See Everyone

See everyone
as God.

Neem Karoli Baba ("Maharaj-ji")

Constant Practice

Healing is a constant practice,
not the conclusion of a problem.

Michael Meade

It's All Perfect

Don't you see
it's all perfect?

Neem Karoli Baba ("Maharaj-ji")

Based on Love

It's this reality that all healing

comes from within us and
all healing is based on love.

Gladys McGarey

There is No Doer

As the mind sees things are getting done,
it concludes that there must be a someone
who does them, otherwise doing would not occur.
But the vastness has never waited for the mind
to recognize that there is no doer for doing to occur.

Suzanne Segal

Also the Sufferer

He who thinks he is the doer
is also the sufferer.

Ramana Maharshi

Getting Out of the Way

Getting ourselves out of the way
just might allow action to be taken.
Things might just begin to get done.
Without us. Allowing a Doer that
does know how to get things done,
to do its job, unharassed.
What a relief. It could just be that
we deserve that gift.
Just for being alive.

Judy Cohen

The Same Power

Who grows the oranges
in the orange tree?
Who grows the grass?
Who takes care of
the world and the earth?
The same power that
takes care of all the things
on this planet.

Robert Adams

The Teaching

This is the teaching:
Pay attention.
Be here now.

Anne Lamott

Grace Always Meets Us

Grace always meets us exactly where we are
and does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

You Need to Remember

You need to remember your Buddha nature
and your social security number.

Ram Dass

Become One

Love until you
and the beloved
become one.

Ram Dass

Use It!

Everything in your life
is there as a vehicle
for your Transformation.
Use it!

Ram Dass

No There There

When you get there,
you'll realize there's
no there there.

Lama Sumati Marut

Contentment

The man of contentment
seeks nothing that
he doesn't have and
understands that
whatever he has
isn't his to own.

Wu Hsin

The Mystery is in the Background

The preoccupation with
The foreground, the sights,
The smells,
The sounds,
Takes the attention away from
The background.
Yet, it is in this very background that
The Mystery resides.

Wu Hsin

The Final Step

For many,
the first step on
a spiritual journey
is to become lost.
The final step is
losing one's self.

Wu Hsin

Protect Your Peace

We can't change what other people say or do.
Our power lies in how we react to it.
Protect your peace.

Barb Schmidt

Play Like Yourself

Sometimes you have to
play a long time to be able
to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

Your Source of Power

Always stick to what makes you
weird, odd, strange, different.
That's your source of power.

Robert Greene

No One Can Help You as Much

Your worst enemy cannot harm you
as much as your thoughts, unguarded.
But once mastered, no one
can help you as much.

The Buddha

Going Slow

In an age of speed,
I began to think,
nothing could be
more invigorating
than going slow.

Pico Iyer

Love Yourself First

If you have the ability to love,
love yourself first.

Charles Bukowski

Become the Ocean

If you don't become the ocean,
you'll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

Carried Along

We are all afloat
in The Great River.
All are carried along.
Some swim against the flow.
They, too, are carried along.

Wu Hsin

Wanting Nothing

Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment.
The world can never own a man who wants nothing.

Wu Hsin

Patience as Action

Patience is also
a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

Going With It

Surrender is like a fish
finding the current
and going with it.

Mark Nepo

One More Teacher?

I keep looking for one more teacher,
only to find that fish learn from the water
and birds learn from the sky.

Mark Nepo

Love Keeps You Safe

People think that fear keeps you safe.
That's actually not true.
Love keeps you safe.

Anita Moorjani

The Thrust to Evolve

I feel that we are supposed to evolve but I do feel
that you need the occasional constraint and fear
to provide the thrust for you to evolve because
we all know that we grow tremendously
through our adverse situations.

Anita Moorjani

Seeing the Angel

I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

At State of Being

I was overwhelmed by the realization
that God isn't a being, but a state of being.

Anita Moorjani

We're Skeptical

I don't believe in astrology.
I'm a Sagittarius and
we're skeptical.

Arthur C. Clarke

Imagination Encircles the World

I am enough of an artist to draw
freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Silence is Essential

Silence is essential. We need silence,
just as much as we need air,
just as much as plants need light.
If our minds are crowded with words
and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Connect to the Silence

When you connect to the silence within you,
that is when you can make sense of the disturbance
going on around you.

Stephen Richards

Leading Nowhere

All paths are the same,
leading nowhere.

Carlos Casteneda's Don Juan

Controlled Folly

A warrior must know he is unimportant.
That's a shaman's controlled folly.
Nothing being more important than
anything else, a warrior chooses any act,
and acts it out as if it mattered to him.

Carlos Castenada's Don Juan

What You Are Seeking

You will never be satisfied 
until you find out that
you are what you are seeking.

Nisargadatta

Mysteries, Yes

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!"
and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.

Mary Oliver