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Mindfulness Quotes

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The phenomenon is not to walk on h2o.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth,
domicile deeply in the nowadays moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does non necessarily mean living face up-to-face with others;
rather, it ways never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the heart of the shopping district,
I was of a sudden overwhelmed past the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though we were total strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and do zilch."
 That's how we endeavor to practice at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and do nothing. Nosotros sit still and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you lot are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to get.
Simply the beingness right here before you, inside you, around yous.
All of y'all is holy.
You're already more and less than any y'all can know.
Breathe out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will alter,
giving u.s. the opportunity to do accepting whatever it is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through changing our external world,
but through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, nosotros cannot run into the light.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absenteeism, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it.
If you know something hurtful and truthful, don't say it.
If y'all know something helpful merely non truthful, don't say it.
If you know something helpful and true, detect the right time to say information technology.
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring profoundly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It ways to show up and exist seen.
To ask for what yous need.
To talk well-nigh how you're feeling.
To have the difficult conversations.
- Brené Brown -

Meditation do isn't most trying to throw ourselves away
and become something better.
It's about befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

You are whole and likewise part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may non even know about.
You are never lonely.
And you already belong.
You vest to humanity.
Yous belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone you run across is fighting a difficult battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a bank with a check to greenbacks.
"Can you identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Yep, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is simply being enlightened of what is happening right now
without wishing it were dissimilar;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
In that location is a crack in everything.
That'due south how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and as well i of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this private in the same fashion that I appreciate a dusk. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you lot can permit them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a dusk every bit I did the other evening, I don't observe myself saying, "Soften the orangish a picayune on the right hand corner, and put a bit more royal along the base, and utilise a little more pink in the cloud colour." I don't exercise that. I don't try to command a sunset. I lookout man with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious precious stone:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, information technology remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We only have to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location is something in every one of y'all that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the just true guide you will ever have.
And if you cannot hear it, y'all will all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

I don't know what your destiny will be, just ane matter I know: the just ones among you who volition be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you are perfect but equally you are...
... and at that place is still room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to notice happiness.
It'southward right in front of me if I'yard paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

Listening is the art of entering the skin of the other
and wearing it for a time as if it were your ain.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no dissonance, trouble or difficult piece of work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and notwithstanding be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, non because they deserve forgiveness,
simply because you deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Beingness on a spiritual path does not prevent you lot from facing times of darkness.
But information technology teaches you how to use the darkness every bit a tool to abound.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments always begin with an reply in mind.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be and and so disappear,
and it is as well a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that exercise not exist all of a sudden announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two ways to live your life.
Ane is as though null is a miracle.
The other is equally though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment one gives close attention to annihilation,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
crawly, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect
and first the piece of work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

Une difficulté est une lumière.
Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil.
(A difficulty is a lite.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will get articulate simply when you lot look into your center.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a volume is man's best friend.
Within of a canis familiaris,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay y'all haven't had much exercise," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I ever did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six incommunicable things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practise one day, I notice it.
If I practise not practice a 2d twenty-four hour period, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not do a third twenty-four hour period, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be enlightened of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them merely it'due south just as of import non to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to exist looking deeply into each moment with full credence
and non trying to force ourselves to be dissimilar from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, can you exist in touch,
not merely with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
just as well with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake tin teach this, remind usa of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain but sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, still ever just being itself.
It remains still as the seasons flow into i another and as the weather condition changes moment by moment and day by 24-hour interval, calmness constant all modify…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we take refused
again and again
until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, it pauses.
It increases in volume and forcefulness,
filling upwards in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling by it.
- I Ching -

You do non belong to y'all.
You belong to the universe.
The significance of yous volition forever remain obscure to yous,
but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you utilize yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

Y'all should sit down in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless you lot're too busy -
then you should sit for an hour.
- Old Zen adage -

Arguments always begin with an answer in mind.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -

Mindfulness is near being fully awake in our lives.
Information technology is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We as well gain immediate access to our ain powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you lot think of your body every bit a musical instrument, the body scan is a style of tuning it.
If you call back of it as a universe, the torso scan is a style to come to know it.
If you think of your torso as a business firm, the body scan is a fashion to throw open all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it make clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we call up and exercise
Is express by what we fail to detect
And because nosotros neglect to find
There is petty we tin do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is not really nigh establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are one of meditation'southward byproducts, non the exercise itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the centre wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And fifty-fifty if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your eye back,
though it went abroad every time you brought information technology back,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response there is a infinite.
In that space is our ability to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

Yous can have compassion for yourself - which is not cocky-pity.
Yous're just recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or cease
that you lot would bring to any dearest friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It's simply being kind to myself -
coming together myself, whatsoever my emotional, physical or psychological country, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, every bit that!
- Marianne Elliot -

To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be changed
By what we hear.
- Mark Nepo-

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each man'south life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very strange natural language.
Practice non now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
considering y'all would non exist able to alive them.
And the bespeak is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare course of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
First, we all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than annihilation we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective conventionalities organization, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner instructor'due south voice.
- Parker Palmer -

Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde -

It takes courage to grow upwardly
and become who you actually are.
- E. Due east. Cummings -

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
The beat cracks, its insides come up out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't sympathize growth, it would look similar complete destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering auto.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are yous and what do you lot desire?"
If you think these are trivial questions,
most people go through their entire lives without answering either i.
- Peter Russell'south answering machine -

You think you understand one.
You think you sympathise two, considering i and one make two.
But, you must as well understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from
every bit I am in what kind of monkey he is to get.
- Loren Eiseley -

We ourselves cannot put whatsoever magic spell on this earth.
The world is its own magic.
- Suzuki Roshi -

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

There'southward no problem so great it can't exist solved.
If it can't be solved, it's non a problem, it'south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Well-nigh of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to exist authentic, to live by our own codes of laurels.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the yard sweeps only in the minor gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to selection up an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each twenty-four hours, to plough left instead of right.
These are the burn drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I do not know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual only means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or extraneous.
If you lot encounter in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while continuing on one foot:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to you.
All the rest is commentary. Now become study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, non because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
just because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

10 thousand flowers in bound, the moon in fall,
A cool breeze in summertime, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't overcast past unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today like every other 24-hour interval
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept downwardly a musical instrument.
Allow the beauty we dear be what nosotros do
There are hundreds of style to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attending to and I volition tell you who you lot are.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset -

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; so I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the next globe, 'Why were you lot non Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will take nil to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is only with the heart that one can run across rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and see that I am zilch, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that'southward love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled by things,
only past the opinions we take about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you lot and the bushes beside yous are non lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Hither,
And you must care for it equally a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come dorsum again saying Hither.
No two trees are the aforementioned to Raven.
No two branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You lot must let it detect you lot.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not be in nature,
nor practise the children of men equally a whole experience it.
Fugitive danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is actually going on.
He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important.
Just the bee is at the aforementioned time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each outcome connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an quondam man and have known a great many troubles,
most of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -

We run across things non as they are, just every bit we are.
- H.Thou. Tomlinson -

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and at present the last deject drains abroad.
We sit down together, the mountain and me,
until but the mount remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen master.
"What can yous tell me almost death?" the educatee asked.
"Null," the other replied. "I'one thousand a Zen master. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a unmarried footstep will non make a path on the earth,
and then a unmarried thought volition not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk once more and again.
To make a deep mental path, nosotros must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't ask what the world needs. Enquire what makes you come live and go do information technology.
Because what the world needs is people who take come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a gild that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

Kickoff I was dying to cease high school and start college.
And and so I was dying to terminate college and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and take children.
And and then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And and so I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore -

Remembering that yous are going to dice is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Y'all are already naked.
In that location is no reason not to follow your centre.
- Steve Jobs -

