Mark Marano

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

"An Infinity of Forests Lies Dormant Within the Dreams of One Acorn."

The mind of the aspirant has to bypass and refuse temptations. Later it will be seen that nothing was lost as that temptation was merely another illusion. The aspirant gives up the vanities of opinionation and the duties of saving the world. One's inner spiritual evolution is of greater value to society than any form of doingness. The level of compassion radiates out and contributes silently to mankind's wisdom.

There is nothing that can help the world more than your putting an end to ignorance.

Everything I need is within me. I don't have to search for the truth, I am the truth. I don't have to search for perfection; I am perfection. I don't have to search for happiness; I am happiness wherever I am.

We have the power to decide the destiny of our planet. If we awaken to our true situation, there will be a change in our collective consciousness.

Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, your light can be the light which truly lights the world.

We all sit in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the center and knows.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Who do I now choose to be? This is the only question that matters, and this is what your soul is using your life to decide, every moment. Life is not a process of discovery, it is a process of creation.

Ask, "How am I aware or even know that I exist?" That question is the best that can be acted upon for it leads directly and nonverbally to the ever present Reality. Identify with that quality, capacity, or condition of ever present subjectivity which is experienced as an underlying awareness. It is consciousness itself. Identify with that consciousness instead of with the 'what' it is conscious about. That is the direct route to the Self. It is actually the only practice that leads directly through the doorway. There is nothing to know, to learn, or to remember. It is merely necessary to focus, fixate, meditate, contemplate, look at, and realize that the substrate and source of existence is the radical subjectivity of the Presence of God as the Light of Consciousness.

The peaceful mind has no thoughts or opinions. Because the knowingness replaces thinkingness, it will be discovered that no commentary is required to successfully fulfill the requirements of life, and that what had been believed to be necessary (thoughts) is actually superfluous. The spectacular beauty of a sunset or beautiful music is diminished by mentalization.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

God's one and only voice is silence.

In actuality, enlightenment is neither a state nor a viewpoint, yet it is both, and there is no statement about it that is completely accurate.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

I am free to be who I really am. Personal freedom - the freedom to be who I really am, the freedom to do what I really want to do - is the greatest gift that I can give myself.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart.

Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky