To become a true human, one must become conscious of listening and hearing the voice of the Great Mystery speaking through everything, through the sound of a tree, or a bird flying overhead, or the wind in the room, or someone breathing, or someone talking, or a moment of silence.

— Joseph Rael

Negativity is not so much a force that has to be destroyed as a distracted state of mind that must be brought to rest.

— David Frawley

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let there be a season when holiness is heard, and the splendor of living is revealed. Stunned to stillness by beauty we remember who we are and why we are here.

— Rebecca Parker

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious.

— Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras

To fall in love means to accept falling, i.e., to experience the reaction to falling. To love properly is equivalent to falling properly, that is, without anxiety and fear. 

— Moshe Feldenkrais

Ironically, what you most resist about yourself is exactly what you need to relax into and embrace...for those traits posses the greatest amount of consciousness that is ready to be transmuted. 

— Charles Ridley

The heart suffers when it cannot see and touch beauty, but beauty is not shy. It is synonymous with existence.

— Hafiz - Daniel Ladinsky