''We're here and then we're gone
and all that remains
when we're free of our chains
is the love we shared.''

- lyrics from a song, Free Spirit (Ashes to Ashes). Deva Premal and Miten.

''There is no continuity. There is only now.''

- Fred Stander.

"The Universe is in Perfect Order"
The stars, the moon, and the sun are all operating in perfect divine right order. There is an order, a rhythm, and a purpose to their pathways. I am part of the Universe; therefore, I know that there is an order, a rhythm, and a purpose to my life.
Sometimes my life may seem to be in chaos, and yet in back of the chaos I know that there is a divine order. As I put my mind in order and learn my lessons, the chaos disappears, and then order comes back.
I trust that my life is really in perfect divine right order. My life, I know, is in order at a very deep level. All is well in my world.

- Lousie Hay.

''Hello dear friend, it's so good to see your face again …
To see myself in you, and to find out what you have been up to
You've been living oh, so far away and yet you were so close ….
Your essence like a wild rose in the garden of my heart

Time cannot divide, and cannot reunite
What has never been apart.
We go our separate ways it seems,
Yet we're connected in our dreams
And the mystery of the heart.''

- Peter Makena.

''This figure walking in nature shows us that beauty can be found in the simple, ordinary things of life. We so easily take this beautiful world we live in for granted. Cleaning the house, tending the garden, cooking a meal--the most mundane tasks take on a sacred quality when they are performed with your total involvement, with love, and for their own sake, without thought of recognition or reward. You are facing a time now when this easy, natural and utterly ordinary approach to the situations you encounter will bring far better results than any attempt on your part to be brilliant, clever, or otherwise extra-ordinary. Forget all about making headlines by inventing the latest widget, or dazzling your friends and colleagues with your unique star quality. The special gift you have to offer now is presented best by just taking things easily and simply, one step at a time.''

- Osho Zen Tarot.

''Today is whatever I want it to mean,
Today is whatever I want it to mean.
It's like living in the middle of the ocean,
With no future, no past,
And everything that's good right now,
Well, I don't wish for it to last.
I'll step through brilliant shades,
Every color you bring,
Cause this time, this time, this time,
Is fine just as it is.''

- Lyrics from Beth Orton's 'Central Reservation'.

"Happiness is something very beautiful, just like a butterfly. On warm summer days the butterfly darts back and forth above the green grass and the colorful flowers, looking very beautiful. But one must not try to catch it, for when the butterfly is caught in the hand, it becomes no more than an insect." This means that we should let happiness come and go just like a butterfly. When it comes, we should just enjoy it and not try to grasp after it. And when it goes, we should watch it go calmly and peacefully ; then it will come back again. If we try to grasp happiness and hold on to it forever, it will die in our hands. We must let its beauty come and go and enjoy it while it lasts. That is the way of life and the meaning of life too. This is the way of non-attachment.''

- www.purifymind.com

''The feminine principle is wisdom, representing gentleness. A woman can play a very important role in terms of bringing peace and harmony to the family, or any group of people. If she also has the qualities of a warrior—stability, reliability, and fearlessness—it becomes easier to overcome difficulties and move forward on the path together.''

- Khandro Tseyang.
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''Spiritual strength rests upon your ability to become a big picture person and see that somewhere along the line all of these experiences, whether good or bad, have a tremendous and positive impact upon us in the final outcome.''

- 2 May, Libra Daily Horoscope.

''Because you want to be happy, you are going to live life as it is, accept people as they are.''

- Fred Stander.

''It's a lie to think you are not good enough.''

- Nick Vujicic.

''Love beckons you with irresistable beauty, profound truth and colourful passion. The heart aches to expand into infinity. Be bold and let the bliss carry you. Love leads you back to yur true nature.''

- Dipali.

''Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.''

- Bruce Lee.

''Satya literally translates as truth. Yoga emphasises satya because dishonesty leads to subtle and even gross disturbance in our minds, and ultimately outward actions. We cannot progress on this internal path if our words, thoughts and actions are misaligned. Satya also implies integrity. Do your actions live up to what you say? Alas, this is where the largest gap in the world today. Humility provides the foundation for one to embody and express satya in word, thought and action.''

- Paul Dallaghan.

''Observation is transformation.''

- Frederick Stander, my spiritual teacher.

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E. E. Cummings.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

"What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you."

- Rabbi Pinhas.

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius.

''The key to relationship success is to back away from judgment and thoughts about what life means and where it’s going. The present can fill our senses with sounds, smells, touches, tastes and sights that remind us how wonderful this world can be.''

- Jeff Jawer.

''When you are in love, don't forget meditation. Love is not going to solve anything. Love is only going to show you who you are, where you are. And it is good that love makes you alert -- alert of the whole confusion and the chaos within you. Now is the time to meditate! If love and meditation go together, you will have both the wings, you will have a balance.

