Prisoner

A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves.
Maharaji

Presence awakened

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the "I Am," our real presence, can awaken.   

G.I. Gurdieff

Perception of the world

Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.

A Course in Miracles

Thoughts of health and happiness

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Philosophy is kindness

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Peace of mind

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

Dalai Lama

Meditation

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Eckhart Tolle

Opportunity to heal

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.

A Course in Miracles

True self

When the ego dies, your own true self, which has been dormant in slumber, will be resurrected. Not necessarily all at once with a big noble transformation, no. It will happen many times in small measures, again and again. Many resurrections. And they will lead, in time, to a real and grounded transformation of your consciousness, one that will never leave you.

Eckhart Tolle

Real life

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adler: An Ethical Philosophy of Life

Easter

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.

Clarence W. Hall

Religion

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Persistent intuition

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Honore De Balzac