Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
Chandogya Upanishad, Chandogya Brahmana, Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandogya_ Upaniṣad (accessed July, 2012)
Namaste: I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is love, of truth, of light, and of peace. I honor the place in you where, if you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Definition of Namaste, several sources.
In all the great spiritual traditions, at their heart is tenderness—just to be kind inside, and then everything rights itself. Fear rests. Confusion rests.
Pamela Wilson, Befriending Ourselves: Resources for Inner Peace & Compassionate Care, www.befriendingourselves. com/Quotes.html (accessed July, 2012)
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.
Seth (Jane Roberts), The Nature of Personal Reality,
(Amber-Allen Publishing, 1974), 22.
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasures.
Maria Raine Rilke, Favorite Quotes: Choice Sayings on Life and Learning, compiled by Aaron Shepard, h