Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.

Dalai Lama It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.Dalai Lama There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.Dalai Lama The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.Rumi Meet everyone and everything through stillness rather than mental noise.Eckhart Tolle When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.Eckhart Tolle The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost. Lao Tzu Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. Lao Tzu Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue. Lao Tzu Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness. -Anthony De Mello Another belief: Happiness is in the future. Not true. Right here and nowyou are happy and you do not know it because your false beliefs andyour distorted perceptions have got you caught up in fears, anxieties,attachments, conflicts, guilt and a host of games that you areprogrammed to play. If you would see through this you would realizethat you are happy and you do not know it. -Anthony De Mello Most cultures understand happiness to mean, You get what you want so you are happy! But thats not happiness. Thats a thrill thats getting what you want. But Thrills, fun and pleasure are NOT happiness. What are they? Theyre thrills, theyre fun, theyre pleasure they are not happiness. Happiness is a state of non-attachment. Anthony De Mello The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance. And all evil comes from there. The only tragedy there is in the world is unwakefulness and unawareness. And from there comes fear and from fear comes everything else. Anthony De Mello All conflict comes from attachment. Anthony de Mello Learn how to quiet your mind. Learn how to make your mind quiescent like a motionless lake. A motionless lake can attract, or image, reflect the sun, the stars, the moon, trees, grass. A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything. So when you learn to quieten your mind you reflect yourself, and yourself is always harmony, always bliss, always sat-chit-ananda, always the absolute reality, always absolute oneness. That's your real self. That's who you really are. -Robert Adams

Neither the voice in your head nor the one hearing it is YOU. -Michael Jeffreys Be more interested in your inner-state in any given situation than what is happening in the outer situation. What is my inner-state at THIS moment is always primary. Dealing with external situations, the outcome of this situation or that situation or this person agrees with me or does not agree with me all these are secondary things. Eckart Tolle Everything is God. It's ALL God. There is nothing but God! Yet, the moment you go looking for God, you cannot find. Why? Because the very search itself begins with a false premise: That God isn't where I am. How is that possible if ALL is God? Michael Jeffreys No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought. -Eckhart Tolle When you know yourself to be an "I", Awareness appears illusory. When you know yourself as Awareness, the "I" appears illusory. -Michael Jeffreys Everything you "know" is a concept. The idea that you live on "Earth" is a concept. Does a blade of grass "know" this? Or your cat or dog? Do birds "know" they are flying thru the sky? Do they even "know" they are birds? Does water "know" it's water? And even what something "IS" is a concept. Is that a fallen tree branch on the ground or a log? Is that water running across the ground or a stream? Concepts, upon concepts, upon concepts. What sees ALL concepts, but remains silent? -Michael Jeffreys Judging vs Living. If I am judging this moment, I am not living it. If I am living it, I am not judging it. Judging is head centered, living is heart centered. Judging springs from doubt and insecurity. Living springs from love and contentment. And each moment I choose again, as my choice a moment ago is no longer relevant. -Michael Jeffreys Enlightenment is the direct, abiding realization that YOU dont exist. Anything else, aint it. -Adyashanti There is no "I" in ONE. -Michael Jeffreys Your duty is to BE and not be this or that. -Ramana Maharshi The Secret to Peace of mind is to not identify with anything other than your True Self. -Robert Adams The person in front of youis reflection of yourself be kind to yourself.-Infinity Comfort The wound is the place where the Light enters you. -Rumi Every second you spend looking for something outside yourself is another second you spend away from your true self.Michael Jeffreys To seek security outside to fill the void of insecurity inside is like trying to cure a wound by putting dirt on it. It only redoubles our insecurity because everything that is outside is already insecure! -Satinder Dhiman When we think, "I just want peace of mind above all else," we overlook the fact that the very first word in the sentence is an 'I' that is trying to get something for itself. It's desire is noble, but it's still a desire for the mind made self-image. True peace can only exist in the 'I's absence. The peace's loving stillness has been obscured by the 'I's very presence! -Michael Jeffreys The imagined sense of being a separate I is the source of all problems. Because the I as a thought is really very intangible, all types of other ideas get wrapped around it, in order to give it some semblance of solidity. All the selfdefinitions, identities and apparent conditioning hinge on the unexamined sense of I. John Wheeler

Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.-Gangaji Take 5 seconds just to be quiet. Everything that disappeared in those 5 seconds for you, thats whats not real. So when you are not thinking, everything that disappears thats whats not real. For most people, thats about 99% of their whole experience of life their whole world. Adyashanti It was at this point in my life that I began to realize my mind was nothing but a projection machine. More often than not, what I was thinking had no basis in reality. -Kenny Johnson (from his book, The Last Hustle) The less there is of 'I,' the more there is of God. -Meister Eckhart The answer can never be found in the mind. -Sailor Bob Adamson Being a seeker gives the mind something to do. Realizing there is nothing to seek and no one to seek it leaves the mind barking at the moon. Michael Jeffreys Who told you to believe your thoughts? Why only another thought! -Michael Jeffreys What you seek is already within you. You uncover it by shedding all that is untrue within you. -Sampo Kaasila What your ego considers mine, becomes your false identity in the dream. Your ego obscures and hides your true identity, and pretends to be you. Sampo Kaasila Non-acceptance of change causes suffering. Sampo Kaasila A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything. -Adyashanti When you teach a child that a bird is named bird, the child will never see the bird again. Krishnamurti What you are doesn't age. -Michael Jeffreys Freedom is the loss of everything. -Jeff Foster I once was a person standing in space, and now Im the space where a person stands. Matt Kahn If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. -Zen proverb Only what is still can still the stillness in other things. -Confucius Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next. -Rumi The gap between your expectations and reality is your suffering. -John St. Augustine Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. -Marie Curie If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. -Zen Proverb Essence is emptiness. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. -Rumi

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.How do you know this is the experience you need?Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.-Eckhart Tolle

Hi Craig, Hope you handled the bad news from your attorney and get over it.Be like the new year to bring more joy in your heart! I should have been more supportive.You have to get through a difficult period of time and the only thing I can do is to recommend these authors,some of them spiritual teachers: Eckhart Tolle Anthony de Mello Don Miguel Ruiz Yogananda Paramahansa William Buhlam Jurgen Ziewe It worked for me to have an insight about how things really are. I am looking forward to discuss of what you'll read! Everything is passing.Patience is a virtue.