"Every now and again, you will feel a dull ache in your soul. A gentle humming around your heart. A longing for something without a name.

If I ever told you to obey anything, this would be it.

Listen to the call of your authentic self. That part of you that lives just outside of your own skin. Let it have it's way with you.

I have died a hundred times trying to ignore it."

- Mia Hollow

"We are put here for a little space that we may learn how to bear the beams of love." - William Blake

"Be realistic. Plan for a miracle." - Osho

"The reward for holding nothing back is feeling your place in the universe." - Mark Nepo

"What if our religion was each other

If our practice was our life

If prayer, our words

What if the temple was the earth

If forests were our church

If holy water- the rivers, lakes, and oceans

What if meditation was our relationships

If the Teacher was life

If wisdom was self-knowledge

If love was the center of our being

- Ganga White

"Vulnerability is not about fear, grief and disappointment. It is the birthplace of everything we are hungry for." - Brene Brown

"I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen." - Anne Lamott

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

"Awake, my dear

be kind to your sleeping heart

take it out into the vast fields of light

and let it breathe."

- Hafiz

"I do not at all understand

the mystery of grace -

only that it meets us where we are

but does not leave us where it found us."

- Anne Lamott