Daily Quotes

1. Either we wobble endlessly between the walls of our own ego, or we go toward Life of a larger kind no matter what is demanded on the way.

2. If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

3. Fixation on pleasure, possessions, power, protection, popularity, privilege, perks, performance, prestige, preference, position; sedates.

4. Rejection and what is perceived as failure are really only catalysts to move us on.

5. If we don't choose love, we end up going in a way that predictably leaves us trapped in dis-ease, victimhood, entitlement, and anger.

6. The first step to get anywhere is to not be willing to stay somewhere.

7. Not all growth takes place in the sunlight. Most beginnings are activated in darkness.

8. FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. So, we either Forget Everything And Run, or Face, Embrace, Accept and Release.

9. Our task is to free ourselves from restricting our personal affection for only the few people nearest us and widen our circle of compassion.

10. We are a part of the whole and yet we experience ourselves as separated from the rest. This optical illusion is a prison for us.

11. Wisdom is different than knowledge. Knowledge is self-generated knowing. Wisdom is a knowing by participation – to know with.

12. We are not simply imperfect creatures who need improvement. We must surrender, say we’re sorry, and get ready to start life over again.

13. The isolated individual is not a real person. To be real one must live in and for others. In relationship, we realize ourselves as persons.

14. Liberation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the plant.

15. No one wishes to be guided or pushed into a mapped-out path, to be ruled, or to rule. The way to God is uncharted and freely chosen.

16. Not all that we see of ourselves - our hypocrisy and phoniness for example - is beautiful. This is part of why we flee silence.

17. The only path to life, freedom, peace, and love is to die to the false self and come to know our true self. This begins with stillness.

18. Human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and change is often painful.

19. One of the great-unacknowledged sources of illness is the repression of our feelings. This results in a decline of our capacity for joy.

20. There can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another. This is love.

21. The blood of injustice is economics. We must seek justice by coming up with means of redistributing goods and wealth to those in need.

22. Discipleship involves solidarity with the poor, loyalty to nonviolence, community, public action for justice, and contemplative prayer.

23. What’s needed is a model by which we can live out creative alternatives that can break cycles of wealth and poverty that oppress people.

24. Faith is first and foremost about lifestyle. It is not primarily about a belief system.

25. Discipleship calls for an alternative personal, social and economic way of life.

26. We can continue to simply give charity or we can develop people and support them in the determination of their own destinies.

27. Heaven is universal belonging and connecting.

28. What we need is a change in our institutional behavior equal to the change that can occur in our own lives.

29. The challenge is to commit ourselves to just redistribution in terms of creating a new economics in broken communities.

30. Discipleship asks for the relinquishment of job security, personal comforts, family protection, and allegiance to the culture.

31. Voluntary poverty flows from sharing whatever we can with those in need.

32. Let us redirect those resources that now cater to the special interests of the few and refocus themselves on the needs of all.

33. Love begins with the will to let others be themselves, the resolution to not change them to fit our needs.

34. There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

35. We belong to God. So does everybody else. If we are conscious of this reality, then our professions will flow out of this consciousness.

36. The Son of God became man that we might become god. We become by grace what God is by nature.

37. Discipleship opens the possibility of failure, loss of reputation, irrelevance, loneliness, suffering, persecution and imprisonment.

38. We are that which we seek.

39. When two or more commit to be available to others in enduring and unconditional belonging, healing and authentic community emerge.

40. Resurrection is the becoming aware of renewed life amidst loss and suffering.

41. We do not find the meaning of life by mere study or in isolated meditations – we find it with another. The one we love reveals it to us.

42. If we do not give away or pass on what we have received, we will not keep it.

43. Seeing "the suffering face of an other" transforms both persons – the seer and the seen. The heart and mind of both collide.

44. So much is done to deal with crisis that one would think that at least as much effort would be put into avoiding it in the first place.

45. Let us not just to minister to the poor, but work to do away with poverty. The social order begs for change.

46. Freedom happens when our journey takes us beyond ourselves into care for the other.

47. Love cannot be hidden any more than can light. It cannot be hidden when it shines forth in action. We are born to give light.

48. Let us not compromise ourselves, since we are all we've got.

49. Life does not come from outside us. It is generated from the inside, where God already is. Once this is realized, life is very different.

50. Every person, even our worst enemy, belongs to God. The more we realize this; the more hate dissolves.

51. Once death is incorporated into our lives, we are already in heaven and there is no possibility or fear of hell.

52. The early Christians were known by how they loved one another. What would it take for people to say that of us again?

53. Doing nothing is never an option as long as inequities remain entrenched in the fabric of the culture.

54. Avoid dividing the world into them and us. If we do, our hearts harden. There are not two worlds, one in God’s hands and the other not.

55. Without justice, peace remains a grand illusion.

56. Rats live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is a privilege to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

57. Since everything in creation participates in God's infinite goodness, our job is to trust and allow that as much as possible.

58. We are all worthy of God’s goodness and can approach life with trust. Never doubt that God can work out great results for and in us.

59. When we silently enter into the cloister of nature and creation, our relationship with the Creator is deepened.

60. We are a combination of what we are living for, and what is keeping us from living fully for that which we want to live for.

73. We become free as we let go of our need for power and control, our need for safety and security, and our need for affection and esteem.

74. If we practiced simplicity and shared the world's resources with one another, we would have nothing to fear from others.

75. The more we can distinguish between our true needs and our wants, the more we are surprised to realize how little is enough.

76. To hold hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

77. It is time to have time be how we spend our love.

78. The greatest revolution comes when we discover that change of our inner attitudes brings about change in the outer aspects of our lives.

79. When content with what we have, rejoice in the way things are, and realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world then belongs to us.

80. To associate with a marginalized group creates an enlightened perspective that instigates conversion to compassion.

81. There is a great gulf between the way our ego identifies our life, with its protective masks and self-serving fictions, and our truer self.

82. Two look out through the same bars: one sees mud and one the stars.

83. Letting go makes space within and without, so that we can be filled with a love that then can flow out in joyful service to the world.

84. Dare not define love apart from suffering, for without suffering, love is mere sentimentality and stripped of its power.

85. If we take for ourselves only enough to meet our needs and released the rest for those who need it, there would be no rich and no poor.

86. As we do good works, let us not forget that we are here to help create a world where charity is no longer necessary.

87. What is needed is to participate in a community where we are accepted, our gifts are recognized, and there is a sense of belonging.

88. The power that heals and renews is an inner authority that comes from those who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

89. Some form of suffering is absolutely necessary to teach us how to live beyond the illusion of control and to give that control back to God.

90. When we trust the eventual passing of all things, we then no longer wait for liberation after death, but grasp it in the here and now.

91. Forgiveness and compassion confront wrongdoing while remaining connected with one’s capacity for transformation.

92. We are not free at all until we are free from ourselves. It is that simple and that difficult.

93. Within any life of egotistic self-advancement, an alternative life focused on easing the needs and suffering of others beckons.

94. Being is more important than doing, the heart more important than the mind, doing things together more important than doing things alone.

95. Forgiveness is letting go. It is giving up our investment in and identification with our painful stories.

96. Think of the ills from which we are exempt.

97. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

98. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.

99. The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

100. Surrendering of superiority, or the need for superiority, is central to any authentic enlightenment.

101. The path to wholeness, where the past is over, the hurts forgotten, and the wounds healed, continues on throughout our lives.

102. We don't come to God by eliminating our imperfection, but by rejoicing in it because it makes us aware of our need for God's mercy.

103. When we become aware of our need for love, we give ourselves to God's loving embrace and then freely share love with others.

104. Pain and loss expose treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden.

105. We are no more than an instrument of God, we live only as long as God wants us to live, and do only as much as God makes us able to.

106. Our failures open our hearts of stone and move the rigid mind space toward understanding and patience.

107. It is in doing it wrong, being rejected, and experiencing pain that we are lead to total reliance upon God.

108. In a world where imperfection is everywhere, the humble and honest have a head start in spiritual matters and more easily find God.

109. Weakness and powerlessness in our lives is what we all have in common. There's a broken, wounded part inside each of us.

110. One who limps still walks.

111. The quickest ticket to heaven is to calmly acknowledged littleness. Then we have nothing to prove, to protect, or to promote.

112. The ego does not like the fact that our conscious need for daily mercy is our only real boarding pass for heaven.

113. When inspired, dormant forces become alive and we discover a power within ourselves far greater than we ever imagined.

114. Our enemies always carry our own faults in a different form. We will never face our dark side until we embrace those who threaten us.

115. The transformed self no longer lives in denial of its weakness because it does not need to pretend that it is any more than it actually is.

116. We don't think our way into a new kind of living. We live our way into a new kind of thinking.

117. Both our gifts as well as our losses are used to further the realm of love.

118. A long loving look at the real helps us to see in a new way, to see from a pair of glasses beyond our own. It’s a participative seeing.

119. We are nothing more and nothing less than who we are in the eyes of God.

120. Spirituality means waking up. Tragically, most of us never get to see that all is well because we are asleep.

121. A person who wants to love sees very differently than a person who needs to be right and operates out of self-interest.

122. We become impoverished and impaired when we unquestioningly follow someone else’s ideas.

123. Blind obedience of authority may make an institution work more smoothly, but its constituents will remain in a childlike, dependent state.

124. Everyone and every part of creation is inherently deserving of respect because all reflect a part of the image of the God.

125. Too many of us miss the silver lining because we’re expecting gold.

126. Mercy is not pity. Pity brings distance, even looking down upon. Mercy comes from a compassionate heart – a desire to be an equal.

127. When we become engaged with those from the underside of society, to those who suffer, we come to an understanding of how God transforms.

128. When we read reality through the eyes and authority of those who have suffered and been rejected, we too become initiated by life.

129. Prayer is a longing from a heart without words, rather than words without a heart. It is daily recognition of our trust.

130. Having a strong passion about what we are for is far more helpful than just knowing what we are against, what is wrong, what we must not do.

131. When we become fully conscious, all things become beautiful. To hate or to fear is to have fallen into a temporary unconsciousness.

132. We are punished by our weaknesses rather than for them. Weakness is something to be wept over and pitied, not something to be hated.

133. The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we become free from things that we might prefer to people.

134. Those who want to go fast, go alone. Those who want to go far, go with others.

135. It is difficult to give solitude any sort of priority in today’s times. The world simply does not understand this need to be alone.

136. The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. If we believe in certain core values, we’ll put them into practice.

137. When preaching the Gospel, use words only when absolutely necessary.

138. We are asked to spend our lives carving a particular stone without knowing where it will take its place within the grand design.

139. No one wants a sore spot touched. Likewise, a society with sores will twitch when one with courage touches one and proposes treatment.

140. Doing anything and everything solely for God changes the entire nature of human interaction and eliminates most conflict.

141. True growth in holiness is not about will power. It is a willingness to love and be loved and a surrendering of our need to win or be right.

142. How do we move from the obsession to be correct … to the mission to connect?

143. God is a verb more than a noun.

144. Levels of spiritual development begin with dualistic, exclusionary, either/or thinking and then evolve into a more inclusive way of seeing.

145. Let us not merely compare ourselves with our former lives, for today just being better than yesterday does not make us saints.

146. It is what it is. It is not helpful to continue dividing the field of every moment between good and bad, right or wrong, for or against.

147. When we let go of our need to fix others or to rearrange the moment because it is not to our liking, we come to see so much more clearly.

148. Coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is the return to that which has always been.

149. If we withhold from labeling things too quickly, we will see them in themselves, apart from the concepts that have become their substitutes.

150. God cannot be seen if we do not include the mysterious, the confusing, the fearful, the unfamiliar, or anything outside our comfort zone.

151. Our spiritual journey is about awakening and discovering that deeper part of us that always was, always is and always will be.

152. To the measure we put ourselves at the disposal of God’s cause and will, to that degree we come to know that every need can be answered.

153. When we count all our assets, we always show a profit.

154. We cannot spell forgiving without spelling giving. We cannot spell brothers without others. We cannot spell communion without union.

155. To apply synchronicity, we are required to give up old ideas, our notion of coincidence, of mistakes, our belief that people are imperfect.

156. Every single event and person is connected. There are no accidents. We have a unique purpose and calling and it is our duty to fulfill it.

157. The universe is complete and perfect. There are no mistakes. Nothing is random. The entire symphony is exquisitely synchronized.

158. Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality. Courage without love and wisdom lacks common sense. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice.

159. When we separate life into categories of holy and the unholy, spiritual and the material, earthly and the heavenly, we get divided as well.

160. Only when we recognize our need for others and reach out and open up to them will things move forward.

161. The religious quest is not about discovering ‘the truth’ or ‘the meaning of life’ but about living as intensely as possible here and now.

162. We are here for a brief sojourn. We exist for those whose welfare our happiness depends as well as those unknown whose destinies we share.

163. Our lives depend on the labors of others, living and dead. Let us give in the same measure as we have received and are still receiving.

164. The love for the one who does not love us but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain; this is God's love. It conquers the world.

165. Sharing resources out of obligation or guilt is different than sharing goods out of an experience of joy and spontaneous offering.

166. Behaving differently about money is a visible consequence of living out a new economy that the Spirit would have us create.

167. Without belief there is no successful outcome.

168. Surrender flows from instant forgiveness and gratitude for the experience of this life.

169. We serve, but are not the doer of the work. We are the facilitators, the instruments. In other words, we are just one part of the symphony.

170. Some serve today even though they know for certainty that their world could end for them tomorrow. This is where we learn about freedom.

171.The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship in the human family.

172. When we live outwardly the inner experience of union, we as a people move toward compassion, justice, and inclusivity wherever we are.

173. As more of the lies that maintain our society are exposed, we as a people come closer to confront the greatest deception in our history.

174. It is impossible to amass any kind of fortune without depriving thousands of others. Their lives are destroyed through unemployment.

175. Our true family is those who love God, and who have a passionate concern for just conditions in every corner of human society.

176. A simple-minded, unquestioned, or stubborn devotion to the man-made family unit only blocks the creation of the universal God-created one.

177. When not tied to one sacred text, we can discover the sacred everywhere and sense God’s presence while loving, eating, working and playing.

178. If we want to work our way out of our desperate situation, another spirit must enter into us. We cannot continue in paralyzing mistrust.

179. The kind of work we do does not make us holy. However, we can make the kind of work we do holy.

180. Believing in Jesus is not what matters. Becoming like Christ is what does.

181. Let us live while we are alive and release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind our conforming façade.

182. When the familiar is challenged, we are still unlikely to let go of past certitudes because of our fear of the unknown and lack of control.

183. Without some inner experience of powerlessness and the wisdom that potentially comes with it, most of us will misunderstand and abuse power.

184. Moral requirements just leave us in a continuous seesaw of deflation and inflation, with a strong undercurrent of denial and delusion.

185. Our wounds remind us that we are survivors and in spite of them are going the distance. Our wounds do not make us victims. They renew us.

186. Both dark and light, joy and grief, good and evil play a part and cannot be excluded without disrupting the flow of gifts from the universe.

187. A nonviolent life is not only possible, but it is not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure.

188. To fail to be open, to listen and learn, and to fail to admit our wrongs, is to live forever displaced from the center of our lives.

189. Rather be unkind but true, than one that is nice but not genuine. We can be sorry for an unkind word, but hypocrisy causes permanent harm.

190. When we look with God's eyes and listen with God's ears we come to know our place within God's good creation.

191. Those who fear death are most afraid to live. We fear life and death because we cling. When we cling to nothing, we fear nothing.

192. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

193. If we love someone but rarely make ourselves available to him or her, we do not truly love that person.

194. When transformed, everything hurt, dark, harsh, shameful, ugly and irreparably damaged is then recognized as whole, lovely and beloved.

195. There are only two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

196. Community, whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, is only this: that we belong to one another.

197. To get to actual inner experience, we have to move beyond participation in the belief or belonging systems set up by religious institutions.

198. It is amazing how much pain can be pacified and how much despair can be dissolved in a place where we feel we belong.

199. When we welcome those who do not think as we do, who do not have faith, the persecuted, the unemployed, etc., we become richly blessed.

200. Presence is a deep connection that pulls us, intensely satisfied, into the undefended now that simultaneously includes both joy and sadness.

201. Grace is a gift from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives it without tremendous labor and burning desire.

202. Today, we are blind to most oppression and injustice because its indirect, systemic structure wears a mask of normalcy or even of necessity.

203. The only thing keeping us from God and heaven is our false notion that we are separate from God.

204. In talk between 2 there are 6 present. What each said are 2; what each meant to say are 2; what each understood the other to say are 2.

205. There is no concept of God that can contain God. If we comprehend it, it is not God. We come to know God as we let go of ideas about God.

206. Before conversion, we pray to God as if God were an object out there. After conversion, we look out from God with eyes other than your own.

207. The purpose of community is to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, search for truth, and celebrate the effort of being human.

208. No one cares how much we know until they know how much we care.

209. There is a giant asleep within every one of us. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

210. The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

211. A friend is one who empties, fills with God and, instead of being irritated by interruption and daily resentments, feels those as helpful.

212. Soon we shall die, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. Love is the only survival, the only meaning.

213. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead. The bridge is love.

214. No problem can be solved or no dis-ease can be healed by the same consciousness that caused it.

215. When we open ourselves to the depths of suffering and love, a compassion that recognizes God within self, others and all things emerges.

216. Life itself heartens us to live from a place of non-judgment, forgiveness, love, and a quiet contentment with the ordinariness of our lives.

217. The only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, or devotional practice is that it must lead directly to practical compassion.

218. It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. We must make friends with our own mistakes.

219. To live life fully we must withdraw our cooperation from that which brings death and put our energies into that which brings life.

220. The place which God takes within us is never vacated, for in us is God’s home of homes. It is God’s greatest delight to dwell there.

221. The love of God creates in us such a unity that when it is truly seen, no person can separate themselves from another person.

222. A man sat next to a youngster. He was wearing only one shoe. “You’ve evidently lost a shoe, son.” “No, man,” came the reply. “I found one.”

223. God can only see Christ in us, because we are the extended Body of Christ in space and time; Christ is what God sees and cannot not love.

224. Homelessness is fundamentally not just about shelter. It is about having no one and therefore no place to call your own.

225. God may be reached by means of love, but never by means of thought.

226. We each must learn to live in the cloud of our own unknowing.

227. Union with God as God is, is to discover one’s self as one is. Connecting with our true nature is connecting with God’s true nature.

228. The fertilizer that stimulates the growth of violence is yesterday’s violence. Even legitimate defense brings vengeance in its train. Fresh crimes always ensue.

229. Our future, if we turn to God, is not determined by our past. God’s forgiveness creates the possibility of an entirely new future.

230. Poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until we connect in simplicity and equality with each other, human misery will continue.

231. Within all human beings there is a mysterious action of the Spirit in their inmost being that stirs them on to love.

232. Love is the deepest kind of knowing.

233. Since thought cannot comprehend God, prefer to abandon all that can be known, and choose rather to love what cannot be known.

234. The inaction of human beings over time contributes to crises. The action of human beings over time solves crises.

235. Part of the genius of the Bible is that it preserved a record of bad and good, weakness and strength, corruption and compassion.

236. One kind word can warm three winter months.

237. We are to lift our heart up with a gentle stirring of love, desiring God for his own sake and not for the gifts desired.

238. Forgiveness creates an obligation for which there are no exceptions allowed. Love is a fire that goes out if it does not kindle others.

239. We who have received must give. Though it is better to give much, it is essential to give a part at least.

240. What is left over when we have nothing more to give is enough.

241. A lie doesn’t become a truth and a wrong doesn’t become a right and an evil doesn’t become a good just because it’s popular.

242. Our spiritual lives are linked to the material conditions of our life. When we don’t feel need, we often don’t remember why we need God.

243. We are to give the poor more than food to eat and relief from their sickness. We are to be restored with them to God’s beloved community.

244. We cannot break attachments by force; they are the expression of an inner hunger. When that hunger is eased, attachments fall away.

245. If we truly love God, we will love not only the compassion and mercy, but also that which prunes and purifies.

246. Most conflicts come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as one.

247. The path to God leads us on a journey of self-discovery. To know the self is to know God.

248. God is ever alluring and inviting us home. Our longing for God is the core motivation of our beings.

249. Busyness can make us believe that we are in control and indispensable. Focusing primarily on fulfilling obligations can make us lose focus.

250. Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

251. With love, the walls of hostility, division, and fragmentation within us and among us are encountered, touched, and healed.

252. When things are valued too much, they lose their value because they nourish a never-satisfied craving for more.

253. When things are received as gifts from God and used obediently in service to God, they are enriched with gratitude.

254. Contentment lies not in obtaining things you want, but in giving thanks for what you have.

255. God works with us in secret, because if we knew what would eventually be asked of us, we would either try to take charge of the process.

256. No one oversees even the demise of his or her false self willingly. God undoes our illusions secretly, when we are not in control.

257. The love of God protects us from nothing, while at the same time; it sustains us in all things.

258. What are we doing for the least of those in our communities?

259. People of faith are found in the neighborhood of human confusion and suffering, defenselessly alongside those in need.

260. Even though we cannot change what we’ve done, we can change how our past will affect the choices we make now.

261. Why should we wait to unlock the deeply ingrained self-defeating patterns that are preventing us from joy, prosperity and freedom?

262. Humility is not self-deprecation or low self-esteem. It is recognition that we are small, passing, and insignificant as a separate self.

263. The only thing left to do is to let go of the ego's need for self-importance and validation and simply turn our attention toward God.

264. When we sacrifice ourselves for God’s will and seek the kingdom of God with our whole heart, our joy will be unbroken and lasting.

265. If we step on people in this life we may come back as a cockroach.

266. Without community, there is no accountability for what we too easily believe. Then, our own ego ends up being the decider moment by moment.

267. The present moment is the only ever-flowing source of life.

268. All things are a manifestation of God's grace. Therefore, let us ignore ourselves and think only of what God is doing.

269. Our only satisfaction must be to live in the present moment as if there were nothing to expect beyond it.

270. A community becomes a healing force when wounds and pain become openings or occasions for a new vision.

271. Shared confession can become a mutual deepening of hope if the sharing of weakness becomes a reminder to one and all of the coming strength.

272. Holiness is doing God's will in love at each successive moment as life unfolds, surrendering into God's providence.

273. Perfection is our ability to include, forgive, and accept both our and other’s imperfection.

274. Much of our behavior is knee-jerk reactions. Every time we choose love over our habituated brain reactions, we expand our realm of freedom.

275. It is so easy to commit ourselves to action until the actions exhaust us and we can no longer even remember why we set out to do them.

276. A great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.

277. External hatred emerges only after decades of inner fear, hatred, and negativity grow unchecked and unrecognized.

278. Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

279. We are so made that whenever anything fires our soul, impossibilities vanish.

280. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, we will not find peace.

281. We all are capable of great compassion or great indifference. We have it within our means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

282. Our true value is determined by how we treat those who can do us absolutely no good.

283. A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

284. Love comprises the essence of all vocations. It is both everything and eternal.

285. While suffering, we experience our powerlessness. To willingly surrender into God's love and will at this time, is to become one with God.

286. If God is omnipresent, than everything that comes into our life has something of God in it to be experienced and loved – not hated.

287. Practice patience when impatient. Observe where it shows up in the body. Let the feeling/moment be as it is. It is what it is. All is grace.

288. Expectation of the kingdom cannot be a passive waiting. Belief in the future must bring change to the present.

289. The spirit of expectation is the spirit of action because it is the spirit of faith. If we have faith, we know that anything is possible.

290. The things that we love tell us who and what we are.

291. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. Patience asks to be completely present to the moment, to be where we are.

292. The treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

293. No one is given a dream without being given the power to make it come true.

294. The sign that there is no brotherliness is gossip. Gossip is the terrorism of any community.

295. Everything is sacred. Through our works, heaven draws us to itself.

296. If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

297. One of the worst of human sufferings is not to find a way to love, or a place to work and give of our heart and our being.

298. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

299. Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer of action.

300. Love, or the Christ within, is an energy into which all the chosen elements of creation are fused without losing their identity.

301. We need more of us to move from the pursuit of success to become peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers.

302. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects the wind to change. A leader adjusts the sails.

303. It is the nature of grace to fill spaces that have been emptied.

304. Haste has no blessing.

305. One that never climbs will never fall.

306. We are called to be food and drink for one another each and every day.

307. The one who moved mountains began by carrying away small stones.

308. We are created to follow our bliss.

309. Healing is impossible in loneliness. To be healed we join with others in the feast of Creation.

310. Life only demands the strength we possess. Only one deed is sensible. Do not run away.

311. Dying to the false self is a wild night and a new way.

312. Whenever we survive a test, whatever it may be, it is our duty to tell the story.

313.The best way to know God is to love many things.

314. Wherever there is great love or great suffering, there are always miracles close by.

315. The ego does not want to change. The shadow self relies on delusion and denial. Only the world of relationships exposes both of these.

316. A change of heart always comes before, and very soon after becomes, a change of mind.

317. Forgiveness unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It breaks the chain of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

318. If we are silent about our pain, they’ll kill us and say we enjoyed it.

319. We cannot do everything at once. However, we can do something at once.

320. Leaving the familiar for a new land is what it means to be on the journey of faith.

321. Without new experiences, new thinking is rare. After a new experience, new thinking and behavior comes naturally and even becomes necessary.

322. Only purpose and faith combat the slough of selfishness, doubt, and negation in which our culture submerged.

323. We can’t do it unless we imagine it.

324. When we cease to wander in search of individual ends, we can march together conscious of one origin and one goal.

325. Every strong faith that arises on the ruins of outlived beliefs influences human behavior and changes the existing social order.

326. An overly protected life, a life focused on thinking more than experiencing, does not know deeply.

327. We are not called to ease burdens of those in pain only to be helpful. Being in solidarity with the real is for our own transformation.

328. Only near the poor, close to "the tears of things", in solidarity with suffering, can we understand ourselves and love one another well.

329. The view from the top of anything is distorted by misperception, illusions, fear of falling, and a radical disconnection from the heart.

330. We can spend our lives climbing a ladder of success only to find, once we reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

331. Incarnation means embodiment. It is where the spiritual world is revealed in the material world.

332. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

333. When we seek what is truest within ourselves, we discover we are one with those who seek what is truest within themselves.

334. We are called to recognize, surrender to, and ultimately be identified with a Mystery that is utterly beyond all concepts and words.

335. Inevitably we realize that the boundless, birthless, deathless mystery of God is manifesting itself and giving itself to us in every breath.

336. When we experience ourselves as beloved, we then bare witness to that realization by the way we treat others, all things, and ourselves.

337. The timeless in us is aware of life’s timelessness. That which sings in us flows from that moment when the stars were scattered into space.

338. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

339. Hate is just a failure of the imagination.

340. Any pain that we do not transform, we will undoubtedly transmit.

341. We do not come to inner peace unless we ground our life in an inflowing and outflowing love.

342. We cannot heal what we do not first acknowledge.

343. There is a gift in every trial, sorrow and duty. Even our joys conceal divine gifts. Life is full of meaning. Earth but cloaks our heaven.

344. To be alive means to be free from all projections, all distortions, all delusions, all strategies, all agendas, and all belief systems.

345. We need a deep experience of radical participation to break beyond our normal illusion of ego separateness.

346. The ability to see reality as it really is, free of all concepts that distort it, transforms the suffering we now know.

347. In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

348. What makes us suffer is clinging to or craving things that are passing away, or trying to avoid things that are unavoidable.

349. God is not out there.

350. Experts tell us what can’t be done and why. After listening, go ahead and do it.

351. Only when we are resting in our deep center, the indwelling spirit, can we be of loving service to others over the long haul.

352. If we don't choose daily and deliberately to practice kindness, it is unlikely that a year from now we will be any more loving.

353. The sound of rain needs no translation.

354. In the jungle of our human will, a rendezvous with God usually turns up in disguise and in circumstances that cannot be foreseen.

355. Everyone and anyone who struggles for justice, who makes just claims in unjust surroundings, is working for God’s reign.

356. Planted inside us is a desire for what God already wants to give us.

357. Our loneliness is intended to urge us to find something to live for – to find something great enough to die for.

358. We must move from the realm of abstraction and dreams into the physical realm of risk and results.

359. People who accept themselves accept others. People who hate themselves hate others.

360. Knowing a loving God gives us full freedom to love and accept every part of our self.

361. Even if our life has been a disaster, destroyed by vices, drugs, illness, or anything else for that matter, God is still in our life.

362. The opportunity of a lifetime is to become who we truly are.

363. Others will forget what we said or what we did. They will not forget how we made them feel.

364. The ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic by experts.

365. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

366. The root cause of violence is the illusion that we are separated from each other. It is what causes us to fight people who are not like us.

367. The wounded are those who are best positioned to contribute to the healing of others.

368. God gives us everything we need to continue the work of creating a new earth.

369. Life begins from the desire to create something original, to bring a new being into form.

370. We are made whole when we cooperate with the drive within us to give ourselves totally to something or someone.

371. Conversion is an incessant process that proceeds layer-by-layer, relationship-by-relationship until the will have been recreated by God.

372. Love is the strongest force in the world and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

373. Nonviolence is not primarily a means of achieving unity. It is essentially the fruit of an inner unity already achieved.

374. To live humanly in an inhuman world requires steadfast, persistent, committed, patient, relentless, truthful, loving and active nonviolence.

375. Change happens not because one person was wise or unselfish, but because communities joined their wisdom and energy toward a common goal.

376. When the poor or powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing quenches their fire.

377. God does not die when we cease to believe, but we die when our lives cease to be illuminated by the source of which is beyond reason.

378. Wish not for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what is possible. Pleasure disappoints. Possibility never lets us down.

379. If we do not cry out against injustice, our silence consents to it.

380. To increase our love for God and each other, as the world is convulsed with hatred and strife and selfishness, is a lifetime job.

381. When we love each other enough to bear each other's faults and burdens, we light that fire where no sacrifice or suffering seems too much.

382. When we work for the love of God and others, it is not work at all. When we suffer for justice for the poor, it is not suffering at all.

383. A simple lifestyle is simply an act of solidarity with the way most people have lived since the beginnings of humanity.

384. Retributive justice and violence are lazy and uncreative ways to approach the problem of evil. Restorative solutions require more from us.

385. Nonviolence forces us to abandon any shortcut to social change. Violence, the shortcut, is a trap that triggers the savage in us.

386. When we are involved in constructive change, we tend to be less violent than those who are not engaged in creative rebuilding.

387. Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

388. Each and every one of us is capable of making a contribution to peace.

389. When God speaks in the silence of our heart, we realize our nothingness. Here, in our emptiness, God fills us.

390. When we seek the beauty and goodness of God everywhere, the effect that the faults of others have on us fades away.

391. When we listen to the voice of God and to the cry of the needy, the voices of gossip and uncharitable words fade away.

