Adyashanti
“There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.”
"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true."
“My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.”
“You can’t create inner stillness; you just notice it.”
Maya Angelou
“Nothing can dim the light that shines within.”
Ashtavakra
“You are neither the doer or the enjoyer. You have always been liberated.”
"Belief creates different interpretations, therefore different actions of resistance."
Isaac Asimov
“So the Universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the Universe.”
Audle Allison
"You find that to harm another is only to harm yourself, for you are everything."
"Enlightenment is being filled with the light of the Self."
Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are."
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Brian Andreas
"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew on dark thoughts but they needed constant attention and one day I decided that I had better things to do."
Aristotle
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
Guillaume Apollinaire
"Now and then it's good to pause in the pursuit of happiness, and just be happy."
Ram Gopal Babu
"What one does not trouble to find within, will not be discovered by transporting the body hither and yon."
Ramesh Balkesar
"Who am I? Just ask, "Who wants to know?" And the mind will dissolve."
Nagendranath Bhaduri
"A knowledge of union, like daylight is free to all who receive it!"
Bhagavad-Gita
"Yoga is evenness of mind - a peace that is ever the same."
"The unmanifest (pure) essence is indestructible and eternal. Devotes who realize it do not resume their former, modified states of consciousness." 8:21
"One cannot transcend Karma, without performing Karma" 3:4 (Karma means action!)
Bhagavan
"It is only when we renounce the search itself that we will come into the full-on experience of being."
Bhartrihari's Nitishatakam 71
"Like a tree laden with ripe fruits bends naturally, so do gentle people display all the more humility when blessed with abundance."
Empedocles, Greek philosopher
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere."
FDB
"A good teacher is but a wise student"
"Just breathing unites us with God/dess."
"When the third eye opens, the hidden is seen which the regular eyes can't see! Know and be."
"The cross was never meant to be a burden to bear, but a symbol of the many different directions we may fare. Though we may travel N, E, S and W, our true destination is in the center where we started in the first place. The cross is but a symbol to remind us where we began... In the center is where we should always stand. Peace lies within." 3/95
"The greatest guides toward illumination are those who inspire by "being" an example, rather than "teaching". Their radiance helps inspire others to remember their own."
"We don't need to be-lieve (being in the moment, then in the next instant leaving (be-leave!), but instead BE (no thought or energy needed!)"
"If you react unconsciously to what you consider a problem, the result will be energetically perpetuating the issue. However, if you stop and consider that alternatives exist to create resolutions, and instead choose to respond consciously, change is immanent and the origin of an issue will cease to exist."
"Sometimes things are said that just makes your brain want to slap its self!"
"Enlightenment isn't a place you go to, instead it's an internal place you open from within yourself (we are all already Divine!)."
"Sometimes you have to go through hell, to recognize heaven."
"By releasing that which isn’t us, we open to what we truly are!
"True worth is an inner event which outer wealth can't buy."
"Humility is relinquishing arrogance to be open to new ideas (whether we know the answer or not!)"
"Your life doesn't need healing, it just needs you to re-member who you already are."
"Knowing our true worth from within (by not seeking outer approval!), we won't ever be swayed by other's projections ever again!"
"You are the love you seek. Stop looking outwardly and open within."
"Be love and you are loved. Look for love and it will always be out of reach, for you are searching for something that is already inside of you! Love is... No effort needed or required! Just be love..."
"Knowledge is obtained from the outside, wisdom originates from within."
"Be awake and you are awake. Believe you are awake and you are still sleeping~!" (One is an inner knowing, the other is adopted!)
“Expansion is already a part of you! Allow the leaves (of beliefs) to fall to the ground becoming compost (refuse) of the limited past. “Possibility” equals “positive + ability”. It is as accessible and available to everyone, as the air we breathe!”
"Asleep we seek, awake we are true magnificent Being... Let go and Be..."
"Outer journeys always lead to inward destinations.”
"The journey to oneness is simple, just stop believing that you are separate!"
"In the Absolute, we are "One", and not " i "… Be…"
"That which Is within, Is… There are no outer concerns… So, when you need peace, go within!"
Jagadis Chandra Bose
"All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth."
