Adi Shankaracharya (Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani)

"Once we become conscious, even dimly, of the Atman, the Reality within us, the world takes on a very different aspect. It is no longer a court of justice but a kind of gymnasium. Good and evil, pain and pleasure, still exist, but they seem more like the ropes and vaulting-horses and parallel bars which can be used to make our bodies strong. Maya is no longer an endlessly revolving wheel of pain and pleasure but a ladder which can be climbed to consciousness of the Reality."

Osho

 

“Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is here now, this very moment — in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.”

Kabir

 “Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.”

Mechthild of Magdeburg

 

"A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God?"

Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

 "There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

Tibetan wind horse prayer

 

Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

 “Always remember that you are not a mistake — no matter what you have been told by others or how things may ‘appear’ to be in your life. Release all of the false beliefs and past stories that have held you back; they do not in anyway serve you. Is a precious jewel any less valuable because it has fallen on the ground and is covered in mud?  No, it simply requires some cleaning.”  

Rumi

 I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Rumi

 “Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

So come, return to the root of your root of your own soul.”