Inside each of us there is a noble heart. This heart is the source of our finest aspirations for ourselves and for the world. It fills us with the courage to act on our aspirations. Our nobility may be obscured at times, covered over with small thoughts or blocked by confused and confusing emotions. But a noble heart lies intact within each of us nonetheless, ready to open and be offered to the world. Our task … is to recognize this noble heart within us and learn to connect with it, to make it the basis of all that we do and feel. When we clear away all that blocks it, this heart can change the world. – The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, The Heart Is Noble Dec 31:Ben Brill

Fundamental changes are taking place in the inner and outer worlds. We are part of these changes, and yet these changes also depend upon us. Our spiritual practice, our aspiration and awareness, are part of the lifeblood of the planet. There is an urgency now, a primal need, that we live the depths of our longing, our desire for Truth. Life is calling us to realize our true nature and life’s wholeness. We are needed to help life to awaken from a dream that is destroying it. – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World Dec 30:Ben Brill

… learning to embrace love and practice its habits at every turn are the deepest responsibilities we have as humans. – Ed Bacon, 8 Habits of Love Dec 29:Ben Brill

When we are aware of our place in the larger scheme of things, … [w]e are called beyond an introverted spirituality to consider everything in our dealings with others as part of our spiritual life. – Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, Life Prayers Dec 28:Ben Brill

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take. – Willis Harmon Dec 27:Ben Brill

We create transformative, resilient new realities by becoming transformed, resilient people. – Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise Dec 26:Ben Brill

Awakening to the energies of Love represents as extraordinary a birth as any before in the human journey. Should we come to embody this kind of Love – should it become incarnate in us and in our species – it will grace us with a capacity for a far deeper relatedness and a genuine communion with life. – Anne Hillman, Awakening the Energies of Love Dec 25:Ben Brill

All the darkness in the world can’t extinguish the light from a single candle. – St. Francis of Assisi Dec 24:Ben Brill

We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around to its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution. – Beatrice Bruteau, quoted in Jan Phillips, The Art of Original Thinking Dec 23:Ben Brill

You surrender to a lot of things which are not worthy of you. I wish you would surrender to your radiance … your integrity … your beautiful human grace. – Yogi Bhajan Dec 22:Ben Brill