Weekly Inspiration

When we have reached the outposts of the mind, we are ready for the journey to the heart. - Francis Lucille

When your real, effortless, joyous nature is realized,  it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. - Ramana Maharshi

Here where I’ve come to perch, are many deep and mysterious places men seldom speak of. No wind, and yet the vines sway; no mist, but the bamboo groves seem somehow always dusky. Who is it that the stream sobs for, or for whom do the mountain’s clouds stand suddenly like pennants at attention? At noon, when I meditate inside my tent, I find the...

Keep quiet, undisturbed, and wisdom will come on its own. Wait in silence of heart and mind, without the least desire, completely open to, and welcoming of, life as it happens. - Nisargadatta

We should make all spiritual talk simple today. God is trying to sell you something, but you don’t want to buy. That is what your suffering is: your fantastic haggling,  your manic screaming over the price! - Hafiz

 Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky,  far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence  or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as a spring from within you. — Ramana Maharshi

Love all creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each other. If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things. — Dostoevsky

The deepest thing in a human heart is silence, the silence of intimacy where no word is needed. - anon

Our Own inner knowing is our final authority. — SL

Peace on earth. Goodwill to men.

The test that one holds fast to the Beginning is the fact that one is not afraid. – Chuang-tzu

How the heart feels is how the mind thinks. - Richard Rudd

Silence is the seed of ecstasy.

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. - Objibwe prayer

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Lubbock

The gorge is long and rocks jut up, the torrents wide, reeds almost hide the other side. The moss is slippery even without rain. The pines sing, the wind is real enough. Who’s ready to leap free of the world’s traces: come sit with me among white clouds? - Han Shan

You are creative when you seek nothing, when your ego does nothing. Be knowingly silent as often as you can. - Jean Klein