Yous must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the body of water are dingy,
the body of water does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses.
What business concern have I in the wood
if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
- Thoreau -

Our bodies know they belong,
It'south our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It'south a human relationship betwixt equals.
Only when nosotros know our own darkness well tin we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes existent when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts exist big enough only to hang out in that infinite where we're not entirely sure virtually who's right and who's wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with some other person, non know what to say, not brand that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people every bit they really are? It is powerful to practice this style, because we'll detect ourselves continually rushing around to endeavour to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. Simply true advice tin happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
There are burning bushes all around you.
Every tree is full of angels.
Hidden beauty is waiting in every nibble.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every role of our personality that we do not love
will get hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If yous take embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or subsequently, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you're there,
where you realize you accept a choice.
You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you once more and again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Merely my soul I could not meet.
I sought my God, Only my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And establish all three.
- Bearding -

If I were chosen upon to land in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Listen to your life.
Run across it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch on, sense of taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin can do to brand myself Enlightened?
As little as you lot can do to make the dominicus ascent in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure yous are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nix yous tin exercise to better your soul.
There is nothing you can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true faith consists of having a expert middle.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more than I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the pare of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the cleaved canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipage.
Yes, God is nether the porch equally well as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Marker Nepo -

We tin can end struggling with what occurs and meet its true face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practise is non almost accomplishing anything
- non about winning or losing - but almost ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of united states of america need to exist reminded that nosotros are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew only how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around u.s., we'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we can learn to wait behind the mask
and see the one who longs to dearest and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was every bit if I suddenly saw the hugger-mugger beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge tin accomplish,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If just they could all see themselves every bit they really are.
If only we could see each other that way all the time.
At that place would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would autumn down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a land of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is one farther truth, notwithstanding: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show united states the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that afterward the honeymoon comes the union.
After the ballot comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we call back that something is going to bring u.s. pleasure, we really don't know what'due south going to happen. When we think something is going to requite the states misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for non knowing is the virtually of import thing of all. Nosotros try to practise what we recall is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit upwardly alpine. When there'south a big disappointment,
we don't know if that'southward the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great take a chance.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; nosotros call information technology good. Just really nosotros merely don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our work, our dearest, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come up alive only in each detail and personal circumstance. How nosotros live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen principal, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me continue my distance, always, from those who recollect they take the answers.
Let me go on company always with those who say
'Look!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

Your generosity toward others is key to your positive experiences in the world.
Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, in that location's more than than room for everyone; there's a need for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't recollect the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the earth burn.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we tin can achieve out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Yous are non a driblet in the ocean,
You are the unabridged ocean in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros take to go through.
Where people neglect is that they wish to elect a land and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets fifty-fifty every bit a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets and so well that all the hosts of sky and earth will intermission to say,
'Here lived a keen street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

Paradise is thus non and so much a identify,
equally liberation into the fullness and bounty
of everyday experience.
- Ian Baker -

When we brand music we don't do it in order to reach a sure point, such as the cease of the limerick. If that were the purpose of music then patently the fastest players would exist the best. Also, when we are dancing we are non aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journeying. When we dance, the journey itself is the bespeak, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the signal of life is e'er arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Merely to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin can that which is indestructible be found in us.
- Pema Chodron -

I twenty-four hours I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you lot go along doing this hard, middle-wrenching work when you know you'll wake upwards tomorrow to problems that are as bad or worse than the ones yous're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'southward answer:
"What you demand to understand is this —
simply considering something'southward impossible doesn't hateful you shouldn't exercise it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practise was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church building?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-noesis? If love was the center of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we take arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the globe opens upwards.
All we need to do is terminate pounding on the door that has just closed, turn effectually
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open up to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
but what now lies earlier the states is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter almost:
How well did you love?
How fully did you alive?
How securely did you learn to allow become?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to exist separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of us
is the ane Self - eternal, infinite, always-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught upwardly in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy run into.
Every bit you lot see him you volition see yourself.
As you care for him you will treat yourself.
As you think of him you lot volition call up of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will detect yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would atomic number 82 to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd withal be in prison house.
- Nelson Mandela -

