These powerful and inspirational quotes are from my favorite book, Meditations from the Mat, by Rolf Gates.
Well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable, and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. – Indigo Girls
If you haven’t heard from him, it just means you didn’t call. – Van Morrison
The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on. – The Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
As a result of contentment, one gains supreme happiness. – Yoga Sutras
Everyone is already the living Buddha, complete, whole, perfect as you are. All this action and effort to become special is just making you very unspecial and creating a tremendous amount of pain and suffering. – Zen master Dennis Genpo Merzel
Self-discipline burns away impurities and kindles the sparks of divinity. – Yoga Sutras
Explore daily the will of God. – C.G. Jung
God is love. – I John 4:8
Try to do everything in the world with a mind that lets go. If you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom. Your struggles with the world will have come to an end. – Achaan Chah
The ego aks a thousand questions for which there are no answers. – A Course in Miracles
Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it. – John Welwood
Let the beauty that you love be what you do. – Rumi
It is easier to act yourself way into a better way of feeling, than to feel yourself into a better way of action. – O.H. Mowrer
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. – Norman Vincent Peale
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward. Most people do exactly the opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and don’t enjoy the action. This is why they don’t do their best. – Dan Miguel Ruiz
In the absence of knowing the infinite source of energy and creativity, life’s miseries come into being. Getting close to God through true self knowledge heals the fear of death, confirms the existence of the soul, and gives ultimate meaning to life. – Deepak Chopra
The mind is restless, unsteady, turbulent, wild, and stubborn: truly, it seems to me as hard to master as the wind. – Bhagavad Gita
You can’t think about presence, and the mind can’t understand it. Understanding presence is being present. – Eckhart Tolle
I think it’s important not to overlook the joy of the journey due to an excess of goal orientation. – Lama Surya Das
When you affirm big, believe big, and pray big, big things happen. – Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness exists perennially within you. – Annie Besant
Thoughts are energy, and you can make or break your world by thinking. – Susan Taylor
The three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? – Spencer Johnson, M.D.