“If you have less of a menu in your mind, if you’ve got less of an agenda and lesser fixed ways of doing things, then the freshness of the moment is the potential of all that can be utilized to bring forward and manifest, bring forward and manifest, whatever that would be. So…thoughts, sensations and feelings become in the service of illumination. They are the blossoming or the rays of energy arising out of the infinite spaciousness of the mind…like a mirror, always showing radiant display.”

— James Low, Dzogchen teacher

“You are never in a relationship with your beloved, you are always in a relationship with love. You cannot lose the love except by shutting it down yourself.“

— Rumi, quoted by Netanel Miles Yepez

“You should know love is not just an emotion. It is your very being, it is the core of your existence. So there is not a single being on this planet who is devoid of love. Because you are made up of it.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“If we were to design an AI program to read all the texts and scriptures of all the great religious and spiritual traditions over the last 3000 years or so and were to ask it to distill the essence of all these texts into a single sentence, one of its versions would read something like this: peace and happiness are the very nature of our being and we share our being with everyone and everything.“

— Rupert Spira on World Religion Day, 3rd Sunday of January

“I wonder what we mean by a new year.

Is it a fresh year, a year that is totally afresh, something that has never happened before?…

This is rather an important question, if you will follow it – to turn all the days of our life into something which you have never seen before. That means a brain that has freed itself from its conditioning, from its characteristics, from its idiosyncrasies and the opinions, and the judgements, and the convictions.

Can we put all that aside and really start a new year? It would be marvelous if we could do that…

Can we change the whole direction of our lives? Is that possible?…

Can we drop all that and start anew with a clean slate and see what comes out of that, with our hearts and minds?“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti on the New Year, Madras, 1st January, 1985