Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
– Mother Teresa
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
– Sogyal Rinpoche
If a man’s mind is concentrated and calm, and if he’s abandoned both good and evil, there is no fear for him.
– The Dhammapada
The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one and the same; One in seeing, one in knowing and one in loving.
– Meister Eckhart
It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it’s the journey that matters, in the end.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
– St. John of the cross
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.
– Erich Fromm
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.
– St. Anthony
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
– Henry Miller
