We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. Marianne Williamson

Unless the higher Self or EGO gravitates toward its Sun-the Monad, the lower Ego or personal Self will have the upper hand in every case. H.P. Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine II-110.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson

To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid. Yaqui Mystic

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures. Chapter 56, Tao Te Ching

The thought occurred to me today that self-obsession is tiring. When I am thinking of renunciation and service, I feel awake, and when I am thinking of myself, I get tired. Granted that I include a sense of self-awareness in both cases. Of course, it could go either way. Maybe it isn't tiring. What do you think? Do you find self-obsession tiring. Common Tennessee

The Thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it. Bayazid Bistami (Essential Sufism, p. 37)

The sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky. Hafiz

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. Pema Chodron