Differences

Each person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike...no two people who understand the same sentence the same way...So in dealing with people try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be. Milton Erickson

Transforming

Our aim in seeking ways of transforming our thoughts and emotions is to find a more wholesome and fulfilling way of living. Dalai Lama

Mind

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks. Byron Katie

Spiritual 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

Age ................. HB Mom

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Karma

All beings are owners of their Karma. Whatever volitional actions they do, good or evil, of those they shall become their heir. Buddha

Make it 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

Caring

The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Pablo Casals

Ordinary 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

Rejoice

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

A Better Job

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job. Hafiz

True Love

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak. It is born of strength and understanding. Meher Baba

Laughter

The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself. Rabindranath Tagore

The Key

The key to happiness is in allowing whatever arises to be as spontaneous and joyful as possible, recognizing that whatever occurs is impermanent and nothing, no matter how painful or pleasurable, is going to last. Fred Alan Wolf

Conquering

It is not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary

Decades

He who thinks to realize the hopes and desires of his youth when he is older is always deceiving himself, for every decade of a man's life possesses its own kind of happiness, its own hopes and prospects. Johann Wofgang Von Goethe

Be Kind

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

Guest House

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Rumi

Current

There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body and mind. Discover that current and stay with it. Nisargadatta Maharaj

Logic

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Leonard Nimoy

Destiny

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold

Work and Play

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. Mark Twain

Nature

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller

Silence

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Mahatma Gandhi

Joy & Suffering

All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy. Shantideva

Time

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler

Change

All great changes are preceded by chaos. Deepak Chopra

Love

Love is born with you; it is your intrinsic quality. All that is needed is to give it a way--to make a passage for it, to let it flow. Osho

Taste the Present

Every time and every place is uniquely different. There is no need to compare it with any other time and place. Just carefully taste the present - that is enough! Zen saying 

Service and Joy

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore

Clearing

We are kept from the experience of spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas... As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our beings. Thomas Keating