The Way is not in the sky, the Way is in the heart. – Gautama Buddha

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrationg that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives. – Brene Brown

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. – Black Elk

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that…That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. – Anthony de Mello

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. – Thomas Merton

Criticism of others in thus an oblique for of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. – Fulton J. Sheen

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. – Pope John Paul II

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. – Walt Whitman

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. – Stephen Richards