Michael Graef

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depth...s. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Our divine perfection not registered by the physical eye but only by the heart’s knowing is who we truly are. Our mortal imperfections registered by the ...physical senses are not who we truly are. Yet we keep trying, in love, to find each other’s perfection within the world of imperfection. And it simply is not there." ~ Marianne Williamson See more

"The kind of rest you seek you will find not from sleeping but from waking." ~ A Course in Miracles

"You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it." ~ Rumi

"It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fun...damental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedomfreedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human." ~ Pema Chodron See more