May you be inspired by these quotes from various spiritual traditions.

“Meditation does not end when we rise from the meditation seat.”-kadampa.org

“Be a light unto yourself.” -Buddha

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?” -Buddha

“To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.” -Dalai Lama

“Where there is love there is laughter and where there is laughter there is love.” -Kundalata Dasi

“Salutation to all the prophets of the past, to all the great ones of the present, and to all that are to come in the future!”
-SwamiI Vivekananda

“A highly pure mind naturally generates ‘maitri’ and ‘karuna’, love and compassion for others. ‘Maitri’ and ‘karuna’ must be generated from the deeper level of a pure mind.” -S.N. Goenka

“To know “I am not the mind,” is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing.” -Osho

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.” -Paramahansa Yogananda

“The earth will be in balance only that day when the woman is completely honored and…realizes her own value…”
-Yogi Shivraj

“There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.” -Thomas Merton

“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.” -John Muir

“Knowing God is like a buds lying dormant within just waiting to blossom. If you are still a bud, try to be a flower. If you are already a flower let the fragrance flow in the air.”
-Yogi Ananda Saraswathi

“Divine Mother, with the language of my soul I demand realization of Thy presence. Thou art the essence of everything. Make me see Thee in every fiber of my being, in every wisp of thought. Awaken my heart!” -Prayers From Metaphysical Meditations by Paramahansa Yogananda

“The world which is full of attachments, aversions, etc., is like a dream. It appears to be real, as long as it continues but appears to be unreal when one is awake (i.e., when true wisdom dawns).” -Adi Shankaracharya

“One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.” -Bhagavad Gita

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself…”
-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“To be feminine is to become passive, to be feminine is to allow; to be feminine is to wait, to be feminine is not to be in a hurry and tense; to be feminine is to be in love.” -Osho

…the Earth is our Mother…treat the Earth well…honor the Earth.” -Native American Quotes

“We are not isolated islands, we are joined together like the links in a chain.” -Ammachi

“All of my relationships are encoded with love and infused with joy!” -Michael Bernard Beckwith

“A real gardener is not a person who cultivates flowers, but a person who cultivates the soil.” -William Rosenzweig

“Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one’s own family or one’s nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.”
-Dalai Lama

“Lord Krishna shows the light in Gita 15.15: “I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness”. What did man forget and what relationships has he prioritized in the material world?” -Yogi Ananda Saraswathi

“Life is a balance between rest and movement.” -Osho

“Meditation is an observation of thoughts until all thoughts are lost.” -Yogi Ananda Sarasawathi

“When I say “become water” I mean become a flow; don’t remain stagnant. Move, and move like water. …just be available to the currents of life.” -Osho

“Meditation involves maunam-silence; dhiram-stability and vairagyam-detachment.” -Yogi Ananda Saraswathi

“If parents live their lives in a meaningful way, then that alone can show the children how to get meaning for their life.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

‘You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your deed; so is your destiny’ states Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.’  -Yogi Ananda Saraswathi

“Walk Slowly, Breathe Slowly, Talk Slowly…Eat Slowly…” -Osho

“In fact, the Buddha should be more appropriately known as a super-scientist who studied the entire laws of nature governing the Universe, by direct personal experience.”
-S.N. Goenka

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” -Buddha

“Flowers do not discriminate. They are a thing of beauty for all. They provide fragrance to one and all.”
-Yogi Ananda Saraswathi

“Meditation should become a climate around you, a milieu in which you live. And wherever you go, you carry your climate.” -Osho

“Is your meal pleasing? Is it wholesome? Will it leave you feeling satisfied, light and energetic?
Eat only until your stomach is three-quarter’s full.” -Unknown

“We have to tell young people they are already beautiful as they are; they don’t have to be another person.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.” -Osho

“If you plant tomato seeds in your gardens, tomatoes will grow. Just so, if you water a seed of peace in your mind, peace will grow.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

“When you want to communicate something to somebody, choose a right moment and a right climate.” -Osho

“Which is the better, to preach loudly without effect or to sit silently sending out inner force?” -Sri Ramana Maharishi