Let us encourage ane another with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

Go and dear someone exactly as they are and watch how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When i feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, ane is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

Information technology has a lot to do with developing patience, non with the bank check-out person so much,
but with your own hurting that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and dear to that rawness and soreness.
I think that'southward how we have to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no answer.
There own't ever going to be an answer.
There never was an respond.
That'due south the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

Nosotros must be willing to permit get of the life we have planned
so equally to take the one that is waiting for us.
- Due east.M. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a peachy chat, a conversation that wasn't only two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for chat a lot in this culture?
Only ... a neat conversation, in which you overheard yourself maxim things that you never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you lot that you thought you had lost ... a chat that brought the two of you on to a unlike aeroplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks subsequently ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and beverage for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a take a chance to answer. Listening is paying total attending to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The dazzler of listening is that those who are listened to kickoff feeling accepted, outset taking their words more than seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Yet their approach to life comes from a deep caring and business organisation for all human beings.
Information technology comes from a bones kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender nosotros recollect God is,
or whether we fifty-fifty recall God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is frequently done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, interruption your heart no longer.
Each time you lot guess yourself, y'all break your heart.
You pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But at present the time has come up, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you lot are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is central: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of the states?
Merely that we be in its presence,
that nosotros fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I take seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to bear witness upward for whatsoever life may offering and meet with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Mayhap the wisdom lies in engaging the life you take been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and not letting become until you find the unknown approving that is in everything..
I recall that's how nosotros accept to practise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that'due south what nosotros're actually seeking.
I call up what we're seeking is an experience of beingness alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical airplane
will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
then that we actually feel the rapture of beingness alive.
That'south what information technology's all finally well-nigh.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
let go of thoughts, permit go of emotions, permit go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the correct phrase,
because letting become suggests that you need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not have to do anything to go far come, or make it go, or to allow information technology become.
We just have to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of u.s.a., I believe, is a gift the globe is giving to itself at present, a unique gift. …
Yous don't need to exist boggling. If the globe is to be healed through human effort,
I am convinced information technology volition exist by ordinary people,
people whose honey for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open up to the spider web of life that called usa into existence,
and who can residuum in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is oft described every bit the willingness to just be with our life as it is. But this is a hard concept to go: that exercise is not near having a particular country of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it nigh beingness completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we volition, in fact, feel more self-possession, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

But, ironically, it's the very demand that life be a particular fashion that most guarantees a continuing state of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being is a function of the whole, called by usa "Universe,"
a part limited in fourth dimension and infinite.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
equally something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to usa, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for but the few people nearest us.
Our job must be to complimentary ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
simply the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

I accept never met a person whose greatest need was annihilation other than real, unconditional love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If y'all cascade a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the h2o becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the chapters to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are pocket-size, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. Merely when our hearts expand, these same things don't make united states suffer anymore. We take a lot of agreement and pity and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and and then they have a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a want to save the globe and an inclination to savor it.
This makes information technology hard to plan the day. Only if we forget to relish the world,
what possible reason practice we have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

Our days are happier when we requite people a bit of our middle rather than a piece of our heed.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to gear up yourself, to heal yourself, to amend yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way at that place is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the countless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying and then difficult that wraps and so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an human action of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget well-nigh enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Experience the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your middle to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the being right here before you lot, inside yous, around yous.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever y'all can know.
Breathe out, look in, allow go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk most how nosotros need to do things to connect.
And on the one hand that's correct, but on the other hand, information technology understates what is.
Nosotros are connected.
What nosotros demand to exercise is to become aware of it, to alive information technology, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Desire what yous have.
Do what y'all can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do non even listen, but await. Do not fifty-fifty wait. Be tranquillity, still, and alone.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no option. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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