"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