392. When we speak works that enlighten and inspire, the need to self-defend and utter words that cause turmoil and pain fade away.

393. When we open to the truth, untruths, distractions, destructive thoughts, rash judgments, false suspicions, and vengeful thoughts fade away.

394. When we love God with our heart, mind, and strength, and love one another as God loves, selfishness, shame, hatred, and jealousy fade away.

395. Our spiritual life begins the moment in which we become aware of the creative action of God and are therefore able to respond or resist.

396. The most momentous steps forward we can make are ones that take us beyond self-interest and set up a direct intercourse with each other.

397. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

398. If we try to know something without first loving it, we will not know it very well at all.

399. Divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons us toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and at-one-ment.

400. Until God comes to us, we are benighted, wintered and frozen, clouded and eclipsed, damped and benumbed, smothered and stupefied.

401. God comes to us, not as the dawning of the day, not as the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon.

402. If we want to unfold, we can let no place in us hold ourselves closed. For where we are closed, we are counterfeit.

403. Change moves us through episodes of clarity and confusion. Then suddenly, when we least expect it, we are shoved across a threshold.

404. Deep within we long for unity because, at the most basic level, we are already one.

405. The illusion of our separateness makes it hard for us to seek the common good.

406. We are what our deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come.

407. Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we recognize them. The least we can do is try to be there.

408. Divine love is deeply personal. It is invested organically in the heart of all matter. It unifies all things.

409. Creation contributes to God what God lacks – materiality. Evolution is not only the universe coming to be. It is God who is coming to be.

410. Evolution is 'wholemaking' in action. It is the rise of a consciousness that realizes self-separateness is an illusion.

411. Will we smugly put down the different, or embrace those who, without our care, would find the exciting path of life just another sad road?

412. Dying is not the end, it is just the beginning. Death ushers in a fuller manifestation of life, to be more fully in the presence of love.

413. Even if we’re on the right track, we’ll get run over if we just sit there.

414. We only surrender our body in death. We must live each day as if it were our last so that when called, we are prepared for this surrender.

415. Get to know someone new. Expect a surprise. Learn from each other. Delight in the abundance that arises from unexpected sources.

416. Despite all our limitations, gestures of generosity, solidarity and care cannot but well up within us, since we are made for love.

417. Dangers to our survival move us to evolve. When feedback tells us that our behaviors are dysfunctional, we respond by changing.

418. Our goal is to turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering in order to discover what each of us can do about it.

419. Good work is a creative force that flows within each of us. Its purpose is to put us in step with the dynamic power of transformation.

420. We understand so little of what is around us because we do not use what is within us.

421. When we’re through changing, we’re through.

422. The world is an integrated whole. Not separated parts.

423. To know if a plea is truly prayer, answer the question: how does it affect the poor? What we do to them, we do to God.

424. All our initiative is in reality a response to God’s secret presence working within us.

425. The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a being to which we belong. Until we see our interconnectedness, there can be no healing.

426. Matter is not composed of basic building blocks but complicated webs of relations. Interconnectedness lies at the core of all that exists.

427. Living in human-made environments, disconnected from the natural world, we have lost our connection of respect with the earth.

428. The earth might soon become the very thing that will convert us. We all breathe the same air and drink the same water.

429. What we do is so little we may seem to be constantly failing. But unless the seed fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest.

430. Our work is to sow. Another generation will reap the harvest.

431. If a rock is in the way, the root of a tree will change its direction. Even a rat will change its tactics to get a piece of cheese.

432. Since we affect one another in spite of distance, then we are not composed of material substances but deeply entangled fields of energy.

433. Each of us moves things along in the direction of healing each time we choose to love. Grace glides on the wave of desire and intention.

434. God is not ‘in’ heaven nearly as much as God ‘is’ the force field that allows us to create heaven through our intentions and actions.

435. This dis-ease of being “busy” saps our ability to be present with those we love and keeps us from forming the community we desire.

436. In our culture we are often too busy to truly grieve and allow ourselves to experience heartache for the suffering in our world.

437. In our rush to fix problems, we neglect to give space and time for our wounds to teach us.

438. The first step toward change is acceptance. Change is not something we do. It’s something we allow.

439. Maturity is to find the ‘fun’ in the dysfunctional. It is to let our limitations reveal unlimited potential.

440. Breakdown is the natural outcome when our fantasies about worldly power begin to die and the inner eye begins to open.

441. What has substance to the world turns out to be nothing more than substantial illusion, and what is deemed worthless has amazing value.

442. The way into heaven is not worthiness, but unworthiness, not capacity, but deep need, trust, surrender and gratitude.

443. Worthiness is a game of denial and pretend that our mind plays. We're all saved by grace. We're all being loved in spite of ourselves.

444. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

445. Nothing is more acceptable to God than when we die to ourselves. When there is a choice to be made, take the narrow way.

446. We have to accept death as part of life, even the most horrible or sudden of deaths, if we really want to live.

447. If we live an entire life in each one of our days, does it really matter if we live a few days more or a few days less?

448. We must die to one life before we can enter into another.

449. Love in action is not the love in dreams. Love in dreams is rapidly performed in the sight of all. Active love requires courage and stamina.

450. To heal means to rediscover that place of wholeness within … to peel away the layers between the deeper Self and us.

451. Emotions are just sirens alerting us to pay attention. If we listen to them instead of obeying them, they can be good teachers.

452. Emotions stem predominantly from our needs for survival and security, affection and esteem, or power and control. Let them come and go.

553. Happiness is an "inside job" and not dependent on outer circumstances or other peoples' response to us.

454. Everything is connected. No one thing can change by itself.

455. Spiritual practice helps us recognize compulsive patterns, detach from the cycle, and stop obsessive repetition.

456. The greatest skill of all is to take the bitter with the sweet and make it beautiful, and of the whole make one great harmony.

457. Addiction is an illness resulting from longing, frustrated desire, and deep inner dissatisfaction and emptiness.

458. The world will not change until we do.

459. Addiction emerges out of a lack of inner experience of intimacy with oneself, with God, with life, and with the moment.

460. Sometimes we tend to confuse intensity with intimacy. Manufactured intensity and true intimacy are opposites.

461. In the search for intimacy, we often relate to an object, a substance or event in a way that cannot give us the intimacy we seek.

462. We always need more and more of anything that is not working.

463. After periods of under-stimulation it takes very little to delight. Everything is painted with rich colors. Happiness is everywhere.

464. When we develop a love relationship with a substance, it becomes the key emotional relationship with life. This is a god who cannot save.

465. Discipleship is not a question of our own doing. It is a matter of making room to see, and then respond to the God that lives in us.

466. Day by day, year by year, we either grow more generous of heart, less fearful of change, more aligned with love, or we do not.

467. We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

468. We are where we are, and it is up to us whether there is a purpose in it or not. Stuff isn’t inherently meaningful; we make it meaningful.

469. Though most of our problems tend to be psychological, the solutions are always spiritual.

470. Our lives are not about us. We are about Life. This unitive encounter is the cure for our inherent selfishness and separateness.

471. Longing, delaying, and backsliding always precede the full leap of faith.

472. The surrender of faith is an extended journey, a trust walk, a gradual letting go, an unlearning, and handing over.

473. The core work of spirituality is to open our opinionated head, our closed-down heart, and our defensive and defended body.

474. Grace simply happens, and although we cannot work for it, we deserve it. It is our birthright to become familiar with the deeper Self.

475. The Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, and all-inclusive. It is never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.

476. Be here now.

477. Communion with a God, who shares in our powerlessness, failure, and humiliation, is to find ourselves revealed, renamed, and released.

478. God put us here. God is here. God makes our home here, his home here. God is our home here.

479. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

480. God is constantly anew and strange in comparison with what the mind has already understood.

481. The only way to integrate action and contemplation is to go ahead and act, but every day to ask ourselves why we're doing it.

482. The sun sends its rays upon us directly, paying no heed that we look distrustfully at one another.

483. God knows us more intimately than we know ourselves. We can only keep it together when we believe that God holds us together.

484. Some of us can’t bear to feel too relaxed and happy because past rejection has left us with too much anger.

485. Everything flows. Nothing stays still.

486. Failure is an opportunity for transformation and awakening. The aim is to return us to a useful position in the community.

487. If we bring forth that which is within us, it will save us. If we do not bring it forth, it will destroy us.

488. We cannot heal what we do not acknowledge, and what we do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control, festering and destroying.

489. We are all addicted to our own chosen self-image. A true friend helps us forgive our own flaws by helping us hand them over to God.

490. God meets us at mercy.

491. May what we do flow from us like a river, no forcing and no holding back.

492. To fully understand is always to stand under and let things have their way with us.

493. Chance favors the prepared mind.

494. Much is about waiting, preparing the mind for chance, deepening intention and desire, letting go, and being willing to change.

495. We don’t need to look for happiness. If we have love for others we’ll be given it. It is the gift of God.

496. Behind our facades, our bodies and spirits are sick. We feel fragmented, encased in the traps of our illusions, anorexic to life.

497. We are responsible for our own thoughts and motives, and we cannot avoid the consequences. Thoughts and motives create the Real.

498. We are actually punished by your sins, not for your sins.

499. Threats of punishment or promises of reward later create perpetual adolescents and a very well disguised narcissism.

500. To truly understand things we must stay outside the realm of comparison or judgment, seeing unity and connection before separating.

501. We need to set each other free from the dullness of our routines and the poverty of our imaginations.

502. If not now, when? If not here, where?

503. Let us break the patterns which bind us to small commitments and to the stale answers we have given to questions of no importance.

504. Coming to trust and surrender is the work of a lifetime, even though we know mercy instantaneously.

505. Consistent prayer is the oil that greases the wheels of transformation.

506. Surrender always feel like dying, and yet it is the necessary path to liberation.

507. Eternity is not about unending life; what we know ends. Eternity is a new life, freed from death, a fullness of life where love is supreme.

508. Everlasting life has less to do with duration of time and more to do with peace, fellowship, and abundance. Such a life can begin now.

509. It is easier to notice what is breaking down than what is emerging. We often fail to see the way a community bands together after a storm.

510. Breaking down precedes breaking through.

511. Don’t squander energies on what does not heal and bless. Pour out for what matters most.

512. We can never engineer our own transformation. If we try, it will be self-centered with most of our addictions still in place but disguised.

513. God has to radically change the central reference point of our lives. Too much me can never find you – or anything beyond itself.

514. To know that we don't know, to know that we are always in need, keeps us situated in right relationship with Life itself.

515. God is oddly present in those for whom there is no room, with those who do not belong, who are rejected because they are regarded as weak.

516. We need to set each other free from the dullness of our routines and the poverty of our imaginations.

517. Let us break the patterns which bind us to small commitments and to the stale answers we have given to questions of no importance.

518. When the walls of our defenses crumble and we begin to know our need, we begin to make room in our lives to receive God’s love.

519. The birth of the Christ should not be thought of as a holiday on 12/25 but as an ever-recurring event that can be enacted in every life.

520. God is everywhere and is therefore never in a particular place that is other than where we happen to be at each moment.

521. We do not need to leave where we are and seek God’s presence somewhere else. God is right here, right now.

522. The spiritual life is not a theory. Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us.

523. Gossip is not a right but a major obstacle to human love and spiritual wisdom.

524. If we start where we are and deepen what we already have, we realize that we are where we need to be and have everything we need to have.

525. We are invited to mirror God’s image, to become light. What is around us is not hell, but a world waiting to be filled with hope and faith.

526. Prayer is an exercise in divine participation – us opting in and God always there.

527. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

528. The will of God is not a fate to which we must submit, but a creative act that produces something new, unforeseen by established patterns.

529. Our willingness to be open to creatively work with the hand that life and sin and circumstance have dealt us is our deepest prayer.

530. We either see through the lens of our private needs and hurts, angers and memories or we empty this mind and see with the heart.

531. People who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level are the people who can heal, reconcile, understand, and change others.

532. Unless we walk through suffering, failure, or humiliation, our words will tend to be heard by the ears but unable to touch the soul.

533. Mysteriously, life becomes more available when we find a way to somehow pass it on to the least of our brothers and sisters.

534. We must be determined to awaken from sleep, to put things back where God intended them, and to set our life in God’s order wherever we can.

535. Without cost we have received; without cost we are to give.

536. To repent is to lay down one’s life, and then to lift it up, so that it can be laid down again for the common good.

537. Doing God’s will replaces confusion with clarity. It releases us from the servitude of selfish desires and fears so that we can become free.

538. What is heard depends on the inner psychological and spiritual maturity of the listener. What is received is received according to this.

539. Mature people make lemonade out of lemons. Immature people turn the sweetest lemonade sour.

540. History itself parallels the levels of individual development and growth. The trajectory is the same.

541. Between each stage of growth there is always a necessary dying or period of darkness when the previous stage stops working.

542. We are on a journey to wholeness, autonomy, the freedom to love, to care, to transfigure the earth – to what we are to do in the world.

543. We are given an incomplete self and an incomplete world. When we participate in God’s nature, latent creative powers in us become alive.

544. The world is created when there is an interchange of loving creative energies within an ongoing process of ever-new inventiveness.

545. We are the people God's been waiting for.

546. In Jesus, God makes us aware of what we are in order to make us … what God is.

547. Divinely revolutionized humans are to be conspirators with God's dream of heaven on earth.

548. A community that faithfully lives together in a new way embodies the most powerful force of social change.

549. The only history that’s worth anything is the history we make today.

550. It’s important to acknowledge – when Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (HALT), and vulnerable to backslide – before it becomes a way of life.

551. To move from a dualistic, self-centered worldview that arrogantly holds on to separateness and superiority, a death of the ego is required.

552. God became human and dwelt among us so that we might not fear the divine as something terrible and distant but instead see that God is love.

553. We are either seeking self-preservation or we are seeking self-surrender. There is no middle ground.

554. To be who we want to be means doing what we want to be doing. By making actions specific, we carve out space for God’s way to be born.

555. God appeared in the form of a servant. Love recognized its nature and the nature of the beloved as one. Therefore, service is our true form.

556. Committing ourselves completely to the Light Within is the beginning of true life. It is a dynamic center that presses to birth within us.

557. Committed compassionate love is never a stranger to the problems of one’s time.

558. God is especially present in the midst of suffering, whether that comes from material poverty, political oppression, or living a lie.

559. It is no use saying that we are born 2000 years too late to give room to Jesus. Christ is always with us, asking for room in our hearts.

560. The accountability found in a single faith community, with all its imperfections, keeps us honest and real.

561. There are no wide and strong branches without deep roots in one specific soil.

562. Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free. After entering the well of mystical experience, we see beauty.

563. Outside of a concrete community of relationships, we can imagine we are much more enlightened than we really are.

564. In the Infinite Spirit, the flow is in both directions or there is no flow at all.

565. We have everything we need unless we are letting ourselves be dominated by expectations based on the dead past or an imagined future.

566. It’s about being a womb. Being a dwelling for God.

567. Realizing that we all came from God and are headed back to God, whatever circuitous routes we take, makes us more patient with each other.

568. We are either on a self-glorifying thrust, the way of self–exaltation, or we are on a movement to become human, to love one’s neighbor.

569. Those who complain about how unfulfilled life is usually have lives filled with unsatisfied cravings, doubts, anxieties and fears.

570. By sorting out everything that is not essential and that fills up space and silence in us, we learn what sort of purpose God has for us.

571. There are exclusionary and punitive texts and those that stress inclusion and mercy. Which create a highway for God? Which are self-serving?

572. Divine election is free and universal, and not bound by any ethnicity or era of time. Grace is inherent to our dignity as human beings.

573. The secret of love still comes to us when we are as helpless as a human baby, naked, in an animal’s feeding trough.

574. We are born out of an odd nativity that asks us to recognize that we are receivers before we are givers.

575. What God does for us is beyond the bounds of earning through human effort or striving.

576. We would rather see ourselves giving from a place of power, standing on our own and helping those who have nothing, than to receive.

577. It is a gift to see ourselves as we are – empty-handed recipients of a gracious God who comes to us when we are as helpless as a baby.

578. Peace is rooted in our acceptance of the most harrowing self-sacrifice imaginable – full surrender to the cross of present with love.

579. We awaken our deepest and most profound selves by living and fully accepting our present reality.

580. We are not human beings on a journey toward the spiritual; we are already spiritual beings on a journey toward becoming fully human.

581. We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness.

582. An open mind says, "I don't know anything." What blocks growth is the assumption that we already know, or that we don't need to know.

583. Spirituality is about seeing. It's about intimate relationship with people and things rather than achieving results or meeting requirements.

584. God cannot be grasped by our intellect. There are limits to human reason. However, when we become empty, the divine manifests in awe.

585. The miracle of God comes through us. The divine lies within and waits for the hour when we shall open ourselves, having found God and home.

586. When we find God, home, or family, we will not keep wealth to ourselves. We will let it flow out into the world.

587. What is, is the great teacher.

588. God's life and love is living itself in us. Are we aware of life and love living itself in us?

589. You cannot not live in the presence of God. This however demands confidence that must be chosen many times and a surrender that is hard won.

590. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

591. We can clutch the past so tightly to our chest that it leaves our arms too full to embrace the present.

592. How we see anything is how we see everything. When we can see beauty where we are not accustomed to seeing beauty, then we see real beauty.

593. Either we see the divine image in all created things, or we don't see it at all.

594. With true sight, everything becomes so enchanting that we want to participate.

595. It is so hard to draw ourselves out of the self-importance of our own lives.

596. Unless our concern for those in poverty is equivalent to those in our own family, we will not be able to better society.

597. We are either messengers of light, or we are striving to keep it hidden by not speaking out and disturbing the dragons of darkness.

598. What we seek is what we are. Our search for God and the search for our True Self are the same search.

599. Only when we are eager to love can we see love and goodness in the world around us.

600. We are created for the purpose of love. Instead, we make our own plans and get resentful when they don’t materialize the way we would like.

601. Those who live in the present live in eternity.

602. We have to come to a place in our lives where we can say, “You, O Lord, you choose for me.”

603. It is good when we find room in our heart for anyone who asks. Not because they remind us of Jesus, but because they are Christ.

604. As a bride and bridegroom, God loves us each in a particular and incomparable way.

605. To be saved means to feel beloved, chosen, and God's favorite. How do we know if we are saved? We approach each other in this way.

606. Divine mercy is available even to a prodigal who is angry, resentful, and darting their eyes in every direction for a chance of escape.

607. Everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.

608. Love works only inside humility.

609. Intimacy is trustful self-disclosure. We cannot go there without letting down our walls and manifesting our deeper self to another.

610. People who avoid intimacy are imprisoned in a small world. Intimacy, or mutual vulnerability, is the only gateway to human or divine love.

611. We are created with a bottomless and endless need to be loved and to love. This is stirs us onto a path that leads to the True Self.

612. Ultimately, the vulnerability of God seduces us.

613. When we find ourselves in a dark night, the moment, where a bright light breaks in and a new day of creation is begun, is always near.

614. Love is both who we are and who we are still becoming. Love becomes love in a unique form called me.

615. We ride life's wonderful mystery for a few years until life morphs into a love that is beyond space and time.

616. The dream of peace is not merely a dream. It is not impossible. The power to liberate is already present and is already among us.

617. Love and life are finally the same thing, and we know that for ourselves once we have walked through death. Love alone lasts.

618. The call to be grateful is a call to trust that every moment of our life can be claimed as the way that leads us to new life.

619. Although the spiritual path is rewarding and wondrous, it is not easy. By its very nature it entails challenges and can be very difficult.

620. Change the way we look at things, and the things we look at change.

621. We cannot solve the problems in our life by condemning them.

622. When we experience anguish, depression or an absence of love, then it’s time to look at how we’ve been attracting these conditions.

623. We will come to God through what is the actual, or quite simply what is. God comes to us disguised as our life.

624. This, the here and now, is it. It doesn't get any better than this. It's all good. Life can ooze and shine through anything.

625. God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, and is even in the evil.

626. All disrespect, all hardheartedness, all contempt is nothing else than killing what is in the present, as well as what is in the future.

627. Life is waiting everywhere, flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and so trample much of it with our feet.

628. When we move from the mad pace of daily outer burdens and inward uneasiness, a way of life of unhurried serenity and peace and power awaits.

629. God is always given, incarnate in every moment and present to those who know how to be present themselves.

630. Our reason for being is to bless whatever is. This singular command is engraved in our heart, and in our heart of hearts we know it.

631. Human and divine as well as earth and heaven are one. We bear this mystery.

632. It is time for us to really believe that the status quo can be shattered and that peace is imminent and ready to break in.

633. Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

634. We must find out what part of the mystery of God is ours to reflect.

635. When “the face of the other” (especially a suffering face) is received and empathized with, it leads to transformation of our whole being.

636. When we are not an ego in charge of it all, we realize that we are a part of the Whole and begin to search for our place.

637. We are called to restore what gets broken; share what we have; listen, grieve and rejoice together; take responsibility for each other.

638. Keep falling deeply in love with God’s purposes, to God’s justice and mercy, and become yoked to a vision beyond our own.

639. Let us walk together from this day forward, seeking the other’s good through whatever comes, finding new ways to love.

640. Love takes surrender, a detachment from our selves – from our conditioning, preferences, prejudices, and knee-jerk neurological reactions.

641. As our freedom from our ego expands and we get ourselves out of the way, there is an expansion of consciousness.

642. The possibility of love is always right in front of us and always concrete; it is not a theory, a heroic ideal, or a mere distant goal.

643. Without being forgiven and released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act can be continuously confined.

644. We cannot see what we were not told to look for or told to expect.

645. That which protects privilege and wealth is diametrically opposed to the coming order where inclusiveness, nonviolence and peace reign.

646. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

647. We share in the divine nature even in our wounded state, even in a wounding world.

648. Resurrection does not just mean an eternally enduring life in the future. It first means a present life of eternal significance.

649. We are at home both here and forever

650. Those who have let go of selfish interests, grown beyond their own lives, and see the poor as their family are the ones worthy of our trust.

651. Some form of loss, metamorphosis, or transformation always precedes any rejuvenation.

652. There’s no answer for how to deal with unjust suffering, betrayal, rejection, judgment, abandonment, or humiliation except with surrender.

653. The truest level of love is one where each and every thing offers itself for another.

654. We are all summoned to first and foremost trust and embark on a journey toward loving solidarity with all.

655. To take seriously and follow humbly the beyond-us-working-through-us power is the means to recreate ourselves and restructure the world.

656. Retributive justice appeals to the ego. Restorative justice brings true transformation.

657. Those who live in the present live in eternity.

658. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

659. Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

660. As long as we remain inside of a dualistic, win-lose script, we will continue to be attracted to vindictive moralisms and miss the banquet.

661. True community is not a worthiness attainment scheme managed from without. It is a transformational system awakening us from within.

662. When we fall into the ocean of mercy, we stop counting, measuring, or weighing. These tendencies run counter to the experience of grace.

663. Water always falls and pools up in the very lowest and darkest places, just like mercy does. Mercy is grace in action.

664. Nothing is as critical or intense, nothing surer or stronger, than hearing God’s call. This call is uninterrupted: God is always calling us.

665. Growth is not inevitable. It comes through the effort of those willing to be coworkers with God. Otherwise, time supports stagnation.

666. If we keep our eyes open, something familiar will reveal itself to us in a new way. What we know is taken apart and we are remade.

667. The flow of grace through us is largely blocked when we live inside a worldview of scarcity, a feeling that there's just not enough.

668. There is more than enough for our need but never enough for our greed.

669. Failure is just an occasion and opportunity to learn and practice love, especially toward our self.

670. Mercy is not a virtue that we choose. It is way of seeing, a worldview of abundance, where we no longer withhold, protect, or hoard.

671. There is nothing that needs to be hated, rejected, denied, or judged as unworthy or unnecessary.

672. Though we may have wasted many days in idle and selfish pursuits, it is never to late to be awakened to the value of our remaining days.

673. When we who give handouts to those in need have an opportunity to encounter those we’ve helped, the one-way street begins to become two-way.

674. Grace leads us to states of emptiness that it alone can fill if we are willing to trust the void and not try to quickly numb our anxiety.

675. Action and lifestyle is what matters, not just mentally believing dogmatic or moral positions to be true or false.

676. We are often resistant to change and tend to protect the status quo much more than the hopeful futures brought about by agreeing to change.

677. The secret to intervention lies in the degree that we believe and then accept with our hearts and lives that the action will take place.

678. Love asks us to accept our life as it is, to look at all the pain and darkness as well as the power and light within us, and still say yes.

679. Peace is found not in climbing but in descending, not at the top but at the bottom, not among the insiders but with the outsider.

680. Protected and unequal social relationships manufacture violence and mistrust. This is countered where there is equal power in relationships.

681. Voluntary simplicity has become essential for our social survival.

682. Only one brick can be laid or only one step can be taken at a time. We are only responsible for taking one action at a time.

683. As the seed of love sprouts in each of us, peace comes forth. Peace is not the work of anyone great. It comes as it grows in each of us.

684. Less stuff invariably makes room for more of what matters. Possessions and what matters often operate in inverse proportion to one another.

685. Only through simplicity do we find deep contentment. Perpetually striving is indicative of unsatisfied living.

686. Silence is the language of faith. Action is the translation.

687. In the midst of the mounting waves of panic, let us bring peace to those who are drowning in loveless resentment.

688. Start with the positive and not with a problem.

689. The overly guarded person is broken by misfortune. The wounds of the flexible and vulnerable person are teachers instead of their demise.

690. Freedom is to not be bound by fear, overwhelmed by worry or ransacked by resentment. It is to face whatever comes without retreat or attack.

691. Explanation separates us from wonder, which is the only gateway to that which is beyond our understanding.

692. The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything, because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.

693. If a new way of seeing includes such things as simplicity, nonviolence, restorative justice and inclusivity, anticipate resistance.

694. Our innermost being invites us into a world of mutuality and vulnerability.

695. All of us are called to be traveling companions on a path that leads to love.

695. Once we fall into love, we can't fall out. It's not something we do. It's something that is done to us, and all we can do is let go.

696. Those who love God love themselves and everybody else. Those who love themselves and everyone else love God.

697. Those who want to just get along will lose their lives. Those who uproot to lovingly accompany those who suffer will secure their lives.

698. Love is the source and purpose, faith is the slow process of getting there, and hope is the willingness to move forward.

699. Silence brings us back to our senses, to our selves. Nurtured in silence, our awareness can lead us back to integrity and meaning.

700. When love is planted in fertile soil, it always has an exponential yield.

701. When we really trust that God is practically involved in our ordinary lives, we come to experience God’s transformative and uniting power.

702. God doesn’t love one more than another. However, some learn how to hear and trust God's initiatives better than others.

703. Self-critical thinking advances consciousness, quiets the dualistic mind, finds patience with ambiguity, and calls forth rational honesty.

704. Self-criticism is rare, yet it is necessary to keep us from a natural tendency toward arrogant self-assurance.

705. We need failure and the tough nature that is frightened by nothing, that holds firm and starts over and over again until it succeeds.

706. Whoever does not take on the danger of defeat, loneliness, and setback, can never grow or create from the heart.

707. In terms of the ego, pain teaches us that we must die before we die.

708. Suffering seems to be the only thing strong enough to both weaken and reveal our arrogance, our separateness, and our lack of compassion.

709. Suffering, or whenever we are not in control, is the way whereby we learn to trust, allow, and give up control to Another Source.

710. The cross reveals both the path and the price of full transformation into the divine.

711. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it. If we do not transform our pain, we will invariably give up on life and each other.

712. We must demonstrate a new way, where lives are dedicated to working for the common good, sharing with others in practical ways.

713. Holy people find God in nature and everywhere else. Heady people only find God in books and words, and finally not even there.

714. Fear only sees appearances. Faith and love see substance, see reality.

715. God is community, relationship, communion, participation in a giving and receiving of many diverse things in love with one another.

716. It is not; if we do it right we go to heaven later. It is; we who receive and reflect love are in heaven now.

717. It is not; we are loved if and when we change. It is; we are loved so that we can change.

718. Sharing silence creates a bond that cannot be compared to ordinary exchanges. It reveals us and helps us know that each of us is essential.

719. Our work is merely to till the fertile soil, knowing that the Indwelling Spirit has already been planted within.

720. Sin is the illusion of separateness from God, not naughty behavior. It is a blindness that traps us in self-destructive behaviors.

721. Revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization, not performance.

722. You cannot get there, you can only be there.

723. Before conversion we tend to think of God as out there. After transformation we know that God is in both our agony as well as our ecstasy.

724. When we forgive, we are forgiven. Forgiveness is forgiveness. The forgiveness we give is one and the same with the forgiveness we receive.

725. A seed flourishes by staying in the ground in which it is sown. When it is dug up to check whether it is growing, it will never bear fruit.

726. When we do not attend to our inner conflicts, we will find ourselves both torn apart by our inner divisions and inflicting wounds on others.

727. It is often our indifference, gluttony, mediocrity, materialism, sensuality and selfishness that causes others to lose faith in faith.

728. Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

729. The way forward is a new spirituality by which humans around the globe can unite in love.

730. Those who never think they have failed or feel unacceptable can never know the relief of being accepted by God.

731. It is in the shelter of each other that we find our true home.

732. Individualism unnaturally separates us from one another. Unfortunately, too many of us sit in this darkness far too long.

733. We bring peace to others to the degree that we keep peace within ourselves.

734. Change, growth and transformation are only possible when we are vulnerable.

735. When we judge others, we do not define them, we define ourselves.

736. Order cannot solve most problems, especially pain and suffering. Without rejecting either Order or Disorder, grace moves us toward Reorder.

737. Often, when things feel as if they are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.

738. A new kind of power is generated when we recognize our own powerlessness.

739. Solidarity with other people's suffering creates the conditions whereby comfortable people are converted.

740. We are the only temples where the divine dwells.

741. When we seal ourselves off from the undesired other, the stranger, we reject the love that can heal us.

742. When we lose the priority of God's love for fragile humanity, we miss an opportunity to participate in the mystery of dying and rising.

743. Compassion continues the Incarnation. The Incarnation is not yet complete. It is to be completed in us.

744. For those willing to welcome suffering when it comes, the heart is stretched and enlarged.

745. Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

746. In the end, we will only regret the chances we didn’t take, relationships we were afraid to have, and decisions we waited too long to make.

747. When we buy anything, we don’t pay $ for it. We pay with the hours of life we had spent earning that $. It is sad to waste life that way.

748. The resurrection introduces new life into history. Not simply a promise but a present reality that brings forth fruit within community.

749. The most important hour is the present. The most significant person is the one sitting across from you now. The most necessary work is love.

