"The more and more you listen,
the more and more you will hear.
The more you hear,
the more and more deeply
you will understand."
Khyentse Rinpoche

"Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed - be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization - will be unavoidable. . .
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility."
Vaclav Havel,
President of Czech Republic in his address to the U.S. Congress

"The greatest thing, then, in all education,
is to make the nervous system our ally,
instead of our enemy."
William James

"Our discovery of God is, in a way, God's discovery of us.
We know Him in so far as we are known by Him,
and our contemplation of Him is a participation of his contemplation of Himself.
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
At that moment, the point of our contact with Him opens out
and we pass through the center of our souls
and enter eternity."
Father Thomas Merton

"Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise; and all these spiritual deeds take place without any refuge into a doctrine, but by the simple and direct holding fast to the truth which dwells in our innermost beings."
Suzuki Roshi

"And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man; emotion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of all thought, and rolls through all things."
William Wordsworth

"In this era, to become a spiritual inquirer without social consciousness is a luxury that we can ill afford, and to be a social activist without a scientific understanding of the workings of the mind is the worst folly.
There is no question now that an inquirer will have to make an effort to be socially conscious or that an activist will have to be persuaded of the moral crisis in the human psyche."
Vimilar Thakar

"This pure Mind, which is the source of all things,
shines forever with the radiance of its own perfection.
But most people are not aware of it
and think that the Mind is just the faculty
that sees, hears, feels, and knows.
Blinded by their own sight, hearing, feeling, and knowing
they do not perceive the radiance of the source."
Zen Master Huang-po

"When you eventually see through the veils
to how things really are,
you will keep saying again and again,
this is certainly not like we thought it was!"
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi