The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own lives peaceful.
- The Buddha

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
- Kabir

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
- Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
- Achaan Chaa

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential to see is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
- Jack Kornfield

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
- Aldous Huxley

Begin to recite the following phrases directed to yourself. You begin with yourself, because without loving yourself it is almost impossible to love others.
May I be filled with loving-kindness.
May I be well.
May I be peaceful and at ease.
May I be happy.
- Jack Kornfield