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Mindfulness Quotes
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The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the greenish earth,
dwelling deeply in the nowadays moment, feeling fully live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -
Customs does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others;
rather, it means never losing the sensation that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district,
I was all of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though nosotros 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 communication I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and exercise nothing."
That'due south how nosotros try to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
Nosotros stay close and do nothing. Nosotros sit down still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -
Open up your eye to who y'all are, right now, non who y'all would like to be.
Non the saint you're striving to become.
But the existence right here before you lot, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
Yous're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Exhale out, await in, permit go.
- John Welwood-
If we keep our attention focused on the present, we tin be certain of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving u.s.a. the opportunity to do accepting any information technology is
that will sally in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Happiness is not found through irresolute our external earth,
just through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -
Without the dark, nosotros cannot see the light.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the dearest.
- Lauren Fins -
If you know something hurtful and not truthful, don't say information technology.
If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it.
If you know something helpful but not truthful, don't say it.
If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -
Daring greatly means the courage to exist vulnerable.
It means to show upwards and be seen.
To ask for what y'all need.
To talk nearly how y'all're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Dark-brown -
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and go something better.
Information technology's about befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -
You are whole and besides part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you lot may non even know almost.
You lot are never lone.
And you already belong.
Y'all belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You lot belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Exist kind, for everyone y'all meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -
Nasrudin went into a banking concern with a bank check to cash.
"Can you place yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Yes, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening correct at present
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without belongings on when it changes (which it volition);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it will e'er be this fashion (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -
One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also i of the almost growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this private in the same style that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful equally sunsets if you tin can let them exist. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin can truly capeesh a sunset is that nosotros cannot control information technology. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orangish a footling on the right mitt corner, and put a bit more than purple forth the base, and use a niggling more pink in the cloud colour." I don't do that. I don't attempt to control a sunset. I watch with awe as information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -
Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We simply have to uncover information technology.
- Pema Chodron -
There is something in every 1 of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the simply true guide you will ever have.
And if y'all cannot hear it, you 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, simply 1 thing I know: the only ones among yous who will exist really happy are those who have sought and constitute how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a grouping of schoolboys. -
All of you lot are perfect just as you are...
... and there is still room for comeback!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -
I don't take to chase boggling moments to find happiness.
It'southward right in front of me if I'm paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -
Listening is the art of entering the pare of the other
and wearing it for a fourth dimension as if it were your own.
- David Spangler -
Peace.
It does not hateful to be in a place where there is no noise, problem or hard work.
It means to exist in the midst of those things and nevertheless be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness,
but because yous deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -
Beingness on a spiritual path does not foreclose you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -
Arguments e'er begin with an respond in mind.
Chat begins with a question .
- unknown -
Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and then disappear,
and it is also a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that practice non exist of a sudden appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -
At that place are only two means to live your life.
One is as though aught is a phenomenon.
The other is equally though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -
The moment ane gives shut attending to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -
The thing that is really hard, and really astonishing,
is giving up on existence perfect
and start the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-
Une difficulté est une lumière.
Une difficulté insurmontable est united nations soleil.
(A difficulty is a light.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -
Your vision will become clear simply when you lot await into your heart.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -
Exterior of a dog,
a book is man'south best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's besides dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -
Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said;
"i tin't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much exercise," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for one-half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many every bit six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -
If I do non practice ane twenty-four hour period, I discover it.
If I do non practice a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not practise a third day, the world notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them only it's just every bit important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total credence
and not trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
not simply with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
simply also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Through it all, the mountain only sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly irresolute, still ever just being itself.
It remains withal as the seasons menstruation into 1 another and equally the weather changes moment by moment and mean solar day by day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Enough.
These few words are enough.
If non these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
nosotros have refused
once more and once more
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 strength,
filling upwardly in front of the obstacle
and somewhen spilling past information technology.
- I Ching -
You do not vest to you.
You vest to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you lot,
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 -
You should sit in meditation for xx minutes every 24-hour interval
- unless y'all're besides busy -
and then you should sit for an hr.
- Sometime Zen adage -
Arguments ever begin with an reply in mind.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -
Mindfulness is near being fully awake in our lives.
It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
If you think of your body equally a musical instrument, the torso browse is a way of tuning it.
If you call up of it equally a universe, the torso scan is a way to come to know it.
If yous recollect of your body as a firm, the trunk scan is a way 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 practise
Is limited past what we fail to notice
And because nosotros fail to notice
There is little we can do
To alter
Until nosotros observe
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -
The practice of meditation is not actually most establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are ane of meditation'due south byproducts, not the exercise itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And even if you did nothing during the whole of your 60 minutes but bring your eye dorsum,
though information technology went away every time you brought it dorsum,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -
Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -
You tin can take pity for yourself - which is not self-pity.
Yous're just recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the aforementioned warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that you would bring to any beloved friend
grappling with the aforementioned pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -
It'south simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, concrete or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Every bit simple, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -
To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be changed
By what we hear.
- Marking Nepo-
If we could read the clandestine history of our enemies,
we should find in each man's 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
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very strange tongue.
Exercise not now seek the answers, which cannot exist given you
considering you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -
... circles of trust ... are a rare class of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in ii bones beliefs.
Commencement, nosotros all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything nosotros can go from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, nosotros all need other people to invite, amplify, and help u.s.a. discern the inner instructor's vocalism.
- Parker Palmer -
Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde -
Information technology takes courage to grow up
and go who you lot actually are.
- E. E. Cummings -
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come up completely undone.
The shell cracks, its insides come up out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't understand growth, information technology would look like complete destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -
This is not an answering automobile.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what practice you desire?"
If you lot retrieve these are trivial questions,
about people go through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering automobile -
Y'all think y'all understand i.
You think you lot understand 2, because one and one make two.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi proverb -
I am not nearly and then interested in what monkey man was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -
We ourselves cannot put any magic spell on this world.
The world is its ain magic.
- Suzuki Roshi -
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -
There'due south no problem so groovy it can't be solved.
If it can't exist solved, information technology's not a problem, it'south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -
... few people really receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Almost of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to exist authentic, to live by our ain codes of honor.
Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps but in the pocket-size gestures. The swell breakthroughs in our lives mostly happen only as a effect of the accumulation of innumerable small-scale steps and minor achievements. Nosotros're called to reach out to someone, to option up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a grade even though we're convinced nosotros don't take the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of correct.
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 simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is split up or extraneous.
If yous meet in this fashion, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline is spiritual. And so is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Hillel the sage, who was asked to chronicle the whole of Torah while standing on ane foot:
"Do non practice to others that which is hateful to you.
All the balance is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -
The saints are what they are, non because their sanctity makes them beauteous to others,
only because the souvenir of sainthood makes information technology possible for them to admire everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -
X grand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in wintertime.
If your heed isn't clouded 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 day
We wake upwards empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept downwardly a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what nosotros practise
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And buss the earth.
- Rumi -
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you lot are.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here and thither; then I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of beingness a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a human being?
- Zhuangzi -
Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they inquire me in the adjacent world, 'Why were you lot not Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were you lot not Zusya?'
I will have zero to say.
- Martin Buber -
It is only with the heart that one tin see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -
When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I expect exterior and see that I am everything, that's love.
Between these 2 my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -
We are not troubled by things,
but by the opinions we have about things.
- Epictetus -
Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -
Stand notwithstanding.
The trees before y'all and the bushes beside you are non lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Here,
And you must treat it equally a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I take made this identify around you,
If yous exit information technology you lot may come up back once again proverb Here.
No 2 copse are the same to Raven.
No two branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand up still. The forest knows
Where y'all are. You must let information technology notice yous.
- David Wagoner -
Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men every bit a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring chance or nothing.
- Helen Keller -
Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the total story of what is really going on.
He liked to indicate out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is of import.
But the bee is at the same time nature'southward vehicle
for conveying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a central principle of nature.
Nix is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
I am an old man and accept known a cracking many troubles,
most of which never happened
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -
We see things non equally they are, only as we are.
- H.Chiliad. Tomlinson -
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last deject drains abroad.
We sit down together, the mountain and me,
until merely the mountain remains.
- Li Po -
Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen chief.
"What tin you lot tell me nearly death?" the student asked.
"Zippo," the other replied. "I'm a Zen primary. Non a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -
As a single stride will not brand a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, nosotros walk again and over again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -
May y'all live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -
Don't ask what the world needs. Enquire what makes y'all come alive and become do information technology.
Because what the world needs is people who have come up alive.
- Howard Thurman -
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a true-blue servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -
Starting time I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And then I was dying to cease college and starting time working.
And then I was dying to ally and take children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow sometime enough for schoolhouse and then I could return to piece of work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And all of a sudden 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 you lot are going to die is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You lot are already naked.
