The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

True happiness is in love, which is the stream that springs from one's soul. He who will allow this stream to run continually in all conditions of life, in all situations, however difficult, will have a happiness which truly belongs to him, the source of which is not without, but within. If there is a constant outpouring of love one becomes a divine fountain, for from the depth of the fountain rises the stream and, on its return, it pours upon the fountain, bathing it continually.

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Until you've found pain, you won't reach the cure

Until you've given up life, you won't unite with

the supreme soul

Until you've found fire inside yourself, like the Friend,

You won't reach the spring of life

Rumi

That for which all people long, is eternally present,

shining at the heart of all experience.

Ruper Spira

As long as you believe you are the body-mind phenomena

you're going to have problems.

You may feel justified in having problems.

You may feel it's not your fault.

You may feel it's karmic.

You may feel all kinds of things,

but as long as you believe or you feel the body-mind,

you will have problems,

because this is the kind of world in which we live -

a world that doesn't exist, seems real to most of us.

And if we believe we are the body-mind

then we believe the world is real and

we believe we have to pray to God for solutions.

We do all these things and we still suffer.

And suffering will only stop,

not when God answers your prayers,

but when you awaken to the truth of your own being.

Then you’re born again, so-to-speak, in a new reality and all is well.

Robert Adams

You do not have to go through any rituals.

You simply have to make the mind quiescent.

‘Quiet the mind’ totally and completely.

This should be your goal.

You should remember this always.

By saying,

'All I have to do to awaken is to quiet my mind.

That’s it!'

There is nothing else you have to do.

Robert Adams

No matter how many times I tell you this, you’re still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely.

Robert Adams

You, You only, exist.

We pass away, till at last,

our passing is so immense

that You arise: beautiful moment,

in all Your suddenness,

arising in love, or enchanted

in the contraction of work.

To You I belong, however time may

wear me away. From You to You

I go commanded. In between

the garland is hanging in chance; but if You

take it up and up and up: look:

all becomes a festival!

Rainer Maria Rilke

How long will you keep pounding on an open door begging for someone to open it?

Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya

Escape

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,

and when we escape like squirrels turning in the

cages of our personality

and get into the forests again,

we shall shiver with cold and fright

but things will happen to us

so that we don't know ourselves.

Cool, unlying life will rush in,

and passion will make our bodies taut with power,

we shall stamp our feet with new power

and old things will fall down,

we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like

burnt paper.

D.H. Lawrence

They made us believe that real love, the one that’s strong, only happens once, more likely before your 30s. They never told us that love is not something that you can put in motion, neither has time schedule.

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when you find that other half. THEY DID NOT TELL US THAT WE WERE BORN AS WHOLE, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it’s just more pleasant.

They made us believe in a formula “two in one”: two people sharing the same line of thinking, same ideas, and that it is what works. It’s never been told that it has another name: invalidation. Only two individuals with their own personality is how you can have a healthy relationship. It has been made to believe that marriage is an obliged institution and that fantasies out of hour should be repressed. 

They made us believe that there’s one way formula to be happy, the same one to everybody, and the ones that escape from that are condemned to be delinquents. We have never been told that those formulas go wrong, they get people frustrated, they are alienating, and that we can try other alternatives.

Oh! Also they did not tell us that no one will tell us these things. Each and every one of us will have to learn by ourselves. And, when we get to the point that you are in love with yourself first, that’s when you can fall in love with somebody…

John Lennon

All your problems arise because you think you have to struggle for life. You think you have to create a life for yourself! Life is already here, all around you. All you have to do is open your arms, tune into its rhythm and dance.

Sunnydreams

You are out of jail, out of the cage; you can open your wings and the whole sky is yours. All the stars and the moon and the sun belong to you. You can disappear into the blueness of the beyond....Just drop clinging to this cage, move out of the cage and the whole sky is yours. Open your wings and fly across the sun like an eagle.

In the inner sky, in the inner world, freedom is the highest value - everything else is secondary, even blissfulness, ecstasy. There are thousands of flowers, uncountable, but they all become possible in the climate of freedom.

Osho

Life opens up to you only if you dare to live it!

Sunnydreams

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane

by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You are listening, but you do not hear

You are watching, but you do not see

Bumping into yourself over and over again in deep slumber.

When will you wake up?

When will you hear that everyone is speaking to you?

When will you see that signs are everywhere?

When will you understand that you are the one 

creating your own reality?

Oh, wake up!

Sunnydreams

The world you create on the inside 

is the world you will see on the outside.

Let everything happen to you

Beauty and terror

Just keep going

No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

Within each one of us there is a master of the universe. Not the universe out there but the inner universe of our thoughts and feelings, attitudes and actions. Most people realise too late what awaits within and how valuable it is. For too long we allow ourselves to be distracted and bewitched by all that is happening outside. To be the master of your inner world is to be the master of your own destiny. Are you going to be the master or a slave?

Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.

Osho

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Spring flowers, autumn moon,

Summer breeze, winter snow

When the mind is free from

unnecessary thoughts,

Every season is just perfect!

Ekai

Alone

Across the Earth are leading
many a road and bend,
yet all are speeding
to the selfsame end.

Be you riding or driving
as twosome or three,
the last of your steps
belongs but to thee.

For skill's not as valid,
nor all that is known,
as tackling the difficult
stuff by your own.

Hermann Hesse

After awhile you learn the subtle difference

between holding a hand and chaining a soul.

And you learn that love doesn't mean security,

And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts

And presents aren't promises.

And you begin to accept your defeats

with you head up and your eyes open.

With the grace of maturity, not the grief of a child.

And you learn to build all your roads on

Today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans,

And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,

Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure...

That you really are strong

And that you really do have worth.

And you learn and learn and learn ....

With every goodbye you learn.

Veronica A. Shoftstall

Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks...

Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading.

So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks...

Let us sparkle brightly,

Always...

Tite Kubo

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Hermann Hesse

Your entire universe is in your mind

and nowhere else.

To expand the universe,

expand your mind.

Deepak Chopra

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

Marianne Williamson

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

Robert Adams

You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but according to its depth. One does not have to do what comes next if one feels a greater affinity with that which happens later, at a remove, even in a remote distance. One may dream while others are saviors if these dreams are more real to oneself than reality and more necessary than bread. In a word: one ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one’s life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.

Rainer Maria Rilke