When you meditate, you do it for the whole of society. You seek solutions to your problems not only for yourself but for all of us. #ThichNhatHanh

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. Bodhidharma

Whenever you' are alone, rehind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. #Rumi

All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. #SriRamanaMaharshi

Don't worry about anything at all. You are not here by accident. This form is just a costume for a while. But the one who is behind the costume, this one is eternal. You must know this. If you know this and trust this, you don't have to worry about anything. This world is so full of love. And your heart, your being, is so full of love, so full of peace. You don't have to go to some other place to find love and peace. They are right where you are. #Mooji

Rumi, a 13th century Persian spiritual teacher, was asked: What is spiritual maturity? 1. It's when we stop trying to change others and focus on changing ourselves. 2. It is when we accept people as they are. 3. It is when we understand that everyone is correct according to their own perspective. 4. It is when we learn to “let go”. 5. It is when we are able to not have "expectations" in a relationship, and we give of ourselves for the pleasure of giving. 6. It is when we understand that what we do, we do for our own peace. 7. It's when we stop showing the world how smart we are. 8. It's when we stop seeking approval from others. 9. It's when we stop comparing ourselves to others. 10. It is when we are at peace with ourselves. 11. It is when we are able to distinguish between "need" and "want" and we are able to let go of that want. 12. Spiritual maturity is gained when we stop attaching "happiness" to material things! #rumi

Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again. Osho

Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. I love You Jesus Amen

Don't be guided by the torchlight of the mind, but by the radiance of the heart. #mooji

Love itself is the actual form of God. #sriramanamaharshi

Let silence be the art you practice. The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. Let silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe. #rumi

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket. #rumi

Just as a single face is reflected as many in a crystal, in water or in a mirror; so also the one Self is reflected in many intellects or minds. Yoga Vasistha Sara

I SAID: WHAT ABOUT MY EYES? HE SAID: KEEP THEM ON THE ROAD. I SAID: WHAT ABOUT MY PASSION? HE SAID: KEEP IT BURNING. I SAID: WHAT ABOUT MY HEART? HE SAID: TELL ME WHAT YOU HOLD INSIDE IT? I SAID: PAIN AND SORROW. HE SAID: STAY WITH IT. THE WOUND IS THE PLACE WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS YOU. #RUMI

In short, the great soul who has realized Truth is free of desire, enjoyment and liberation. In all of space and time he is attached to nothing. Ashtavakra Gita

Love is not Dependent on the Object, butis a Radiation of your Subjectivity - a Radiation of your Soul. And the Vaster the Radiation, the greater is your Soul. The wider spread are the Wings of your Love, the bigger is the Sky of your Being. #Osho

MARRIED TO NOTHINGNESS There is a beautiful Buddhist story in China. In a certain town a very beautiful young lady suddenly arrived out of the blue. Nobody knew from where she came; her whereabouts were completely unknown. But she was so beautiful, so enchantingly beautiful, that nobody even thought about where she had come from. People gathered together, the whole town gathered — and all the young men almost three hundred young men, wanted to get married to the woman. The woman said, ‘Look, I am one and you are three hundred. I can be married only to one, so you do one thing. I will come again tomorrow; I give you twenty-four hours. If one of you can repeat Buddha’s Lotus Sutra, I will marry him. All the young men rushed to their homes; they didn’t eat, they didn’t sleep, they recited the sutra the whole night, they tried to cram it in. Ten succeeded. The next morning the woman came and those ten people offered to recite. The woman listened. They had succeeded. She said, ‘Right, but I am one. How can I marry ten? I will give you twenty-four hours again. The one who can also explain the meaning of the Lotus Sutra I will marry. So you try to understand — because reciting is a simple thing, you are mechanically repeating something and you don’t understand its meaning. There was no time at all — only one night — and the Lotus Sutra is a long sutra. But when you are infatuated you can do anything. They rushed back, they tried hard. The next day three persons appeared. They had understood the meaning. And the woman said, ‘Again the trouble remains. The number is reduced, but the trouble remains. From three hundred to three is a great improvement, but again I cannot marry three persons, I can marry only one. So, twenty-four hours more. The one who has not only understood it but tasted it too, that person I will marry. So in twenty-four hours try to taste the meaning of it. You are explaining, but this explanation is intellectual. Good, better than yesterday’s, you have some comprehension, but the comprehension is intellectual. I would like to see some meditative taste, some fragrance. I would like to see that the lotus has entered into your presence, that you have become something of the lotus. I would like to smell the fragrance of it. So tomorrow I come again.’ Only one person came, and certainly he had achieved. The woman took him to her house outside the town. The man had never seen the house; it was very beautiful, almost a dreamland. And the parents of the woman were standing at the gate. They received the young man and said, ‘We are very happy.’ The woman went in and he chit-chatted a little with the parents. Then the parents said, ‘You go. She must be waiting for you. This is her room.’ They showed him. He went, he opened the door, but there was nobody there. It was an empty room. But there was a door entering into the garden. So he looked — maybe she has gone into the garden. Yes, she must have gone because on the path there were footprints. So he followed the footprints. He walked almost a mile. The garden ended and now he was standing on the bank of a beautiful river — but the woman was not there. The footprints also disappeared. There were only two shoes, golden shoes, belonging to the woman. Now he was puzzled. What has happened? He looked back — there was no garden, no house, no parents, nothing. All had disappeared. He looked again. The shoes were gone, the river was gone. All that there was emptiness — and a great laughter. And he laughed too. He got married. This is a beautiful Buddhist story. He got married to emptiness, got married to nothingness. This is the marriage for which all the great saints have been searching. This is the moment when you become a bride of Christ or a gopi of Krishna. But everything disappears — the path, the garden, the house, the woman, even the footprints. Everything disappears. There is just a laughter, a laughter that arises from the very belly of the universe. But when it happens for the first time, if you have not been led slowly, slowly, you will go mad. This Buddhist story says that he was led slowly, slowly. The woman was the Master. The woman is symbolic of the Master. She led him slowly, slowly. First, recite the sutra; second, understand intellectually; third, give a sign that you have lived it. These are the three stages. Then she led him into nothingness. The Master leads you slowly, slowly; makes you by and by ready. Osho, Tao: The Pathless Path

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. If the mind falls asleep, awaken it Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (sahar) state. #sriramanamaharshi

As the Atman, I shall ever abide with you. Sri Anandamayee Ma

YOUR ABSENCE IS THE PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE YOUR PRESENCE IS THE ABSENCE OF DIVINE, SO REALLY THE QUESTION IS NOT HOW TO REACH GOD, THE QUESTION IS NOT HOW TO ATTAIN GOD: THE QUESTION IS HOW TO BE ABSENT. #osho