There 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 bounding main are dirty,
the ocean does non go muddied.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
In my walks, I would fain render to my senses.
What business concern have I in the woods
if I am thinking of something out of the wood?
- Thoreau -
Our bodies know they belong,
Information technology's our minds that make our lives and so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a human relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when nosotros recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -
Could our minds and our hearts be big enough just to hang out in that infinite where we're non entirely certain about who's right and who's incorrect? Could nosotros take no agenda when nosotros walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people every bit they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing around to attempt to feel secure once more—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. Merely truthful communication can happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -
Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
At that place are called-for bushes all around yous.
Every tree is full of angels.
Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -
Every part of our personality that we do not dear
will become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -
If you have embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
y'all may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like nigh every moment of your life yous're at that place,
where you realize you accept a choice.
Y'all accept a choice whether to open or shut, whether to concur on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to concur your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you again and again and again.
- Pema Chodron -
I sought my soul, Just my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And plant all three.
- Anonymous -
If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this: Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the colorlessness and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, sense of taste, olfactory property your way to the holy and hidden eye of it
because in the last analysis all moments are primal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-
Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As little as you tin can do to brand the sunday rising in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To brand sure yous are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -
In that location is nothing you tin can do to improve your soul.
There is nothing you can practise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -
I believe that the only true religion consists of having a skillful centre.
- The Dalai Lama -
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the pare of all that is ordinary.
Calorie-free is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipage.
Yeah, God is nether the porch equally well equally 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.
- Mark Nepo -
Nosotros can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to call back that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything
- not near winning or losing - just near ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit down down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -
Most of u.s.a. need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew but how powerfully our thoughts, words, and deportment affected
the hearts of those effectually the states, we'd reach out and join hands again and once again.
Our relationships accept the potential to exist a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person nosotros meet, nosotros tin learn to look backside the mask
and see the one who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -
Then it was equally if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor want nor self-noesis tin reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If but they could all run into themselves as they actually are.
If only we could see each other that style all the time.
There would exist no more war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big trouble would be that we would autumn down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -
Enlightenment does be. Information technology is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a country of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is one farther truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings prove us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that later the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Afterward the election comes the hard chore of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Afterwards the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -
When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, nosotros actually don't know what'southward going to happen. When nosotros think something is going to give us misery, we don't know. Letting at that place be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to practice what we call back is going to assistance. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit down up tall. When at that place'due south a big disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that'southward the end of the story. It may exist just the showtime of a cracking take chances.
...Life is like that.
We phone call something bad; nosotros call it good. Merely really we simply don't know.
- Pema Chodron -
With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual exercise includes our piece of work, our honey, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin can come alive but in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. Equally one wise educatee remarked,
'If you really want to know nearly a Zen principal, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -
Truly, nosotros alive with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Allow me keep my distance, e'er, from those who think they take the answers.
Permit me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh 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, there's more than than room for everyone; at that place's a need for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -
Don't think the purpose of meditation is to get deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here past myself; let the earth fire.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we can attain out further and farther to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -
You are not a drop in the ocean,
Yous are the entire body of water in a drop.
- Rumi -
Life is a procedure of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in information technology.
This is a kind of decease.
- Anais Nin -
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets fifty-fifty as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth volition interruption to say,
'Here lived a not bad street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -
Paradise is thus not then much a identify,
as liberation into the fullness and compensation
of everyday experience.
- Ian Bakery -
When we make music nosotros don't exercise it in guild to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music and so obviously the fastest players would be the all-time. Too, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular identify on the floor every bit in a journey. When nosotros trip the light fantastic, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the indicate. And exactly the same thing is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
can that which is indestructible exist found in u.s.a..
- Pema Chodron -
I day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, centre-wrenching work when yous know you lot'll wake upwardly tomorrow to problems that are as bad or worse than the ones yous're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'south answer:
"What you need to empathise is this —
simply considering something's incommunicable doesn't mean you shouldn't practise it!"
- Parker Palmer -
What if our religion was each other?
If our exercise was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Globe?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Instructor was life?
If wisdom was cocky-knowledge? If love was the centre of our being?
- Ganga White -
Equally often happens on the spiritual journey, nosotros have arrived at the eye of a paradox:
each fourth dimension a door closes, the remainder of the world opens up.
