“When you meet a monster in your lucid dream, sincerely greet him like a long-lost friend, and that is what he will be.”

~Stephen LaBerge

“We must listen to our own hearts… and to the donkey’s back.”

~The Father, the Son, and the Donkey.

“Don’t harm anyone. Help those you can.”

~Anthony DeMello

“Presence isn’t something we strive for or try to be in.
It’s something that reveals itself when we stop holding our breath.”

~ Sage La

“Desire comes from unmet needs.
To follow desire to its source is a profound path of self-realization.”
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“When we write our gratitude, we feed the fire that feeds the world.”

~Julie Anna

Painting: Dancing Earth and Sky: Windhorse II by Julie Anna

Jung calls the Trickster “the wounded wounder who becomes the agent of healing.”

If all experience is Dreamlike, what does it mean to truly be awake?

“I walk this earth with love in my heart.”

—Shanti Ma

“When ignorance (avidya) dissolves, what remains is the radiant clarity of kaivalyam, freedom itself.”

—Panditji

“Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. When the mind vanishes, there is only Peace — and you realize it has always been so.”

—Ramana Maharshi

“Every tree has Wayrull, a living power that reaches out to touch our awareness.“

—Aboriginal elder David Mowaljarlai

“Walk gently, beloved — tender in your heart and fearless in your choosing.”

—Sage

“Authenticity is the permission slip we give others to be themselves.”

—Glenn Beck

“Song is the bridge between human beings and the forest.”

—D. Suzuki & P. Knudtson

“🌿 May we remember that love is not far away, waiting to be earned or perfected. It is here, woven into every moment, even the ones that feel like obstacles. May we soften enough to see the guru in what we resist, and open enough to let love flow through us as compassion for ourselves, for one another, and for this living world.” —Julie Anna

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.” —Richard Rorr

✨ “My words are tied in one with the great mountains, with the great rocks, with the great trees.” — Yokuts Indian Prayer

Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace, than the going beast, marking the earth.”

~Fernando Pessoa

✨ May we meet harm with awareness. May we protect our hearts with compassion. And may our words and actions align with love.