Your bad mood serves your enemy. - Dalai Lama

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance ... that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - Herbert Spencer

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Patrick Overton

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.” - Ann Brashares

Contentment

“You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”  - Charles H. Spurgeon

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”  

- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” ― Pablo Picasso

Understanding from a Near Death Experiencer

"I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the plants.  They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul.  Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without."  - Anita Moorjani, international best selling author of Dying To Be Me:  My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

Consciousness Process

"A core aspect of the mind can be defined as an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information." - Dr. Dan Siegel

The human condition: Lost in Thought. - Eckhart Tolle

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”  ~ Criss Jami

"There's a place beyond rightness and wrongness, and I will meet you there." - Rumi

“the wealthiest person is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least”

Path to Success

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.

From  Life's Little Instruction Book  

A beautiful sight....

"All truth passes through 3 stages:  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Life is about meeting ourselves, meeting our own pain, our own fears, our own bliss, our own joy - meeting all those waves in ourselves and meeting the one in front of us in the same way, actually. In the end it is the same meeting - we are really just meeting ourselves." ~ Jeff Foster

"The Holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love." ~ A Course in Miracles

Things are not as they seem.....

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean." ~ David Searls

"It is important to cultivate your silence-power as it is your word power."  - William James 

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Intuition

"True intuition ... is as much a part of the human as the senses of touch and taste and smell. However, few people are trained or even encouraged from an early age to explore, develop, or trust such an inner faculty. "  ~Christopher Childs

The Purpose of Life is to be happy.

"From the very core of our being, we desire contentment.  In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.  Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.  It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.  It is the principal source of success in life.  Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone." ~ Dalai Lama

Acts of Kindness

Dissociating from Life's Traumas

"Healing happens when we find and remove the barriers we’ve created against it by facing the temporary pain we didn’t think we could survive." ~ Dr. Habib Sadeghi

"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest." ~ Epicurus