

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. Epicurus

Silence

Silence is a source of great strength. Lao Tzu

Awareness

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.  Anthony De Mello

Courage

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou

Within

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Joining

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories? George Eliot

Clinging

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. Pema Chodren

Growth

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because whatever one's self-criticisms, one secretly really believes that one's way of being is okay and probably the only correct one. They are all right as they are, and all problems are caused by other people's selfishness, unfairness, and by the external world. David R. Hawkin

Clear Mind

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going. Seung Sahn

Readiness

The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive. David R. Hawkins

Consciousness

If we can have a free access to our inmost consciousness, the cosmic energy is bound to come to the fore. If we go deep within, it comes like a spring, a never-failing spring. And when it comes, it permeates the whole body. Sri Chinmoy