Daily Inspiration
Ego to Essence
Emergence is the shift from ego to essence.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Self
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
~ Cornel West
Emergence
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.
~ Toni Packer
Persuaded of Worth
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
~ Robert Southey
Song in Your Heart
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~ Donna Roberts
What You Don’t Say
Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
~ Samantha Norman
True Friends
True friends are always together in spirit.
—L.M. Montgomery
Knows All
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
—Elbert Hubbard
Gentleness
There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
~ Pema Chodron
Water
Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
—Mehmet Murat ildan