Gregg Braden
“All that stands between the suffering of the present and the world transformed, is the shift in thinking that allows existing solutions into our lives.”
Buddha
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
"As irrigators lead water where they want it, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds."
“Work on your own salvation. Do not depend on others”
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."
"The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Chinese Proverb
"Your teacher can open the door, but you must enter by yourself"
Pat Christopherson
"There are no good or bad feelings, only sensations presented by the unconscious mind to assist you in making choices." (Absolutely true!)
Chuang-tzu
"When we understand, we are the center of the circle, and there we sit while Yes and No chase each other around the circumference."
"Allow the mind to settle like a still forest pond, and how much this life expands."
Winston Churchill
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Confucius
"No matter where you go, there you are!"
I Corinthians 3:6 (Christian New Testament Bible)
"Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that The Spirit of God dwells within you?"
Dali Lama
"You are your own master."
“The world will be saved by Western Women.”
Democritus
"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul."
Dhammapada, VIII
"The greatest of warriors is one who conquers the Self."
Mike Dooley
"The only real problem you have today is thinking that you have problems."
Dr. Wayne Dryer
"When you change the way you look at things, things begin to change."
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
Meister Eckhart
"God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction."
Mary Baker Eddy ("Science and Health")
"Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter is truth."
Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"No problem is solved from the same consciousness that created it."
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth"
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather a man of value."
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
"Force always attracts men (or women!) of low morality."
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be, and not seem."
"That only which we have within, can we see without."
Epictetus (c 200AD)
"People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them."
St. Francis of Assisi
"What we are looking for, is what is looking.”
Victor Frankl
"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"
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
Erich Fromm
"The main task in life is to give birth to our self to become what we actually are."
Robert Frost
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference."
"We dance round in a ring and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows"
Buckminster Fuller
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Galileo Galilei
“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves”
Mahatma Gandhi
"The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought."
"There is no god higher than truth"
Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible."
Hui-Neng
“Let your mind function freely without abiding anywhere or in anything.”
Aldous Huxley
"There is only one corner of the universe that you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
Thomas Jefferson
"If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when the government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power."
Jesus
“Your heart does not need to work its way back to God, for it never left God”
Carl Jung
"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others." (The shadow being the false self, or ego!)
"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Swami Amar Jyoti
"Open from within and see the light."
Hazart Inayat Khan
"Matter is the outcome of spirit, spirit has all power over matter."
Krishnamurti
"The moment you follow someone, you cease to follow Truth."
"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers, followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple."
Machig Labdrön
“As long as there is an ego, there are demons. When there is no more ego,There are no more demons either!”
Brown Landone
"Abundance is a result of attaining the kingdom of heaven, and each soul's kingdom is within."
Loa-tzu
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
"Practice not doing, and everything will fall into place."
"Truthful words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not truthful."
"He that controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“How can I be still? By flowing with the stream.”
"Stop leaving and you will arrive."
Wizard of Oz, Glinda ("the good witch")...
"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."
Marcel Proust
"Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Bart Marshall
“Beliefs are obstacles to truth”
Ramana Maharishi
"I am' is the name of God. God is none other than Self."
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What's wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but it is too low and we reach it."
Mohammed
"The most excellent Jihad is the conquest of the self."
Native American Wisdom
"Wisdom comes when you start living the life the Creator intended for you."
Nisargadatta
“The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.”
Osho
“Real happiness, bliss, can only be found inside.”
“Both happiness and misery belong to the body, but bliss belongs to your being”
“Do not search. That which is, is. Stop and see."
"Be – don’t try to become.”
"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”
Garson O’Toole
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt, until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
"The iron filings of karma are attracted only where a magnet of the personal ego still exists!"
"Never mistake the technique for the goal."
"To humble the ego or false self is to discover one's eternal identity."
"The delusion of our ego, through the limited five senses, tries to convince us that we are separate from; God, each other and from nature."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway."
"Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities."
Richard Rose
"You never learn the answer; you can only become the answer.”
Charles Rosner
"If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem."
Don Miguel Ruiz
"You will find that you suffered all those years of drama for nothing. Why? Because the belief system that was put inside your mind is based on lies."
