When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. ~ Ramana Maharshi
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~ Lao Tzu
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation. ~Ajahn Chah
How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom. ~ Hakuin
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. ~ Kitaro Nishida
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go. ~Ajahn Chah
Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us. ~Ajahn Chah
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher. ~Ajahn Chah
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. ~Buddha
No matter how high up you get, never forget where you came from. ~Beeru Singh
