• "Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always." (Ramana Maharshi)

• "Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!" (Gangaji)

• “Each person has the capacity for self-understanding, insight, and an ability to find the path or direction she needs, if given an environment of empathy and support.” (Natalie Rogers)

• "Knowledge helps, but knowledge alone is not going to help anybody. If you do not use your head and your heart and your soul, you are not going to help a single human being." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• "The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet." (Shunryu Suzuki Roshi)

• "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." (The Dalai Lama)

• "If you want peace upon earth first establish peace in your heart. If you want union in the world, first unify the different parts of your own being. Change yourself and the circumstances will change." (The Mother)

• "All the trials and tribulations, the greatest losses (...), are gifts to you. It's like somebody has to tamper the iron. It is an opportunity that you are given to grow. This is the sole purpose of existence on this planet earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden and somebody brings you gorgeous food on a silver platter. But you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your hand in the sand but take the pain and learn to accept it not as a curse, or a punishment, but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• “Don't be afraid of loving yourself. Love totally, and you will be surprised: The day you can get rid of all self-condemnation, self-disrespect – the day you can get rid of the idea of original sin, the day you can think of yourself as worthy and loved by existence – will be a day of great blessing. From that day onward you will start seeing people in their true light, and you will have compassion. And it will not be a cultivated compassion; it will be a natural, spontaneous flow.” (Osho)

• "A thought is harmless unless we believe it." "Even the most unpleasant thoughts can be met with unconditional love." "It's not your job to like me - that's my job." (Byron Katie)

• ""In its farthest reaches, individual conscious can identify with Cosmic Consciousness or the Universal Mind known under many different names - Brahman, Buddha, the Cosmic Christ, Keter, Allah, the Tao, the Great Spirit, and many others. The ultimate of all experiences appears to be identification with the Supracosmic and Metacosmic Void, the mysterious and primordial emptiness and nothingness that is conscious of itself and is the ultimate cradle of all existence." (Stanislav Grof)

• “Expressive therapists operate on the assumption that art can heal, that the pain and suffering of a human soul can find a form in which it can be held, and that in this experience of holding or containing, the individual can become “free” from his or her suffering.” (Steven Levine).

• "Once your body surrenders to movement, Your soul remembers its dance." (Gabrielle Roth)

• "Truth is One, Paths are Many" (Sri Swami Satchidananda)

• "Only go straight -- don't know -- try, try, try for 10,000 years non-stop. Soon attain enlightenment, save all beings from suffering." (Zen Master Seung Sahn)

• This being human is a guest house.
  Every morning a new arrival.
  A joy, a depression, a meanness,
  some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
  Welcome and entertain them all!
  Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
  who violently sweep your house
  empty of it's furniture,
  still, treat each guest honorably.
  He may be clearing you out
  for some new delight.
  The dark thought the shame, the malice,
  meet them at the door laughing,
  and invite them in.
  Be grateful for whoever comes,
  because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
  
  (Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks)

• Just
  sit there right now.
  Don't do a thing.
  Just rest.
  
  For your
  separation from God
  is the hardest work in this world.
  
  Let me bring you trays of food and something
  that you like to
  drink.
  
  You can use my soft words
  as a cushion
  for your
  head.
  
  (Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

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