Stop Wanting

The very desire to be free or to be enlightened will be the desire that prevents your freedom.

Achaan Chah

To know God

If you want to know God, then turn your face toward your friend, and don't look away.

Rumi

Open the window in the centre of your chest and let spirit move in and out.

Rumi

All is cyclical

In moments of darkness and pain
remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door:
Spring will come again.

Ching-Yuen

To Really Know

To really know. That is, to be transformed by what one knows.

Anthony De Mello

Alignment is an ongoing process

Alignment is not a static condition that we seek to create and then maintain. It is an ongoing process that may change from moment to moment. Relaxation is not a static gesture. It too is an ongoing process. The body continues to let go of tension and yield to the appearance of  new areas of sensation that continually present themselves.

Will Johnston in "The Posture of Meditation" page 56

Let Others Be

Do not find fault with others. If they behave wrongly there is no need to make yourself suffer. If you point out to them what is correct and they do not practice accordingly, leave it at that.

Jack Kornfield and Paul Breiter in "A Still Forest Pool" page 68