Teachers

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Pema Chödrön

Flow

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Chuang Tzu

Stengths

We can never know what strengths and revelations might be on the other side of our fears until we face them and feel them all the way through. True positive thinking is the mental stance of surrender, simply trusting the process. We learn to accept what is. Jacquelyn Small

Happiness

Happiness is a quality of mind. It is something we possess within...If we do not have it within, nothing outside can give it to us. Paramananda 

Growing

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

Patience

The whole purpose of engaging in the practice of patience is to become stronger in mind, stronger in heart. Dalai Lama

Wholeness

“Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn’t, didn’t already have.” Dewey Bunnell

Healing

Teach us love, compassion, and honor that we may heal the earth and heal each other.  Ojibwa Tribe

The Center

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars. Every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs

Reality

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea. Hung Tzu-ch'eng 

Meaning

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. Victor Frankl

Self-discipline

Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. Napoleon Hill

Spiritual Path

The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path, most people just don't know it. Marianne Williamson

Storms

The storms of life no more indicate the absence of God, than clouds indicate the absence of the sun. John Blanchard

Prayer

You pray in your distress and in your need, would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Kahlil Gibran

Let Go

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds. Osho

Gratitude

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.  Marianne Williamson

Discovery

God writes spiritual mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. Rumi

Woods

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard

Programming

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. Ken Keyes, Jr.

Attention

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller

The Story

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end. Christine Mason Miller

Teaching

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Pema Chödrön

Awakening

We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening. Alan Cohen

Actions

My actions are my only true belongings.  I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.  My actions are the ground upon which I stand.  Thich Nhat Hanh

Circumstances

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein 

Serving

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy

Open

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there is no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are--as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy. Bo Lozoff

Stuck

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light. Rumi