“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”  - Lao Tzu

“Take responsibility for the energy you bring.”  - Jill Bolte Taylor

"Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are."  - Vernon Howard

“You only lose what you cling to.” - Buddha

“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.” - Alan Watts

"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”  - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"There's a bizarre pecking order that nobody cares anything about except people who are in that world." - David Foster Wallace

"One can buy anything but good character, decency, and sensitivity; those are not for sale."

We need to realize that we truly are not our thoughts...

"Our thoughts come from the egoic mind. We are the awareness that hears the thoughts.

When you talk to yourself inside your mind, to whom are you actually talking? It is your awareness, and that is who you are, that is your being. Not the thoughts.

Your thoughts are just constructs of your egoic mind. You can actually choose to let them float on by without believing or engaging them, should you choose to."

From Tiny Buddha

"The most important things are the hardest to say." - Stephen King

"Anxiety goes away only when we learn what it’s teaching us. That is when we can move on."

From Tiny Buddha

 “Sometimes we have to go right into the fire in order to find our true healing.” - Jack Kornfield

"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists." - Eckhart Tolle

Identification with thought = hell. Non-identification with thought = heaven here and now!

"Identification with thought creates an invisible prison through which experience is viewed - see beyond thought and all is clear."

-Karen Richards

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."   - Helen Keller 

"There is really nothing to worry about. Because the important you is perfectly indestructible." - Alan Watts

"I am you; you are me.  You are the waves; I am the ocean.  Know this and be free, be divine." 

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

"The constant happiness is curiosity." 
- Alice Munro, Nobel Prize in Literature

"… If you do desire, then only desire Peace, because what you think you will become:  Water poured in the Ocean becomes the Ocean." - Papaji 

"If I say I love you, what does that say about you?  Nothing. What does it say about me if I tell you I love you?  It says I love myself in this moment; I am at peace with myself.  If I say I don't like you or I don't accept you as you are, what does that say about you?  Nothing.  It says I am not at peace with myself." - Florian Schosser 

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues. - Larry Dossey, M.D.

Gratitude

Gratitude: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDxSF

"Enlightened is the one whose nervous system no longer can be swept away by

 a chemical process inside.” - Igor Kufeyev

"In the end, only 3 things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." - Buddha

"There is an important connection between who we believe ourselves to be and how we relate to our environment. If we were to recognise our Body as Divine, we would also start treating the Earth as Divine. The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was once asked what we need to do to save our world. He replied, 'What we most need to do is to hear within us the sounds of the Earth crying.'"

From Conscious.TV

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah