In order to create peace
You cannot think peace
You must be peace

-Beth Johnson

No matter what kind of thoughts occur, excellent or terrible, good or bad, joyful or sorrowful, don't accept or reject, but rest in the thinker himself without fabricating anything.


Your actions in life set your course and determine the destination of your travels. Your reactions in life create the climate in which you travel.
-Beth Johnson


One who takes account of his shortcomings will always gain by it, one who is unmindful of them will always suffer. One who takes lessons from happenings of life gets vision, one who acquires vision becomes wise, and one who attains wisdom achieves knowledge.


"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who really make it in this world are the ones who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, they make them.”

*Misfortunes can be avoided with a sharp mind, most of the time.*



Have patience and indulgence toward the people... Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your soul, and your flesh shall become a great poem.
-Walt Witman


The person who is ambitious, spiritually or otherwise, can never be without a problem, because problems cease only when the self is forgotten.


life is like the blossoms of flowers through the perception of a child..........a lucid mastery


We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples."

Every individual is an expression of the realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.


Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.


Meditation is something that is not contrived, organized.

Meditation IS.

It begins with the first step, which is to be free of all your psychological hurts, accumulated fears, anxiety, loneliness, despair, sorrow.

That is the foundation, that is the first step, and the first step is the last step.
- J. Krishnamurti


Acceptance is a magic key. Accept yourself as you are! And in that acceptance, intelligence arises. In that acceptance, why does intelligence arise? Because whenever you accept, you are no more divided.
-Osho


Difficulties and obstacles, if properly understood and used, can turn out to be an unexpected source of strength.
-Sogyal Rinpoche


When someone is seeking it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
- Siddhartha


Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher & mathematician (1646-1716)


Aspire to inspire before you expire.


This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all.
-Rumi


Real love is to realize that we are one with life. Real love means to understand that we are one with the other person, with nature, with the trees, the stones and with the blue sky.
It is to realize that all of life is God.
-Giten


Meditation is not against action.
It is not that you have to escape from life.
It simply teaches you a new way of life.
-Mohan



The source of the life force is eternal -the center within- we do not need to collect it like material things for it is already and always here.



A young student asked of the Master "what did you do before you became Master?"

The Master replied "I fetched wood and carried water."

The Student asked "What do you do now that you are Master?"

The Master replied "I fetch wood and carry water."

-Lao Tzu



There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.


All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
— Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)


There are no doors inside. It is an open space, an open sky. But to know this open sky is to realize the deathless principle of your existence.
- Zen


Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

To live for our 50th wedding anniversary, know my children's children and their children, to see peace among each other and our families, to experience the wonders of outerspace, to live during the time that the government truly represents us and really takes actions on our beliefs (rather than their own affiliations and greed), to find the truth of our world's mysteries, for people to wake up and live life being themselves rather than hiding behind lies, and for people to become more optimistic and driven about life and their passions.

I believe that one of the keys to living is to think positive and to have faith in order to have a promising outcome in what matters to you most.