Some thoughtful quotes.

Love withers under constraint; its very essence is liberty. It is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy nor fear. It is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited when its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.~Emily Bronte~

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. ~ ML King, Jr.~

“People…go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realizing that they are probably thinking other people’s thoughts, living by other people’s standards, wearing practically what one may call other people’s second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment.

…Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”
~Oscar Wilde

Openness

An important part of satsang,
when we gather together to explore Truth,
is being open-hearted.
Some human beings find it easier to be open-minded,
and some find it easier to be open-hearted,
but to really be here now
is to be both.
When you are open,
you do not filter your experience,
nor do you barricade yourself.
You do not try to defend yourself,
but you open to the mystery
by questioning what you believe.
When you give yourself this amazing gift
of not trying to find yourself within some particular concept or feeling,
then the openness expands
until your identity becomes more and more the openness itself,
rather than some point of reference in the mind called a belief
or a particular feeling in the body.
The point is not to get rid of thoughts or feelings,
but just not to feel located inside of them.
~ Adyashanti, “Emptiness Dancing”