Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
- Tara Brach
- Tara Brach
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
- Tara Brach
- Tara Brach
Everything is okay as it is. There’s a deep recognition that feeling that level of peace and serenity is actually our birthright. It’s actually the case that we are fundamentally at home where we are.
- Diane Musho Hamilton
- Diane Musho Hamilton
December 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Everything is okay as it is. There’s a deep recognition that feeling that level of peace and serenity is actually our birthright. It’s actually the case that we are fundamentally at home where we are.
- Diane Musho Hamilton
- Diane Musho Hamilton
Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.
- St. Teresa of Avila
- St. Teresa of Avila
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.
- St. Teresa of Avila
- St. Teresa of Avila
Is there some fraud in the scheme of the universe? Is there nothing which is deathless? Nothing, which does not pass away? We cannot stay where we are. We must journey forth. We must find that which is greater than fortune or fate. Nothing can bring us peace, but that.
- Father Haynes, Tree of Life
- Father Haynes, Tree of Life
December 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Is there some fraud in the scheme of the universe? Is there nothing which is deathless? Nothing, which does not pass away? We cannot stay where we are. We must journey forth. We must find that which is greater than fortune or fate. Nothing can bring us peace, but that.
- Father Haynes, Tree of Life
- Father Haynes, Tree of Life
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
- Pema Chödrön
- Pema Chödrön
December 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
- Pema Chödrön
- Pema Chödrön
Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: “Father, to the limit of my ability, I keep my little rule, my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and to the limit of my ability, I work to cleanse my heart of thoughts; what more should I do?” 1/2
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: “Father, to the limit of my ability, I keep my little rule, my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and to the limit of my ability, I work to cleanse my heart of thoughts; what more should I do?” 1/2
There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town, and they are wasting their time. It is possible to be a solitary in one’s mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is a solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.
- Amma Syncletica
- Amma Syncletica
December 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town, and they are wasting their time. It is possible to be a solitary in one’s mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is a solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.
- Amma Syncletica
- Amma Syncletica
Whatever the image of yourself, it’s a mask and it’s hiding emptiness.
- Adyashanti
- Adyashanti
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Whatever the image of yourself, it’s a mask and it’s hiding emptiness.
- Adyashanti
- Adyashanti
If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.
- Jan Chozen Bays
- Jan Chozen Bays
December 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.
- Jan Chozen Bays
- Jan Chozen Bays
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
- Richard Rohr
- Richard Rohr
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
- Richard Rohr
- Richard Rohr
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, Holmes, to Bel-Air!"
But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, Holmes, to Bel-Air!"
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, Holmes, to Bel-Air!"
But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, Holmes, to Bel-Air!"
Izzi: He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
Tom: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy.
- The Fountain
Tom: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy.
- The Fountain
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Izzi: He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
Tom: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy.
- The Fountain
Tom: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy.
- The Fountain
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
- Dorothy Day
- Dorothy Day
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
- Dorothy Day
- Dorothy Day
It’s that keeping the heart open, even in hell, makes space for the Beloved. It is in the darkest nights of our souls, when all we know is that we know nothing, that the presence of the sacred may quietly well up, mingling with our pain and connecting us to a love that will never die.
-Mirabai Starr
-Mirabai Starr
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s that keeping the heart open, even in hell, makes space for the Beloved. It is in the darkest nights of our souls, when all we know is that we know nothing, that the presence of the sacred may quietly well up, mingling with our pain and connecting us to a love that will never die.
-Mirabai Starr
-Mirabai Starr
When we make music we don't do it to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When we make music we don't do it to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. 1/2
I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.
- angel Kyodo williams
- angel Kyodo williams
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.
- angel Kyodo williams
- angel Kyodo williams
It was out of the dynamic of cosmic celebration that we were created in the first place. We are to become celebration and generosity, burst into self-awareness. What is the human? The human is a space, an opening, where the universe celebrates its existence.
- Brian Swimme
- Brian Swimme
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It was out of the dynamic of cosmic celebration that we were created in the first place. We are to become celebration and generosity, burst into self-awareness. What is the human? The human is a space, an opening, where the universe celebrates its existence.
- Brian Swimme
- Brian Swimme
Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.
- Adyashanti
- Adyashanti
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.
- Adyashanti
- Adyashanti
Dear God, whose name I do not know, thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG. Thank you. Thank you for my life.
- Joe Banks, Joe Versus the Volcano
- Joe Banks, Joe Versus the Volcano
December 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Dear God, whose name I do not know, thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG. Thank you. Thank you for my life.
- Joe Banks, Joe Versus the Volcano
- Joe Banks, Joe Versus the Volcano
For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, (1/x)
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, (1/x)
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
- J. Krishnamurti
- J. Krishnamurti
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
- J. Krishnamurti
- J. Krishnamurti
Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.
- Ken Wilber
- Ken Wilber
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.
- Ken Wilber
- Ken Wilber
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
- Byron Katie
- Byron Katie
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
- Byron Katie
- Byron Katie
The tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – merely a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and always accompanied by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
- Anthony de Mello
- Anthony de Mello
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – merely a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and always accompanied by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
- Anthony de Mello
- Anthony de Mello