"If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well. " 

- Timothy Freke

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."

- Susan Sarandon

"Men say they know many things;

But lo!  they have taken wings --

The arts and sciences,

And a thousand appliances;

The wind that blows

Is all that any body knows."

"Go where you are celebrated, not where you are tolerated."

"We don't meet people by accident.  They are meant to cross our path."

"The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” 

~Alain de Botton

"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought."

- James Allen