“The witness lives in the world just like a mirror, reflecting everything.What difference does it make to the mirror whether the mirror is reflecting beautiful diamonds or just ordinary stones? It makes no difference to the mirror. Witnessing is the art of transcending the world.” -Osho

“I have always said that the greatest gift that parents can make to their children is their own happiness.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Alkaline tissues can hold up to 20 times more oxygen than acidic ones.The alkaline and thus the oxygen levels of the body are influenced partly by our emotions. Joyous, happy, love filled emotions tend to create alkaline-forming chemical reactions in the body.” -Dr. Mark Allan Sircus

“The eagle and the swan are both beings of flight and majesty.The eagle is the embodiment of power and aloneness. The swan is the embodiment of space and purity, gently floating and diving, upon and within the element of the emotions, entirely content and complete within her perfection and beauty. We are the union of eagle and swan: male and female, fire and water, life and death.” -Osho

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” -Carlos Castaneda

“You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you take the time to water your own grass it would be just as green.” -Wisdom Quotes

“JOY ARISES ONLY IN CREATING JOY FOR OTHERS; THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.
The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy.” -Osho

“Walking meditation can be very enjoyable. We walk slowly, alone or with friends, if possible in some beautiful place. Walking meditation is really to enjoy the walking-walking not in order to arrive, but just to walk.” -Thich Nhat Hanh from “Peace is Every Step”

“If your body could speak, what would it say?” -Daria Halprin

“True education has to bring you closer and closer to nature because only by coming closer and closer to nature will you be coming closer and closer to God.” -Osho

“If you want to meet the Buddha, if you want to touch God, if you want to touch the ultimate dimension, that is the address: THE HERE AND THE NOW. -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.” -Gabrielle Roth

“When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.” -Dalai Lama

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“As bees suck nectar from many flowers and make their honey one, so that no drop can say, ‘I am from this flower or that,’All creatures, though one, know not they are that One.” -Chandogya Upanishad

“Exploration of inner space through daily meditation is the most important thing anyone can do to enhance health and well-being.”-David Simon

“We rise by lifting others.” -Awakening Serenity

“A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love…You be a loving person.” -Osho

“I want you to be completely yourself.” -Mother Meera

“Grace means to feel in harmony with existence, to be in tune with existence.” -Osho

“The world is in serious condition largely due to our conditioning to be serious. Seriously.” -Swami Beyondananda

“Just as you need a mirror to see your face so you need the mirror of relationship to see your being. Love functions as a mirror, it shows you where you are, what you are, who you are.”
-Osho

“Meditation can be done in a group: it is a technique. In fact, if you meditate in a group, you will meditate deeply because the group helps, enhances. It fosters confidence. A group mind is created, a great wave of group consciousness is created and you simply move on the wave.” -Osho

“Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.”-Buddha

“Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,says this truth, you harvest what you sow.” -Rumi

“Meditation helps us to observe our body and our mind, and it brings the light of knowing that we are neither the body nor the mind and that we are observers of these tools.”
-Premlatha Rajkumar

“As long as I live, so long do I learn.” -Ramakrishna

“Grace is beauty of the inner.” -Osho

“Whenever you are meditative, you feel blissful… And then gratitude arises…gratitude means bowing down.” -Osho

“A black belt is a white belt that never quit.” -Sri Lanka Gojukai

“I am thankful for the the ever-expanding intelligent universe, the earth, the sun, moon, stars, planets, clean air, pure water, flora, fauna, and the elements of nature.” -Sarah McLean

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.” -Buddha

“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.” -Lao Tzu

“As night and day follow one another so does sadness and happiness go together… just accept what ever situation may arise.” -Gurumaa

“One day, death will come. Before it knocks you down, have a good laugh — while there is time, have a good laugh.”
-Osho

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”-Buddha

“Mind- body health has to be maintained with effort although it is being destroyed with effort by you. Stress, over ambitiousness are big reasons to create imbalance in body.”
-Anandmurti Gurumaa

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Sutta Nipata

“The whole existence is like a spider’s web…If you touch the net anywhere, the whole vibrates; if you touch existence anywhere, the whole vibrates. It is one.” -Osho

