A Thought Appears

"A thought appears. Is there someone thinking or is it only the echo of a knock on the door, reverberating through an empty house?" - Wu Hsin

Author, Or Character

"The character in a book cannot write the book in which he appears. Investigate whether you are the author or the character" - Wu Hsin

Being Alone

"We fear being alone, as it is experienced as one step before not-being. Yet, for those who see the unity of all things, aloneness has no meaning." - Behind the Mind: The Short Discourses of Wu Hsin

If You Love A Flower

"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation" - OSHO

Your Own

"Once you realise that there is nothing in the world which you can call your own, you look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage, or a picture on the screen, admiring and enjoying, but really unmoved.

As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, actually existing in time and space, short lived and vulnerable, naturally you will be anxious to survive and increase"
 - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wisdom Is Better

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold" - Bob Marley

Change

"Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful" - Buddha

Let Them Teach You

"Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying a problem" - Eckhart Tolle

To Be Alone

"It's beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Let Your True Nature Emerge

"There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking" - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Two Things Are Infinite

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity" - Albert Einstein

Together As Brothers

"We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Attachments

"How do you let go of attachments to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachments to things drop away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them." - Eckhart Tolle

The Journey

"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is" - Eckhart Tolle

Rise and Fall of Thoughts

"Ocean does not complain about the dance of ten million waves! So don't be concerned about the rise and fall of thoughts" - Papaji

Empty of Yourself

"First you have to be empty of yourself and then you become full of God" - OSHO

Happiness and Inner Peace

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not" - Eckhart Tolle

Only Two Mistakes

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting" - Buddha

Moving Totally

"Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move" - OSHO

Look Well

"Look well into thy self; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there" - Marcus Aurelius