And the vice-versa also happens. Whenever a person starts moving deep in meditation, he starts avoiding love, because he thinks if he goes into love his meditation will be disturbed. That too is wrong. Meditation will not be disturbed, meditation will be helped. Why will it be helped? Because love will go on showing you where there are still problems, where they are. Without love, you will become unconscious of your problems. But becoming unconscious does not mean that you have solved them. If there is no mirror, that does not mean that you don't have any face.

Love and meditation should go hand in hand. That is one of the most essential messages that I would like to share with you: Love and meditation should go hand in hand. Love and meditate, meditate and love -- and slowly slowly you will see a new harmony arising in you. Only that harmony will make you contented.''

- Osho

''And the key to transformation is not to be something else. You can never be anything other than what you are, right now. Love is not a result of perfection; perfection is the result of love. Stop, just for a moment, your seeking and searching, for that sort of perfection is neurotic and impossible. Your real perfection is to relax into yourself - into being yourself completely; accepting your “flaws” and humanity exactly as they are.''

- www.urbanmonk.net

''All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains has come from wishing pleasure for oneself.''

- Shantideva.

''If you are proud and likely to argue, then you need to realize that the self is nothing. If you are lacking in self-esteem, then you have to think about your potential, how much power you have inside yourself.''

- 'The Open Road', Pico Iyer.

''You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!''

- David Deida.

"The simplicity of it is this: give everything you have to give in every moment, completely."

- David Deida.

''Silence has a voice. The rest of the things that you hear are only noise.''

- Yogi Manmoyanard.

''If I cling to a flower, I'll crush it and destroy its beauty. A husband or wife who doesn't cling and is natural, relaxed and free appears more beautiful to his or her spouse. Those who love each other should not grasp at or squeeze their spouse with attachment but try to better understand the up and down nature of each other's mind and on that basis, help and support each other. That's the way to bring beautiful, warm feelings into a relationship, which as a result, will last longer.'

- Lama Yeshe.

''When two persons who are deeply contented within themselves are not trying to use each other. Rather they become fellow travellers; they move on a pilgrimage. Their goal is high. The goal is far away. Their common interest joins thme together.''

- Osho

''Unconditional acceptance isn’t a technique but a mindful, giving, state of being. Our focus is gently and lovingly on the other, giving them the gift of simply letting them be who they are. And for the first time in perhaps their entire lives, they are finally in an environment free of all burdens and judgements. No more hiding. No more chopping and pruning their emotions, beliefs, and past. No more fear and shame.''

- www.urbanmonk.net

''The unreal has no existence. And the real will never stop existing.'

- Yoga Vashistha

''Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Deep down inside you think you are small and that you have nothing to give. And if you don't give, you don't receive.

Give out whatever you think people are withholding from you. And soon after you start giving, you will start receiving. Simply acknowledge the abundance that is already in your life. See the fullness of life all arond you. Be grateful for it. The warmth of the sun on your skin, the magnificent display of flowers, the rain drenching you from the sky. Nature is abundant, we just have to open our eyes to see it. Build your inner mind in this way and let your life change to match.''

- Eckhart Tolle

''We are everything others give us.''

- Geshe Thubten Sherab during my 10Day Short Introductory Meditation Course at Kopan, Nepal.

''And when the rain falls down
You tell a story
And I will hear you
Always near you
By the boab tree.''

- Ophelia of the Spirits

''We each search for our own truths during this period and in the end find that our common needs are far greater than our individual differences. The unique qualities of race, gender and nationality needn't be barriers to recognizing and addressing our common issues. Humanity, we continue to realize, is the group to which we all belong and to whose survival and well being we all need to be committed.''

- Jeff Jawer, astrologer.

''Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.''

''When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.''

- 'Stillness Speaks', Eckhart Tolle.

''Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.''

- 'The Path to Love', Deepak Chopra.

''All that any of us aspire to do is to achieve a transparency between our soul and our words but that is the hardest thing to do, but when you achieve it and walk naked, you will have done your job. I grew up surrounded by rainforest in Tasmania, in this place that was unlike any other in the world. A place of such extraordinary beauty and wildness and I used to wander off into those places, and I got a very strong sense early on at the wonder of all the things that are not manmade and I realised they just weren’t just beautiful places but sacred places. When we destroy that land we destroy something fundamental in our own humanity and there is a great risk to us all if we are so foolish as to go down that path. Both my father and mother had a great love of words. My father can recite great long pieces of Shakespeare, Keats, Milton, Coleridge. Maybe I’m the merge of these two things, the love of the earth and someone who senses the power and strange magic of words.''

- Richard Flanagan, screenwriter of movie 'Australia'

''We have in our lives only a few moments. Life is finally determined never by reasons, only ever by wanting.''

- Richard Flanagan, author of 'Wanting'

''We are beyond the ordinary concept of what people think we are. What they don't see is that the human being is something special. I don't give up.''

- Lama Yeshe