feelings first

from deep inside the pretty flower... a mosquito Issa

“Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.” Rumi

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind; it is not the product of the mind. Love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought. J.Krishnamurti

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. Sharon Salzberg

The world is in your mind. It doesn't exist on its own. It has no existence of its own. It exists in your mind. You have created it out of your own mind. Robert Adams

moonlit night the river carries the scent of flowers Basho

What you hide in your heart, appears in your eyes Rumi

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth. Mooji

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. Rainer Maria Rilke

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness. Thomas Merton