We are all meant to shine, as children do.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
     -- Marianne Williamson

I have decided to Love,
anything else is a burden.

~mlk

HAPPINESS
All beings desire happiness always, happiness without a tinge of sorrow. At the same time everybody loves himself best. The cause for love is only happiness. So, that happiness must lie in one. Further that happiness is daily experienced by everyone in sleep, when there is no mind. To attain that natural happiness one must know oneself. For that, Self-Inquiry, 'Who am I?' is the chief means.

CONSCIOUSNESS
Existence or Consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.

MIND
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
That which arises in this body as 'I' is the mind.
When the subtle mind emerges through the brain and the senses, the gross names and forms are cognized. When it remains in the Heart names and forms disappear.... If the mind remains in the Heart, the 'I' or the ego which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self, the Real, Eternal 'I' alone will shine. Where there is not the slightest trace of the ego, there is the Self.

"WHO AM I?" - INQUIRY
For all thoughts the source is the 'I' thought.
The mind will merge only by Self-inquiry 'Who am I?' The thought 'Who am l?' will destroy all other thoughts and finally kill itself also. If other thoughts arise, without trying to complete them, one must enquire to whom did this thought arise. What does it matter how many thoughts arise? As each thought arises one must be watchful and ask to whom is this thought occurring. The answer will be 'to me'. If you inquire 'Who am I?' the mind will return to its source (or where it issued from). The thought which arose will also submerge. As you practice like this more and more, the power of the mind to remain as its source is increased.

~Ramana Maharshi

Are
You
Now perhaps
The great cavalier
Who is for certain ready my dear
To relinquish all your fears
For in this silence
Love awaits
Right
Here
~silent lotus

"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)..."
~ e. e. cummings

I'm an orange moon
I'm brighter than before, brighter
Reflecting the light of the sun
Smile at me
~Erykah Badu

"We all want to know why we are here. What is our mission in life?
Those people who do know it are easy to spot: Their lives shine with meaning...
By uncovering your true mission, you can live your life in a way that best expresses your personal power.
I call this living in accord with your Sacred Contract."
~Carolyn Myss

Love to faults is always blind
Always is to joy inclined
Lawless, winged and unconfined
And breaks all chains from every mind.
~ Blake

Gamble EVERYTHING for LOVE
If you are a true Human Being
If Not,
leave this GATHERING
~Rumi

Across the voids of time did these words come to me.
Into darkness will I fade,
Into a night that Man has made,
But through that gloom shall gleam the Sun
When I am lost, and again am won.
Release! Release! I call to thee
In New Lands across the sea:
Let another, on narrow pathways, come to me.
Furthest and Highest,
Yet not beyond reach.
Choose thou well a path that will teach
How the Sunken is raised
And Emptiness is filled
And a wandering heart
Can finally be stilled.
Seek the Great Stone! Mark it well, with a sign,
That the one who shall follow
Shall see it is mine,
And, seeing, shall ponder and certainly know
As the Ancients have writ:
"As Above, so Below."
And I shall guard the Source of Greatness;
Waiting by a teardrop
From neither joy nor sorrow born,
In silver bound, beneath the ground,
I am the Spiral Horn.
-Anonymous