The heart that doesn't cling just holds everything—all the comings and goings—with ease, an open heart, and a sense of freedom. It's such a powerful thing that we're going to die. It's so powerful that our lives are impermanent.
- Nikki Mirghafori

All will come of its own accord in good time and with abundant fullness, so long as one does not attempt to hoard or cling.
- Cynthia Bourgeault

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening
Called the mouth,
O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing—
Now!
- Hafez 2/2

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?
If you think that the Truth can be known
From words, 1/2

It is the self-aware screen of awareness, upon which the drama of experience is playing and out of which it is made, that becomes so intimately involved with the objective content of its experience that it seems to lose itself in it and, thus, overlooks or forgets its own presence.
- Rupert Spira

We’re gonna wander right into
right into
Right into a storm
where the light
where the lightening bolts are born
Out of mercy, let a Mystery turn
turn our faces to the sky
then let the light
then let the lightening strike the I
- Stuart Davis

I'm going home
Without the sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
Going home
To where it’s better
Than before

Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without this costume
That I wore
- Leonard Cohen

“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
- V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

This is where your story begins. The day they departed. Despite knowing the journey, and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.
- Louise Banks, Arrival

Life is so precious and mysterious, I don’t know what to say about it most of the time. Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky. The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream, the wind among the weeping willow trees: how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?
-Surya Das

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
- Byron Katie

The price of truth is everything, but no one knows what everything means until they’re paying it.
- Jed McKenna

When by the flood of your tears
the inner and the outer have fused into one,
you will find Her whom you
sought with such anguish,
nearer than the nearest,
the very breath of life,
the very core of every heart.
- Anandamayi Ma

In this state of trusting refuge, the light of divine revelation, which pierces but does not castigate the darkness, may finally be seen. This is a mothering darkness that nurses its offspring.
- Barbara Holmes 2/2

In the beginning there is darkness. It is the womb out of which we are born. Darkness may be the blessed dimming of ego-driven striving, a destination and condition of safety and repose. 1/2

for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can't help but
see it everywhere
- Rupi Kaur

Those who do this, discover that they have lived in a stuffy world, whilst their inheritance was a world of morning-glory:where every tit-mouse is a celestial messenger, and every thrusting bud is charged with the full significance of life.
- Evelyn Underhill 3/3

spring-cleaning of the soul, a turning-out and rearrangement of our mental furniture, a wide opening of closed windows, that the notes of the wild birds beyond our garden may come to us fully charged with wonder and freshness, and drown with their music the noise of the gramaphone within. 2/3

Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought and let divine sensation have its way. It needs industry and goodwill if we would make that transition; for the process involves a veritable 1/3

Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.
- Mirra Alfassa

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.
- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
- Eckhart Tolle

Let go completely, at the deepest, most primal and fundamental level— there is no 'how' other than that.
Dive deep enough within, and there it will be. The letting go will happen, and there will be no way back.
- Adyashanti

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.
- David Whyte

In Kyoto,
hearing the cuckoo,
I long for Kyoto.
- Bashō

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits cultivation of wisdom.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

you remember me,
I slung amethyst rocks on Saturn blocks
'Til I got caught up by earthling cops.
They wanted me for their army or whatever.
Picture me, I swirl like the wind tempting tomorrow to be today,
Tiptoeing the fine line between everything and everything else.
- Saul Williams 3/3

And that's the only fact,
In fact there are no facts, fax me a fact and I'll telegram
I'll hologram I'll telephone the son of man and tell him he is done.
Leave a message on his answering machine
Telling him there are none.
God and I are one.
Times moon times star times sun
The factor is me, 2/3

Maybe you heard of us.
If not then you must be trying to hear us,
In such cases we can't be heard
We remain in the darkness unseen,
In the center of unpeeled bananas we exist uncolored by perception,
Clothed to the naked eye,
Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence 1/3

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them.
- Stephan Bodian