750. Attention, without a feeling of gratitude, is not awake.

751. We grieve because we love. Part of grieving is to find a way to keep loving, despite the sadness.

752. When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we then become wounded healers.

753. The highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

754. Happiness is an inside job. We are responsible for our own happiness.

755. When we talk, we are only repeating what we already know. When we listen, we learn something new.

756. We may never know what results come from our action. But if we do nothing, there will be no result.

757. Only vulnerable people change and, as a result, only vulnerable people affect change in others.

758. The easiest way to change something is to change our perspective or position.

759. When we complain, we make ourselves victims. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is insanity.

760. In the end, we’re just walking each other home.

761. If we act anxiously to hasten our results, we delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the most direct way to our destination.

762. When we see value even in our wounds, every experience holds promise, every encounter carries insight, and every event brings meaning.

763. To enter into some form of personal lifestyle solidarity with the powerless is one of the most transformative experiences available to us.

764. When we see things in a unitive way, our sight is no longer self-referential. Participating in love changes everything.

765. If you resolve to use humble love, once and for all, you will find it to be the strongest of all things. There is nothing else like it.

766. May we grow tired of being asleep and ask for flesh that feels and weeps for the immense suffering of our world today.

767. There is no peace to be found in external things – be it in places or ways of life or people or activities or solitude or poverty.

768. The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, but only by a journey where we arrive at where we are at, and learn to be home.

69. Religion is largely filled with people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is for people who have gone through hell.

770. In one way or another we have to die before we die. Then we know.

771. Hope is an aliveness that fills us with the strength to stay present, to abide in the flow of Mercy no matter what outer storms assail us.

772. Hope is entered always and only through surrender, through the willingness to let go of everything we are presently clinging to.

773. Squandered time, temptation, weakness, lack of courage or discipline, disorganization, have their origin in the neglect of morning prayer.

774. We either respond from the need to be approved and correct, or from the need to love and connect.

775. Growth is a continuous rebirth. The superficial life of the ego-self is discarded and the invisible self of the Spirit becomes more present.

776. We have to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.

777. Never be defined by the past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

778. When we blame others we give up our power to change.

779. Often we are least lovable when we need love the most.

780. Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

781. Two reasons people change. Their minds have been opened or their hearts have been broken.

782. One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

783. Smile at the obstacle, for it is a bridge.

784. Let us surround ourselves with people who make us hungry for life, touch our hearts, and nourish our spirits.

785. Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

786. The only people with whom we should try to get even with are those who have helped us.

787. Every experience we are given in life is a lesson to help us grow into the next more magnificent manifestation of our self.

788. Never in the history of calming down has anyone calmed down by being told to calm down.

789. God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling.

790. We’re already in the presence of God. What is absent is awareness.

791. When one door closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

792. If it doesn’t open, it’s not your door.

793. Inhaling Yah, exhaling weh speaks God’s name, participates in God's breath, and is our first and last word as we enter and leave the world.

794. Holiness is not a private matter. It’s our connectedness together. It’s only communal and participatory. No individual can carry such glory.

795. Silence puts the stopper on all self-justification. It is the freedom to let God be our justifier. We don’t need to straighten others out.

796. Impatience is trying to get away from where we are. The treasure we seek is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

797. Forgiveness is not forgetfulness of the past. It is the risk of a future other than the one imposed by the past or by memory.

798. The ultimate freedom is to be free from the need to impress others.

799. Rules set forth a good that can never be disregarded, but in their formulation they cannot provide absolutely for all particular situations.

800. Love must prevail over judgmentalism.

801. When we know each other’s hearts, we live outside the touch of time.

802. When we run alone, it’s called a race. When God runs with us, it’s called grace.

803. When loss leaves us unsure of where to go and who to be and with whom to continue, we either regret or we follow the ever-evolving call.

804. Faith is confidence and trust that God cares about what is happening right now.

805. God is not known intellectually. God can only be loved and known in the act of love. God is only experienced in communion.

806. Love is a living organism, an active force-field upon which we can rely, from which we can draw and allow to pass through us.

807. When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

808. Growth is liberation from the small, false or separate self and falling into union with God and each other, or the true self.

809. Love enters through a broken heart.

810. A person who cares nothing for praise or blame knows great inward peace. Not focusing on externals, they connect heart to heart.

811. What we most hate is what we most deny in ourselves. What we most love is what we most wish for in ourselves.

812. Identification with the suffering is not only a matter of sympathy or of action. It is also interpretation of the needs of the voiceless.

813. Death is not just physical dying. It is hitting the bottom, going the distance, beyond where I am in control, beyond where I am now.

814. Only at the point of no return are we carried by unearned grace. Worthiness is never the ticket. The ticket is given in the desiring.

815. We are a part of something, more than we are observing or believing in something.

816. Outward attempts to find consolation often act as obstacles to the development of the inner life.

817. Awakening is not changing who we are. It is discarding who we are not.

818. There is only one way to avoid criticism; do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

819. Not sure if it can be called giving if we give what we do not need.

820. When we forgive, we don’t change the past. We change the future.

821. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. A rushed heart lacks the patience to enter this embrace.

822. The one purpose of all spiritual disciplines is to get rid of the illusions that interfere with us being present.

823. Though holiness is in the now, we go through life only half conscious of it, asleep or intent on being someplace other than where we are.

824. It’s about being alive to all the life that is in us now, to know each moment to the utmost.

825. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves

826. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength.

827. We are called to participate in the very nature of God, which is Love.

828. Faith means living with uncertainty and feeling our way through life, letting our heart guide us like a lantern in the dark.

829. If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we’d be happy with more?

830. The words we speak will become the house that we live in.

831. Kindness is what activates and then fuels the birthing of the life force within us.

832. We can’t be free of pain, but we can be free of suffering.

833. An optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune; a pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity.

834. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

835. The danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

836. Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

837. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

838. When we get the inside right, the outside falls into place.

839. It is time to reinvent ourselves in love, to become midwives of divinity in our evolving world.

840. The life we save is the life we lose. The life we play safe with is a life worth little. Only a life given away is a life worth living.

841. We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And our only guide is our homesickness.

842. When we live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all the drama in our lives.

843. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

844. It’s not what we get out of the text. It’s what the text gets out of us.

845. Intolerance is a sign of inadequate education. Without education one behaves with arrogant impatience. Education generates humility.

846. We receive form God by releasing and letting go.

847. Prayer isn’t to remind God what our problems are. It is to remind our problems who god is.

848. God's love is best communicated by the journey and bonding process that God initiates in community.

849. Once we recognize we are inseparable from God, we also recognize how inseparable we are from each other.

850. Until and unless faith is experienced as a living relationship between people, it remains largely an abstraction.

851. God’s love is passed on personally through faithfulness and forgiveness, through concrete bonds of union, not by words or institutions.

852. It’s not about God hearing what’s prayed for. It’s about us hearing what God is asking for.

853. God does not wait on human initiative of any sort to connect with us. God is already with us – whoever, whenever, and wherever.

854. Since God is relationship itself, the goal of the spiritual journey is to discover and move toward connectedness on ever-new levels.

855. Trusting "what is" is the jumping-off point toward working together for what can be.

856. The world is a relational system full of complex inter-dependence amidst astonishing diversity. Our world should reflect this.

857. What we now need are initiatives that create alternative systems for sharing resources.

858. The sharing economy is commerce with the promise of human connection. People share a part of themselves.

859. Each day brings a miracle. It’s just a matter of paying attention to it.

860. To say that we are made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

861. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

862. The more we stand in awe, the less we stand in judgment of each other.

863. The goal is to build a life that we don’t need a vacation from.

864. Unbelief is only a precursor to new forms of faith.

865. When we see each other as beloved, it is like walking through a garden and watching flowers blooming all around us.

866. An isolated individual is fragile and largely helpless to evoke long-term change or renewal.

867. God calls us to the place where our deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

876. We cannot change what we refuse to confront.

877. We need to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage.

868. We can see great things from the valley. We only see small things from the peak.

869. Unity in the essentials, liberty in the non-essentials, and love in all things.

870. Listen as the wind talks, as silence speaks, and as the heart knows.

871. We must remember that it important to educate our hearts, as well as our minds.

872. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

873. Having relational friendships that stretch us is were the beginning of a challenge to the systems of privilege and racism begins.

874. The pursuit of diversity is often very costly.

875. If we want sustainable communities, we must welcome the other. Otherwise, we just have enclaves for the ego.

876. Our species must discover a common meaning for living that will give our lives purpose and harmony.

877. Our deepest human longing is for BE-longing; belonging to self, others, and unfathomable mystery.

878. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It’s connection.

879. The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.

880. Let us walk as if we are kissing the earth with our feet.

881. Heaven is both under our feet as well as over our heads.

882. Work with people who want your best, not your busiest.

883. Disconnect so you can fully connect to what matters most.

884. We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.

885. Peace is not a place of any noise or trouble. It is to be in the midst of these and still be calm in our heart.

886. Materialism is a major distraction from bliss.

887. The littlest things are the greatest pleasures when we don’t need much.

888. If we want to be light, we have to let go.

889. Often we don’t feel the weight of something we’ve been carrying until we feel the weight of its release.

900. Allow the heart of god to beat in the heart we call our own.

901. For every minute we are angry we lose sixty seconds of happiness.

902. We are somebody only in as far as we are love, and only what has turned to love in our lives will be preserved.

903. Love of self entails a profound acceptance of ourselves as we actually are without attempting to change our experience.

904. We only have the courage to face our deep illusions when we are entirely loved and accepted by somebody who loves us unconditionally.

905. We sin when do not love ourselves enough, when we do not accept the whole self and love the good self and reject the bad self.

906. A humble spirit does not ask for more than it needs, and what it needs, the Universe provides.

907. It matters not who we love, where we love, why we love, when we love or how we love. It matters only that we love.

908. The more in harmony we are with the flow of our own existence, the more magical life becomes.

909. Life isn’t about finding ourselves. It’s about creating ourselves.

910. The past is a place of reference. Not a place of residence.

911. Courage is not the absence of fear but the acquired ability to move beyond fear.

912. We are both addicts and healers, both recipients and contributors, both those who welcome others and those needing to be welcomed.

913. We all need to know that we belong.

914. Our world is only a reflection of ourselves. Stop finding fault with the reflection.

915. Everyone who comes into our life is either a blessing or a lesson.

916. Don’t believe only what the eyes tell. All they show is limitation. When we look with the heart, we see the way to fly.

917. Genuine repentance is to truly feel our human helplessness, while knowing that God is particularly present to us in our brokenness.

918. When we reject those places that have narrowed our lives, an expansiveness that is beyond our imagination awaits us.

919. Non-attachment happens when the divine Presence illuminates, and we become profoundly aware of how fleeting everything is.

920. If we put our own good name before the other’s highest good, then we know nothing of Calvary love.

921. As we look back at our lives and see from the perspective of the present moment, every aspect of our lives was necessary and essential.

922. Our greatest guru is our own heart.

923. Everything has its beauty and everyone is beautiful. Not everyone sees it.

924. We can fail at what we don’t want, so we might as well take a chance on doing what we love.

925, Fear can make us feel like a guard on duty. This constant feeling of anxiety, or pre-traumatic stress syndrome, cheats us out of so much.

926. In order to be who we are, we must be willing to let go of who we think we are.

927. Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

928. It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow. If life is to be rounded and many-colored, both joy and sorrow must come to it.

929. Often we spend too much time on what is urgent, the next crisis, and not enough time on what is important, the next solution.

930. We are often less sure of what and whom we love than we are of what and whom we hate. Often we stake our identity on being against someone.

931. Problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that caused them.

932. The truth will set us free, but first it will make us miserable.

933. The True Self is not about requirements; it’s all about relationship. It's not about being correct; it's about being connected.

934. The greatest sin is not listening in our heart to God. When we overcome this deafness, we experience great things.

935. Though easy to love in the abstract, it is not love in the abstract that counts. We are called to love personally, those right next to us.

936. To live in the spirit rather than the flesh, we go through crisis, and become as unhappy as it is possible to be from a human point of view.

937. If we want to avoid suffering inward shipwreck in the storm of public chaos, then our inner being needs daily the quiet haven of communion.

938. Happiness is not in another place or for another hour. It’s in this place and at this hour.

939. We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

940. Think less about what we were and focus more on who we are becoming.

941. Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.

942. We find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of our life, but by realizing who we are at the deepest level.

943. We are not called to a conversation in words, but to an exchange of hearts.

944. The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the full mystery of our own humanity and divinity – operating as one.

945. We should consider stop letting people who do so little for us to control so much of our mind, feelings and emotions.

946. Self-forgetting gazing allows us to see created reality for what it truly – rather than what it is in terms of how we might use it.

947. When we truly see who we are and then to act on it, we are then giving back to God what God has given to us.

948. The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

949. Before we speak, we can ask ourselves: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve upon the silence?

950. A breakthrough is an act of overcoming an obstacle or resistance, or a major achievement of success that permits further progress.

951. It’s easy to stand with the crowd, but it takes courage to stand alone.

952. All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

953. The highest appreciation of our gratitude is not to utter words, but to live by them.

954. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to others through anger, blame, projection, hatred, or scapegoating.

955. Our past does not determine who we are. Our past prepares us for who we are to become.

956. We shouldn’t cling to a mistake just because we’ve spent a lot of time making it.

957. It is during the season of loneliness and isolation that the caterpillar gets its wings.

958. It makes sense to surround ourselves with people who look more like our future than our past.

959. We must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

960. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are we doing for others?”

961. The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

962. The ego is a veil between humans and God.

963. Ego accumulations are not loosened with one swat. The continual work that is necessary is called disciplines.

964. When we lose ourselves in love, we find everything.

965. Our hearts get broken only to be opened.

966. What we seek is seeking us.

967. Forgiveness is the fragrance that flowers give when they are crushed.

968. Love is the whole. We are the pieces.

969. Be patient when sitting in the dark. The dawn is coming.

970. Fall always comes before rising.

971. The tree shows us how to let the dead leaves drop.

972. When we are silent we fall into that place where everything is music.

973. It makes sense to stay close to anything that makes us glad to be alive.

974. There is a morning inside of us waiting to burst open into light.

975. Love is the absence of judgment.

976. The ones who love us never really leave us. We can always find them in here.

977. The winds of change challenge us to choose walls or windmills.

978. Being a candle is not easy. In order to give light one must burn.

979. Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

980. Silence gives us a new perspective.

981. Silence speaks when words can’t.

982. Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly we are doing the impossible.

983. Where there is love there is life.

984. All of us have gone through something that has changed us in such a way that we can never go back to the person we once were.

985. To complain is always non-acceptance of what is. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is.

986. Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation.

987. When we move away from what’s comfortable, don’t worry about our reputation or get lost in prudent planning, life begins in earnest.

988. Healing begins when we shed our victim mentality.

989. Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

990. We center on the spiritual part of our being not by reaching for the Spirit, but by letting go of the rest.

991. Our most useful asset is not a head full of knowledge but a heart full of love, with ears open to listen, and hands willing to help.

992. Every time I judge someone else I reveal an unhealed part of myself.

993. We must learn a new way to think before we can master a new way to be.

994. Surrender dissolves the resistance in our heart, opening us up to god’s grace.

995. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

996. There are two great days in our life. The day we are born and the day we discover why.

997. Doubt kills more dreams that failure ever will.

998. No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted.

999. We never look good trying to make someone else look bad.

1000. Vision becomes clear when we look into our heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens.

1001. The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

1002. Wherever our focus is directed, that’s where out energy goes. Whatever we allow in our space, we eventually become.

1003. Each moment is a complete new experience when viewed from the eyes of an awakened observer.

1004. We can only grow if we are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when we try something new.

1005. We are only one decision away from a totally different life.

1006. If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that’s the one we want. When we take it on, it pulls us up.

1007. Our focus determines our reality.

1008. What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

1009. When we go 24 hours without complaining, life changes.

1010. When we chase two rabbits, both escape.

1011. We must be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.

1012. Peace is the result of retraining our mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

1013. We cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

1014. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

1015. If we fuel our journey on the options of others, we are going to run out of gas.

1016. God made us in his image; and so she intends for each of us to be like her.

1017. The quieter we become the more we can hear.

1018. Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

1019. Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

1020. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

1021. Sorrow sweeps clean the house so joy may move in.

1022. Facing our mortality and then integrating it into our daily lives, makes earth, as it is in heaven.

1023. A slave is someone who sits down and waits for someone else to free them.

1024. The experience of love is the engine of change. Don’t look for love. Be love.

1025. It’s important to take care of our thoughts when we’re alone and our words when we’re with others.

1026. It is not happiness that makes us grateful; it is gratefulness that makes us happy.

1027. Humility is the ability to return good for evil. It is a miracle that rests in each human heart.

1028. The secret to living well and longer is to eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.

1029. We wait for retreats, services, and grand gatherings to take us to God, and God is with us all the while.

1030. Losses demand choices. They can be passages to anger, blame, depression and resentment, or a passage to something new and beautiful.

1031. Worry is practicing the absence of God’s presence.

1032. Change always feels like dying

1033. Our path is not a straight line. It’s a spiral. We continually come back to things we thought we understood and see deeper truths.

1034.Promote what we love instead of bashing what we hate.

1035. We are not drops in the ocean. We are the entire oceans in a drop.

1036. There comes a time when nothing is meaningful except surrendering to Love.

1037. There is a big difference between giving up and knowing when enough is enough.

1038, Faith trusts in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

1039. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

1040. If we make it a practice to genuinely listen every day to just one person with whom we disagree, we get to genuinely practice our faith.

1041. Within sorrow there is grace. When we come close to the things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open.

1042. Wherever there is love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, there is heaven.

1043. God only calls us to be who we are.

1044. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

1045. Timing is everything. If it’s meant to happen it will, at the right time for the right reasons.

1046. We are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

1047. Authentic God experience leads toward service, the outsider, the lower, the suffering, and the simple.

1048, The things we take for granted, someone else is praying for.

1049. The faults we see in others are our own reflected in them.

1050. The secret of change is to focus all of our energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new.

1051. Lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown.

1052. When our spirit starts to feel weary, it’s time to feed ourselves with quietness, with beauty, and with prayer.

Item 1053. We are nothing more than the dispenser of divine gifts … God’s gift to this world.

1054. When a deep injury is cone to us, we never heal until we forgive.

1055. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
1056. Great things are coming when everything seems to be going wrong. Old energy is clearing out for new energy to enter.

1057. Listen to what people don’t say.

1058. A person with an increasingly grateful heart is one with a decreasingly complaining mouth.

1059. We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.

1060. We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

1061. There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

1062. We are all one. Only egos, beliefs and fears separate us.

1063. The most creative act we will ever undertake is the act of creating ourselves.

1064.There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

1065.When we can give up the idea that there’s something we’re supposed to be, we can start to fall in love with the one who’s here now.

1066. The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

1067. We sometimes think we want to disappear, but all we really want is to be found.

1068. Don’t take things personally. What other people say about us is their reality not ours.

1069. The ego is the part of us that loves the status quo – even when it’s not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

1070. A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

1071. There is no change without a change of routine.

1072. Be careful not to enter another’s life if we cannot be a gift.

1073. There are two types of tired. One is a dire need of sleep; the other is a dire need of peace.

1074. The ones who notice the storms in our eyes, the silence in our voice, and the heaviness in our heart, are the ones we need to let in.

1075. The cross is not the price that Jesus had to pay to convince God to love us. It is simply where love will lead us.

1076. When fighting, denying and fleeing stop, we are in the place of grace out of which genuine newness, creativity, and healing emerge.

1077. The difference between who we are and who we want to be is what we do.

1078. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

1079. If we don’t learn how to control our thoughts, we will never learn how to control our behavior.

1080. Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst or hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.

1093. Each day is a new start. Each moment is a beginning.

1094. Compassion undermines legalism.

1095. We know we made the right choice when we pick the hardest and most painful choice but our heart is at peace.

1096. Until we change our thinking, we will always recycle our experiences.

1097. Be surprised by nothing at all, or by everything that is.

1098. When our past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.

1099. We are both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

1100. Talking about problems is our greatest addiction. When we break the habit, and begin to talk about our joys, problems become incentives.

1101. It takes intelligence to convert information into knowledge; it takes experience to convert knowledge into wisdom.

1102. If we’ve never lost our mind, then we’re never followed our heart.

1103. We are not products of our circumstances. We are products of our decisions.

1104. We cannot find peace by avoiding life.

1105. Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.

1106. Our task is not to seek for love, but to seek and find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

1107. Change is a door that can only be opened from the inside.

1108. We fall into legalism at every point we abandon the grace of God.

1109. Our relationship with ourselves sets the tone for every other relationship we have.

1110. When hard work soaks the shirt of humble folks, the holy angels gather drops of sweat as if gathering diamonds.

1111. The highest form of human intelligence is to observe ourselves without judgment.

1112. Privilege is when we think something is not a problem because it’s not a problem to us personally.

1113. Rock bottom builds more heroes than privilege.

1114. If we can’t see god in all, we can’t see God at all.

1115. If we don’t find God in the next person we meet, it is a waste of time looking further.

1116. We start to heal the moment we feel heard.

1117. If it comes; let it. If it goes; let it.

1118. Prayer is not just dialogue; it is the first stage of surrender.

1119. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

1120. When our heart speaks, it’s time to take good notes.

1121. There is no peace when we forget that we belong to each other.

1122. Let go or be dragged.

1123. All that we fight weakens us. All that we are for empowers us.

1124. Out beyond the ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. God meets us there.

1125. Silence is not the absence of sound but the absence of self.

1126. Jesus spent his whole life engaging folks many of us have spent our whole lives trying to avoid.

1127. Every situation contains a seed of grace. Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in the world.

1128. First we fall. Then we recover. Both are the mercy of God.

1129. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

1130. There comes a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud is more painful than the risk to blossom.

1131. The more we serve, the more joyful we’ll become.

1132. Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world.

1133. All darkness stems from darkness within us. We must do our work there.

1134. Do not judge others. Everyone is making their way home in the way they know best.

135. We’re as blind to our own faults as we choose to be, and we hide them best by pointing out other people’s.

1136. Everyone is gifted. Sadly, many of us never open our package.

1137. Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.

1138. Life is like a flowing river full of opportunities. It’s up to us whether we stand with a bucket or a spoon.

1139. Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

1140. Too often we judge others by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

1141. When a bee stings us, it doesn’t make sense to destroy all beehives.

1142. Never be defined by our past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

1143. The best time for new beginnings is now.

1144. It is easy to break down and destroy. Heroes are those who make peace and build.

1145. We never reach our destination if we stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

1146. It is easier to live through others than to become complete ourselves.

1147. Expectation is the root of all heartache.

1148. Sometimes it’s not about change. It’s just about waking up.

1149. We see in the world what we have in our heart.

1150. Wherever we are, let us be all there.

1151. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

1152. Be gentle to all, and stern when dealing with ourselves.

1153. The highest form of ignorance is to reject something we know nothing about.

1154. Be strong enough to stand alone, brave enough to stand apart when need to, but wise enough to stand together when the time comes.

1155. Beauty does not linger; it only visits. It invites us into its rhythm: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful.

1156. Those we love and those who love us are never far away. They walk beside us everyday.

1157. Don’t worry that people don’t like us. Many are struggling to like themselves.

1158. It is what we choose not to observe in our life that controls our lives.

1159. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over our bodies.

1160. When we simply be who we are, do what we do best, and be where we are called by joy, life works its magic on our behalf.

1161. Live in such a way that those who know us, but don’t know God, will come to know God because they know us.

1162. Grace means that all of our mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame.

1163. Our value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see our worth.

1164. We need a new story to unite and heal us.

1165. Let our love send off so much positive energy that it shifts the vibrations in the room.

1166. Each of us has a right to believe whatever they like. However, it’s not our right to force those beliefs on others.

1167. There is nothing we need to do and nothing we need to prove. Our presence is everything.

1168. Meditate. Some questions can’t be answered by Google.

1169. Peace is not a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It is to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in our heart.

1170. Pay attention to whom our energy increases and decreases around. The universe is giving us a hint of who we should embrace or stray from.

1171. Stay close to anything that makes you glad to be alive.

1172. Unless we let go, forgive ourselves, forgive the situation and realize it is over, we cannot move forward.

1173. We generally see what we look for, and hear what we listen for.

1174. We all are a little broken; and that’s okay.

1175. There is no need to rush. If something is meant to be, it will happen – in the right time, with the right person, for the best reason.

1176. Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

1177. Once we make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

1178. Mostly it is loss, which teaches us about the worth of things.

1179. Two works of mercy set us free: forgive and we will be forgiven, and give and we will receive.

1180. Let everything happen, beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

1181. We don’t need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how we deal with our imperfection.

1182. Our worst enemy is hiding within ourselves, and that enemy is our false ego, our small and separate self.

1183. Anything that is love cannot be fear, and anything that is fear cannot be love.

1184. When things aren’t adding up in our lives, start subtracting.

1185. We can judge others or we can love others, but we can’t do both at the same time.

1186. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read, but those who cannot unlearn the many lies they’ve been taught to believe.

1187. We cannot change our destination overnight, but we can change our direction overnight.

1188. Our best teacher is our last mistake.

1189. A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

1190. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but our thoughts about it.

1191. Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

1192. Every negative belief weakens the partnership between mind and body.

1193. No legacy is so rich as honesty.

1194. Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when we finally feel it.

1195. Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath is very courageous.

1196. Everything that happens is moving us to live a bigger truth.

1197. Measure wealth not by the things we have, but by the things we have for which we would not take money.

1198. One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

1199. When we consider how hard it is to change ourselves, we better understand what little chance we have in trying to change others.

1200. When we allow our hopes and fears to fall by the wayside, we discover that everything is unfolding flawlessly.

1201. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

1202. What to know God’s plan for us? It’s to love everyone we come into contact with. That’s always been and will always be the plan.

1203. Stillness discloses the eternal present.

1204. Belief systems are designed to restrict our thinking and cloud our judgment. We must let go of them for the real world to be seen.

1205. If we want to change, we have to be willing to be uncomfortable. Change happens out of our comfort zone.

1206. We can either feel sorry for ourselves or treat what has happened to us as a gift. This is how our past becomes an obstacle or an opportunity.

1207. Life is so much brighter when we focus on what we have rather than what we want. Everything we need is right here and now.

1208. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

1209. Love makes us grow younger.

1210. The only perfection available to us humans is the ability to include and forgive our imperfection.

1211. Control is the desire of the disconnected self. The connected self sees no need for it.

1212. When we realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to us.

1213. If we want to find happiness, we must find gratitude.

1214. When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

1215. Busy does not need to define us. It’s okay to be happy with a calm life.

1216. Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

1217. Our life is a result of our choices. If we don’t like our life, it’s time to make some better choices.

1218. We seriously have no idea what people are dealing with in their personal life. So, just be nice. It’s that simple.

1219. At any given moment, we have the power to say: “This is not how the story is going to end.”

1220. We have to love ourselves because no amount of love from others is sufficient to fill the yearning that our soul requires from ourselves.

1221. The best way to avoid disappointment is to not expect anything from anyone.

1222. The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

1223. Before death takes away what we are given, give away what there is to give.

1224. Create a life that feels good on the inside not one that just looks good on the outside.

1225. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

1226. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

1227.Destination addiction is preoccupation with a plan that happiness is in the next. Until we give up this idea, it will never be where we are.

1228. We never heal our self by wounding another.

1229. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

1230. Whatever we believe about our self on the inside is what we will manifest on the outside.

1231. If we are not willing to learn, no one can help us. If we are determined to learn, no one can stop us.

1232. Live life as if everything is rigged in our favor.

1233.. We don’t actually get over things, we incorporate them. They become part of everything we are. They change us.

1234. May our choices reflect our hoped, not our fears.

1235. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

1236. When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

1237. To find the Beloved we must become the Beloved.

1238. Takers may eat better, but givers sleep better.

1239. Every choice before us represents the universe inviting us to remember who we are and what we want.

1240. Love is the most powerful, miraculous energy on this planet, and it’s inside each of us.

1241. Aging is an extraordinary process where we become the person we always should have been.

1242. Thinking is difficult. That’s why most of us judge.

1243. Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.

1245. If we want to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it’s women.

1246. Angry is just sad’s bodyguard.

1247. Recovery from anything is honestly the most badass thing a person can do.

1248. Every positive change in life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that we are going to either do something or stop doing something.

1249. When we are so fully present to the moment, we cannot help but catch a glimpse of God in all that is.

1250. Opinion requires no accountability, no understanding. Empathy requires us to suspend our ego and live in another’s world.

1251. When we come out of a storm we are not the same person who walked in.

1252. One of the most courageous decisions we can ever make is to let go of what is hurting our heart and soul.

1253. We cannot go back and make a brand new beginning. But, we can start now and make a brand new ending.

1254. We have to go through the fire to turn out gold.

1255. Making a big life change is scary. But, know what’s even scarier? Regret.

1256. Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.

1257. We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

1258. Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.

1259. By accepting responsibility, we move closer to creating a world that works for all.

1260. The rear view mirror is so small and the windshield is so big because where we’re headed is much more important than where we’ve been.

1261. Let’s strategically respond and not emotionally react.

1262. We often do not want to hear the truth because we don’t want our illusions destroyed.

1263. The universe only pretends to be made of matter. Secretly, it is made of love.

1264. 93% of the world's money is in the bank account of 8 families and the rest of us fight over the 7% left.

1265. We write our life story by the choices we make.

1266. Go about doing good as anonymously as possible.

1267. The more we are grateful for what we have, the more we will have to be grateful for.

1268. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

1269. Thoughts have no power over us until we believe them.

1270. The way that we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

1271. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

1273. All wisdom is insufficient without love.

1274. We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.

1275. Those who do not understand our silence will probably not understand our words.

1276. We are invited to come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.

1277. Just because what’s going on in our life right now doesn’t feel good, it doesn’t mean that God’s not working.

1278. The spiritual journey is a homecoming, a waking up to our True Self, who we are in God.

1279. Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

1280. Do all the good we can, by all the means we can, in all the ways we can, in all the places we can, at all the times we can, to all the people we can, as long as ever we can.

1281. Our peace is more important than driving ourselves crazy trying to understand why something happened the way it did. Let it go.

1282. The most important project we’ll ever work on is our self.

1283. Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where there’s fear. Forget about reputation. Be notorious.

1284. Spirit is more real than reality because it is what remains after reality. Be spiritually real.

1285. When we step out of ego-identification, we immediately leave behind the seeking, craving, and hatred it created.

1286. The purpose of all human life is to achieve a state of consciousness apart from bodily concerns.

1287. Anybody can love our looks, but it’s our heart and personality that makes someone stay with us.

1288. If we hang around gossipers, we will be the gossip.

1289. The revolution needed is the evolution that takes place within.

1290. Time only heals the wound when we’re not picking at the scab.

1291. Love is not an emotion. It’s our very existence, our very essence.

1292. Let it all go: the mistakes, failures, frustrations, tears, worries, doubts, heartaches, fears … and try again tomorrow.

