"The real secret is surrender, letting go to what is...

If we just let go and surrender we can attune to
the flow back to higher levels of unity and oneness.
Like a surfer riding the wave, we don't dictate
the way the wave goes we just ride it
and enjoy the ride!"

Chris Bourne (from 'Gateways of Light' documentary film)

"Inside the Great Mystery that is,
we don't really own anything.
What is this competition we feel then,
before we go, one at a time,
through the same gate?"

Mevlana Rumi

The great man does not think beforehand of his words
that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute-he simply speaks and does what is right.

Mencius (c.372 - c.289 BC)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King

"If you knew who walks beside you on this path
that you have chosen, fear would be impossible."

A Course in Miracles

"The living are soft and yielding;
the dead are rigid and stiff.
Living plants are flexible and tender;
the dead are brittle and dry.

Those who are stiff and rigid
are the disciple of death.
Those who are soft and yielding
are the disciples of life.

The rigid and stiff will be broken.
The soft and yielding will overcome."

Lao Tzu

"The miracle is not to walk on water, but to walk with love on earth, as if your feet are kissing the ground.
We must remember that our presence alone is a miracle.
We must learn to say 'Yes' to the miracles of life."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Rumi

"Man's main task in life is...
to give birth to himself."

Erich Fromm

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom."

Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)

"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Jung

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Albert Einstein

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

Romans 12:2 (New International Version)

"If the angel deigns to come
it will be because you have convinced
her, not by tears,
but by your humble
resolve to be always beginning;
to be a beginner.

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Dive into yourself and
in your soul you will discover
The stairs by which to ascend."

Saint Isaac of Nineveh

And what you thought you came for
Is only a shell, a husk of meaning
From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
If at all.

T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding”

"There is nothing to save,
now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart."

D.H. Lawrence

When I read this I feel that this is the answer to the meaning of life.

A great metaphor.........

"The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains."
Li Po

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

Lao Tzu

'Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding,
he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity.
His humility, perseverance and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.'

Lao Ltz, Hua Hu Ching

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Galileo

"A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

Lao Tzu

"Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting."

David Deida

"What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand."

Spock (Star Trek)

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Buddha

"A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

Lao Tzu

That's what I think Nature (God,Universe) does..

I love the Lao Tzu quote Someone. Thanks.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows.
While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low,
keeps dropping keys all night long
for the beautiful rowdy prisoners."

Hafiz

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness".

Gilda Radner

"From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I could not lie anymore so I started to call my dog "God."
First he looked
confused,

then he started smiling, then he even
danced.

I kept at it: now he doesn't even
bite.

I am wondering if this
might work on
people?"

- Tukaram

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns,
oblivious of the rose.

Kahlil Gibran

They say to me in their awakening,

"You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea."

And in my dream I say to them,
"I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore."

Kahlil Gibran

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense."

Rumi

You lack a foot to travel?
Then journey into yourself
And like a mine of rubies
receive the sunbeams print

Out of yourself such a journey
will lead you to your self,
It leads to transformation
of dust into pure gold!

RUMI

"the scenery is always the same;
but if one has the love of great
emptinesses, and of the play of
light on long stretches of parched
earth and rock, the sameness is
part of the enchantment."

- Edith Wharton

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life,
it is often no louder than the beating of your heart,
and it is very easy to miss it"

Boris Pasterak