“Pain is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.”
—Eckhart Tolle
April 2012
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
—Ram Dass
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
—Ram Dass
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
—Swami Vivekananda
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
—Dr. Seuss from ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’
“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Live like nature. Explode slowly, day by day, from the center outwards.”
—I Wrote This For You: August 2007
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
A little mixed-breed apple,
half red, half yellow
tells this story.
A lover and beloved get seperated.
Their being apart was one thing,
but they have opposite responses.
The lover feels pain and grows pale.
The beloved flushes and feels proud.
I am a thorn next to my master’s rose.
We seem to be two, but we are not.
“A single word can scar another. A single word can also give comfort and relief or stir one’s spirit to courage. The care with which we use words reflects the depth of our humanity.”
—Daisaku Ikeda
“No one who is divided within himself will survive the times ahead. They are times of integration and wholeness. The life of the body is the “I”. When your “I” is single it id “I” who am present. But when your “I” is fragmented, then your body begins to die. Take heed then, and identify with the life of the body, and not with the matter of Earth. When your “I” is single, your body will be full of life and no part of it will know disease or death. When you fragment your identity, you cut off parts of your body from my nurture. This is the cause of disease”
—Christ, channeled in The Starseed Transmissions
“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologise for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.”
—Gandhi
“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
—Charles Bukowski
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
—Charles Bukowski
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.”
—Albert Einstein
“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.”
—Erich Fromm