1293. Faith is seeing light with our heart when all our eyes see is darkness.

1294. We can’t start the next chapter of our life if we keep re-reading our last one.

1295. Don’t just pray for God to open doors. Pray for God to close those doors in our life that need to be closed.

1296. Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

1297. Work for a cause, not applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make our presence noticed, just make our absence felt.

1298. Never be so desperate for peace, love or acceptance that we don’t hold others accountable for their actions.

1299. We can only see what we understand.

1300.A hungry stomach, an empty pocket and a broken heart teach us some of the best life lessons.

1301. Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means we were stronger than whatever tried to hurt us.

1302. A single sentence spoken at the right time could change someone’s life forever.

1303. Some of us don’t want to get fixed because being broken gets us attention.

1304. The highest result of education is tolerance.

1305. A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

1306. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt us. We just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

1307. Some talk to us in their free time. Some free their time to talk to us.

1308. Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what we deserve.

1309. All sin originates from the illusion that we are separated from God.

1310. Actions prove why words are meaningless.

1311. The next moment is not more important than this one.

1312. When we dwell on the past or future, we miss the moment.

1313. Prayer is us talking to God. Intuition is God talking to us.

1314. Love is the highest frequency we can vibrate in and the highest state of consciousness. 1315. Love is all, all is us.

1316. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

1317. God heals wounds in us that we have learned to live with.

1318. Be patient. We are all imperfect.

1319. Our beliefs don’t make us better people. Our actions do.

1320. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

1321. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

1322. There is not a drug on Earth that can make life meaningful.

1323. We really only love God as much as we love the person we love the least.

1324. Love inflicts many pains on us, but that’s how our lives become Blessed.

1325. Anonymously performing acts of kindness expecting nothing in return activates the all-creating Spirit to ask, “How may I be kind in return?”

1326. Since spirit is everywhere and in everything, heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

1327. Surrender comes when we no longer ask, “Why is this happening to me?” Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace.

1328. Never allow the fear of doing it wrong prevent us from doing it at all.

1329. God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open.

1330. Nothing has a bigger effect on the quality of our life, than the person we choose to share it with.

1331. We should support our friends and their growth the way we support celebrities that we don’t know.

1332, How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

1333, A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

1334. Listen to the elder’s advice. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.

1335. Be like Jesus. Spend enough time with sinners to ruin a reputation with religious people.

1336. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

1337. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

1338. We enter silence not to pray but to have God pray in us.

1339. The chance for greatness, progress and change dies the moment we try to be like someone else.

1340. Needs are too great, suffering too extensive and the lures of the world too seductive for us to begin to change the world unless we change.

1341. To change is to be thrust under the flood and then pulled forth fresh and newborn.

1342. Don’t be eye candy. Be soul food.

1343. Home is to receive a warm reception from someone who has nothing to boast about and to get a loving embrace without any questions asked.

1344. Some feel the rain. Others just get wet.

1345. Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives us something to do but it doesn’t get us anywhere.

1346. Be with those who bring out the best, not the stress.

1347. True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

1348. Maybe we search among the branches for what only appears in the roots.

1349. Christianity often has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward God.

1350. He only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

1351. Leave the table when love’s no longer being served.

1352. When God says love your enemy, obey him and loved yourself.

1353. How we treat other people is a direct reflection of how we feel about ourselves.

1354. Might not be a good policy to believe everything we think.

1355. If the grass looks greener on the other side, stop staring, comparing and complaining. Start watering the grass you’re standing on.

1356. The answers we seek never come when the mind is busy; they come when the mind is still.

1357. We can’t get away form ourselves by moving from one place to another.

1358. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We too often honor the servant and forget the gift.

1359. Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, we’ll feel peace.” Spirit says, “Find our peace, and then everything will fall into place.”

1360. We must die before we die.

1361. It is in the depth of winter where we learn that inside us there lay an invincible summer.

1362. The more we share, the more we have.

1363. Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.

1364. If we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

1365. Don’t be pushed around by problems. Be led by dreams.

1366. Religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

1367. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

1368. All the particles in the universe were originally conjoined in such a way that they now are all nonlocally connected.

1369. Success is liking ourselves, liking what we do, and liking how we do it.

1370. When we fall and do not look for rescue or pity, the one we are ready to become will catches us.

1371. We cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes we must dare to jump.

1372. Love is the most powerful, miraculous energy on this planet, and it’s inside each and every one of us.

1373. Spiritual surrender is not giving up. It is entering the present moment, fully and without resistance or attempts at control.

1374. Those who wish to sing … always find a song.

1375. When we think our life is falling apart, it’s usually falling together in disguise.

1376. Those without an inner life are slaves to their surroundings.

1377. While we can’t control someone else’s negative behavior, we can control how long we will participate in it.

1378. Live as if death was arriving tomorrow. Learn as if life was forever.

1379. Open the heart, surrender the fear, and see our common oneness.

1380. There is nothing noble in being superior to others. True nobility is being superior to our former self.

1381. Once we are aware of the cruelty of self-judgment, judgment of the other sheds.

1382. Whenever we share our unconditional love with another, the world instantly expands in greater love.

1383. Life is more about a dance with God than a battle with an enemy.

1384. Never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

1385. The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

1386. Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen. Just to be there.

1387. It’s our road and ours alone. Others may walk it with us, but no one can walk it for us.

1388. In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.

1389. Happiness is letting go of what we think our life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.

1390. No one has ever become poor by giving.

1391. Everything that happens to us is another opportunity to choose love.

1392. We can change how we feel by changing how we think.

1393. Better an oops than a what if.

1394. God doesn’t give us what we can handle. God helps us handle what we are given.

1395. Love is a verb. Without action it is merely a word.

1396. Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.

1397. Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.

1398. Despite how open, peaceful, and loving we attempt to be, people can only meet us as deeply as they’ve met themselves.

1399. Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

1400. If we don’t have time for what matters, stop doing the things that don’t.

1401. Get rid of the trash to make room for the treasures. Let the things that are important take center stage.

1402. If we love ourselves, we love others. If we hate ourselves, we hate others. The other is nothing but a mirror.

1403. Nothing is more beautiful than honesty.

1404. Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

1405. If we want light to come into our lives, we need to stand where it is shining.

1406. When the seeker is ready, the Mater appears.

1407. Each condition we flee from pursues us. Each condition we welcome transforms us and becomes itself transformed.

1408. The ego is a veil between humans and God.

1409. The primary addiction for all humans is addiction to our own way of thinking.

1410. Sometimes God doesn’t change our situation because God is trying to change our heart.

1411. Being happy doesn’t mean we have it all. It simply means we’re thankful for all we have.

1412. Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. It’s anything that doesn’t support our better self.

1413. If we’re brave enough to say good-bye, life will reward us with a new hello.

1414. When we love, we strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

1415. Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

1416. Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

1417. Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

1418. Love dissolves the boundaries of our small and separate self by drawing us into that reality beyond, where we are made whole.

1419. Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.

1420. To get to intimacy, we must first be patient with loneliness.

1421. It is important to distinguish between our attractions of deprivation and our attractions of inspiration.

1422. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

1423. When fully present to the moment, we cannot help but catch a glimpse of God in all that is around us.

1424. In the great economy of grace, all is used and transformed. Nothing is wasted.

1425. The meaning of life is sacrifice, especially with regard to those in deepest need.

1426. Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Let go.

1427. To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

1428. Once we realize that all things change, there is nothing we will try to hold on to.

1429. We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

1430. It’s best not to look down on anyone unless we’re helping them up.

1431. We are always on our way to a miracle.

1432. All suffering arises from the context of the stories that are living us. To access change, we have to access the story we’re living into.

1433. A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.

1434. We can’t solve the problem on the level on consciousness that created it.

1435. Tears are words that the heart can’t say.

1436. If we do not transform our suffering, we will transmit it.

1437. We don’t need more space. We need less stuff.

1438. Being honest may not get us a lot of friends, but it will always get us the right ones.

1439. We all have a history. What we do with it is up to us. We can repeat it, learn from it, or use it to help others.

1440. A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

1441. The difference between a master and a beginner is that the master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried.

1442. Once we accept God’s utterly free and unwarranted love for ourselves, we will naturally become a conduit of the same for others.

1443. Do not fight it expel the darkness within. Open a tiny opening for light to enter, and darkness will disappear.

1444. The old and wise were once young and stupid.

1445. Now is all there ever is. There is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in our mind.

1446. When we’re use to privilege, the slightest hint of equality looks like oppression.

1447. Trading our expectations for appreciation changes the world instantly.

1448. Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

1449. The best relationship is when we can act like lovers and best friends at the same time.

1450. We fall. We crash. We break. We cry. We crawl. We hurt. We surrender. And then we rise again.

1451. Stop looking for a partner and focus on goals and the rebuilding of our lives. The right person will eventually find their way to us.

1452. Whether we think we can or think we can’t, we’re right.

1453. Too often, we use religion to cover our own fear and anger.

1454. Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

1455. When one door closes another always opens. The challenge rests in the hallway.

1456. Don’t waste energy trying to force something that isn’t meant to be.

1457. When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.

1458. We are all visitors just passing through. Our purpose is to observe, learn, grow, love … and then we return home.

1459. Grace meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

1460. Life is not about finding ourselves. It’s about creating ourselves.

1461. Anyone can find dirt in someone. Be the one that finds gold.

1462. Learn to see others for what they are, not who we want them to be.

1463. Whatever purifies us is the right path.

1464. Good people sometimes make bad decisions and let others down. That doesn’t make them bad people. We all make mistakes.

1465. Brave isn’t a feeling. Brave is a decision that compassion is more important than fear.

1466. If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.

1467. Forgiveness is the reset button for our mind and heart.

1468. If we want something we never had, we have to do something we’ve never done.

1469. Once we have accepted our flaws, no one can use them against us.

1470. True abundance is an absolute knowing that everything we need will be supplied.

1471. All anxiety is created because we’re trying to get somewhere else.

1472. When we listen to music, we are not listening to the past or future. We are listening to an expanded present.

1473. Recognize the deep spring within. Call on it. It calls to us.

1474. When we free ourselves from expectations, the best comes to us from where we least expect it.

1475. It could all be gone tomorrow. Always remember that.

1476. The best apology is changed behavior.

1477. When we let ourselves become invested with insecurity and accept a mediocre personal existence, we become unknowingly devious and useless.

1478. We don’t need to be saved or rescued. We need knowledge of our own power and how to access it.

1479. When our eyes see souls instead of bodies, our ideas of beauty change.

1480. Deliberately act to increase compassion and cooperation.

1481. Religion is for those who are afraid they’ll go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.

1482. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it. A lie is a lie, even if everyone believes it.

1483. A strong mind is open to what it doesn’t know. A weak mind is open only to what it does know.

1484. Life becomes abundant when there is less cautiously avoiding sin and more courageously and actively doing God’s will.

1485. Once we awaken, we will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

1486. Too often we judge others for the choices they made not knowing the options they had to choose from.

1487. Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to logical structure.

1488. An unforgiving spirit is like taking poison and expecting that someone else would die from the effect.

1489. Forgiveness is about setting the prisoner in our heart free only to discover that all along, we had been the real prisoner.

1490. Beware of study without deeds and mechanical actions without reflection.

1491. Beware of the harmful chase after outer things and the damaging passion for distraction.

1492. There is comfort among those who agree with us but growth among those who don’t.

1493. Get to the place where there is no place to get to.

1494. The best teachers show us where to look, but don’t tell us what to see.

1495. Happiness is letting go of what we think our life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything it is.

1496. Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives us the test first and the lesson afterward.

1497. The “waiting to start living” syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

1498. There is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

1499. We have control over how we feel.

1500. The body follows the mind.

1501. Act as if what you want is already there.

1502.Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

1503. Courage: to be who and what we really are.

1504. Condoms may stop sexually transmitted diseases but they can’t stop spiritual transmitted diseases.

1505. As our life changes so will our circle.

1506. It is difficult to fully realize that the power to change is within – within a system that says we are damaged, cursed and need to be saved.

1507. So many people are in love and not together and so many are together and not in love.

1508. Pain is the birth of wisdom.

1509. Hating someone makes him or her important. Forgiving them makes them obsolete.

1510. One of the best places to hide from God is in church.

1511. Live life as a mountain climb, occasionally glancing upward to keep the goal in mind, but seeing the beautiful from each new vantage point.

1512. Butterflies can’t see their wings and how beautiful they are, but everyone else can. We are like that as well.

1513. Whoever looks outside, dreams a dream. Who looks inside, awakens.

1514. When our needs are not met, we seem stingy and distant. When we are honored and respected, we naturally are more generous and intimate.

1515. If we avoid conflict to keep the peace, we start a war inside ourselves.

1516. Seek more to understand than to be understood.

Item1519. When we change the way we process the world, the world we’re processing changes.

1520. We don’t live on earth. We’re passing through it.

1521. Let us be driven by love and our feeling of connection rather than our anger and feeling of disconnection.

1522. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

1523. The secret of change is to focus all of our energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new.

1524. Trust the timing of our lives.

1525. Set a goal that makes us want to jump out of bed.

1526. Wisdom tells us we are nothing. Love tells us we are everything. Between the two, life flows.

1527. Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

1528. A candle loses nothing by lighting another.

1529. We only need more and more of what is not working.

1530. It’s never too late to be what we might have been. description

1531. Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.

1532. The real difficulty is to over come how we think about ourselves.

1533. Go half as fast and experience twice as much.

1534. Love does not want or fear anything.

1535. Everything we are going through is preparing us for what we asked for.

1536. Anything we can’t control in life is teaching us how to let go.

1537. The trouble is, we think we have time.

1538. We are what we cannot fix.

1539. Love is giving someone the power to destroy us, and trusting them not to.

1540. Apologizing does not always mean that we were wrong. It just means that we value relationships more than our ego.

1541. The only difference between beauty and unattractive is a judgment. No one is unattractive. Unattractive is just what we decide to believe.

1542. A lie has no sense unless the truth is felt as dangerous.

1543. Rather than being our thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

1544. If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure.

1545. Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

1546. Those of us insulated by our own comfort lose sight of poverty.

1547. There’s nowhere we can be that isn’t where we’re meant to be.

1548. Suffering: whenever we are not in control.

1549. Change can be a long, long time coming, but when it comes, it’s the work of a moment. Always act as if that moment will be today.

1550. It takes courage to grow up and become who we really are.

1551. Smile at the obstacle, for it is a bridge.

1552. Each of us has our own “Life PhD” that will outline the transformational journey we are meant to take.

1553. . Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Walk around like a shepherd.

1554. What do we love doing so much that it wouldn’t matter if we failed?

1555. If we want to live a life we love, we need to love the life we’re living.

1556. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

1557. In order to become what we want to be, we must kill who we used to be.

1558. One of the advantages of speaking the truth is that we don’t have to remember what we said.

1559. Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

1560. Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

1561. There are three ways to fail at everything in life: Complain about everything. Blame others for our problems. Never be grateful.

1562. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

1563. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

1564. Some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.

1565. Don’t waste time with explanations. Many only hear what they want to hear.

1566. When we get to the end of something, we’re at the beginning of something else.

1567. Pay attention to the things that speak to our heart.

1568. The only real rest comes when we’re alone with God.

1569. When a great moment knocks of the door of our life, it is often no louder than the beating our heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

1570. We do not need energy, strength, or great intelligence to wake up. What we need most of all is the readiness to learn something new.

1571. Maturity is when someone hurts us, and we try to understand their situation and don’t hurt them back.

1572. The comfortable produces sleepwalking rather than dream walking and curtails our ability to be co-creators in the needed transformation.

1573. We are all God in disguise.

1574. If we are patient in one moment of anger, we will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

1575. Waiting for Friday, summer, someone to fall in love with us? Happiness only comes when we stop waiting for it and fully enter each moment.

1576. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

1577. Until we get comfortable with being alone, we’ll never know if we’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

1578. There comes a point when we realize that turning the page is best because there’s so much more to the book than the page we were stuck on.

1579. When we say that a situation or a person is hopeless, we are slamming the door in the face of God.

1580. If we fill every corner of our life with action and experience, God will silently withdraw from our hearts and leave us empty.

1581. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but wanting to control it.

1582. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

1583. We can’t escape from our heart, so it’s better to listen to what it has to say.

1584. Do not only point out the way. Lead the way.

1585. The older we get the more we realize that it is okay to live a life others don’t understand.

1586. Detachment is not that we should own nothing, but that nothing should own us.

1587. If we feel like we don’t fit into this world it’s because we are here to help create a new one.

1588. Behind every violent or fearful state is an operative image of God that is inadequate, distorted, or even toxic.

1589. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

1590. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide.

1591. There is a peace that can be found that does not depend of the conditions of peace.

1592. Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart often lies under a poor coat.

1593. It’s impossible to live without failing at something, unless we live so cautiously that we might as well not have lived at all.

1594. Mindfulness is like riding a bicycle on a gradual downward-sloping road once we learn to balance. We coast without deliberately pedaling.

1595. Those that try to bury us don’t know we were seeds.

1596. The challenge is to make the life we’re living into the life that wants to live in us.

1597. We are light. Let us live as light. Let God shine through the shards of our brokenness in a glorious display of splintered light.

1598. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

1599. It’s simple. We have two choices: love or fear; acceptance or regret; drift or desire; optimism or pessimism.

1600. Treating the present moment as if it were an obstacle that needs to be overcome, since the present moment is life itself, is insane.

1601. In periods of darkness, true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

1602. Darkness deserves gratitude. All growth does not take place in the sunlight

1603. This day will never happen again.

1604. The trouble is, we think we have time.

1605. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

1606. We meet the people we’re supposed to when the time is just right.

1607. The gospel is less about how to get into heaven after we die, and more about how to live in heaven before we die.

1608. Our thoughts are the architects of our destiny.

1609. When feeling unqualified, remember, God recruits from the pit, not the pedestal.

1610. Self-sufficiency makes God experience impossible. God is relationship.

1611. The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything.

1612. Don’t let others pull us into their storms. Pull them into our peace.

1613. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

1614. Until we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our life and we will call it fate.

1615. Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

1616. Peace is found where the power of love replaces the love of power.

1617.. Sometimes the hardest decision in life is which bridge to cross and which one to burn.

1618. We have to be willing to give up the life we’ve planned for in order to live the life that’s waiting for us.

1619. The only thing that should be separated by color is laundry.

1620. A true friendship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other.

1621. True humility is staying teachable no matter how much we already now.

1622. Humanity is our race. Love is our religion.

1623. There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

1624. A lifestyle that calls the best in others out is called honor.

1625. Alone we do little. Together we can do much.

1626. The key of patience opens the door of happiness.

1627. All divine power is shared power and the letting go of autonomous power.

1628. Fall shows us the beauty of letting go.

1629. If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’ll get exactly what we’ve been getting. And we all know what that means.

1630. Don’t worry about “what if?” Shift focus to “what now?”

1631. Spiritual pilgrimage starts when we close our mouth.

1632. No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

1633. Where there is love, there is no obligation or imposition.

1634. Sunsets teach us that beauty sometimes lasts only a few moments. Sunsets show us that with patience we can experience it all over again.

1635. We are all locks, and only a true friend holds the key.

1636. Fear destroys, anger sickens, anxiety cripples, love heals.

1637. Strength grows in the moments when we think we can’t go on but we keep going anyway.

1638. Healing doesn’t mean that the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.

1651. Changing our perception of God has the potential to change everything.

1652. Our two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

1653. The secret to moving forward is getting started.

1654. Don’t get upset with people of situations, both are powerless without our reaction.

1655. Trust that everything in life is in divine order and synchronicity. All is in line with our path. We are always in perfect time and space.

1656. Be, think and act love.

1657. There is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

1658. Anything is possible if we’ve got enough nerve.

1659. When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

1660. Be thankful for struggle. Without it we wouldn’t stumble across our strength.

1661. When we raise our standards, the universe will meet us there.

1662. Our current situation is not our final destination.

1663. Carry the spirit of the child into old age. In other words, never lose enthusiasm.

1664. Flow, radical relatedness, or perfect communion of a circle dance of love is God. God is this dance.

1665. When we start by doing what’s necessary, then move on to do what’s possible, we suddenly find ourselves doing the impossible.

1666. here is much more to life than what we can see.

1667. At some point we just have to let go of what we thought should happen and live in what is happening.

1668. It isn’t about material things, or pride or ego. It’s about our hearts and who they beat for.

1669. Another’s beauty is not the absence of our own.

1670. Walk as if our feet are kissing the ground.

1671. Be silently drawn by the strange pull of who and what is loved.

1672. When the whole world is running towards a cliff, those who are running in the opposite direction appear to have lost their mind.

1673. We cannot force anyone to comprehend a message that they are not ready to receive. Still, never underestimate the power of planting a seed.

1674. What we think we become.

1675. The space between where we are and where we want to be could inspire rather than terrify.

1676. Unless we carry the beautiful with us, we will never find it even if we travel the world.

1677. Our journey is about unbecoming that which isn’t us.

1678. To get to what we love, we must first be patient with what we hate.

1679. Our culture glorifies busy. It is one of the compulsions many of us must face.

1680. Attention, without a feeling of gratitude, is not awake.

1681. Everything we are going through is preparing us for what we asked for.

1682. How important it is to forgive ourselves for not knowing what we didn’t know before we learned it.

1683. Before we speak, let our words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

1684. What do we do when we can’t handle it anymore? We change.

1685. When the “i” is replaced by “we” even “illness” becomes “wellness”.

1686. No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. But any amount of gratitude changes the present.

1687. Sometimes the reason good things are not happening to us is because we are the good things that need to happen to other people.

1688. We’re not always going to understand why something happens. Faith is trusting even when it doesn’t make sense.

1689. When we have become completely free from the need to judge we will also become completely free from the fear of being judged.

1690. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

1691. The secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what we think it should be.

1692. Beauty begins the moment we decide to be ourselves.

1693. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

1694. Health is not just about what we’re eating. It’s also about what we’re thinking and saying.

1695. One minute of anger weakens our immune system for 4-6 hours. One minute of laughter boosts our immune system for over 24 hours.

1696. We should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day. Unless we’re too busy; then we should sit for an hour.

1697. Being a candle is not easy; in order to give light we must burn first.

1698. Autumn lets us know that diversity adds beauty to our world.

1699. Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we loved and respected each other.

1700. Mice exposed to two hours of silence per day developed new cells in the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory, emotion and learning.

1701. Since we could be wrong, we should probably remain humble.

1702. With life as short as a half taken breathe, don’t plant anything but love.

1703. What the caterpillar calls the end, we call a butterfly.

1704. Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

1705. Every challenge will eventually be seen as a moment we moved our life forward.

1706. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

1706. Cling to all life, especially death.

1707. No matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for our loss, sometimes wonderfully.

1708. Simplicity is not about deprivation. Simplicity is about greater appreciation for things that really matter.

1709. There is more to life than increasing its speed.

1710. The longer we live in the past, the less future we have to enjoy.

1711. Life becomes limitless joy when we begin to take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

1712. The fears we don’t face become our limits.

1713. Don’t count the days. Make the days count.

1714. Interrupt anxiety with gratitude.

1715. Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

1716. When we do something beautiful and nobody notices, remember, every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most still sleep.

1717. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is what are we doing for others.

1718. There is nothing hope cannot heal. There is nothing love cannot mend.

1719. What we do makes a difference. We have to decide what kind of difference we want to make.

1720. Life is finding the seed at the bottom of our heart and bringing forth a flower.

1721. Pride is a stubborn insistence of being what we are not and never were intended to be and then demanding that others believe the lie.

1722. When we see with only our eyes and not our heart, we miss the details of beauty.

1723. It’s not what we do, but how we do it, the place in our consciousness we are coming from as we act.

1724. There’s someone out there who needs us. We must live our life so that person can find us.

1725. Love is the absence of judgment.

1726. Experience is not what happens to us. It’s how we interpret what happens to us.

1727. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything we can.

1728. When we manage to truly stand in the shoes of ‘the other’ our own brokenness is healed.

1729. Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

1730. We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sail.

1731. Make the rest of life the best of life.

1732. When we see Spirit in everything, peace is at hand.

1733. We only see what we are prepared to see.

1734. The moment that judgment stops by the acceptance of what is, room is made for love, joy, and peace.

1735. Trust changes the quality of every present moment and alters the trajectory and outcome of every future moment.

1736. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

1737. Respond to every call that excites our spirit.

1738. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

1739. The best way to achieve peace of mind is to cultivate compassion. Our human nature is compassionate.

1740. It is easy to thank after obtaining what we want. Thank before having what is wanted.

1741. Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

1742. When we commit a mistake and do not correct it, we are committing another mistake.

1743. Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

1744. Few of us arise in the morning as hungry for God as we are for toast and eggs.

1745. High-trust interactions inspire creativity and possibility.

1746. Nothing observed is unaffected by the observer. We all see a different truth, because we all are creating what we see.

1747. The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where we water it.

1748. Without grounding, we are unstable. We lose our center, fly off the handle, get swept off our feet, or daydream in a fantasy world.

1749. When we become true to ourselves and begin sharing what’s real with those around us, hearts begin to open.

1750. We are part of an evolutionary movement toward sharing in divine life both individually and corporately as the human family.

1751. Acceptance of the weakness of our human nature is what attracts divine mercy. If mercy is not received, guilt and shame increases.

1752. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours is what causes us to miss out on the beauty of the miracle that is the now.

1753. If something desired does not happen, it might be that something better will happen, or it is better that it’s not happening now.

1754. The world is changed by our example, not by our opinion.

1755. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but wanting to control it.

1756. Be patient. What is meant for us won’t pass us by.

1757. Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.

1758. Be a good person, but don’t waste time proving it.

1759. The fears we don’t face become our limits.

1760. By being ourselves, we put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

1761. A lot of the pain that we are dealing with are really only thoughts.

1762. When we like a flower, we just pluck it. But when we love a flower, we water it daily.

1763. Gratitude is more than an attitude of a helpful strategy. It’s a way of seeing, remembering, and proceeding.

1764. Never regret a day. Good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

1765. When we feel like we don’t fit into this world it’s because we are here to help create a new one.

1766. Our lives always begin with the call.

1767. Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for our enemy to die.

1768. Often, when things seem to be getting worse, they are only getting uncovered.

1769. The more space we make for stillness and silence, the more we have to give both to others and ourselves.

1770. Only with the heart do we truly see. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

1771. None of us are too busy. It’s just a matter of priorities.

1772. The things we are passionate about are not random. They are our calling.

1773. Life lives itself with or without us. The divine adjusts itself to us with its level of consciousness just where it is.

1774. Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save, they just stand there shining.

1775. An unmistakable freedom accompanies contentment: a freedom to be and enjoy who we are and to live the life we were destined to live.

1776. We don’t have any limitations; we’re just addicted to them.

1777. Each time we give ourselves permission to accept who we are in this very moment, the world around us begins to transform.

1778. Never judge others by their past. People learn. People change. People move on.

1779. Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

1780. The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes.

1781. When our heart opens, the world around us changes.

1782. Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

1783. The opposite of an attitude of gratitude is an attitude of entitlement.

1784. If we aren’t willing to look beyond our current situations, we will miss incredible opportunities to create new realities.

1785. See the sorrow behind the smile, the love behind the anger, and the reason behind the silence.

1786. We need the tonic of wilderness. We can never have enough nature.

1787. If we don’t become the ocean, we’ll be seasick every day.

1788. Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

1789. If we only say one prayer in a day, make it “thank you.”

1790. We may not know what will happen when we try, but if we do not try nothing will happen.

1791. Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.

1792. We have a lamp inside us. The oil of the lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.

1793. Life’s better when we’re laughing.

1794. Let go of resentment. What is and what is to come is what matters.

1795. When we are ready, the teacher will appear.

1796. Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it will happen

1797. If we cannot be positive, then it is time to at least be quiet.

1798. If we’re helping someone and expecting something in return, we’re doing business not kindness.

1799. There are no chains like hate. Dwelling on other’s faults multiplies our own.

1800. Never expect. Never assume. Never ask. And never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will happen.

1801. When we forgive, we heal. When we let go, we grow.

1802. Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn’t mean we have to attend the performance.

1803. We will not be punished for our anger. We will be punished by our anger.

1804. What we are not aware of, we cannot change. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

1805. Don’t be awed by money, degrees, followers, looks & titles. Do be awed by generosity, integrity, humility, kindness & authenticity.

1806. When a bird is alive, it eats ants. When dead, ants eat it. One tree makes a million matchsticks. Only one match can burn a million trees.

1807. Arguing with a fool only proves that there are two.

1808. At a certain point in our spiritual journey, the less we do the more God does.

1809. Allowing God to love us may be the hardest work of all of life’s labors. To be the recipient of infinite love is an awesome responsibility.

1810. Do not get upset with people or situations, both are powerless without our reaction.

1811. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

1812. Clutter is a weight that has built on top of us so gradually, we don’t even realize anymore that it is holding us down.

1813. A person who is in thirst needs water, not the faucet.

1814. If it doesn’t open, it’s not our door.

1815. We are not trees. If we don’t like where we are, we can move.

1816. Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen.

1817. Our present situation is not our final destination. The best is yet to come.

1818. The world always gives us the chance to try something new.

1819. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

1820. People sleep, and when we die we wake.

1821. If we miss the present moment, we miss our appointment with life.

1822. If we want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to us in need.

1823. We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

1824. Our mind is free when we flow with whatever may happen, staying centered by acceptance.

1825. Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

1826. We must stay deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

1827. When we forget the self, the chance of uniting with something or someone appears.

1828. All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.

1829. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

1830. The teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

1831. Nothing exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

1832. Life consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

1833. The only thing that is ultimately real about our journey is the step that we are taking at this moment.

1834. Throughout this life we can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

1835. To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper that we cannot eat.

1836. The study of the self leads to the forgetting of the self, so that it can be awakened by all things.

1837. To be alive is to be completely engaged with what we are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it work, realizing it is play.

1838. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

1839. Life is and echo. What we send out, comes back. What we sow, we reap. What we give, we get. What we see in others, exists in us.

1840. The moment we’re ready to quit is usually the moment right before the miracle happens.

1841. If we don’t see God in everything, we end up seeing God in nothing.

1842. Life is a river always flowing. Do not hold on to things. Let everything go which is burdening our lives.

1843. When patience in one moment of anger, we escape a hundred days of sorrow.

1844. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

1845. Peace arises whenever we let something go.

1846. We over value access to information but we undervalue access to each other.

1847. If we are aware of our weaknesses and are constantly learning, our potential is virtually limitless.

1848. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else. We are the ones who get burned.

