The best of all true things is a true heart.
Without truth there is no happiness,
though you may try a million tricks.
Kabir

I need to recover a rhythm in my heart that moves my body first and my mind second; that allows my soul to catch up with me.
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun-warmed rock in the centre of a rushing river.

Dawna Markova

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths where neither sin nor desire can reach,
the person that each one is in God’s eyes.
If only they could see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that way,
there would be no reason for war, for hatred, for cruelty,
I suppose the big problem would be that
we could fall down and worship each other
Thomas Merton

Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don’t go off somewhere else!
Kabir says this:
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

Kabir

Renew thyself completely each day;
do it again, and again, and forever again.

Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden