Negative Emotions

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. P.D. Ouspensky

Be Kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Trust

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible. Osho

Thoughts

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen

Thoughts

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens. Epictetus

Choices

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. Thich Nhat Hanh

The Moment

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life. Byron Katie

Love

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.  Marianne Williamson

Freedom

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner

Awake

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly. Chögyam Trungpa

Prayer

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exactly

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be...whether they'll admit that or not. Earl Nightingale

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is the result of your thoughts being a certain distance apart. Richard Rose

Act

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Norman Vincent Peale 

Paths

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Carlos Castaneda

Friend

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotu

Touch

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. Stephen Covey

You

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha

Acceptance

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James 

Frontiers

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. Unknown

Laughter

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. Proverb

Life

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln 

Work

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi

Comfort

The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. Kahlil Gibran

Authentic Self

The authentic self is the soul made visible. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Lacking?

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha. Hakuin

Nothing Wrong

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.  Ramana Maharshi