"If you accept the opinion, it becomes an agreement now, and you put all your power into that opinion."
"Self abuse comes from self rejection. " (Acknowledge your Divinity by the One which created you, now! You were created by the Divine, so how can you not be Divine?!)
Rumi
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do."
"Look for the answer inside your question."
"The beauty that you see in me, is a reflection of you."
“Knock, and He'll open the door... Vanish, and He'll make you shine like the sun... Fall, and He'll raise you to the heavens... Become nothing, and He'll turn you into everything''
"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Close your eyes… Fall in love… Stay there.”
"Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.”
"Maybe you are searching amongst the branches, for what only appears in the roots."
“The ego is a veil between humans and God.”
Schopenhauer
"All external sources of happiness are highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance."
The Secret Widget
"When you are no longer a slave to your own emotions and thoughts - when they no longer have their way with you without your consent - you have become the master of your own being, and your entire life in the outside world will be transformed. You will be the master of the law, you and your life." May 3, 2012
"Be the vibration of what you want, and you will bring it into the material world through you." Mar. 13, 2014
"No person or power in the outside world can ever compare to the power you have within you. Seek the power within, as it knows the perfect way for you." Mar. 22, 2014
Shakespeare - Hamlet
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking that makes it so."
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
"The one "I am" at the heart of creation, thou art the light of life."
Angelus Silesius
"Stop, where are you running to? For Heaven is right within you: if you are looking anywhere else for God, you will miss him again and again."
Sosan (The Third Zen Patriarch)
"When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised."
Gloria Steinem
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!”
Swami Sukhabodhananda
“Enlightenment is always here and now, never in the past or future.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears."
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way."
Bhagat Singh Thind
"You must never be limited by external authority, whether it be vested in a church, man, or book. It is your right to question, challenge and investigate."
"It is for him who seeks to illumine his intelligence by the torch of his own Divinity, who hungers to attain the Consciousness, which transends the barriers of time and space."
Eckhart Tolle
"Be here now."
"You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light."
"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."
"The real spiritual awakening is when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were."
"You get there by realizing that you are already there."
“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth ... The words are no more than signposts.” “Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.”
Alexandria K. Trenfor
"Best teachers show you were to look but don’t tell you what to see."
Mark Twain
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, but what you know for sure that just ain't so!"
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
The Upanishads
"The wise ones who see that the consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all 'conscious beings' attain eternal peace."
Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6
“Truth always wins, and never falsehood.”
Swami Vivekananda
"The end of all religions is the realization of God"
Vivekachudamani, 8th Century AD
"Beyond caste, creed, family or lineage, that which is without name and form, beyond merit and demerit, beyond space, time and sense-objects, You are that, God himself; Meditate this within yourself.” Verse 254
Edith Wharton
"There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it."
Zen Proverb
"To find an enlightened person, all you need to do is clearly see your own true nature."
Unknown
"The difference between science and philosophy is whether or not an experiment is devised to prove it!"
"Knowledge is a dangerous thing to crooks."
"Integrity pays it's own dividends."
"Masters will never claim to have the only "true" path, but will also respect others paths."
"The road to enlightenment is a narrow one, it's like walking on a razor's edge."
"The three C's of life; choices, chances, changes... You must make a choice, to take a chance, or your life will never change."
"My mom said something. "You can lie down for people to walk on you and they will still complain that you're not flat enough." Live your life.”
"Attitude is like a flat tire, you are not going to get anywhere unless you change it."
"Sometimes when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place."
"Light appears quantized only because of the way it interacts with matter."
"Consciousness is like the light in a film projector. The film needs the light in order for an image to appear, but it does not create the light. In a similar way, the brain creates images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness is already present."
"Ever notice that all the instruments searching for intelligent life are all pointed away from the earth?!"
"Nirvana refers to the transcendent state of peace, free of human suffering. They say there is a God in everyone and therefore to achieve Nirvana one has only to meet the real self"
“One who is absolutely complete; cannot be defined by anyone completely.”
"Find the kingdom within and then all else will be given unto you."
"Be still (let the mind be still) and know (as a direct experience) that I (your inner most essence) is God "