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.” -Lao Tzu

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
-Lao Tzu

“Be alive like the sun during the day and tranquil like the moon at night.” -Adnan Sarhan

“None of us knows how long our existence on this planet will last, and we don’t want to wait. We have the ability to experience our spiritual loving essence in a way that promotes compassion, empathy, and self-awareness.Why not do it now?” -Tim Brieske

“The stilled mind is like a mirror. It doesn’t process, it just reflects.”-Osho

“You should become pioneers of this age and search for truth. You have to become adventurous and awaken truth within you. This is real yoga.” -Haidakhan Babaji

“Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It’s very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.” -Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder

“A man of laughter is also a man of tears – then a man is balanced. A man of bliss is also a man of silence. A man who is ecstatic is also a man who is centered. They both go together. And out of this togetherness of polarities a balanced being is born.” -Osho

“You have wings but nobody has pushed you. You have not taken the jump on your own: you are still sitting in the shelter.The whole sky is yours – but you are not claiming it.”
-Osho

“Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny…something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally-you are here meaningfully.” -Osho

“The first and the most important unit of the society has been the family.” -Osho

“Buddha is in you, but is sleeping one, may Buddha be awakened in you. But it is most arduous journey to move from being something to being nothing. So simple yet so complex.”
-Gurumaa

“Man’s evolution is from innocence to innocence. The first innocence is ignorant, the second innocence is luminous.”
-Osho

“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” -Lao Tzu

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.” -Lao Tzu

“Thoughts are just like birds: they are moving on their own….You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness.” -Osho

“Someday without any reason dance in frenzy in total let go.”-Gurumaa

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?” -Khalil Gibran

‘You are in my heart and I am inside your own heart as Truth playing as love and joy.” -Mooji

“The wise one who practices what he preaches is a leader, like a flower, beautiful colorful and scented.” -Buddha

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Mother is the foundation of the happy family.” -Dalai Lama

“Be a creator of love: don’t wait for others to love you. Be initiative taker and GIVE love. It will reflect back to you thousands of times.” -Gurumaa

“Asana will make the body light. Pranayama strengthens prana. Dharana purifies the intellect. Meditation purifies the mind.” -Sri T. Krishnamacharya

“Joy is not pleasure; pleasure has to be derived from something else. Joy is just to be yourself — alive, fully vibrant, vital. A feeling of a subtle music around your body and within your body; that is joy. You can be joyful when your body is flowing, when it is a riverlike flow.” -Osho

“We have a vast reservoir of energy in us, lying unused, untapped. Once we get in touch with this energy, our life changes from just being an ordinary to a divine one. Meditation is being in tune with our inner energy source.”
-Anandmurti Gurumaa

“Live it in a present before it passes you by and becomes past.” -Adnan Sarhan

“Let your inner unfolding happen as spontaneously as this vibrant bloom reaches up to kiss the sun.” -Anandmurti Gurumaa

“A rose is born a rose, and need not do anything to be a rose.” -Anandmurti Gurumaa

“And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself?” -Rumi

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them but you always know they are there.” -Allan Rickhi

“Transform the world by giving people the tools to transform themselves.” -Dr. Mansukh Patel

“Don’t worry if you stumble or fall; just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, have a good laugh, and carry on.” -Osho

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.” -Buddha

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” -Lao Tzu

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” -Lao Tzu

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” -Lao Tzu

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”
-Buddha

“All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!” -Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” -Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” -Rumi

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” -Rumi

“Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart – a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water – I accept with joy.” -Bhagavad Gita

“Not just natural food, not just natural clothes, but natural you.” -Shantha Sobhana

“When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.” -S.N. Goenka

“Zazen means just sitting at the very source, not moving anywhere, a tremendous force arises, a transformation of energy into light and love, into greater life, into compassion, into creativity.” -Osho

“Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.” -Buddha

“When the lotus opens, the bees come of their own accord to seek the honey; so let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the result will follow.” -Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

“Truth is my God, the universe my country.” -Swami Vivekananda

“For this I came – to open your hearts to the Light.” -Mother Meera