Osho

 You have to save yourself from so many good-intentioned people, do-gooders, who are constantly advising you to be this, to be that. Listen to them and thank them. They don't mean any harm; but harm is what happens. You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.

~ Osho

 Aloneness

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.

Unknown

 "What is this play, this grand theater of existence? Should we mistake it for a straight road, a march towards some distant prize? No. It is the exquisite, cyclical dance of forgetting and remembering, a rhythm older than the stars."

Rumi

 Do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”

What exactly IS a dog?

 

THE VIVEKACUDAMANI OF SHANKARA

339.  To realize the whole universe as the Self is the means of getting rid of bondage.  There is nothing higher than identifying the universe with the Self.  One realizes this state by excluding the objective world through steadfastness in the eternal Atman.

Ramana Maharishi

 

Novalis

 "To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite."

KALI

 

Various sources saying the same thing

 "Since past and future have never been without the present, to know the Eternal Now is to know the Truth" - Ramana Maharshi

"The future is a concept—it doesn't exist. There is no future. There is no past. There is only the eternal now." — Alan Watts 

"The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant." — Eckhart Tolle 

"Wherever you go the sense of here and now you carry with you all the time. It means that you are independent of space and time."  - Nisargadatta Maharaj