"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
— T.S. Eliot

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

"There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong."
— Kate DiCamillo (Despereaux/the Tale Of Despereaux)

"Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence."
— Tony Samara

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (Teachings on Love)

"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."
— Osho

"One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind."
— Osho

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."
— George MacDonald

""Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back." "
— the budha

"The Way to do is to be."
— Laozi

"Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity"
— Tony Samara

"To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still."
— J. Krishnamurti

"Just as one who looks at the sun cannot but fill the eyes with light, so the one who gazes intently into the heart cannot fail to be illumined."
— St. Hesychios the Priest

"Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.
"
— Daniel Quinn (Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit)

"Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions."
— Ryokan

"Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work."
— Modigliani

"
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization."
— Daniel Quinn

"There s no time for confused thoughts. Practice the meaning of single-mindedness."
— Godrakpa

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"The goal is not to have an empty mind, but instead, a mind that can emptied. "
— Gene Poole

"The act of meditation is being spacious."
— Sogyal Rinpoche

"Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living."
— Elizabeth Lesser (The Seeker's Guide)

"When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment."
— Peter Matthiessen

"Perception is a balance of ego.
Perspective is a balance of spirit.
Perfection is a balance of soul.
"
— KC Anton

"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?"
— David Bader

"16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
Declare, if you know all this."
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version)

"In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live."
— Daniel Quinn

"The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

"I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much."
— Ian Fleming

"People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge."
— Winifred Gallagher (Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life)

"The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness."
— Sue Monk Kidd (Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story)

"Providence knows best."
— Michael Beloved

"Yes I believe it. My fate is magnificent however it seems. I used to say my fate was very harsh however it seemed."
— Dora Maar (1946)

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. "
— Thomas Merton (The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals)

"Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into
articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation."
— Thomas Carlyle

"Just as one who looks at the sun cannot but fill the eyes with light, so the one who gazes intently into his heart cannot fail to be illumined."
— St. Hesychios the Priest

"Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to laern how to build a civilization."
— Daniel Quinn

""Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness."
"
— Daniel Quinn