All we demand to do is stop pounding on the door that has just airtight, turn around
- which puts the door behind united states of america -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept u.s. from entering a room,
just what at present lies before us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -
In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you lot honey?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you larn to let get?
- Jack Kornfield -
Yous and I appear to be separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent segmentation, however, hidden deep within each of united states
is the one Self - eternal, space, e'er-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all caught up 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 information technology is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -
When y'all meet anyone, recollect it is a holy encounter.
As you come across him you will see yourself.
Equally yous care for him you will treat yourself.
As yous remember of him you will recollect of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will discover yourself or lose yourself.
- A Grade in Miracles -
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would atomic number 82 to my liberty,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred backside,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -
Let us encourage ane some other with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -
Become and love someone exactly equally they are and watch how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When ane feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -
It has a lot to do with developing patience, non with the check-out person and then much,
but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and dear to that rawness and soreness.
I think that's how we have to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -
There ain't no reply.
At that place own't e'er going to be an answer.
There never was an answer.
That's the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -
If we learn to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -
We must be willing to let go of the life we accept planned
and then as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Due east.1000. Forster -
When is the last time that y'all had a bully conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Just ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew yous knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly establish places inside you that you lot idea you had lost ... a conversation that brought the 2 of yous on to a unlike plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks after ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -
Listening is much more than assuasive some other to talk while waiting for a hazard to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to outset feeling accustomed, get-go taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you lot invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with y'all.
- Henri J.1000. 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 concern for all homo beings.
Information technology comes from a bones kindness.
That is what spirituality is most. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender we think God is,
or whether nosotros even call up God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is often done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -
My honey child, interruption your heart no longer.
Each time y'all judge yourself, you break your center.
You lot pull abroad from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your time, to alive and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji equally shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -
... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: bug are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Merely that we be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -
Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatsoever life may offer and run across with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Peradventure the wisdom lies in engaging the life yous have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you lot find the unknown approval that is in everything..
I think that'due south how we have to do.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't recall that's what we're really seeking.
I remember what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
and then that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we really feel the rapture of being alive.
That'south what it's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -
Often in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting become of things:
allow go of thoughts, let go of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is non exactly the right phrase,
because letting go suggests that yous need to practise something.
A meliorate phrase to work with is "Permit it be." Let information technology be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
Nosotros do non have to practise anything to make it come up, or get in go, or to let it go.
We but take to permit it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -
Each one of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You don't need to exist boggling. If the earth is to exist healed through human effort,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose honey for this life is even greater than their fright.
People who can open up to the web of life that chosen the states into beingness,
and who tin can rest in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -
Practice is often described as the willingness to simply exist with our life every bit information technology is. But this is a hard concept to become: that practise is not nearly having a particular state of heed, such every bit calmness. Nor is it near being completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more than equanimity, and that our fears will essentially diminish.
But, ironically, information technology's the very demand that life be a particular fashion that near guarantees a continuing state of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -
A human being is a part of the whole, called by u.s.a. "Universe,"
a part express in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the residuum, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This mirage is a kind of a prison to the states, restricting us to our personal desires
and to amore for just the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to gratis ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to comprehend all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
simply the striving for such accomplishment is in itself a function of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -
I have never met a person whose greatest need was annihilation other than real, unconditional beloved.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -
If you cascade a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you cascade the salt into a river, people can go on to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and information technology has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and nosotros endure. We can't have or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we need that they change. Just when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't make united states of america endure anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can comprehend others. Nosotros take others as they are, and then they take a take chances to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it difficult to plan the twenty-four hour period. But if nosotros forget to relish the globe,
what possible reason do we have for saving it?
In a mode, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -
Go out 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 give people a scrap of our centre rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -
Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice it equally an human activity of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any demand for the subtle aggression of cocky-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless circular of trying so difficult that wraps then 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 nearly enlightenment.
Sit down down wherever you lot are and listen to the current of air that is singing in your veins.
Feel the dear, the longing, and the fear in your basic.
Open your center to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Non the saint you're striving to get.
Just the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more than and less than whatever you tin can know.
Exhale out, await in, let get.
- John Welwood -
Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the one hand that's right, just on the other paw, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What nosotros demand to do is to become aware of it, to live it, to limited it.
- John A. Powell -
Want what you take.
Do what you can.
Exist who you lot are.
- Forrest Church -
You practice non accept to leave the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and listen.
Do non even listen, simply wait. Exercise not even await. Be repose, still, and solitary.
The world volition freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It volition roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -
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