1849. Mutual awakening unleashes a profound level of creativity and care that will evolve humanity’s consciousness to the next stage.

1850. Relationships never die a natural death. They are murdered by ego, attitude, and ignorance.

1851. Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

1852. A mind beyond judgment watches and understands.

1853. Nothing is permanent. Don’t stress too much because no matter how bad the situation is, it will change.

1854. If we truly love our self, we could never hurt another.

1855. One way to sleep peacefully at night is to learn to forgive.

1856. The strongest hearts have the most scars.

1857. If we do not rule our mind, it will rule us.

1858. The darkest night is ignorance.

1859. Honesty has the power that very few people can handle.

1860. We’re all so worried that people are watching and judging us, but in reality they’re too busy worrying about the same thing.

1861. Anything that is worth doing is worth doing with all our heart.

1862. Being content with what we have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

1863. It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.

1864. When we stop and look around, life is pretty amazing.

1865. One of the truest signs of maturity is the ability to disagree with someone while still remaining respectful.

1866. Do not take lightly small good deeds, believing they can hardly help. For drops of water one by one in time can fill a giant pot.

1867. The more we try to avoid suffering the more we suffer because smaller things begin to torture us in proportion to our fear of being hurt.

1868. What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

1869. We are truly alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

1870. Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of answers.

1871. No one is sent by accident to anyone.

1872. We cannot do all the good the world needs; but the world needs all the good we can do.

1873. When someone has something bad to say about us, it’s probably because they have nothing good to say about themselves.

1874. We should never be afraid to say what we really feel.

1875. When we least expect it, something better than we ever panned for will come along. Be patient and stay focused.

1876. Happiness comes when our work and words are of benefit to others and ourselves.

1877. Life is about evolving. Don’t stay in a situation that’s not helping us to grow mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.

1878. The decision to ask for help is at times our greatest source of strength and courage.

1879. We must love in such a way that the person we love feels free.

1880. If we don’t design our own life plan, chances are we’ll fall into someone else’s plan, which probably isn’t that much.

1881. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

1882. Past mistakes are meant to guide us, not define us.

1883. We the love we never received.

1884. Gratitude turns what we have into enough, denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity.

1885. Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, and a stranger into a friend.

1886. One who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror.

1887. To make a difference in someone’s life, we don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. We just have to care enough and be there.

1888. We are stronger because we’ve been weak. We are wiser because we have been foolish. We are braver because we have been afraid.

1889. The greatest prayer is patience

1890. The obstacle is the path.

1891. We create delusion ourselves whenever we indulge in discrimination.

1892. When reason ends, anger begins.

1893. Only in accepting our limits do we go beyond them.

1894. Those who make no mistakes usually make nothing.

1895. Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

1896. Advertising is the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money it.

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1897. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing. Others judge us by what we have done.

1898. Happiness is beneficial to the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

1899. Courage is grace under pressure.

1900. What we think we become. What we feel, we attract. What we imagine, we create.

1901. We begin to heal as soon as we let go of past hurts, forgive those who have wronged us and learn to forgive ourselves for our mistakes.

1902. The truth will set us free. But first it pisses us off.

1903. We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.

1904. Let’s raise our actions, not our voices. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

1905. Worry is a misuse of imagination.

1906. Being aware of a single shortcoming within our self is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else.

1907. In the end, what really matters is not what we bought, but what we built, not what we got, but what we shared.

1908. How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.

1909. Our heart is the light of this world. Let us not cover it with our minds.

1910. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

1911. Our brokenness is a better bridge for people than our pretend wholeness ever was.

1912. We waste so many days waiting for the weekend. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life.

1913. Our hardest battle is between what we know in our head and what we feel in our heart.

1914. The entire universe is conspiring to give us everything we want.

1915. There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.

1916. Connection is the energy that is created between us when we feel seen, heard, and valued.

1917. Why do we stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?

1918. It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

1919. Every day is the best day of the year. Do not allow it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

1920. We defeat our enemies when we make them our friends.

1921. If we are looking for a friend who is faultless, we will be friendless.

1922. If we want money more than anything, we’ll be bought and sold our whole life.

1923. When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we become wounded healers.

1924. When we are free from passion and ill will, have abandoned good and evil judgment, and remain vigilant, there is no danger.

1925. The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

1926. If it doesn’t challenge us, it won’t change us.

1927. We all have the power to make someone happy. Some of us do it by entering the room, while some do it by leaving.

1928. In a society that profits from self-doubt, liking ourselves is a rebellious act.

1929. If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If an egg is broken by an inside force, then life begins.

1930 .Don’t stress too much because no matter how bad the situation is, it will change.

1931. Naming something as bad causes an emotional reaction. When we let it be, without naming it, great power becomes available.

1932. As long as we feel pain we’re still alive. As long as we make mistakes we’re still human. As long as we keep trying there’s still hope.

1933. There comes a time when we must unlearn what we have learned.

1934. With open-mindedness, viewing things from a different perspective, even an adversary, we understand our own truth and ideal in a new light.

1935. Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

1936. Stop chasing the wrong one. The right one won’t run.

1937. When we get the inside right, the outside falls into place.

1938. Don’t ask, what does the world need? Ask, what makes me come alive? Then, go do that. What the world needs are people who have come alive.

1939. Enjoy problems.

1940. When we are grateful for what is given, life shows its true meaning.

1941. When we get there, there isn’t any there, there.

1942. One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.

1943. Placing blame or judgment leaves us powerless to change our experience. Taking responsibility gives us the power to change it.

1944. No amount of guilt changes the past. No amount of worry changes the future.

1945. Change is never painful, only resistance to change is painful.

1946. Live as if death will come tomorrow. Learn as if life is forever.

1947. Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others.

1948. Holding a grudge doesn’t make us strong; it makes us bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make us weak; it sets us free.

1949. Past mistakes are meant to guide us, not define us.

1950. Stop expecting loyalty from those who can’t give us honesty.

1951. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

1952. Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take a moment and make it perfect.

1953. The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. We continually come back to things we thought we understood and see deeper truths.

1954. When presented with a choice to be kind or be right, choose being kind. It is always right.

1955. When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach.

1956. A negative thinker sees difficulty in every opportunity. A positive thinker sees an opportunity in every difficulty.

1957. Once felt avoided by someone, never disturb them again.

1958. Death is a stripping away of all that is not us. The secret of life is to die before we die. Here, we find that there is no death.

1959. Don’t fight, resist, or avoid change. Allow and let go, so blessings can start to flow.

1960. Negative folks have a problem for every solution.

1961. Be a lover and not a fighter; but fight for what’s loved.

1962. Our ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which we embrace gratitude.

1963. When we see our glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop whining.

1964. When our clarity meets our conviction, and we apply action to the equation, our world will begin to transform before our eyes.

1965. When we help someone and expect something in return, we are doing business, not kindness.

1966. Hurting someone with the truth is better than making them happy with a lie.

1967. Home is where the heart is.

1968. The paradox of being silent in the stillness of our heart is that is where the voice of God speaks the loudest.

1969. Angry people want us to see how powerful they are. Loving people want us to see how powerful we are.

1970. Silence is the best reply to a fool.

1971. The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

1972. A wise person knows there is something to be learned from everyone.

1973. The goal of meditation is not to control our thoughts. It is to stop letting them control ours.

1974. The amazing gift of being alive is that no matter what, we can always begin again.

1975. When sorrowful, remember, what we weep for has often been our delight.

1976. Before speaking, ask: is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?

1977. Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

1978. Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

1979. In the end, only three things matter: how much we loved, how gently we lived, and how gracefully we let go of things not meant to be.

1980. If it’s important enough, a way will be found. If it’s not, an excuse will be found.

1981. Our talent is God’s gift to us. What we do with it is our gift back to God.

1982. Be less about cautiously avoiding sin and more about courageously and actively doing God’s will.

1983. When we meet real tragedy in life, we either lose hope and fall into self-destructive habits or we use the challenge to find inner strength.

1984. Perfect people aren’t real and real people aren’t perfect.

1985. There are two types of pain: one that hurts us and one that changes us.

1986. Everything that we do in life stems from the relationship we have with our self.

1987. We see in the world what we carry in our heart.

1988. Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what we deserve.

1989. We will never change our life until we change something we do daily.

1990. Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

1991. When we let go of what no longer services us, we create space for what’s meant to be.

1992. When we are causing suffering to others, we are causing suffering to ourselves.

1993. Knowing is not enough, we must apply.

1994. Move focus from competition to contribution. Instead of defeating, win hearts. Here, life becomes a celebration.

1995. Never expect. Never assume. Never ask. Never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will happen.

1996. Everything in our life is a reflection of a choice we have made. If we want a different result, we must make a different choice.

1997. Be silently drawn by the strange pull of what is really loved. It will not lead astray.

1998. What consumes our mind controls our life.

1999. A simple and unassuming manner of life is best for the body, mind and spirit.

2000. Begin by knowing that we have already arrived.

 2001. The question is not if we are going to die or not. It’s how are we going to live.

2002. Show respect to others even when they don’t deserve it. Respect is a reflection of our character, not theirs.

2003. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.

2004. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grains to give bread, broken bread to give strength.

2005. Don’t worry about the numbers. Help one person at a time and always with the person nearest.

2006. The elimination diet: remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then, watch health and life improve.

2007. It takes a heart to forgive and a brain to move on.

2008. Our naked body should only belong to someone who has fallen in love with our naked soul.

2009. Don’t be concerned with what people say behind your back. They’re just finding faults with others so they can turn a blind eye to their own.

2010. We can run from the world, but we can’t run from ourselves.

2011. One reason we resist change is because we focus on what we have to give up instead of what we have to gain.

2012. The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.

2013. In a society that breeds discontent by defining success as bigger, nicer, and more, gratitude is the cure.

2014. Pay attention. This isn’t going to happen again.

2015. Prophetic imagination comes before we see political implementation.

2016. All great changes are preceded by chaos.

2017. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

2018. No one is good or bad, but a healthy mix of both.

2019. Sometimes life actually gives to us by taking away.

2020. Making mistakes is better than faking perfections.

2021. One day we will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things we’ve always wanted.

2022. Prayer makes breath the exhaling of the human spirit and the inhaling of the divine spirit.

2023. Love’s reflection transforms all.

2024. We gain nothing by meditating. However, we lose anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, fear of aging and death.

2025. We are all works in progress that sometimes mistakenly think we’re finished.

2026. Any and every place becomes sacred ground as soon as it becomes a place of encounter with the divine presence.

2027. We have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of our lives.

2028. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

2029. Awakening is seeing through the façade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

2030. Two things define us. Our patience when we have nothing, and our attitude when we have everything.

2031. A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other.

2032. Duality is the root of our suffering and conflicts.

2033. When we expect something in return for being a nice person, we aren’t being a nice person.

2034. To be spiritual is to live in radical amazement.

2035. Forget what hurts, but don’t forget what it has taught.

2036. Want God. Not an idea of God.

2037. For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

2038. Life becomes more meaningful when we realize the simple fact that we’ll never get the same moment twice.

2039. Change is not a threat to our life, but an invitation to live.

2040. It’s not what we look at. It’s what we see.

2041. We change when either our minds have been opened or our hearts have been broken.

2042. Blame is a distraction that prevents us from moving forward.

2043. Transformation is painful, but we’re not falling apart; we’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.

2044. Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything, but unbecoming everything that really isn’t us, so we can be who we were meant to be.

2045. Live the solution or live in pollution.

2043. We are always responsible for how we act, no matter how we feel.

2044. A smile is our best accessory.

2045. Our mouths should open only if what we are going to say is kinder and more beautiful than silence.

2046. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

2047. When we talk, we are only repeating what we already know; but when we listen, we may learn something new.

2048. Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

2049. Love when ready … not when lonely.

2050. To be old and wise, we must first be young and stupid.

2051. Promote what is loved instead of bashing what is hated.

2052. The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.

2053. Every next level of our life demands a different version of us.

2054. Don’t wait for someone to bring flowers. Plant a garden full of them.

2055. Be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what is really loved.

2056. Only dead fish go with the flow.

2057. Let things come and go. The things that are meant to stay, will always stay.

2058. We were born an original and not meant to die a copy.

2059. Be stubborn about goals but flexible about methods.

2060. Don’t believe everything that is thought.

2061. It’s always a blessing when a great and beautiful conception is proven to be in harmony with reality.

2062. When we accept and feel comfortable with our flaws, no one can ever use them against us.

2063. Let our hands be so busy catching blessings that we don’t have the capacity to hold onto grudges.

2064. A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what we think it should be.

2065. We only lose what we cling to.

2066. The goal of meditation isn’t to control our thoughts, it’s to stop letting them control us.

2067. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life drags us back, it means that it’s going to launch us into something great.

2068. Surrender is not an act of weakness. It is the bravest and most lucid thing a human ever does.

2069. Sometimes our circle decreases in size to only increase in value.

2070. Everything we are going through is preparing us for what we asked for.

2071. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.

2072. Always believe something wonderful is going to happen.

2073. Love cures us: both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

2074. Don’t worry about being perfect. Just be honest.

2075. Think positive and positive things will happen.

2076. Love is the absence of judgment.

2077. Freedom is being happy to be where we are.

2078. Unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. Love heals.

2079. Giving up doesn’t always mean weakness. Sometimes it reflects both strength and smarts to let go and move on.

2080. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

2081. Patience is not about how long we wait. It is about how well we behave while we are waiting.

2082. A life without love is a waste. Either we’re in, at the center … or out, yearning.

2083. Contentment is the greatest wealth.

2084. The more we are motivated by love, the more fearless and free our actions will be.

2085. Suffering relates to wanting things to be different from what way they are.

2086. When patient in one moment of anger, a hundred days of sorrow are escaped.

2087. Immaturity wants to win an argument, even at the cost of a relationship. Maturity knows losing an argument can possibly win a relationship.

2088. Strangers can become best friends as easily as best friends can become strangers.

2089. Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because we were not created for pleasure. We were created for joy.

2090. Nothing binds us except our thoughts. Nothing limits us except our fear. Nothing controls us except our beliefs.

2091. Those who judge us by our past, don’t belong in our future.

2092. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

2093. Focusing is about saying no.

2094. To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.

2095. The problem is not the problem. The problem is our attitude about the problem.

2096. Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

2097. Wealth should serve humanity, not vice versa.

2098. The universe doesn’t allow perfection.

2099. There is more to knowing than just being correct.

2100. Here today, gone tomorrow.

2101. Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

2102. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

2103. We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

2104. Our joy is our sorrow unmasked.

2105. Just because we’re breathing doesn’t mean we’re alive.

2106. All cruelty springs from weakness.

2107. We should do nothing other than what is directly of benefit to living beings.

2108. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

2109. The obstacle is the path.

2110. Nobody can hurt us without our permission.

2111. Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.

2112. Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

2113. Don’t let happiness depend on something that can be lost.

2114. Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

2115. Love is not about finding the right person, but about being the right person.

2116. Some doors need to be closed simply because they no longer are leading somewhere.

2117. If willing to experience aloneness, discovery of connection everywhere becomes possible.

2118. Negative folks need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it will take their breath away.

2119. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life.

2120. If something is meant to be, it will find a way. If it’s not, something better will find its way instead.

2121. It is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

2122. Until we get comfortable with being alone, we’ll never know if we’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

2123. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

2124. The 3C’s in Life: Choice, chance, and change. We must make a choice, to take a chance, if we want anything in life to change.

2125. We are where we are at in this very moment for a reason. Remember that and trust everything will work out.

2126. The things we take for granted someone else is praying for.

2127. The moment we feel like we have to prove our worth to someone is the moment to absolutely walk away.

2128. When we’re happy we enjoy the music. When we’re sad we understand the lyrics.

2129. We can never cross the ocean unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

2130. Every morning we have two choices: continue to sleep with our dreams or wake up and chase them.

2131. Don’t give up now.

2132. When life gives us a “No”, give it a “Thank You”. It is protecting us from less than its best.

2133. Time decides whom we meet in life. Our heart decides whom we want in our life. Our behavior decides who stays in our life.

2134. The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts us and we try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.

2135. The struggle we’re in today is developing the strength we need for tomorrow.

2136. Whenever we think we are being rejected from something good, we are actually being re-directed to something better.

2137. Decide to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

2138. The ultimate measure of us is not where we stand in moments of comfort or convenience, but where we stand in times of challenge and controversy.

2139. People will sometimes hurt us and then act like we hurt them.

2140. Forgiving releases us from the punishment of a self-made prison where we are both the inmate and the jailer.

2141. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

2142. Educate the heart as well as the brain.

2143. May the next few months be a period of magnificent transformation. It is time.

2144. Happiness is when what we think, what we say, and what we do are in harmony.

2145. To cause benefit is not easy, so try first not to cause harm.

2146. To awaken means to awaken out of the self-talk in the head because the self-talk is a form of hypnosis – self-hypnosis.

2147. Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark. Our path will unfold as we move.

2148. Don’t be afraid that life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

2149. Pain can make us stronger. Fear can make us braver. Heartbreak can make us wiser.

2150. Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

2151. We can’t build a long-term future on short-term thinking.

2152. Do something today that the future self will be thankful for.

2153. Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise we won’t meet the one who’s coming.

2154. Until we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our life and we will call it fate.

2155. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

2156. Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, and most underrated agent of human change.

2157. Do not get upset with people or situations, both are powerless without our reaction.

2158. We either want to be in control or we want to grow.

2159. Failure is not the opposite of success. It’s part of success.

2160. Wrinkles mean we laughed, grey hair means we cared, and scars mean we lived.

2161. What is coming is better than what is gone.

2162. Do not spoil what we have by desiring what we have not.

2163. Wanting to be someone we’re not is a waste of the person we are.

2164. It’s often the last key on the ring that opens the door.

2165. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

2166. No anger inside means no enemy outside.

2167. Keep some room in the heart for the unimaginable.

2168. Sometimes when we lose our way, we find our self.

2169. By following our bliss, the universe will open doors for us, where there were only walls.

2170. Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible.

2171. It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

2172. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

2173. Follow the heart, not the herd.

2174. We’re all mentally ill. We’re all delusional. We’re all junkies. It’s just a matter of degree.

2175. Grace is the free flow of unearned love.

2176. The question is not, ‘How can we hide our wounds?’, but ‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others.’

2177. A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

2178. We never really love until we have done something for someone who can never repay us.

2179. Blind optimism flows from denial. Real positivity comes from struggle and prayer.

2180. Become the space that welcomes any experience without judgment.

2181. Angry people want us to see how powerful they are. Loving people want us to see how powerful we are.

2182. Our vocation is where our talents and the needs of the world cross.

2183. Tomorrow’s a fantasy. Yesterday’s gone. There’s only today.

2184. The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

2185. Experience is not what happens to us. It’s how we interpret what happens to us.

2186. It is both a blessings and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.

2187. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

2188. Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

2189. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

2190. Love is stronger than death.

2191. Happiness is a gift. The trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

2192. The secret of change is to focus all of our energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

2193. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

2194. Life is beautiful when our heart is thankful.

2195. When we begin to love our self, our relationship with everyone changes.

2196. It’s hard to be the person we want to be if our days leave no room for contemplating who that person even is.

2197. It’s never too late for a new beginning.

2198. Anxiety happens when we think we have to figure out everything all at once instead of taking it day by day.

2199. Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

2200. When finding fault with another, ask the following question: What personal fault most resembles the one criticized?

2201. When we can’t be kind, it’s time to be quiet.

2202. Our job is to make the grace of an invisible God visible, wherever I am.

2203. Frustration stems from focusing on wheat we don’t have. The antidote is appreciating what’s already here.

2204. Everybody is a genius. But if we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

2205. Peace is not the mere absence of violence. Peace is the manifestation on compassion.

2206. What we run away from and what we yearn for are both within us.

2207. When we love what we have, we have everything we need.

2208. We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become.

2209. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

2210. Be honest. Be humble. Be happy.

2211. When we like a flower, we just pluck it. But when we love a flower, we water it daily.

2212. Let our kindness be like rain that cares not about whom it falls upon.

2213. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

2214. The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who we are.

2215. As our former sense of self dissolves and a shift in selfhood and perception occurs, capacity to be oned, to live as one, evolves.

2216. Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are now is an impostor.

2217. We don’t meet people by accident.

2218. Love and compassion are the highest form of intelligence.

2219. When we do not understand death, life becomes very confusing.

2220. A hero is any person intent on making this a better place for all people.

2221. There are only two mistakes we can make along the way to truth: 1) not going all the way; and 2) not starting.

2222. Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.

2223. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

2224. Never give up. Great things take time.

2225. Get up from the table when love is no longer being served.

2226. If we don’t make peace with our past it will keep showing up in our present.

2227. Judge nothing, we will be happy. Forgive everything, we will be happier. Love everything, we will be happiest.

2228. Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

2229. When we get there, there isn’t any there there.

2230. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

2231. Meditation is the gateway into an intuitive life.

2232. The world will tell us who we are until we tell the world who we are.

2233. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We find it with another.

2234. Let us sit each day in childlike sincerity with an inner stance that offers the least resistance to being overtaken by grace.

2235. Love is the bridge between everything and us.

2236. Love is where we came from and love is where we’re going.

2237. Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built.

2238. Happy are those who take life day by day, complain very little, and are thankful for the small things in life.

2239. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and it has more to do with love of self than love of another.

2240. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, peace emerges between us all.

2241. Our lives are shaped by the end we live for. We are made in the image of what we desire.

2242. First, silence makes us pilgrims. Second, silence guards the fire within. Third, silence teaches us to speak.

2243. True love is when we love someone until our last breath.

2244. The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

2245. The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

2246. The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.

2247. If we are not willing to learn, no one can help us. If we are determined to learn, no one can stop us.

2248. True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

2249. What we do makes a difference. We have to decide what kind of difference we want to make.

2250. When obsessed with doing, we have no time or imagination left for being. As a result, we are not valued for who we are, but for what we do or have.

2251. Deep roots never doubt that spring will come.

2252. Our teacher is anything that troubles or irritates us.

2253. Life’s best moments usually happen unplanned.

2254. It is a happy talent to know how to play.

2255. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

2256. If our mind is empty, it is always ready for anything and open to everything.

2257. A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

2258. Everyone sees what we appear to be; few really know who we are.

2259. What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it’s supposed to be.

2260. Want to perform a miracle? Forgive the self.

2261. There is no destination. There is only the journey. Live and love it.

2262. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

2263. God is found in that space in our heart that is open to all of humankind.

2264. We cannot calm the storm. What we can do is calm ourselves. The storm will pass.

2265. We need a collective awakening. One great teacher is not enough.

2266. The price of anything is the amount of life we exchange for it.

2267. The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

2268. Spirituality teaches about letting go of what we don’t need and who we are not.

2269. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

2270. If we let go a little, we will have a little peace; if we let go a lot, we get a lot; if we let go completely, we will have complete peace.

2271. In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

2272. We only have this moment, melting like a snowflake.

2273. The armoring of our heart to keep ourselves safe actually keeps us deprived.

2274. Our heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

2275. Delusions are only things we create ourselves by indulging in discrimination.

2276. To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand

2277. The moment we accept what troubles we’ve been given, the door will open.

2278. Our own life has to be our message.

2279. Intuition is our inner tutor, and when recognized, life becomes both infinite potential and a continuous revelation.

2280. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced by society.

2281. Be more concerned with character than with reputation. Character is what we really are; reputation is merely what others think we are.

2282. Handle success with care for the opiate of pride can destroy our life. Healthy success produces humanity, not superiority.

2283. In the sunlight of awareness, everything becomes sacred.

2284. When we come out of the storm, we are not the same person who walked in.

2285. Life is beautiful when our heart is thankful.

2286. Trust the journey even when it is not understood.

2287. If we trust ourselves, we’ll usually rise to the occasion. But if we’re suspicious and doubt ourselves, we tend to fail.

2288. We are braver than we believe, stronger than we seem, smarter than we think and twice as beautiful as we’d ever imagined.

2289. Confidence is not thinking we are better than everyone else. It’s not having to compare ourselves with anyone in the first place.

2290. 99% of all failures come from those of us who have a habit of making excuses.

2291. Spiritual practice is a discovery process whereby we integrate the sacred into our everyday common life.

2292. It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.

2293. Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re suppose to be and embracing who we are.

2294. We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.

2295. When we stumble, let us make it part of the dance.

2296. Before speaking THINK: T = is it true? H = is it helpful? I = is it inspiring? N = is it necessary? K = is it kind?

2297. Treat every moment as our last. It is not preparation for something else.

2298. Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

2299. It is when we help someone who is less well off, when we are kind to someone else, that we end up being joyful.

2300. Silence is sometimes the best answer.

2301. We are what we believe we are.

2302. Solitude is listening to the voice who says, you are my beloved, I want to be with you, where we go to hear the truth about ourselves.

2303. If we don’t like our outcomes, change our responses.

2304. There really is no separation between “this” and “that”, “us” and “them”. Any we see is an illusion.

2305. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

2306. We interpret our experiences and decide whether or not to create beliefs and judgments of ourselves, in relationships to them.

2307. The most enlightened continue to stumble and fall. When we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

2308. Once we trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others.

2309. The spiritual life is about keeping awake, not losing our sensitivity to spiritual inspirations or our ability to respond to what speaks.

2310. God is more verb than noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea.

2311. Control anger. It’s just one letter from danger.

2312. Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

2313. We have to find a way to get beyond our self-image and ideas about who we are, and get to who we were before we did anything right or wrong.

2314. We all have a history. What we do with it is up to us. We can repeat it, learn from it, or use it to help others.

2315. One who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

2316. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but wanting to control it.

2317. The ego wants quantity but the soul wants quality.

2318. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

2319. Life is such a great teacher that when we don’t learn a lesson, it will repeat it.

2320. Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

2321. Actions prove who someone is, words just prove who they pretend to be.

2322. Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

2323. Do the right thing, even when no one is looking. It is called integrity.

2324. Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

2325. Until we can see everything in the world as our friend, our work is not done.

2326. Health is not just about what we’re eating. It’s about what we’re thinking and saying.

2327. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

2328. A life not lived for others is not a life.

2329. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

2330. Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

2331. Love empties us of self.

2332. Forget not that the earth delights to feel our bare feet and the wind longs to play with our hair.

2333. Our destiny is not created by the shoes we wear, but by the steps we take.

2334. When we learn how to be really still and let life happen, that stillness becomes radiant.

2335. Answering the following question: “What will we do with our one wild and precious life?” can make all the difference.

2336. The first step to getting what we want is having the courage to get rid of what we don’t.

2337. We can’t hit a target we can’t see.

2338. Sometimes, instead of “Let it go” we should probably say, “Let it be.”

2339. How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.

2340. Our heart is not a fragile, delicate bird, but a resilient, powerful hawk learning to fly.

2341. Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

2342. Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

2343. How we treat others reveals our own character.

2344. Maybe happiness is not feeling that we should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

2345. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

2346. We are all locks, and only a true friend holds the key.

2346. Don’t miss the sun today worrying about the rain coming tomorrow.

2347. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

2348. Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.

2349. Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

2350. Don’t promise when happy. Don’t reply when angry. Don’t decide when sad.

2351. We have to die a few times before we can really live.

2352. The spirit-like, sagely-minded person has no thought of self, merit, or fame.

2353. Gratefulness unlocks the fullness of life.

2354. Create the highest, grandest vision for life, because we become what we believe.

2355. Our real home is not the house we live in, but the stillness and peace in our heart.

2356. Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.

2357. Practicing compassion is the way to be happy.

2358. No matter where we are or what we face, within our heart peace is possible.

2359. Love the lessons that pain teaches.

2360. Enjoy the problem.

2361. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

2362. Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

2363. Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

2364. Awareness is the beginning of empathy and end of self-centeredness.

2365. Sometimes we’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

2366. An argument is to find out who is right. A discussion is to find what is right.

2367. It’s a terrible thing to wait until we’re ready. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

2368. Easy is to judge the mistakes of others. Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes.

2369. It is impossible to improve oneself or the world by force.

2370. Affection is always greater than perfection.

2371. The present we are constructing should look like the future we are dreaming.

2372. Coincidence is just God working anonymously.

2373. All we need is less.

2374. When we ask for patience, we get a line at the bank. Life gives us what we need by developing what it is we need.

2375. It is time to walk away when what we do is expected and no longer appreciated.

2376. Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

2377. Many wait for deliverance when all that’s needed is discipline.

2378. We were never meant to imitate Christ any more than a fish imitates the water or a bird imitates the air. We are to abide in the Christ.

2379. When we’re diluted, there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.

2380. Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

2381. The moment we want to be something, we are no longer free.

2382. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

2383. Vision without action is nothing but a daydream.

2384. When we seek something that we already got, the seeking has to stop. We cannot find ourselves by seeking. We are already there.

2385. Anything that annoys us is teaching us patience. 

2386. Anyone who abandons us is teaching us how to stand up on our own two feet.

2387. Anything that angers us is teaching us forgiveness and compassion. 

2388. Anything that has power over us is teaching us how to take the power back.

2389. Anything we hate is teaching us unconditional love. 

2390. Anything we fear is teaching us courage to overcome our fear.

2391. Anything we can’t control is teaching us how to let go.

2392. When “I” is replaced by “WE”, Illness turns into WEllness.

2393. An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

2394. Where there is love and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

2395. A few bad chapters does not mean that our story is over.

2396. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

2397. It’s never too late for a new beginning.

2398. A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his or her freedom.

2399. When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.

2400. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

2401. Knowledge is simply facts. Wisdom is the capacity to utilize that knowledge.

2402. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

2403. Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

2404. Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

2405. Once we need less, we have more.

2406. Anything that we cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses us.

2407. When we live as if we are never going to die, we then die having never really lived.

2408. To live and love right here now, moment after moment. So simple, and so very difficult.

2409. Do not be interested in what in what others have to tell or sell. Be interested in how they choose to live and give.

2410. We can choose to let the circumstances of our lives make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them make us kinder.

2411.God is in fact within us, here now as an always loving, forgiving, respecting our freedom fourth dimension in our three-dimensional world.

2412. Expecting ends in tears. Accepting makes us cheer.

2413. We never find happiness until we stop looking for it.

2414. Real magic is the art of bringing gifts from a deeper world into this world.

2415. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

2416. Becoming more aware of what’s really worth our energy is an important first step.

2417. We are taken into troubled waters at times not to drown us but to cleanse us.

2418. We cannot change another, but we can be another’s reason to change.

2419. If things go wrong, don’t go with them.

2420. Our lives change as soon as we stop complaining.

2421. Mistakes increase our experience and experience decreases our mistakes. When we learn from our mistakes, others can learn from our success.

