The Bravest Thing

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Brene Brown

The Most Important Thing

Remember, we are all affecting

the world every moment,

whether we mean to or not.

Working on our own consciousness

is the most important thing that

we are doing at any moment,

and being love is a supreme creative act.

Ram Dass

When We Are Being Love

When we are being love, we extend outward an environment that allows people to act in different, more loving and peaceful ways than they are used to behaving.

Ram Dass

If I Can See the Soul

If I can see the soul that happens to have incarnated into a person that I don't care for, then my consciousness becomes an environment in which he or she is free to come up for air if he or she wants to.

Ram Dass

My Only Interest

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love. In our culture we think of love as a relational thing: "I love you" and "You are my lover." But while the ego is built around relationship, the soul is not. It wants only to be love. It's a true joy, for example, to turn someone whom you didn't initially like into the Beloved.

Ram Dass

It's In the Being

The most important aspect of love is not
in giving or the receiving; it's in the being.

Ram Dass

Meditate Like Christ

Meditate like Christ.
When he was crucified,
He felt love, not pain.
He lost Himself in love.

Neem Karoli Baba ("Maharaj-ji")

You are a Vehicle

You are a vehicle for what wants to happen,
not for what you want to happen.

Adyashanti

To Choose One's Own Way

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude
in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl

Happiness Thwarted

It is the very pursuit of happiness
that thwarts happiness.

Viktor Frankl

Does This Path Lead to Love

When a spiritual path comes into
your life, one question you can ask is
"Does this path lead to love?"

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Dragging Us to God

in the end
a person tires of everything
except heart's desiring,
soul's journeying

sultan, saint, pickpocket;
love has everyone by the ear
dragging us to God
by secret ways.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi

We Cannot Know

We cannot know. All we can do is try to
listen carefully and with full attention to
each voice as it addresses the divine.

Huston Smith

A Place in Your Garden

Give your enemy
a place in your garden.

Sufi Saying

The Path Begins

The Path begins with
what you don't like.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee