Just a few of my favorite offerings from wisdom teachers of every tradition:
"If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace." ~ Eckhart Tolle
"Even the birds in the trees are teaching you the Way of the Bodhisattva." ~ Zen Master
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." ~ Pema Chodron
"There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say." ~ Geronimo (Goyathlay)
"Expectation is mother of frustration." ~ Pujya Swamiji
"To look is one of the most difficult things in life - or to listen - to look and listen are the same. If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset." ~ Krishnamurti
"Go, go, go beyond, go thoroughly beyond, and establish yourself in enlightenment." ~ The Heart Sutra
tadyatha gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha! (Sanskrit translation)
"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings." ~ Rumi
"The Net of Heaven is all-embracing. Its mesh is wide but nothing escapes." ~ Lao Tze
"I am the unbounded deep in whom the waves of all the worlds naturally rise and fall.
But I do not rise or fall." ~ Ashtavakra Gita
"The All is a precious jewel, resting in the middle of the lotus flower, which blooms in my heart."
~ Om Mane Padme Hum (Tibetan Mantra)
"Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self
here and now? What is not permanent is not worth striving for." ~ Ramana Maharshi
"Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself... and your karma
will dissolve like a dream. Between earth and heaven life goes on." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
"We really look divinely and supremely beautiful when we close our mouths and open our hearts." ~ Sri Chinmoy