You don't look

You don't look out there for God,

something in the sky,

you look in you.

~Alan Watts

The body is

The body is your temple.
Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

~B.K.S. Iyengar

I fell in love

“I fell in love with black; it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color... Black is the most aristocratic color of all... You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.”

Louise Nevelson

No one

"No one, not even Hafiz, can describe with words the Great Mystery. No one knows in which shell the priceless pearl does hide."

~ Hafiz

Only words

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

~Alan Watts

The only Zen

The only Zen you'll find on mountain tops
is the Zen you bring up there with you.

~Alan Watts

Why should I seek?

Why should I seek?
I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!

~Rumi.

And as you sit

“And as you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged on the shingly beach of a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.”

– Stephen Graham

Wherever I go

Wherever I go,
I meet myself.

~Tozan

When

When your heart speaks,
take good notes.

~Judith Campbell

I only went out

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

~John Muir

Any situation

"Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness."

-- El Morya

If the present world

If the present world go astray,
the cause is in you,
in you it is to be sought.

~Dante Alighieri

Nowhere

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

~Marcus Aurelius

When the superficial

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

~ Antonio Porchia

Excite the soul

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Direct your eye

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find
A thousand regions of your mind
Yet undiscovered. Travel them and be
Expert in home-cosmography.

~Henry David Thoreau

When doing becomes

When DOING becomes infused with the timeless quality of BEING that is Success.
Unless Being flows into doing, unless you are present, you lose yourself in whatever you do. You also lose yourself in thinking, as well as in your reactions to what happens externally.

~Eckhart Tolle

At your most daring

At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work--the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

~Jean Shinoda Bolen

There is

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

~Rainer Maria Rilke