2422. We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

2423. Don’t mix up what we think with what actually is.

2424. Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

2425. Only when we accept that one day we’ll die can we let go, and make the best out of life. And that’s the big secret. That’s the miracle.

2426. Change usually only occurs when the elements that are in need of reform have become conscious through their reflection in someone else.

2427. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

2428. Those who have a why to live for can bear with almost any how.

2429. If we can accept things just the way they are, we’re not going to be greatly upset by anything.

2430. Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

2431. Looking for the love of our life is a common pursuit for many. More rare are those who set out to be the love of someone else’s life.

2432. People grow when they are loved well. If we want to help others heal, it is important to love them without an agenda.

2433. Give loved ones wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

2434. The real thief is worrying.

2435. The first duty of philosophy is making us understand what deep shit we are in.

2436. Ego is just a small three-letter word, which can destroy a big twelve-letter word called relationship.

2437. It is not about what is happening. It is about how we are relating to what is happening.

2438. When we look at situations from all angles, we become more open.

2439. The problem with closed-minded people is that their mouth is always open.

2440. Don’t let loneliness drive us into the arms of someone we know we don’t belong with.

2441. Life ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air or as a fish swims in the water.

2442. Everybody has the power to make someone else happy. Some do it by entering the room, while some do it by leaving.

2443. Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

2444. There is a voice that does not use words. Listen.

2445. When we forgive, we heal. When we let go, we grow.

2446. The best six doctors: sunshine, water, rest air, exercise and diet.

2447. When we ask for what we want, we must be prepared to get it.

2448. When we find the right person, we realize why it didn’t work with anyone else.

2449. We all need someone to talk to, someone to listen, and someone who understands.

2450. When the restrictions we have do not limit us, this is what we mean by practice.

2451. When we find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, nothing is left but to love.

2452. When we explain our anger instead of expressing it, we will find solutions instead of arguments.

2453. When we appreciate every moment, the world is beautiful.

2454. Maybe sometimes we have to lose who we were to find out who we are.

2455. By failing to prepare, we are preparing to fail.

2456. Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

2457. No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed our dreams.

2458. Fall asleep with a dream. Wake up with a purpose.

2459. When purpose isn’t clear, figure out passion. Passion leads to purpose.

2460. Never give up on something that’s really wanted. It’s difficult to wait, but it’s more difficult to regret.

2461. Don’t downgrade a dream to fit present reality. Upgrade conviction to match destiny.

2462. The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.

2463. Ask why before the buy.

2464. The beauty of our ears is not in our earrings, but in listening to the distressed.

2465. The more anger towards the past we carry in our heart, the less capable we are of loving in the present.

2466. Face problems. Don’t facebook them.

2467. Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

2468. When we do something, we should burn ourselves up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace our self.

2469. Always pass on what has been learned.

2470. Just as the gem cannot be polished without friction, we cannot be perfected without trials.

2471. Life is a series of tiny little miracles. Notice them.

2472. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

2473. The voice that tells us that we aren’t good enough doesn’t know us at all.

2474. When we complain, we make ourselves the victim. Leave, change or accept the situation. All else is madness.

2475. Relations are like electric currents. Wrong connection will give us shocks. The right ones will light up our lives.

2476. To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.

2477. We must do the thing we think we cannot do.

2478. Don’t be afraid that life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin.

2479. Just as we wash our hands before eating, it’s good practice to clean our mind before entering the world.

2480. Love is the bridge between everything and us.

2481. We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.

2482. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

2483. We often meet our destiny on the road we took to avoid it.

2484. When we find no solution to a problem, it’s probably not a problem to be solved, but rather a truth to be accepted.

2485. Silence says a lot more than we think

2486. Talent may get us through the door, but character will keep us in the room.

2487. We can’t learn without pain.

2488. A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it.

2489. Live as if we are to die tomorrow. Learn as if we will live forever.

2490. Grow up and relate to life directly or choose to live and die in fear.

2491. Sometimes those with the worst pasts end up creating the best futures.

2492. Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.

2493. All true inner growth, that makes us feel uncomfortable, disturbed or scared for a little while, is OK. It passes.

2494. Things that excite us are not random. They are connected to our purpose. Follow them.

2495. Hope is found in the darkest of days. Focus is found in the brightest. Do not judge the universe.

2496. A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because trust is not on the branch but on it’s own wings.

2497. Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to learn from them.

2498. Be wise before, not after.

2499. Authentic spirituality is always about changing the self. It’s not about trying to change anyone else.

2500. When we make the courageous choice to be still, we have the chance to establish a relationship with what is.

2501. The universe is not punishing or blessing us. It is responding to the vibrational attitude that we’re emitting.

2502. Unhappy folks focus on what’s missing.

2503. Anything that costs us our peace is too expensive.

2504. Stop and sink into this timeless moment.

2505. Instead of lamenting a fate, create a world.

2506. Act in such a manner that we are living proof of a loving God.

2507. Life comes providentially to reawaken us and to shake us from our lethargy.

2508. Whatever has crowded out growth needs to be recognized and removed.

2509. A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because a majority accepts it.

2510. We are stars wrapped in skin. The light we are seeking has always been within.

2511. Let us not stay where we’re only tolerated. Let us go where we’re celebrated.

2512. Unity is diversity embraced, protected and maintained by an infinitely generous love. Uniformity is achieved by shame, force and fear.

2513. What comes to us, is for us.

2514. It’s wise to put a gap into our habitual reactions by stepping back, taking a breath and becoming a silent detached witness.

2515. on’t worry about what others are doing. Worry about why we’re worried about what others are doing.

2516. Don’t go through life, grow through life.

2517. To sort stuff out, we must own and appreciate the circumstances we find ourselves in right now – continuously.

2518. For small creatures such as we, the vastness of the universe is only bearable through love.

2519. Ego – kill it. Gossip – ignore it. Jealousy – distance it. Smile – keep it. Confidence – trust it. Love – value it.

2520. It is not the path that is the difficulty. It is the difficulty that is the path.

2521. Prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

2522. Whoever has great awareness is close to God.

2523. To be beautiful mean to be ourselves. We don’t need to be accepted by others. We need to accept ourselves.

2524. Some people will only love us as much as they can use us. Their loyalty ends where the benefits stop.

2525. When we change the ways we look at things, the things we look at change.

2526. It’s okay to be a glow stick. Sometimes we need to break before we shine.

2527. Real difficulties can be overcome. It’s only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

2528. When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

2529. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

2530. It is what we choose not to observe in our life that controls our life.

2531. All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

2532. Don’t make a permanent decision for a temporary emotion.

2533. Everything happens for a reason. Don’t question it, trust it.

2534. When we recognize and accept our limits in the face of situations that are beyond us, we discover a humility that actually revives.

2535. Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.

2536. Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

2537. There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

2538. We cannot think our way to healing.

2539. Complaining is finding faults. Wisdom is finding solutions.

2540. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come.

2541. Judgment is fueled by a sense of righteousness that the ego enjoys to the fullest.

2542. It’s amazing to discover that despite our missteps, we are, at this very moment, in the perfect place to take the next important step.

2543. It’s discontent and discomfort that propel us to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

2544. When we like a flower, we just pluck it. But, when we love a flower, we water it daily.

2545. We are seldom able to see an opportunity until it has ceased to be one.

2546. Defeat and tragedy stop us and cause us to look deeper.

2547. Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

2548. If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having.

2549. The problem is not the problem. The problem is our attitude about the problem.

2550. The heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

2551. HOPE: Hold On Pain Ends.

2552. We have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

2553. Life is better when it is balanced.

2554. We are free to choose, but we are not free from the consequence of our choice.

2555. Ego is like dust in the eyes. Without clearing the dust, we can’t see anything clearly.

2556. Be true to the self. The world will adjust.

2557. The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

2558. 85% of the stuff we worry about ends up having a positive or neutral outcome.

2559. Every problem contains seeds of its own solution.

2560. Vulnerability, not control, is the birthplace of belonging, joy, courage, empathy, creativity, accountability, and authenticity. 

2561. Pride is a stubborn insistence and a ridiculous demand that others believe the lie we have made ourselves believe about ourselves.

2562. If we want the moon, we cannot hide from the night. If we want a rose, we cannot avoid the thorns.

2563. Only dead fish go with the flow.

2564. The world hijacks our passion and directs it toward material things.

2565. Peace comes the moment we grasp we’re not alone in the universe, and we are an integral part of something much larger than ourselves.

2566. The universe reveals its secrets to those who dare to follow their hearts.

2567. Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

2568. Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

2569. We are here to establish the connection needed to exist between physical and non-physical reality.

2570. In life, it’s not where we go – it’s who we travel with.

2571. Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens.

2572. A sincere apology has three parts: I am sorry. It is my fault. What can I do to make it right?

2573. There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth.

2574. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

2575. It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.

2576. When we live without regret, we will die without regret.

2577. Conditions are always changing, and real peace lies in the ability to adapt to the changes.

2578. Life is short and time is fast. There is no replay or rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

2579. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

2580. Make today so awesome yesterday gets jealous.

2581. To heal our wounds, we’ve got to stop touching them.

2582. We can trust God that we are exactly where we are meant to be.

2583. I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.

2584. Expectation is the root of all heartache.

2585. Those who anger us control us.

2586. Gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ear.

2587. Focusing is about saying no.

2588. Love is not a reason to tolerate disrespect.

2589. Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

2590. Though we cannot force anyone to grasp a message that they are not ready to receive, never underestimate the power of planting a seed.

2591. Confidence comes from not always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.

2592. Prayer is not something to do at certain times. It is abiding and dwelling continuously in God's presence.

2593. The brook loses its song when the rocks are removed.

2594. If we make where we are going more important than where we are, there may be no point in going.

2595. Spirituality is learning to live heaven on earth.

2596. If we want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

2597. We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.

2598. The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

2599. The road to nowhere is paved with good intentions.

2600. Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

2601. Victory gives birth to hate. The defeated sleep in anguish. When one gives up both victory and defeat, sleep becomes peaceful.

2602. How we see is what we see.

2603. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

2604. In a command found in no other religion, Jesus bids us show love not only to strangers and sinners, but also to outright adversaries.

2605. Going back and forth on ideas because of fear confuses the universe. Decide what’s wanted, stick with it, and notice things shift.

2606. Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge.

2607. How are we to treat others? There are no others.

2608. Everything we’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

2609. Losses will either be passages to anger, blame, resentment and depression, or they will be a passage to something new.

2610. As prayer purifies and then expands our childish idea of God, we fall into a silent communion that has been there all along.

2611. Have less. Be more. Do more.

2612. Sit in silence until silenced, choose gratitude until grateful, and praise God until an act of praise.

2613. Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.

2614. Love does not dominate, it cultivates.

2615. There’s no need to rush. What’s meant for us always arrives right on time.

2616. Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

2617. Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

2618. Each of us must decide whether we will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

2619. Humility is forgetfulness of self.

2620. At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough.

2621. Anything we lose comes round in another form.

2622. If it is not true, do not say it.

2623. We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

2624. Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

2625. Human history is the long terrible story of humans trying to find something other than God that will make them happy.

2626. Little bits of good put together, where we are, overwhelm the world.

2627. The easiest way to realize we don’t need a lot of stuff is to start living our life without a lot of stuff.

2628. Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

2629. Make a wish every morning to be useful to others.

2630. Smart people seem crazy to dumb people.

2631. The most important hour is now. The most significant person is the one we’re with. The most necessary work is love.

2632. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are part of our history, but not part of our destiny.

2633. When threatened by the now, we jump to the fast or the future.

2634. We don’t need to go after anything. Everything we want is coming to us.

2635. Sometimes what we’re looking for comes when we’re not looking at all.

2636. Always live life to the fullest. So when our time comes, we will not regret that we just happened to just live but never has a life.

2637. Simple is good.

2638. The content of our character is our choice. Day by day, what we choose, what we think and what we do is who we become.

2639. The difference between a trained and an untrained mind lies in its ability to pause, look, and sense whether it is necessary or not.

2640. When we respect ourselves, others will respect us.

2641. Gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

2642. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

2643. When looking back, do so forgivingly. Looking forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest is present in the present gratefully.

2644. It’s not so much the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.

2645. The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

2646.There will always be people in our lives who treat us wrong. Be sure to thank them for making us strong.

2647. We can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

2648. Don’t react to toxic people. Not giving them a reaction when they desperately seek it is far more powerful.

2649. Life is 10% of what happens to us, and 90% of how we react to it.

2650. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

2651. It is our restlessness that causes chaos.

2652. The only true wisdom is in knowing we know nothing.

2653. The absolute can only be comprehended through experience.

2654. Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

2655. Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

2656. The opposite of criminalization is humanization.

2657. Light tomorrow with today.

2658. A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.

2659. Don’t be a prisoner of the past; it was a lesson, not a life sentence.

2660. Only when the mind is still, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true.

2661. Anything that is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, ego, greed, laziness, ambition or anything.

2662. Sometimes wrong choices lead us to right places.

2663. The moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

2664. After we move beyond prayer techniques, prayer a silent and secret conversation. It’s called attention.

2665. Every next level of our life will demand a different us.

2666. Gratitude is the most beautiful language and the most genuine way for us to interact.

2667. We can waste our whole life preparing for the future.

2668. Turn wounds into wisdom.

2669. If we love God, we are no longer free to decide whether to love our neighbor or not.

2670. Knowing our own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.

2671. Ships don’t sink because of the water around them. They sink because of the water that gets in them.

2672. Every season serves a purpose.

2673. Become the space that welcomes any experience without judgment.

2674. The most powerful way to resist evil is to sit with good friends who have turned their faces to God.

2675. Unknown spaces may lead to unexpected discoveries.

2676. Experience is not what happens to us; it’s what we do with what happens to us.

2677. Our greatness is not what we have; it’s what we give.

2678. Sometimes life doesn’t give us what we want, not because we don’t deserve it, but because we deserve more.

2679. Sometimes the best way to appreciate something is to be without it for a while.

2680. Our bodies desperately wait for us to be their friend.

2681. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

2682. To be old and wise comes from first being young and stupid.

2683. Fall in love with the process and the results will come.

2684. We underestimate our capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.

2685. Compassion stands in awe at what the poor have to carry, rather than standing in judgment at how they carry it.

2686. We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

2687. It is impossible to find happiness today if we believe there is something else we need to make us happy tomorrow.

2688. We will never change our life until we change something we do daily. The secret of success is found in our daily routine.

2689. Courage doesn’t always roar.

2690. In order to love who we are, we cannot hate the experiences that shaped us.

2691. Religion is meant to make us ask hard questions of ourselves, not delude us into thinking we have all the answers for others.

2692. There’s nowhere we can be that isn’t where we’re meant to be.

2693. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

2694. Complaining is finding faults. Wisdom is finding solutions.

2695. People can refute our facts, but never our feelings.

2696. We are here to love, and we begin by loving ourselves.

2697. When we expect something for being a nice person, we aren’t a nice person.

2698. What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.

2699. In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.

2700. What we allow will continue.

2701. Our job is not to figure out who deserves or who’s right or wrong. It is to lift the fallen, restore the broken and heal the hurting.

2702. Let go of what was and have faith in what will be.

2703. Our heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

2704. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

2704. Three things we can’t get back: The word after it’s said. The occasion after it’s missed. The time after it’s gone.

2705. Only do what the heart requests. Begin with the heart. End with the heart.

2706. Caring for ourselves is one way to show how much we care for others.

2707. Lasting comfort for the afflicted won’t come with a strategy that afflicts or blames the comfortable.

2708. If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, not the goal.

2709. Spirit is forever captured in matter, and matter is the place where Spirit shows itself. It is one sacred world.

2710. First, believe it is possible. Second, understand that it’s up to us to make it happen. Third, begin.

2711. We fight a fierce war within. No need to fight with others.

2712. When our past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.

2713. Humility: Throwing away the illusion that we are at the center of everything and that others only exist to provide us with pleasure.

2714. We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.

2715. It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

2716. The world is seen for the first time when we get the ego out of the way.

2717. We can only lose what we cling to.

2718. We refuse to sit in silence because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

2719. Don’t cling to a mistake just because there has been a lot of time spent making it.

2720. Thoughts are not original, brilliant, or creative. Our instinct, ideas, and ability to dream are.

2721. Students who are loved at home, come to school to learn, and students who aren’t, come to school to be loved.

2722. Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for that one person.

2723. When we look closely at the present we are constructing, it should look like the future we are dreaming.

2724. Twenty years from now we will be more disappointed by the things we didn’t do than by the things we did.

2725. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

2726. To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

2727. We can stick a candle into the dark, but we can’t stick the dark into the light.

2728. Life is truly a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see and be.

2729. The more we are thankful, the more we attract things to be thankful for.

2730. Believe good things are going to happen.

2731. Don’t be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.

2732. Unexpected kindness given quietly to strangers who need a bit of hope is one of the most powerful forms of love there will ever be.

2733. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

2734. Change is never painful, only resistance to change is painful.

2735. In a world of noise and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence and peace. In such places love can blossom.

2736. Anything that we cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses us. Don’t be possessed by possessions.

2737. We can get to where we want to be from wherever we are by stop spending so much time noticing what we do not like about where we are.

2738. As we remove things from life we don’t need, we find more time for things we do.

2739. When we believe in what we want so much, it has no choice but to materialize.

2740. Everything is both perfect and always in need for improvement.

2741. When we are willing to stop looking for something in thought, we find everything in silence.

2742. The most important gifts we can give are our love, time, and attention.

2743. Maybe we are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.

2744. Bitterness and love can’t live together in the same heart. Each day, we must decide which one gets to stay.

2745. Kindness is a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in this world.

2746. We are the problem and only we are the solution.

2747. The indwelling spirit, the life force of everything, creates things that create themselves from within.

2748. Takers may eat better, but givers sleep better.

2749. “It’s impossible,” said pride. “It’s risky,” said experience. “It’s pointless,” said reason. “Give it a try,” whispered the heart.

2750. There is no need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Our own heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness.

2751. The way people treat us is a statement about who they are as a human being. It is not a statement about us.

2752. Sitting is the new smoking.

2753. We believe that God sees us from above. Actually, we are seen from the inside.

2754. Having fun with a best friend is the best therapy.

2755. When we spend too much time thinking about a thing, we never get it done.

2756. Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically unique to the self.

2757. Mistakes are always forgivable, if we have the courage to admit them.

2758. To hell with circumstances, create opportunities.

2759. Real living is living for others.

2760. The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

2761. The successful warrior is the average person, with laser-like focus.

2762. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

2763. In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

2764. Be shapeless and formless like water. When we pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

2765. Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one,”

2766. To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.

2767. Find the blessing in everything.

2768. Hunger for things is the supreme disease.

2769. Enjoy problems.

2770. Happiness will never come to those who don’t appreciate what they already have.

2771. Love is not something external to be sought; it’s something internal to be shared.

2772. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if it had been chosen.

2773. Facing it is the way to get through it.

2774. What a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

2775. When we believe it will work out, we’ll see opportunities. If we believe it won’t, we’ll see obstacles.

2776. Authentic God experience overcomes the false split between the divine and us and as a result, us and the rest of creation.

2777. Whoever recovers from doing evil by doing something wholesome illuminates the world like the moon set free from a cloud.

2778. There is silence of the tongue, silence of the heart, and a silence that restrains stray thoughts from affecting our innermost being.

2779. The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

2780. The universe is conspiring in our favor.

2781. Past and future are in the mind only. We are now.

2782. If we’re invested in security and certainty, we are on the wrong planet.

2783. Don’t try to figure anything out

2784. Listen and Silent are spelled with the same letters.

2785. Joy comes from using our potential.

2786. Becoming awake involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

2787. We can’t see our reflection in boiling water. Similarly, we can’t see the truths in our life in a state of anger.

2788. We learn a lot about people when they don’t get what they want.

2789. A hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

2790. When we do the thing we fear, death of fear is certain.

2791. The body is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

2792. Sometimes we don’t feel the weight of something we’ve been carrying until we feel the weight of its release.

2793. In every game, only the audience makes noise, not the players.

2794. Quiet people have the loudest minds.

2795. We need a collective awakening. One holy man is not enough.

2796. Start where we are. Use what we have. Do what we can.

2797. Negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on our heart, brain and body. Emotions have potent consequences in our body.

2798. A decision must be made. Will it be money or justice? Will it be publicity or humanity?

2799. Don’t wait until the only thing that can be said is, “Wish the courage to do it was there sooner.”

2800. Some things are better left unsaid. This is generally realized right after they have been said.

2801. When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach us something.

2802. When we help others and expect something in return, we are doing business, not kindness.

2803. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

2804. When we do not understand death, life can be very confusing.

2805. The best thing we could give someone is a chance.

2806. Solitude is where we struggle against our compulsions and illusions and where we encounter a love that is substance of the new self.

2807. One kind word can warm three winter months.

2808. Go the whole way when it comes to being authentic.

2809. There isn’t anyone we couldn’t love once we heard his or her story.

2810. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

2811. It is not enough to stare up the stairs; we must step up the stairs.

2812. Everything we want is on the other side of fear.

2813. When we don’t cover up the world with labels, a sense of the miraculous returns.

2814. The Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness; it is not a place we go to, but a place we come from.

2815. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

2816. When we accept this moment as it is, because there’s nothing much we can do, then we are free of the burden of unhappiness.

2817. No one oversees his or her demise willingly, even when it is the false self that is dying.

2818. Sin happens when we refuse to keep growing.

2819. Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge we face on the spiritual path.

2820. In life, it’s not where we go, it’s who we travel with.

2821. Just because the past didn’t turn our like we wanted it to, doesn’t mean our future can’t be better than we’ve ever imagined.

2822. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

2823. It is us who will get us where we want to go, no one else.

2824. One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

2825. There is nothing safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

2826. Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

2827. Mourning is a brutal form of emptiness. However, if we remain open, our grief becomes part of a love that holds all things together.

2828. When all is said and done, the only thing that will truly have mattered is this: Did we love? Did. We. Love?

2829. We are here to love, and we begin by loving ourselves.

2830. Calm is a superpower.

2831. We have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

2832. Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about God

2833. Choosing to see the good, even when it’s hard, will ultimately bring us to where we want to be.

2834. Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at us.

2835. Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

2836. The opportunity to experience ourselves differently is always available.

2837. Observe our enemies, for they find our faults first.

2838. What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

2839. The obstacle is the path.

2840. Don’t do the best. Do the wisest and kindest.

2841. Enough is a feast.

2842. Umbrella can’t stop the rain but can make us stand in rain. Confidence may not bring success but gives us power to face any challenge.

2843. We were all born to facilitate compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

2844. Move from the world of separate objects and awaken to a new realm of nonduality where we see beyond borders and boundaries.

2845. A sacred life is a life where everything is important.

2846. Treat the body like an instrument, not an ornament.

2847. The now becomes secondary when we make the next moment more important. There is no next moment. When the next moment comes, it is now.

2848. Be the flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.

2849. Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go.

2850. Religion’s focus on belonging and believing can obscure the way of transformation.

2851. There’s no education like adversity.

2852. We need to guard against our private and poisonous urge to act without reason.

2853. Pain is a megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

2854. To do the work of love, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

2855. We change when our minds have been opened or our hearts have been broken.

2856. At the end of life, we shall be judged by love.

2857. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

2858. When every difficulty is regarded as ‘our’ problem, we will find solutions together.

2859. Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’

2860. Stress is the gap between expectation and reality. More the gap, more the stress. So expect nothing and accept everything.

2861. We find comfort among those who agree with us, but growth among those who don’t.

2862. When we move our focus from competition to contribution, life becomes celebration

2863. Our best teacher is our last mistake.

2864. Truly, spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.2865. When we do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return, we will never be disappointed.

2866. The only future worth building includes everyone.

2867. Pain patterns get passed on when hurt people hurt people. Meet cruelty with compassion. Love is the weapon of the future.

2868. Forgetting the past that makes us cry creates room to focus on the present that makes us smile.

2869. Different doesn’t mean wrong.

2870. We sometimes think we want to disappear when all we really want is to be found.

2871. The state of our life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of our mind.

2872. The most important hour is the present. The most significant person is the one in front of us. The most necessary work is always love.

2873. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable.

2874. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep our balance we must keep moving.

2875. We don’t grow when things are easy. We grow when we face challenges.

2876. The kindest thing we can do for someone else is to listen without forming an opinion.

2777. We can run from our mistake, but not from our regret.

2778. We know we’re on the right path when we become uninterested in looking back.

2879. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt us.

2880. A dream we dream alone is only a dream. A dream we dream together is a reality.

2881. Without fear there cannot be courage.

2882. Giving away our lives for others is the greatest of all human arts.

2883. Wisdom doesn’t come from speaking. It comes from listening.

2884. Projection, playing the victim, and denial – these patterns perpetuate pain and violence rather than bringing true healing.

2885. Do one thing everyday that’s out of the comfort zone.

2886. Die daily. Become weaker. Cross over.

2887. The secret of change is to focus all energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

2888. Doesn’t matter how far we go if we’re running in the wrong direction.

2889. Do something. We are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

2890. By changing the inner attitudes of our minds, we can change the outer aspects of our lives.

2891. At some point, letting go of possessive attitudes or over-identification with a particular group becomes essential.

2892. All negative emotion really means is that we’re thinking a thought that is divergent from who we really are.

2893. How are we to treat others? There are no others.

2894. Grief is really just all the love we want to give but cannot. It’s unspent love that gathers up, just love with no place to go.

2895. We have to get to a point where our mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else.

2896. When going through hell, keep gong.

2897. Many failures arise when we do not realize how close we are to success when we give up.

2898. Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.

2899. We who are not busy being born are busy dying.

2900. What is life if we don’t live it?

2901. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

2902. When we explain our anger and don’t express it, we will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.

2903. There are no strangers. Only friends we haven’t met yet.

2904. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

2905. The ultimate source of happiness is our mental attitude.

2906. Be patient. Everything comes to us in the right moment.

2907. Be a good person, but don’t waste time to prove it.

2908. Be true to the self. The world will adjust.

2909. The only limits in life are the ones we make.

2910. Don’t waste words on those who deserve our silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can say is nothing at all.

2911. Love and life are finally the same thing.

2912. Wanting to know reasons, we knock on the door. It opens. We realize we’ve been knocking from the inside.

2913. We know it’s love when all we want is the person to be happy, even if we’re not part of their happiness.

2914. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

2915. Some are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that we created.

2916. Good things are coming down the road. Just don’t stop walking.

2917. Bad and good are intertwined like rope.

2918. The first 40 years of childhood are always the hardest.

2919. We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

2920. It is the present and only the present that we live.

2921. It’s a problem when we are hated when we are real, and are loved when we are fake.

2922. Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

2923. When we have to start compromising ourselves for those around us, it’s probably time to change those around us.

2924. Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees.

2925. Whoever is trying to bring us down is already below us.

2926. Every next level of our lives demands a different version of us.

2927. The pathway to bliss is opened when we make a decision to relinquish the ego’s need to control, to be approved, and to judge.

2928. When the universe gives us the passion to want to do something, be 100% assured it has given us the ability as well.

2929. It’s hard to be the person we want to be if our days leave no room for contemplating who that person even is.

2930. Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.

2931. Break-up in love is sometimes a wake-up in life.

2932. If we want to change what’s going on around us, change what’s going on within us.

2933. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives.

2934. “I want happiness.” First remove “I”, that’s ego. Then remove “want”, that’s desire. Then, only “happiness” is left.

2935. Hunger, love, pain and fear are some of those inner forces that rule our instinct for self-preservation.

2936. One is never afraid of the unknown. One is afraid of the known coming to an end.

2937. When we lose, do not lose the lesson.

2938. When the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

2939. When the world says ‘give up’, hope whispers ‘try it one more time’.

2940. Real difficulties can be overcome. It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

2941. Show class with actions, not things.

2942. Someday we will find what we are looking for or maybe we won’t. Maybe we’ll find something much greater than that.

2943. Sometimes we never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

2944. We only lose what we cling to.

2945. The death of the ego is the beginning of our real life.

2946. What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

2947. Surrendering means that we don’t have to fight anymore.

2948. If we do not welcome our wounds, we will despise the wounded.

2949. Wholeness does not mean perfection. It means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

2950. Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

2951. Ten years from now, make sure we can say that we chose our life, we didn’t settle for it.

2952. Don’t stop when tired. Stop when done.

2953. If it doesn’t challenge us, it won’t change us.

2954. What matters most is how we see ourselves.

2955. Surrender anything learned to what is appearing before our face.

2956. No one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves.

2957. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

2958. The secret of our future is hidden in our daily routine.

2959. If we focus on the hurt, we will continue to suffer. If we focus on the lesson, we will continue to grow.

2960. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

2961. Courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

2962. Loses are either passages to anger, blame, depression and resentment, or they are passages to something new and something deeper.

2963. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

2964. Everyday is a second chance.

2965. A tongue has no bones but it is strong enough to break a heart.

2966.They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.

2967. Don’t continue watering a dead flower.

2968. Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.

2969. Without suffering, there would be no compassion.

2970. Be the reason someone smiles today.

2971. Nothing is permanent.

2972. Limits only exist in our mind.

2973. Never give someone the opportunity to waste our time twice.

2974. When we stop trying to change others and work on changing ourselves, our world changes for the better.

2975. Don’t waste energy by worrying. Use energy to believe.

2976. The best success stories have the worst beginnings.

2977. A wise person never knows all. Only fools know everything.

2978. The best way of fulfilling our own interest is to take care of others.

2979. See life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

2980. Beautiful people have known suffering and loss. They have found there way out of the depths. Beautiful people do not just happen.

2981. There are friends, there is family, and then there are those friends who become family.

2982. When the world pushes us to our knees, we’re in the perfect position to pray.

2983. Unless we speak from our heart, we can never touch anyone’s heart.

2984. The only way to do great work is to love what we do. As with all matters of the heart, we’ll know when we find it.

2985. Everyone has a gift for something, even if it’s the gift of being a good friend.

2986. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is learning how to be alone without being lonely.

2987. The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep our mouths shut in any language is priceless.

2988. A lot of what weighs us down isn’t ours to carry.

2989. We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.

2990. In a society that profits from our self-doubt, liking ourselves is a rebellious act.

2991. Letting go of our suffering is hard. Out of fear of the unknown, we prefer suffering that is familiar.

2992. It’s important to realize that we can miss something, but not want it back.

2993. At the end of the day, the only questions we will ask ourselves are: Did I love enough? Did I laugh enough? Did I make a difference?

2994. When we are overwhelmed, tired or stressed, the solution is almost always … less.

2995. We were born originals. Don’t die a copy.

2996. A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.

2997. Wanting to be someone we’re not is a waste of the person we are.

2998. Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives us something to do but never gets us anywhere.

