Maezumi Roshi

Have good trust in yourself -- not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are

Hui Neng

Words are like a finger which points to the truth, but people in general only see the finger.
They do not see beyond the finger to find out the truth.

Lao Tze

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise!

Shun To

Become a pool to invite the water.
Become empty to be filled up.
Become a flame to burn for ever.
Become yourself.

Ghazzali

Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror.
You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust
that has gathered upon it, because it is destined
to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Yoda

Do or do not.
There is no try!

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on the water
the reflection
of a wanderer

Eckhart Tolle

We all came into this world gifted with innocence, but gradually, as we became more intelligent, we lost our innocence.
We were born with silence and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words.
We lived in our hearts and as time passed, we moved into our heads.
Now the reversal of this journey is enlightenment.
It is the journey from the head back to the heart, from words back to silence; getting back to our innocence in spite of our intelligence.
Although very simple, this is a great achievement.

Toshui

Witnessing is one of the best way to burn all unnecessary things hanging in ourselves.
Are we giving it enough space in our daily life?
It is one of the greatest and most simple key we have.

Gensei

The flowing stream is our teacher of mindlessness,
The white clouds our unthinking friends.
If I were to try to describe it,
All I could do is roar.

Carlos Castaneda

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Sekito Kisen

If you don't understand the Way right before you,
How will you know the path as you walk?
Practice is not a matter of far or near,
But if you are confused, mountains and rivers Block your way.
I respectfully urge you who study the mystery,
Don't pass your days and nights in vain.

Ramana Maharshi

Pleasure or pain are aspects of the mind only.
Our essential nature is happiness.
But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or the mind is the Self.
It is that wrong identity that gives rise to misery.

Rumi

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying,
who empty the self and have only clear being there.

Ryonen

Sixty-six times have these eyes beheld
The loveliness of autumn...
Ask no more.
Only listen to the sound of the pines
When no wind stirs.

Maitreya Ishwara

When the understanding of advaita (the One is the only power and doer) is fully applied in life the ego’s days are numbered. You do what you have to do without ego worries and neurotic over-identification with 'me'. You live your life as an actor in a divinely animated drama.

Ramesh

The surest sign of spiritual progress is a total lack of concern about progress. There is an utter absence of anxiety about anything like liberation and a sort of hollowness in one's being, a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender to whatever might happen.

Mi Zu

Watching yourself is the key to your transformation.
Be in a let go, allow things to happen as they come.
Use your intelligence and learn from what you watch in yourself.
That will do.

Adya

Our deepest nature is silence: That space which is beyond the known, understanding, and imagination. True silence is not a dead or static state; it is a state of unity, creative response, and deep love. Salvation lies within the heart of silence and nowhere else. Be still and know.

Osho

Understanding cannot be studied; nobody can teach it to you. You have to be a light unto yourself. You have to seek and search within your own being, because it is already there at the very core. If you dive deep you will find it. You will have to learn how to dive within yourself - not in the scriptures, but within your own existence.

Anadi Kristof

Only clear attention allows you to transcend the mind. Pure attention represents your real 'I.' Only when you reach your real 'I' can you relax into non-I, which is the vastness of Beingness, the timeless space of the Absolute.

Eckhart Tolle

The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now.

Paddeshkar

Become more and more a watcher
Stop reacting immediately to what happens to you
Learn to distance yourself from what you think
Meditation will then happen on its own accord
Meditation is a happening

Tishan

Pick up a flower in a field and you may disturb a star in the sky.
All is interconnected.
Nothing is separate.
Everything has its place, its function.
Nothing is here for nothing.
Everything is here for everything.
Take care.

Maitreya Ishwara

Latihan is a Sufi method that invites the energy of the moment to move you, rather than relying on the ego.

Most people don’t trust life totally and rely on the ego to take care of them. This is okay for newer seekers and worldly people. Mature meditators can start to let life take them where it wants to go. Or in truth to recognize that surrender has always been the deeper reality: you and all existence are already in the hands of God.

Every day is another invitation to let go. Every moment the divine is waiting for you to trust. When you start to live in trust your ego loses its grip on you.

Beloveds, you are part of the Whole already. The more you trust, the more the Whole reveals that it has always been taking care.

Osho

The goal is not happiness, the goal is bliss....
Happiness is worthless: it depends on unhappiness.
Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy.

Shunryu Suzuki

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say,
'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere'.

Raman

Finally one day you have come to a standstill.
You are right at the center of yourself.
It is utterly silent there.
There is no pressure.
You look around and the entire universe seems to be softly turning.
You are no more separate.
Welcome to the dance.
Welcome to the play.