CONTENTMENT
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Be more and more at ease.
Be more and more here and now.
Be more and more in action, and less and less in activity.
Be more and more hollow, empty, passive.
Be more and more a watcher — indifferent, not expecting anything, not desiring anything.
Be happy with yourself as you are.
-
Osho
Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Self is free from any limitations the world can put upon you.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Open your hidden eyes and return to the root of the root of your own self.
- Rumi, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
He is infinite love, wisdom, joy.
I reside in the hearts of all beings.
- Gita 15:15, from The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality)
Not to recognize your own worthiness is to ignore who you truly are.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org
If you don't realize the source
you stumble in confusion and sorrow.
When you realize where you come from
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao
you can deal with whatever life brings,
and then, when death comes, you are ready.
- Lao Tzu, tr. by Stephen Mitchell, quoted on p. 297 in
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself
a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
The truth has shared so much of itself with me that I can no longer
think of myself as a man, a woman, an angel, or even pure soul.
Existence has become so saturated with laughter it has freed me of every
concept and image a mind could ever war with.
- Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Know the true nature of your Beloved.
In His loving eyes, your every thought, word, and movement,
is always, always, beautiful.
- Hafiz
Now is the time to know
That all you do is sacred.
- Hafiz
...earthly language is entirely insufficient to describe what there is of joy, happiness and liveliness contained in the inner wonders of God.
- Jacob Behmen
"Be still and know that I am God" (Psalms 46:10). Never flaunting His omnipresence, the Lord is heard only in the immaculate silences.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Live as the flowers live, opening your heart to the sunlight of God's love.
- White Eagle, quoted in The Quiet Mind
You only need to witness the magic within yourself to understand what the quieting of the mind can bring you.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Freedom from pride comes from listening to others. You then learn to listen to your own pure heart.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Perceive that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave. Grasp in your mind all this at once, all times and places, expanding it to all qualities and magnitudes together, and you can begin to see the play of the Divine.
- Hermes Trismegistus, quoted on p. 284 in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path