2999. Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

3000. We need at least one friend who understands what we do not say.

3001. There are no problems. Problems just mean that the world is not turning the way we want it. Everything is unfolding as it should.

3002. The best way to cheer ourselves up is to cheer somebody else up.

3003. We should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.

3004. Having a peaceful mind means being aware of when we’ve gone off track and knowing how to bring ourselves back.

3005. Once we stay open, it’s incredible what starts unfolding.

3006. Unfavorable circumstances are the best opportunity we will have to put the teachings into practice.

3007. Disappointment may not mean the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

3008. Peace is the result of retraining our mind to process life as it is, rather than as we think it should be.

3009. Focusing is about saying no.

3010. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time.

3011. We need to say yes to suffering before we can transcend it.

3012. We are not what we do for money. We are what we do for love.

3013. The time will come when we believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

3014. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

3015. We are braver than we believe, stronger than we seem, smarter than we think, and twice as beautiful as we’d ever imagined.

3016. God is not out there. We are in God and God is in us. Our life is not about us. We are about life … about God.

3017. It’s not about being correct. It’s about being connected.

3018. We are beautiful. Nobody has the right to make us feel like we’re not.

3019. Everybody laughs in the same language.

3020. Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

3021. Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the worry and noise of the world.

3022. Invest 100% of the self in doing even very simple things.

3023. The capacity to learn is a gift. The ability to learn is a skill. The willingness to learn is a choice.

3024. Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.

3025. Love thyself enough that any other love just adds more candles to the already iced cake.

3026. The spiritual journey is one of becoming real.

3027. If we think we’re too small to make a difference, we haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.

3028. Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.

3029. Our life begins on the day we decide our life is our own; when we decide to make no more excuses, to rely on no one; to blame no one.

3030. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

3031. In order to love who we are, we cannot hate the experiences that shaped us.

3032. For the benefit of living beings, we should dedicate everything to awakening.

3033. The universe only seems to be made of matter. It’s really made of love.

3034. Once we become fearless, life becomes limitless.

3035. Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

3036. Only through an economy of grace can we see that we don’t need an economy of merit. Grace is a gift with no strings attached.

3037. It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

3038. The body is only an instrument for the spirit.

3039. Many can notice mistakes. Few notice tears, sadness or pain.

3040. Honesty is key to a good relationship.

3041. Sometimes our only available transportation is a leap of faith.

3042. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

3043. The word we seek is speaking in the silence within us.

3044. There are no facts, only interpretations.

3045. There is only one moment in time when it is necessary to awaken. That moment is now.

3046. Never limit one’s view of life by any past experience.

3047. The truth sets us free, but first it pisses us off.

3048. Hurt people hurt people. Break the chain today. Meet cruelty with compassion and kindness. Love is the weapon of the future.

3049. Sometimes people try to expose what’s wrong with us because they can’t handle everything that’s right about us.

3050. Be who you needed when you were younger.

3051. Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

3052. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

3053. Great things take time. Be patient.

3054. Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

3055. True love has no expiration date.

3056. The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp.

3057. Life is such a great teacher that when we don’t learn a lesson, it will repeat it.

3058. Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they do longer lead you anywhere.

3059. Unless we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. It is there that we must do our work.

3060. Our dreams know the way.

3061. Our value does not depend on someone’s inability to see our worth.

3062. We’re already in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.

3063. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

3064. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why it’s recommended daily.

3065. True success is the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

3066. Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

3067. The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts our perception to such an extent that it changes the world we see.

3068. Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

3069. We acknowledge our pain, not to get more depressed or to drown in the suffering, but to see the truth of our experience.

3070. We are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

3071. When we give our heart, problems disappear.

3072. Inhale the present. Exhale the past.

3073. Knowing how to be solitary is central to love. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

3074. Prayer is sitting in the silence until silenced, choosing gratitude until grateful, and praising God until we are an act of praise.

3075. When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

3076. We are strong when we know our weaknesses. We are beautiful when we appreciate our flaws. We are wise when we learn from our mistakes.

3076. Intelligence is our ability to adapt to changes.

3077. When still we can feel the shift that is already happening within us.

3078. The highest form of prayer is to stand silently in awe before God.

3079. Let is hurt. Let it heal. Let it go.

3080. When not at ease being alone, a relationship is sought to cover up the unease. When unease reappears, our partner is held responsible.

3081. The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light.

3082. Without deviations from the norm, progress is not possible.

3083. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

3084. The opportunity to experience ourselves differently is always available.

3085. God works in silence.

3086. Anyone who stops learning is old. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

3087. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet. It is never quiet; peace is always proactive and dynamic.

3088. Transformation has little to do with intelligence or willpower. It has everything to do with honesty, willingness, and surrender.

3089. The world doesn’t want to be saved. It wants to be loved. That’s how it’s saved.

3090. It’s better to be disliked for who we are than liked for who we are not.

3091. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

3092. The one who angers us controls us.

3093. Our joy is our sorrow unmasked.

3094. The fiction of being a separate self is shattered by the revelation of a dynamic energy, which we are in our essential core.

3095. Stop over thinking and making up problems that do not exist.

3096. Our heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

3097. Let’s be known for the lives we live and not the things we can buy.

3098. Whether we focus on what wrong in our life or on what’s right, whatever we focus on, we’re going to get more.

3099. We mature with the damage, not with the years.

3100. Wealth should serve humanity, not visa versa.

3101. We need power only when we want to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough to get everything done.

3102. The sage battles his/her ego. The fool battles everyone else’s.

3103. Whenever we create beauty around us, we are restoring our own soul.

3104. The more we develop concern for others’ wellbeing, the easier it becomes to act in other’s interests.

3105. Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.

3106. Suffering shows us where we’re attached to unhelpful beliefs.

3107. Everything we’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

3108. We must do the thing we think we cannot do.

3109. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. Do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

3110. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

3111. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

3112. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when we are afraid of the light.

3113. The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful we are, the more present we become.

3114. Sometimes our heart needs more time to accept what our mind already knows.

3115. We really only love God as much as we love the person we love the least.

3116. The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

3117. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Start each morning like a shepherd.

3118. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

3119. If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

3120. The present moment is beautiful, but most of the time we don’t look.

3121. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent doubt.

3122. Love thy neighbor as thyself. This is not merely a helpful suggestion. It is the fundamental law of human existence.

3124. Acknowledging the good that we already have in our life is the foundation for all abundance.

3125. The light always shows on the outside if we are striving to be good inside.

3126. When thing are clear in our mind, nobody can create obstacles for us.

3127. It’s connection that ultimately heals us.

3128. Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

3129. It is the knowledge that we are going to die that creates the focus that we bring to being alive, to express love now, not later.

3130. Just because we’re not on someone else’s path doesn’t mean we’re lost.

3131. vTrust it, whether it’s called energy, spirit, or vibes.

3132. Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

3133. Our greatest mistake is that we listen half, understand quarter, think zero and react double.

3134. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

3135. We are either as beautiful or as ugly as we believe we are. We define our beauty. That’s not a power anyone can have over us.

3136. When we are in our flow, time disappears, we forget ourselves, and we feel part of something larger.

3137. Trust instinct to the end, even though we can render no reason.

3138. Lighthouses don’t go running all over the island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining.

3139. Some folks always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. The battle they are fighting isn’t with us, it is with themselves.

3140. Secular freedom is having to do what we want to do. Spiritual freedom is wanting to do what we have to do.

3141. Most people become their thoughts. They do not have thoughts or feelings; the thoughts and feelings have them … possess them.

3142. Love flourishes only in the realm of freedom.

3143. Everything we do is based on choices we make. No one or nothing else is to blame. We are responsible for every decision.

3144. Whether it’s praise, love, power, money, punishment, care, pain, laughter, or pleasure, the more we give, the more we will receive.

3145. Loving unconditionally is a sign that a wound has healed.

3146. If it’s inaccessible to the poor it’s neither radical nor revolutionary.

3147. Be thankful for what we have and we’ll end up having more. If we concentrate on what we don’t have, we’ll never, ever have enough.

3148. It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

3149. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.

3150. Never interrupt someone doing what many said couldn’t be done.

3151. Never blame. Good people give us happiness. Bad people give us experience. Worst people give us lessons. Best people give us memories.

3152. What our heart yearns for is not just a desire; it’s a calling. Don’t just listen; answer.

3153. Enjoy life now. Tomorrow may be too late.

3154. Until we realize that we hold the key to our dreams, we’ll be stuck wishing rather than believing and taking the next small step.

3155. The first step to change is to become aware of our own bullshit.

3156. Destroy negative thoughts when they first appear. This is when they’re the weakest.

3157. Our vibe attracts our tribe.

3158. The past is over. Paying attention to the present is the way to create the future we seek.

3159. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

3160. Love God. Love others. The rest are details.

3161. Be so happy that when others see us they become happy too.

3162. Don’t be a hostage to the past by reviewing and reliving mistakes – what should have, or could have been. Let it go and move on.

3163. We don’t need to defend. We don’t need to prove. We just need to be.

3164. People are not as beautiful as they look or as they talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as they care, as they share.

3165. The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

3166. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we will know peace.

3167. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves … because we are not at peace with God.

3168. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

3169. The false self does not surrender without a fight to its death.

3170. Dying before we’re dead is the real tragedy.

3171. There’s someone out there who needs us. We must live our life so that person can find us.

3172. Repetition is the mother of skill.

3173. Anytime we grow, we lose something. We lose what we’re hanging onto to keep safe and we lose habits that we’re comfortable with.

3174. I screamed at God for the starving child until I saw the starving child was God screaming at me.

3175. We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.

3176. Not enough hours in the day? Stop doing things that don’t matter.

3176, A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

3177. Turn wounds into wisdom.

3178. Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

3179. To live in the present moment means that the past has been integrated into who we are now.

3180. From love we learn a thousand lessons that can never be learned in school.

3181. A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.

3182. Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

3183, A mistake that makes us humble is much better than an achievement that makes us arrogant.

3184,. Looking back over a lifetime we see that love was the answer to everything.

3185. Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.

3185. Live every act fully, as if it were our last.

3186. Half full or half empty is not just an attitude; it’s a prognosis. Half full doesn’t just attract people, it attracts opportunity.

3187. When we’re stressed, we eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

3188. Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

3189. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

3190. The ‘earth’ without art is just ‘eh.’

3191. For every path we choose, there’s another we must abandon.

3192. The best way out is always through.

3193. We would be more likely to learn from our mistakes if we weren’t so busy denying them.

3194. Stillness discloses the fullness of the eternal present.

3195. Sometimes the best reaction is to not react at all.

3196. Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our life.

3197. To know someone’s mind, listen to his or her words. To know their heart, watch their actions.

3198. Like wildflowers, we must allow ourselves to grow in all the places people thought we never would.

3199. Seek those that fan our flames.

3200. When we least expect it, something great will come along. Something better than we ever planned for. Be patient. Stay focused.

3201. Behind every beautiful person or thing, there’s some kind of pain.

3202. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end

3203. When we love one another without any expectations, then there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

3204. Doing what we like is freedom. Liking what we do is happiness.

3205. Careful when blindly following the masses. Sometimes the ‘M’ is silent.

3206. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

3207. The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

3208. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. Chaos exists when things are being loved and people are being used.

3209. By removing the unimportant, we free ourselves up for the important.

3210. When we notice a fault in our neighbor, it’s an opportunity to search for the same within ourselves.

3211. Everything that we think, feel or experience has an affect on our cellular tissue.

3212. Don’t save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is he special occasion.

3213. It is simply impossible to improve either oneself or the world by force.

3214. Hope is the single greatest act against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.

3215. Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

3216. We need to learn to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get to happiness.

3217. It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

3218. Give the ones we love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

3219. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

3220. Sometimes not getting what we want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

3221. The more we are motivated by love, the more fearless and free our action will be.

3222. Just one small positive thought in the morning can change our whole day.

3223. We don’t always have to close a door to walk through a new one.

3224. When we explain our anger and don’t express it, we will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.

3225. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless we live so cautiously that we might as well have not lived at all.

3226. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past. Letting go is knowing that there’s a future.

3227. Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all.

3228. Every time we are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if we want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

3229. When we let go of what we are, we become what we might be. When we let go of what we have, we receive what we need.

3230. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are part of our history, but not a part of our destiny.

3231. This very moment is the only one we know we have for sure.

3232. If it cost us our peace, it’s too expensive.

3233. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

3234. The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and are being loved when they are fake.

3235. Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future, to always remain in the present.

3236. Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

3237. Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

3238. If it takes six hours to chop down a tree, spend the first four sharpening the axe.

3239. The most dangerous thing we can do in life is to play it safe.

3240. We who learn must suffer, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

3241. When we keep facing the sunshine, our shadows fall behind us.

3242. Happiness is found, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.

3243. We either define the moment or the moment will define us.

3244. In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

3245. Life doesn’t give us the people we want. It gives us the people we need to make us who we were meant to be.

3246. What we want is there for us whenever we want it. Putting it off until tomorrow is a never-ending trap.

3247. Do not discredit what others believe. Reflect a light that is so lovely that others want to know the source of it.

3248. Let us move to the next chapter in life when the time comes.

3249. If we are not content today, there is nothing we can buy to change that.

3250. The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

3251. Worry is a misuse of imagination.

3252. Spiritual practice is a divine discovery process whereby we integrate the sacred into our everyday common life.

3253. If we can change our mind, we can change our life.

3254. When another person makes us suffer, it is because they suffer deeply and the suffering is spilling over, asking for help.

3255. Being kind is highly underrated.

3256. Spirituality is learning to live heaven on earth.

3257. Our story could be the key that unlocks someone else’s prison.

3258. Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

3259. There is more to knowing than just being correct.

3260. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

3261. One with outward courage dares to die. One with inner courage dares to live.

3262. When we stop chasing the wrong things, the right things have a chance to find us.

3263. If we want to make something good happen in our life, make something good happen in our life.

3264. In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

3265. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them in a way they could never go back to the person they once were.

3266. A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.

3265. Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

3267. Life is beautiful if we know where to look.

3268. Have the patience to wait until our mud settles and the water is clear.

3269. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

3270. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

3271. Our lives as believers should make nonbelievers question their disbelief.

3272. If they matter, let them know before it’s too late.

3273. Contemplation is about letting go of the false self, shedding ourselves as the central reference point.

3274. Authentic spirituality, a universal accessibility, invitation and inclusivity, surpasses all boundaries or any measure of worthiness.

3275. Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction in the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

3276. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really us, so we can be who we were meant to be in the first place.

3277. Destiny is our life’s purpose, the place where our passions meet the world’s needs.

3278. Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

3279. Hopefully, sooner than later, we find the freedom to say no to the things that no longer serve us.

3280. We are not born winners and we are not born losers. We are born choosers.

3281. Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.

3282. We have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in our lives as they are now.

3283. Only by self-respect will we compel others to respect us.

3284. Others are not against us; they are only for themselves.

3285. When we come to the end of our rope, tie a knot and hold on.

3286. Some days there won’t be a song in our heart. Sing anyway.

3287. We are equal to every person on this planet regardless of income, talent, skill, or social position.

3288. When we dance our purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It is to enjoy each step along the way.

3289. We can make the changes necessary to live true to our hearts desire.

3290. Chasing happiness as if it is something outside ourselves is like a cat chasing its own tail.

3291. Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

3292. We cannot always control what is going on around us, but we can always control what we think about what is going on around us.

3293. We are not stuck. We just think we are.

3294. When our dreams and desires start to come, we may find ourselves thinking, “I don’t deserve this.” Guess what? We do deserve it!

3295. Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is thing to be achieved.

3296. We are the beginning of the transformed world.

3297. Understanding the cross, the greatest revelation of God, is to trust its invitation to divine union.

3298. Stop focusing on how stressed we are. Remember how blessed we are.

3299. Miracles are a shift in perception.

3300. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

3301. Many people fail at life because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.

3302. Overthinking only creates the problems that were never there.

3303. Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.

3304. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of our life.

3305. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

3306. Real innovation is in finding ways to include everyone.

3307. The reward for conformity is that everyone likes us except ourselves.

3308. Don’t cling to a mistake just because a lot of time was spent making it.

3309. Pain is not a punishment. Pleasure is not a reward.

3310. No one has ever become poor by giving.

3311. Do not fix problems. When the thinking is fixed, the problems fix themselves.

3312. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

3313. There’s something about letting a larger creative spirit take hold and create through us. The imperative is to do what’s most fun.

3314. Honor the space between no longer and not yet.

3315. Grief is the love we want to give but cannot. It’s just love with no place to go.

3316. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

3316. If we don’t make peace with our past, it will keep showing up in our present.

3317. Don’t be pushed by problems. Be pulled by dreams.

3318. Most smiles are started by another smile.

3319. If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

3320. Thinking is difficult, that’s why most of us judge.

3321. Most of us don’t really want the truth; we just want a constant assurance that what we believe is the truth.

3322. If we focus on the hurt, we will continue to suffer. If we focus on the lesson, we will continue to grow.

3323. Wisdom is the ability to see the truth of any situation and act with kindness.

3324. Serenity comes when we trade expectations for acceptance.

3325. Easy is to judge the mistakes of others. Difficult is to recognize our won mistakes.

3326. The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what we’re made of, not the circumstances.

3327. Patience is when we’re supposed to get mad, but we choose to understand.

3328. Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.

3329. Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose.

Are we ready to die for the one we love?

3330. Unity does not mean uniformity.

3331. Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means we’re stronger than whatever tried to hurt us.

3332. Don’t get into something to test the waters. Go into things to make waves.

3334. Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.

3335. Without rain nothing grows. This is why the storms of life are to be embraced.

3336. Every single thing that has ever happened in our life is preparing us for a moment that is yet to come.

3337. If we don’t fight for what we want, we have no business crying for what we lost.

3338. No matter how slow we go, we are still lapping everybody on the couch.

3339. Honesty has power that very few of us can handle.

3340. Faith is how to believe, not what to believe.

3341. The spiritual journey is the commitment to allow everything we possess to be taken away before the dying process begins.

3342. Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

3343. Faith in Christ’ is more accurately translated as ‘faith of Christ’ – to share in the faith of Jesus vs. to just believe in Jesus.

3344. Faith is a foundational confidence or trust that God cares about what is happening right now.

3345. Love is a living organism, an active force-field upon which we can rely, from which we can draw, and then, allow to pass through us.

3346. Coming to terms with our human weaknesses is the forerunner to recognition of the power of Christ within us.

3347. Open-minded people embrace being wrong, are free of illusions, don’t mind what people think of them, and question everything.

3348. Remember that sometimes not getting what we want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

3349. Not all classrooms have four walls.

3350. Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.

3351. A meaningful life is not about possessions, popularity or perfection. It is about humility and being able to share with others.

3352. Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

3353. Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

3354. One small positive thought in the morning can change our entire day.

3355. Seeing the good in the bad, the happy in the sad, and the gain in the pain, makes us 

grateful not hateful.

3356. To be rich is not defined by what we have in our bank account. It’s what we have in our heart.

3357. We must move from a belief-based spirituality to a practice-based spirituality, or little will change in the world.

3358. Forgiveness creates an obligation for which there are no exceptions allowed.

3359. Love is a fire that goes out if it does not kindle others.

3360. When the ego’s counting, measuring, earning, judging and punishing ends, the love of God within us begins to move through us.

3361. We never see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.

3362. When we can’t control what’s happening, it’s time to challenge ourselves to control the way we respond. That’s where our power is.

3363. If it doesn’t feel right, go left.

3364. When there are no enemies within, the enemies outside cannot hurt us.

3365. Rock bottom has built more heroes than privilege.

3366. There are far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.

3367. Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

3368. Counting other’s sins does not make us saints.

3369. Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere we don’t belong.

3370. Help someone not for the reward, but for the sake of changing a life.

3371. When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone, avoids the storm by flying above it.

3372. We may think that our light is small, but it can make a huge difference in other’s lives.

3373. The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

3374. We learn more from failure than from success. Failure builds character.

3375. Do not risk spending your life doing what you don’t want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

3376. Go where we are celebrated. Not where we are tolerated.

3377. We spend the most time in our life with ourselves. That is why it is important to try to make us as interesting as possible.

3378. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why it’s recommended daily.

3379. Everyone we meet is afraid of something, has loved something and has lost something.

3380. An entire sea can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Negativity can’t put us down unless we allow it to get inside.

3381. Toxic information stored in the body over time becomes disease. Enlightening information counters this because it exposes it.

3382. Sometimes, it’s now or never.

3383. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

3384. When the heart is at peace, for and against is forgotten.

3385. Jesus spent his whole life engaging folks most of us have spent our whole life trying to avoid.

3386. The person we think of in the morning and then at night is either the cause of our happiness or the cause of our pain. Sometimes both.

3387. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

3389. Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

3390. We are not afraid of the unknown. We are afraid of the known coming to an end.

3391. Our mission is to make the grace of an invisible God, visible.

3392. When we empty our mind, we become shapeless, formless, and powerful, like water.

3393. There are two great days in our life.  The day we are born and the day we discover why.

3394. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

3395. One of the best lessons we can learn in life is to master how to stay calm.

3396. When we think everything is someone else’s fault, we will suffer a lot.

3397. At the end of the day, the world will either be a more or less kind, compassionate, and loving place because of our presence.

3398. The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

3399. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

3400. In the end, it’s not the words from our enemies that hurt, but the silence from our friends.

3401. The real cost of our possessions is felt in the time and energy and stress required to care for them.

3402. We are under no obligation to be the same person we were a year, month, or even 15 minutes ago. We have the right to grow.

3403. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

3404. We are all the leaves of one tree. We are all the waves of one sea.

3405. The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

3406. The giving of love is an education in itself.

3407. Treat every moment as the last. It is not preparation for something else.

3408. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.

3409. Don’t believe everything that is thought.

3410. Let go or be dragged.

3411. We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

3412. The question is not what we look at, but what we see.

3413. Do not get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future.

3414. Everything connects with everything else.

3415. The truth is that we already are what we are seeking.

3416. It does not require many words to speak the truth.

3417. We are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

3418. We are spiritual by nature.

3419. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

3420. We need a collective awakening

3421. Our life is our message.

3422. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

3423. Imagine how beautiful we could be if we all loved as strongly as we hated.

3424. We’re always one decision away from a totally different life.

3425. All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what we don’t need and who we are not.

3426.  When we subordinate the relief and comfort of others to our convenience and riches, the more we want in love.

3427. Focus not on the problem. What we focus on grows.

3428. An important fruit of prayer is to be purified of our childish idea about God.

3429. The three options we have when unhappy are to remove ourselves, change it, or accept it totally, and then accept the consequences.

3430. Waiting for someone else to make us happy is the best way to be sad.

3431. It’s about awakening, not accomplishing. The journey is about realization, not perfection. We cannot get there; we can only be there.

3432. The ego makes life about achievement and attainment. As a result, religion has become a worthiness contest where we lose or give up.

3433. Union with God is about awareness and realignment, a revolution of the mind and heart.

3434. Sin is not so much a moral mistake as it is a mistake about who we are and whose we are.

3435. We do evil only when we are unconscious, when we do not know what we are doing.

3436. Most of us are not sinners. We are just ignorant.

3437. When we let go of what we are, we create the room needed to become what’s next.

3438. It is our mistakes that lead us to god. We come to divine union not by doing it right but by doing it wrong.

3439. Necessary and predictable transgression – and the need for mercy that follows – is the pattern of transformation.

3440. We are not sinful beings to be redeemed, but neglectful and forgetful beings endowed with the primordial light.

3441. Without forgiveness the logic of victimhood and perpetrator rules instead of the illogic of love.

3442. Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

3443. God doesn’t want from us. God wants for us.

3444. When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

3445. Our own life has to be our message.

3446. Sometimes bad things open our eyes to good things we weren’t paying attention to before.

3447. It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.

3448. Everyone has a chapter they don’t read out loud.

3449. If we want to understand any problem, we need to focus on who profits from that problem, not who suffers from the problem.

3450. Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

3451. We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn how to surf.

3452. Forgive them even if they’re not sorry.

3453. Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

3454. If we don’t fight for what we want, don’t cry for what we lost.

3454. A successful person is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that have been thrown at them.

3455. Don’t confuse power with leadership. The wise don’t need power to heal.

3456. Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

3457. Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

3458. The day we stop racing is the day we win the race.

3459. We never know how strong we are until being strong is our only choice.

3460. By being kind to others we learn the secret of being kind to ourselves.

3461. Life always offers us a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.

3462. The best way to be happy with someone is to learn to be happy alone. That way the company is a matter of choice and not necessity.

3463. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

3464. Not until we are completely lost or turned around do we begin to find ourselves.

3465. Forgiveness unlocks doors of resentment and handcuffs of hate. It breaks chains of bitterness and shackles of selfishness.

3466. The attempt to be perfect only makes us resentful and judgmental.

3467. Grateful people emerge in a world where even darkness is not a surprise but an opportunity.

3468. Our beauty lies in our capacity to accept who we are, just as we are; wanting to be who we are and therefore, with reality as it is.

3469. To lose a loved one is to be called to come to genuine terms with that loss, or risk losing touch with that in us that loved.

3470. A year from now, everything we’re stressing about won’t even matter.

3471. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of coming attractions.

3472. Whatever our mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.

3473. We will see it when we believe it.

3474. It’s not what’s happening that’s important. What’s important is our relationship to what’s happening.

3475. Without the sense of belonging, we cannot understand our deepest reality.

3476. Dying is not the end. It is just the beginning. It is a continuation of life. We only surrender our ego or body in death.

3477. Participation in the Divine is only communal. Tragedy results when we constrict God and ourselves to a path of personal salvation.

3478. Spiritual evolution is the path of liberation from the illusions of the false, separate self and the ego into transforming union.

3479. If it should have, it would have.

3480. There is no place to go where we are separate from the ever-generative womb of the living universe. We are already home.

3481. The universe is a communion and a community. We ourselves are that communion conscious of itself.

3482. What we plant in the soil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action.

3483. Laughter may well be the ultimate act of letting go and letting be.

3484. Life is about becoming fully usable by God.

3485. Nonviolent action is not so much a means of achieving unity as it is the fruit of inner unity already achieved.

3486. Pray that our loneliness may spur us into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

3487. Love does not rest as long as there are inequalities in love anywhere.

3488. The infinite love of God will not rest until we are equal to God in love.

3489. Although we are not God, we are not other than God either. Although we are not each other, we are not other either.

3490. When we die to the illusion that anything less than love is real, we become aware that Love is giving itself away as our life.

3491. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. In other words, as within, so without.

3492. We suffer because we are caught in our views. As soon as we release them, we are free from suffering.

3493. Mindfulness helps us go home to the present. Life is available only in the present.

3494. The goal is not to be better than the other, but to be better than our previous self.

3495. We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

3496. Not taking failures personally allows us to recover – and even to thrive.

3497. Gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience.

3498. It’s the hard days – the days that challenge us to our very core – that determine who we are.

3499. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

3500. Not everything that happens to us happens because of us.

3501. We find our humanity, our will to live and our ability to love, in our connections to one another.

3502. It’s the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.

3503. We are more vulnerable than we ever thought, but also stronger than we ever imagined.

3504. The best antidote to hate is tolerance.

3505. We hold ourselves back by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

3506. When offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat.

3507. Trying to do it all and expecting it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

3508. The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

3509. Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.

3510. Since nothing is in our control, just relax.

3511. A meaningful life is not about riches or popularity. It’s about being able to humbly share ourselves and touch the lives of others.

3512. If we can find money to kill people we can find money to help people.

3513. We cannot do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good we can do.

3514. Every increase in consciousness comes with a price. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

3515. There is no holiness in this world except social holiness.

3516. Hang out with people who make us forget to look at our phone.

3517. A mistake that makes us humble is better than an achievement that makes us arrogant.

3518. Be good to people for no reason. 

3519. True transcendence always includes the previous stages, yet somehow also reshapes and expands them.

3520. Dare to turn what is happening in the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it.

3521. Connect with the suffering of someone one or some place and discern one’s own part to play in healing our collective brokenness.

3522. We are in denial when we fabricate our own preferred reality and all evidence is to the contrary.

3523. When we speak only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, our message becomes meaningless.

3524. When the way we perceive the world changes, the way we relate to the world changes.

3525. Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

3526. If our compassion does not include ourselves, it is incomplete.

3527. Stop planting flowers in people’s yards who are not going to water them.

3528. People aren’t against us. They’re for themselves.

3529. Climb mountains not so the world can see us, but so we can see the world.

3530. The most dangerous risk of all is spending life not doing what we want on the bet we can buy ourselves freedom to do it later.

3531. Go where celebrated. Not where tolerated.

3532. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why it’s recommended daily.

3533. Everyone we meet is afraid of something, has loved something, and has lost something.

3534. Liberation is not something we have to create. Liberation is inside us.

3535. How wonderful it is that none of us need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

3536. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

3537. Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how we learn how to walk.

3538. When believing in something, believe in it all the way – implicitly and unquestionably.

3539. If it can be dreamt, it can be done.

3540. The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

3541. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

3542. Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it go.

3543. Never let relationship status, income, or looks define. It’s generosity, kindness, and compassion that count.

3544. God comes to us disguised as our life.

3545. Life gives us whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of our consciousness.

3546. God is hidden in plain sight. It’s a shame that religion makes it more complicated.

3547. God’s love is like water. It seeks the lowest place.

3548. God will remain somewhere else until we shift our thinking of God as ‘out there’ to knowing God ‘in here.’

3549. God is not elsewhere and heaven is not later.

3550. Since he mind is often bored in the present, it must be trained to stop replaying the past and planning or worrying about the future.

3551. Surrender comes when we no longer ask, “Why is this happening to me?”

3552. Every disaster contains a seed of grace.

3553. We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us, and wealth classified us.

3554. The generosity of God loves us into existence. We bear witness to this by the way we treat ourselves, others, and all living things.

3555. It is better if we had the faith of Jesus instead of simply having faith in Jesus.

3556. The opposite for courage is not cowardice. It is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

3557. Much of common religion is well-designed self-interest – high premium insurance for the afterlife – instead of self-emptying love.

3558. Sin is the imagined state of separation. It is our own delusion and decision.

3559. The world suffers not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.

3600. Be thankful for all those ho say no to us. It’s because of them that we do it ourselves.

3601. If friendship is our weakest point, then we are the strong.

3602. Coins always make sounds. Paper money is always silent. So, when our value increases, keep silent and humble.

3603. The reign of God is what happens. To be open to that reign is to be prepared to accept what happens.

3604. Our task is simply to embody heaven now. We cannot “get there”; we can only “be there” – which ironically is to “be here!” 

3605. Love is not so much an action that we do, but a reality that we are. We don’t decide to be loving. Love is our True Self. 

3606. All spiritual growth is no more than a matter of becoming who we already are.

3607. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

3608. Trying to make at least three people smile each day changes our lives. Peace begins with a smile.

3609. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

3610. Making peace with the past is the way not to spoil the present.

3611. Frame every so-called disaster with this question: ‘In five years, will this matter?’

3612. What other people think of us is none of our business.

3613. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

3614. Jealousy is a waste of time. We already have all we need.

3615. We are too blessed to be stressed.

3616. Some people come into our life as blessings. Some come into our life as lessons.

3617. Do things for others not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who we are.

3618. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

3619. Spread love everywhere.

3620. Bitterness hasn’t a chance when we learn to read those sacred texts written in the eyes and on all the foreheads of those around us.

3621. We cannot know God in an intimate, experiential way with our mind alone.

3622. The call to be grateful is a call to trust that any moment can lead us to new life.

3623. The purpose of prayer and spiritual seeking is to see the truth about reality, to see what is.

3624. We don’t have to deny, dismiss, defy, or ignore. What is, is the great teacher.

3625. Only when we are eager to love can we see love and goodness in the world around us.

3626. Reacting to unjust systems with only judgmental and argumentative thinking produces more of the same.

3627. Failure is an event, not a person.

3628. We must discover and accept what unique part of the divine mystery is our to reflect.

3629. It takes incredible courage to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality, to trust our divine image and grow in God’s likeness. 

3630.  The flow of love is not possible with an imbalance of power.

3631. Grace meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

3632. The price of transformation is high. It means changing our loyalties from ego and control to service and surrender.

3622. The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening.

3623. Don’t fear tomorrow; God is already there.

3624. Where we stumble, there lies our treasure.

3625. Living simply is not about deprivation. It’s living an examined life where what is enough is decided and just letting go of the rest.

3626. When we avoid conflict to keep the peace we start a war inside ourselves.

3627. Anyone can find dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

3628. Our hardest battle is between what we know in our head and what we feel in our heart.

3629. When we stop chasing the wrong things, the right things catch up to us.

3630. There is nowhere we can be that isn’t where we’re meant to be.

3631. We all have two lives. The second starts when we realize we only have one.

3632. Calm is a super power.

3633. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most folks just exist.

3634. The world is changed by our example, not our opinion.

3635. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to changes.

3636. Sometimes not getting what we want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

3637. Everyone us a genius. But is we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that it is stupid.

3638. Be a camera. Focus on what’s important, capture good times, develop from negatives and when things don’t work out, take another shot.

3639. Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music

3640. The less we say, the more our words will matter.

3641. Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really us.

3642. God is too big to be contained in one religion or one galaxy. 

3643. There is a necessary cycle of loss and renewal that keeps all things moving toward ever further life.

3644. Anger is a punishment that we give ourselves, for someone else’s mistake.

3645. The future can exist only when we understand the universe as composed of subjects to be communed with, not as objects to be exploited.

3646. The meaning of life is to find our gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

3647. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

3648. Often, it’s darkness that leads us to our light.

3649. It is grace that forms the void inside of us and it is grace alone that can fill the void.

3650. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

3651. We are now a byproduct of society. Once we realize this, we see how our defenses and aggressions existed solely to maintain the ego.

3652. We are never greater than we are right now. Our worth is already complete and never changes, only our relationship to it evolves.

3653. We are here to provide a gift to this world. Until we present our true self to the world, our present to the world will go unopened.

3654. Everything will be ok as soon as we are okay with everything. That's the only time everything’s ok.

3655. We are all artists, born to create an amazing day today.

3656. To live nonviolently requires that we recognize God’s image in everything. We cannot be violent toward that which we see the divine in.

3657. The practice of active nonviolence offers a way out of war, corporate greed, climate change, systemic racism, and extreme poverty.

3658. The moment we open our eyes to the reality of creation, be present to it, take it in, and honor it, a new creation is offered to us.

3659. When our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation, we have no present. 

3660. Until we realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience, we are out of touch with reality.

3661. If we focus on the hurt, we will continue to suffer. If we focus on the lesson, we will continue to grow.

3662. We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

3663. If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole world would be clean.

3664. We can’t go back and change the beginning, but we can start where we are and change the ending.

3665. Be the reason someone feels loved.

3666. Leadership is helping others see potential in themselves they can’t yet see.

3667. Not all storms come to disrupt our lives, some come to clear our paths.

3668. Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.

3669. Everything we are going through is preparing us for what we asked for.

3670. A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan acted on becomes reality.

3671. The gospel is less about how to get into heaven after we die, and more about how to live in heaven before we die.

3672. Be realistic. Expect miracles.

3673. In order to love who we are, we cannot hate the experiences that shaped us.

3674. There are two types of tired. One is a dire need of sleep. The other is a dire need of peace.

3675. Be a master of the mind, not mastered by the mind.

3676. We receive everything we need when we stop asking for what we do not need.

3676. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

3677. Meditation is a kind of grooving with the eternal now.

3678. The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

3679. Simple is good.

3680. Those who are contented are rich.

3681. Light must come from inside. We cannot ask the darkness to leave. We must turn on the light.

3682. Character is how we treat those who can do nothing for us.

3683. Waking up to who we are requires letting go of who we imagine ourselves to be.

3684. We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.

3685. Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.

3686. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

3687. Never judge someone by the opinion of others.

3688. When we can’t control what’s happening, control the response to what’s happening. That’s where our power is.

3689. Peace through strength is a dangerous lie that only creates a false sense of security. 

3690. Retributive justice will never constitute the basis for peaceful coexistence. Only an ethic of solidarity restores justice between us.

3691.  Instead of hating training wheels once taken off the bike, thank them for getting us started on our cycling journey.

3692. Some of the best lessons in life come from the worst experiences. Often, it is here where we learn to be grateful.

3693. Sometimes the storm is calmed. Sometimes it rages on so that we find our way to calm.

3694. Nobody can block the blessings we deserve to experience in our lives except ourselves. What’s for us is for us. Just trust.

3695. When a flower doesn’t bloom, fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

3696. One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace that big weapons.

3697. Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.

3698. Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

3699. Everything we do is based on the choices we make. We and only us are responsible for every decision and choice we make.

3700. Stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

3701. As we breathe right now, another person is taking their last breath. So stop complaining and live with what have been given.

3702. Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

3703. Not all storms come to destroy us, some come to clear our path.

3704. Our thoughts are seeds that we plant.

3705. To be beautiful is to be ourselves. We don’t need to be accepted by others. We only need to accept ourselves.

3706. When given a new beginning, don’t repeat old mistakes.

3707. Sometimes we forgive people simply because we still want them in our life.

3708. If real change is sought, we must be willing to change our mind first.

3709. Stop trying to calm the storm. After calming ourselves, the storm passes.

3710. Difficulties do not come to destroy is, but to help us realize our hidden potential and power.

3711. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

3712. If we need nice things to impress our friends, we have the wrong friends.

3713. Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.

3714. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. The treasure we seek is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

3715. . The sacrifice of self is the greatest calling imaginable. The sacrifice for self is the most pathetic calling conceivable.

3716. Leaders are best when people barely know they exist. When their work is done, their aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves. 

3717. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. 

3718. Revolutionary ideas do not change institutions. People change them by taking the risks to serve, lead, and care. 

3719. Titles mean nothing. The one with a servant’s heart is the leader. 

3720. To be free is not merely casting off chains, but living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. 

3721. A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible. 

3722. Servant leadership always asks “Where an I needed most?” 

3723. Leadership is strong, but not rude; kind but not weak; bold but not bully; humble but not timid; proud but not arrogant. 

3724. The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. 

3725. A great leader does not to give greatness to human beings, but helps them extract the greatness they already have inside them. 

3726. Integrity is choosing our thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gains. 

3727. Leaders don’t create followers. They create leaders. 

3728. It’s very important to have a feedback loop, where we’re always thinking about what we’ve done and how we could be doing it better. 

3729. No one will become a great leader if they want to do it all by themselves or get credit for doing it. 

3830. Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, critical to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity.

3731. Every time we judge someone else, we reveal an unhealed part of ourselves.

3732. Discipline is foregoing immediate pleasure for the exchange of long-term self-respect. Self-discipline is self-love.

3733. Work like the money is not needed. Love like hurt has never come. Dance like nobody’s watching.

3734. One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

3735. Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

3736. The future belongs to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.

3737. The first 40 years of childhood are always the hardest.

3738. There is only one way to bring in the new. Only ending the old way can do that. We must make room for it

3739. The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

3740. Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, and speak without offending.

3741. Sit in silence until it silences. Choose gratitude until grateful.

3742. Speak in such a way that others love to listen. Listen in such a way that others love to speak.

3743. We can’t go back and change the beginning, but we can start where we are and change the ending.

3744. Rather than build a wall, look into a mirror to reflect on what we’ve become.

3745. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

3746. If we all sweep in front of our own door, the whole world will be clean.

3747. To reach a state of bliss, make a decision to go beyond the ego’s need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.

3748. When given the passion to want to do something, be 100% assured the ability is there as well.

3749. Beware of avoiding the temporary discomfort of change to bring the body back to a state of balance. Beware of the tomorrow trap.

3750. When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, and accept others exactly as they are, we will finally have peace.

3751.We can either feel sorry for ourselves or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is an opportunity for or obstacle to growth.

3752. When we replace, “why is this happening to me?” with “what is this trying to teach me?” everything shifts.

3753. College doesn’t automatically make one smarter than another. Common sense doesn’t come with a degree.

3754. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

3755. The fear of not being enough, and the fear of being too much, is exactly the same fear – the fear of being ourselves.

3756. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different.

3757. Sometimes there is no next time, no timeouts, and no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

3758. Consider the possibility that the obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping-stones.

3759. Love is able to pull out the potential for good that lies deep within a selfish soul.

3760. Leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

3761. Peace is invincible because it contends with nothing.

3762. As soon as we concern ourselves with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of others, we create an opening in our heart for maliciousness to enter.

3763.Heaven is right where we are standing, and that is the place to train … and live.

3764. Our old life is an old life – one we have already lived and do not have to keep living. We are too wondrous for one life.

3765. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference

3766. A negative mind will never give us a positive life.

3767. When we forgive someone who betrayed us, we make room for more love from those who appreciate us.

3768. Our mistakes don’t define us.

3769. When we become a diamond, we understand why life had to pressure us.

3770. In ordinary life we hardy realize that we receive a great deal more than we give. It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

3771. Frustration, despair, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, and all other painful emotions motivate us to change our status quo.

3772. In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

3773. There’s a purpose for our pain, a reason for our struggles, and a reward for our faithfulness.

3774. Ironing boards are surfboards that gave up their dream and ended up with a boring job.

3775. There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person we once were.

3776. Do one thing at a time and do it entirely and it will lead us to the next moment of love.

3777. For every moment of joy sprouting there is a new moment of struggle taking root.

3778. Shedding opens us to self-transformation. Those of us who refuse such renewal will be forced to undergo transformation anyway.

3779. The real test is being kind to unkind people.

3780. Unless we let go, forgive ourselves; forgive the situation, unless we realize that the situation is over, we cannot move forward.

3781. The answers we seek never come when the mind is busy; they come when the mind is still.

3782. In every game, only the audience makes noise. Be a player.

3783. Positive people have negative thoughts; they just don’t let it control them.

3784. Manure helps a garden grow. All the shit in our lives serves our growth and helps transform us into something resilient and delicious.

3785. We cannot force someone to comprehend a message that they are not ready to receive. Still, never underestimate the power of planting a seed.

3786. Being deeply loved gives us strength. Loving someone deeply gives us courage.

3787. The only source of knowledge is experience.

3788. Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.

3789. Nothing is softer than water, but its force can break the strongest of rocks.

3790. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

3791. In the twilight of life, we will not be judged on our earthly possession and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

3792. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

3793. Hurt people hurt people. Break the chain. Meet cruelty with kindness. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the only future

3794. Dream as if we’ll live forever. Live as if we’ll die today.

3795. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

3796. It’s not what we look at. It’s what we see.

3797. If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

3798. Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is not art.

3799. Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, “I’m possible.”

3800. Anyone can find dirt in someone. Be the one who finds gold.

3801. We did not wake up today to be mediocre.

3802. We are either led by our spirit … or our wound.

3803. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

3804. Our visions become clear when we look into our heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

3805. A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

3806. Pain is energy that has gotten stuck.

3807. Our perception is our reality.

3808. It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

3809. Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.

3810. For every path we choose, there’s another we must abandon

3811. Sometimes not getting what we want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

3812. We only get a limited time on this earth. Today is a good day to do something great.

3813. Let us not talk falsely now. The hour is getting late.

3814. Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.

3815. Each of us deserves a day a week where no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

3816. Though life can only be understood backwards, it must be lived forwards.

3817. Prayer is attention.

3818. In our beginning is our end.

3819. See with the heart.

3820. Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

3821. The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses it.

3822. What we do today is important because we are exchanging a day of our life for it.

3823. Revenge weakens society. Forgiveness gives it strength.

3824. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

The ultimate source of a happy life is the attention we pay to our inner values.

3825. The best way of fulfilling our own interest is to take care of others.

3826. Love without conditions. Talk without bad intentions. Give without reasons. Care without expectations.

3827. We only have control over three things in life – the thoughts we think, the images we visualize, and the actions we take.

3828. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If we love what we are doing, we will be successful.

3829. More of us would learn from out mistakes if we weren’t so busy denying them.

3830. Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when we are alone.

3831. The universe doesn’t allow perfection.

3832. Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating, “you’re not alone.”

3833. The best view comes after the hardest climb.

3834. Every time tempted to react in the same old way, the decision is between being a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

3835. It’s not about what we’re called. It’s about what we answer to.

3836. It’s not ‘what will life bring us’ as much as ‘what will we create’.

3837. When we love, whatever we do is because we want to do it and don’t expect something to happen because whatever happens is okay.

3838. If we want to fly, it is important that we give up everything that weighs us down.

I we want to see the truth, we must be brave enough to look.

3839. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

3840. Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

3842. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

3843. Speed doesn’t matter. Forward is forward.

38454. Compassion asks us to go to where it hurts, to enter into a place of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish.

3846. There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s synchronicity.

3847. We weren’t born to just pay bills and die.

3848. In the end, it is not the years in our life that count, it’s that life in our years.

3849. Happiness is a choice, not a result. Our happiness does not come to us. It comes from us.

3850. Loneliness doesn’t come from being alone; it comes from feeling that nobody cares.

3851. Sometimes life doesn’t give us what we want. It’s not because we don’t deserve it. It’s because we deserve so much better.

3852. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

3853. There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.

3854. We deserve the life we are longing for

3855. What others say about us is not a reflection of us; it is a reflection of their world.

3856. To move into wholeness and joy, we must embrace our pain by allowing it to push us from where we are to where we need to be.

3857. It’s by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Were we stumble, there lies our treasure.

3858. Wisdom tells us we are nothing. Love tells us we are everything. Between the two our life flows.

3859. No amount of guilt can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

3860. We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope that things beyond imagination are coming.

3861. Many times what we need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

3862. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

3863. Don’t lose hope. We we’re down to nothing, God is up to something.

3864. The world will not be destroyed by those who so evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

3865. Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.

3866. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

3867. Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

3868. There is a huge amount of freedom that comes when we take nothing personally.

3869. There is a purpose for our pain, a reason for our struggles, and a reward for our faithfulness.

3870. Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.

3871. When something is gone. Something better is coming.

3872. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

3873. The past only has power if we give it permission.

3874. If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again.

3875. We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

3876. Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

3877. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

3878. Overthinking does nothing, but kill our happiness.

3879. Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again

3880. Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that is useful. Benefit comes from what is there; usefulness from what is not there.

3881. It takes time to practice generosity, but being generous is the best use of our time.

3882. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.

3883. When we look for the good in others, we discover the best in ourselves.

3884. Joy comes from using our potential.

3885. Actions prove who we are, words just prove who we want to be.

3886. Without rain nothing grows. Embrace life’s storms.

3889. Sometimes life actually gives to us by taking away.

3890. Listen without judgment, speak without prejudice, help without entitlement, understand without pretension, and love without condition.

3891. There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

3892. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but our thoughts about it.

3893. When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.

3894. Sometimes we don’t feel the weight of something we’ve been carrying until we feel the weight of its release.

3895. Our lives become masterpieces when we learn to master peace.

3896. It is time to reinvent ourselves in love.

3897. We become people of liberation and healing as we ourselves walk along the road toward inner healing and liberation.

3898. Sometimes life is about risking it all for a dream no one else can see.

3899. At any given moment we have the power to say: “This is not how the story is going to end.”

3900. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

3901. Hate takes energy. Love is effortless.

3902. Minimalism isn’t about removing things we love. It’s more about removing the things that distract us from the things we love.

3903. No one has ever become poor by giving.

3904. Depression doesn’t diminish a person’s desire to connect with other people, just their ability.

3905. We have been placed where we’re at in this very moment for a reason. Remember that and trust everything will be worked out.

3906 It’s not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

3907. When we see we are nothing, that is wisdom. When we see we are everything, that is love. Life moves between the two.

3908. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

3909. Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

3910. If going through hell, keep going.

3912. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

3913. There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

3914. Those who believe are strong; those who doubt are weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

3915. This is not the time to overthink. This is the time to overcome.

3916. Changing our perception of God has the potential to change everything.

3917. We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.

3918. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

3919. When we hear a faint guiding voice inside our heart, ask what it wants and pay attention.

3920. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

3921. Surrender is the dispossession of everything for the love of God. Nothing is as meaningful as surrendering to love.

3922. Holding a grudge doesn’t make us strong; it makes us bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make us weak; it sets us free.

3923. Sometimes we don’t always need a plan. Sometimes we just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.

3924. Everyone that we will ever meet knows something that we don’t.

3925. We are not too old and it’s not too late.

3926. When we focus on the hurt, we continue to suffer. If we focus on the lesson, we will continue to grow.

3927. Choose connection over competition. Make the desire to connect override the need to be correct.

3928. Our vision becomes clear when we can look into our own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

3929. Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives us something to do, but gets us nowhere.

3930. Maybe we have to know darkness before we can appreciate the light.

3931. Once we choose hope, anything is possible.

3932. Once we replace negative thoughts with positive ones, we start to have positive results.

3933. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

 3934. Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly we’re doing the impossible.

3935. A positive attitude gives us power over our circumstances instead of our circumstances having power over us.

3936. When in a bad mood, go for a walk. If still in a bad mood, go for another walk.

3937. There are far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.

3938. Difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

3939. If criticizing hasn’t worked, try approving and see what happens.

3940. In the midst of winter, we can learn there is an invincible summer within.

3941. Forget past mistakes and failures. Forget about everything except what we’re going to do now – and do it.

3942. The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

3943. When one door closes, another opens. When we look too regretfully upon the closed door, we don’t see the one that has opened for us.

3944. What is the plan for our one wild and precious life?

3945. The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.

3946. All the darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. It is there that we must do our work.

3947. If fear exists, then there is not love. Love is what we ate born with. Fear is what we learn.

3948. The arrogance of the ego is to think we can separate from god.

3949. Forgiveness is the means by which illusions disappear.

3950. Don’t always expect good things to happen. Our job is to forgive no matter what happens.

3951. Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

3952. When we perceive ourselves as unfairly treated, then we’re making the entire ego thought system of guilt real in our mind.

3953. When we are upset, it is always because we have replaced reality with illusions we have made up.

3954. Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require our comment.

3955. The less we respond to drama, the more peaceful our life becomes.

3956. When someone is going through a storm, our silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words.

3957. Never plan a future with people who have no future plans.

3958. Anyone who has grown mentally, physically or spiritually knows that growth is not found in comfort.

3959. Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit.

3960. Gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ears.

3961. In the end, only three things matter: how much we loved, how gently we lived, and how gracefully we let go of things not meant for us.

3962. Don’t be afraid to start over. It gives us a chance to rebuild something better.

3963. When writing the story of life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

3964. If each one would light a candle, we’d have a tremendous light.

3965. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

3966. A religious person will do what told no matter what is right. A spiritual person will do what is right no matter what told.

3967. Don’t worry about not knowing. Just recognize the potential and challenge offered by the present moment and embrace them with courage.

3968. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide not to stay where we are.

3969. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

3970. If we concentrate on what we don’t have, we will never, ever have enough. Happiness is being grateful for what we have.

3871. We are stars wrapped in skin. The light we are seeking has always been within.3972. Others only understand from their level of perception.

3973. Where love rules, there is no will to power. Where power predominates, there love is lacking.

3974. Don’t let happiness depend on something that can be lost.

3973. Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

3974. Good things are coming down the road. Just don’t stop walking.

3975. It’s not stress that kills us. It’s our reaction to it.

3976. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of our life.

3977. Be stronger than the strongest excuse.

3978. When all is said and done, the only thing that will truly have mattered is this: Did we love? Did. We. Love?

3979. We can decide to be liked a little by most for being who we’re not or loved a lot by some for being who we are.

3980. Overthinking could be the biggest cause of unhappiness.

3981. Love is an endless sea that we fall into. And once we fall into it, we can’t fall out.

3982. Love is always bestowed as a gift. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.

3983. If we want to know the future, all we have to do is look at what we’re doing in the present.

3984. Change is never painful. Only resistance to change is painful.

3985. No great thing can be achieved from the comfort zone.

3986. Do the work others aren’t willing to do, and we’ll get the things others will never have.

3987. How we handle our money reflects who we are.

3988. Let the beauty of what we love be what we do.

3989. Clutter is not just the stuff on the floor. It’s anything that stands between us and the life we want to be living.

3990. Don’t let dreams just be dreams

3991. The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

3992. Too many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

3993. Our willingness to look at our darkness is what empowers us to change.

3994. Anger is often grief that has been silent for too long.

3995. In a world where we can be anything. Be kind.

3996. When we stop being afraid of what could go wrong, we start being excited about what could go right.

3997. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

3998. The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. We continually come back to things that we thought we understood and see deeper truths.

3999. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

4000. Reading can seriously damage our ignorance.

4001. Nature’s peace flows into us as sunshine flows into trees.

4002. If light is in our heart, we will find our way home.

4003. Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.

4004. We attract the energy that we give off.

4005. It’s really beautiful how the things we believe have broken us become the very things that make us.

4006. Do or do not. There is no try.

4007. When our time as a caterpillar has expired, our wings are ready.

4008. There is no wine if grapes are not pressed and there is no perfume if flowers are not crushed. Pressures bring out the best.

4009. Flowers bloom when they are ready.

4010. Never let fear decide the future.

4011. Big things often have small beginnings.

4012. Our future is always created by our present moment.

4013. There is always someone who cares for us without our knowledge.

4014. No one ever said evolving was easy.

4015. One of the greatest lessons we can learn from children is the enviable ability to find happiness with simplicity.

4016. Too many of us buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have trying to impress people we don’t even know.

4017. Tomorrow is a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.

4018. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

4019. Some say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing, so that’s why it is recommended daily.

4020. When obstacles arise, change direction to reach the goal, not the decision to get there.

4021. The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want right now.

4022. If we go out looking for friends, we’re going to find they are very scarce. If we go out to be a friend, we’ll find them everywhere.

4023. If we aim at nothing, we will hit it every time.

4024. Some of us find fault like there is a reward for it.

4025. Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

4026. The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because we think we only do a little.

4027. Make failure a teacher, not an undertaker.

4028. The more we are grateful for what we have the more we will have to be grateful for.

4029. Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

4030. Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

4031. FEAR has tow meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is ours.

4032. Motivation gets us going and habit gets us there.

4033. When we go as far as we can see, we will see further.

4034. When we are tough on ourselves, life is going to be infinitely easier on us.

4035. When the fire inside us burns brighter than the fire around us, we survive.

4036. Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around us, but rather what’s happening inside us.

4037. One kind word can warm three winter months.

4038. The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. We are healing.

4039. Confuse them with silence. Amaze them with action.

4040. Nothing happens to us. It happens for us.

4041. The struggle we’re in today is developing the strength we need for tomorrow.

4042. When we avoid conflict to keep the peace, we start a war inside ourselves.

4043. Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

4044. The day will come when the risk to remain in a bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.

4045. Our own life has to be our message.

4046. Focus is just like a muscle. If we train it, it gets stronger.

4047. There should be no shame in admitting a mistake, since we are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

4048. At any given moment we have the power to say, “This is not how my story is going to end.”

4049. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

4050. There are no limits to the power of people driven by love.

4051. Our job is to make the grace of an invisible God visible wherever we are.

4052. Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

4053. There’s an aspect of us that hasn’t yet found full expression. That desire for depth requires us to be still.

4054. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

4055. The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp.

4056. Being born in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence.

4057. We have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

4058. In a world so torn apart by rivalry, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge and heal.

4059. Cross into the present moment, where the wonder and grace of that now-place of love unfolds moment by moment.

4060. Accept no one’s definition of life; define one’s self.

4061. Thought is only a tiny aspect of intelligence. Things that truly matter – beauty, love creativity, joy – arise from beyond the mind.

4062. God is found where the suffering is.

4063. The economy of grace, or economy of unconditional exchange, generates mutual transformation, reciprocal accountability and restorative justice.

4064. Knowing our power is what creates humility. Not knowing our power is what creates insecurity.

4065. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

4066. Don’t be pushed by problems. Be led by dreams.

4067. Love is the source and goal; faith is the slow process of getting there; hope is the willingness to move forward without resolution.

4068. It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

4069. A best friend is someone who loves us when we forget to love ourselves.

4070. Conquer bad habits, or they will conquer us.

4071. The greatest of all miracles is to be alive. When we breathe in, we touch that miracle. Hence, breathing can be a celebration of life.

4072. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives.

4073. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.

4074. Love others unconditionally, as they are and not as they should be, because nobody is as they should be.

4075. Happiness shouldn’t be a goal; it should be a habit.

4076. Be the reason someone smiles today.

4077. We are not endowed with a spirit of fear and timidity, but a spirit of power, love, and self–discipline.

4078. The ego wants quantity, but the soul wants quality.

4079. Life is too short to think small.

4080. Let us be keepers of the flame and not those who extinguished it.

4081. If we are not willing to learn, no one can help us. If we are determined to learn, no one can stop us.

4082. Expecting things to change without putting in any effort is like waiting for a ship at the airport.

4083. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

4084. Don’t be afraid that life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

4085. Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there.

4086. Silence is not the absence of noise but the absence of resistance to what God brings.

4087. God is always present. We’re the ones who are absent.

4088. The yearning we feel for god is actually God’s yearning for us.

4089. Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

4090. We are all just walking each other home.

4091. Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

4092. The more anger towards the past we carry in our heart, the less capable we are of loving in the present.

4093. What didn’t work out or was removed out of our life only made room for new blessings to come in.

4094. Nothing changes if nothing changes.

4095. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

4096. We need to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage and hope.

4097. When we forgive, we don’t change the past. We change the future.

4098. When we harness the energies of love, for the second time in the history of the world, we will discover fire.

4099. Live outside the boundaries of the ego.

4100. Learn how to see, realize that everything connects to everything else.

4101. The best medicine for humans is love. If it doesn’t work at first, increase the dose.

4102. We start to heal the moment we feel heard.

4103. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells us it’s going to be a butterfly.

4104. No one heals by wounding another.

4105. Having the answer is very different than being the answer. Be a long-term rebuilder more than a problem solver.

4106. Grief never ends. It changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness. It is the price of love.

4107. Honesty can make a lot of people uncomfortable.

4108. Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require comment.

4109. We do not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

4110. The easiest way to organize our stuff is to get rid of most of it.

4111. Getting older is this beautiful process whereby we shed the layers of our ego to reveal our true self.

4112. Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

4113. When we cannot face the insecurities inside ourselves, we project these fears outwardly, hating others instead of changing ourselves.

4114. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but our thoughts about it.

4115. When our will becomes God’s will, that is certainly good; but how much better it would be if God’s will were to become our will.

4116. “I can” is 100 times more important then “I.Q.”

4117. Love is all-seeing and accepting. Infatuation is what’s blind.

4118. If we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem.

4119. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

4120. The greatest prayer is patience.

4121. We know what we are, but not what we may be.

4122. Nothing is more important than empathy for another’s suffering. Not career, wealth, intelligence or status.

4123. Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

4124. There is a part of us that is Love itself. That is what we must fall into. It is already there.

4125. Self-reflection paves the way for self-improvement.

4126. Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while we’re climbing it.

4127. When we all think alike, then no one is thinking.

4128. The more we thank life, the more life gives us to be thankful for.

4129. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

4130. There is a force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

4131. Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge.

4132. In an age of speed, nothing is more reviving than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing is more superb than paying attention.

4133. Going nowhere is about stepping away now and then to see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

4134. Evolution is a process of growing intimacy with God, of relaxing into reality, so that whatever happens is what we want too, more and more freely.

4135. We can’t go back and change the beginning, but we can start where we are and change the ending.

4136. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

4137. We won’t have a cure for diseases until we first have a cure for greed.

4138. Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.

4139. Change usually only happens when elements that are in need of reform have become conscious through their reflection in someone else.

4140. Hope inspires the good to reveal itself.

4141. Everything we’re going through now is preparing us for a dream bigger than we can imagine.

4142. Education’s value is most evident when we do the thing we have to do, when it has to be done, whether we like it or not.

4143. There is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

4144. Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.

4145. “I want happiness,” one asked an elder. “First remove ‘I,’ that’s ego, then remove ‘want,’ that’s desire. Only ‘happiness’ remains.”

4146. The greatest tragedy is to find out in the end that we have not liberated the genius we were born to share with the world.

4147. We could leave life right now. Let that determine what we do and say and think.

4148. Giving up freely what no longer serves us creates space for what inspires us.

4149. If we pause before judging, assuming, accusing, or about to react harshly, we’ll avoid doing and saying things we’ll later regret.

4150. Compassion is a verb.

4151. Happiness is when what we think, what we say, and what we do are in harmony.

4152. We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

4153. We rise by lifting others.

4154. In the muck we find clarity. In the sunshine we fine gratitude.

4155. A peaceful life is not available to one who thinks too much about lengthening it.

4156. Education is the kindling of the flame, not the filling of a vessel.

4157. Suffering comes from our attachments and our repeated attempts to find something lasting where there is nothing lasting to be found.

4158. For a seed to achieve expression, it must come undone. To those who do not understand growth, it looks like complete destruction.

4159. Fill life with stories to tell, not stuff to show.

4160. Conflict cannot survive without our participation in it.

4161. We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.

4162. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

4163. We cannot think our way to God, because God can be loved but not thought.

4164. Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

4165. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

4166. The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give our life for others.

4167. Don’t look for love. Be love.

4168. There is no healthier drug than creativity.

4169. A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.

4170. Our idea of God changes as our consciousness matures. We must move beyond a view of God as patriarchal and limited by time.

4171. Today is the day to let go of things that no longer serve us.

4172. The past is in our head. The future is in our hands.