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Mindfulness Quotes

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

Community does not necessarily hateful living face-to-face with others;
rather, information technology means never losing the awareness 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 suddenly overwhelmed by 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 Centre,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've e'er heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and do goose egg."
 That'south how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay shut and practice nothing. We sit all the same and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

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

If we keep our attending focused on the present, we can be sure of 1 thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving united states the opportunity to practice accepting any information technology is
that will emerge in the side by side moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non institute through changing our external world,
simply through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, we cannot run across the light.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot experience the dearest.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to bear witness up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk nearly how you're feeling.
To have the difficult conversations.
- Brené Brownish -

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

You are whole and also role of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may not even know about.
Yous are never alone.
And you lot already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You lot belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone you lot meet is fighting a difficult battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a bank with a check to cash.
"Tin you identify 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 right at present
without wishing information technology were different;
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.
There is a fissure in everything.
That'southward how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

I of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also 1 of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this private in the aforementioned fashion that I appreciate a sunset. People are but as wonderful as sunsets if you can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a dusk as I did the other evening, I don't observe myself saying, "Soften the orangish a niggling on the correct hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a petty more pinkish in the deject color." I don't practise that. I don't try to control a sunset. I picket with awe as information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily cached in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We only have to uncover it.
- 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 but true guide you volition ever have.
And if you cannot hear information technology, you volition 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 volition be, but 1 thing I know: the only ones amidst you who will exist really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of yous are perfect just every bit you are...
... and there is all the same room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It's correct in forepart of me if I'1000 paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

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

Peace.
Information technology does non mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or difficult work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, not considering they deserve forgiveness,
but because you lot deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
Merely it teaches yous how to use the darkness every bit a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

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

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

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

Une difficulté est une lumière.
Une difficulté insurmontable est united nations soleil.
(A difficulty is a calorie-free.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sunday.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will become clear only when y'all look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'southward no use trying," she said;
"i tin't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed equally many equally six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practice one mean solar day, I detect it.
If I practise not do a 2nd day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I exercise not do a 3rd day, the earth notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'due south important to be aware of concrete limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it'southward merely as of import not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to strength 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 only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your listen?
The lake can teach this, remind the states of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mount only sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, all the same always just being itself.
It remains still as the seasons flow into ane another and every bit the weather changes moment by moment and day past day, calmness abiding all alter…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are plenty.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this jiff, this sitting hither.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until at present.
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 forepart of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You do not vest to yous.
You lot belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you,
only you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless you're too busy -
then yous should sit for an hour.
- Old Zen aphorism -

Arguments ever brainstorm with an answer in heed.
Conversations brainstorm with a question.
- unknown -

Mindfulness is about beingness fully awake in our lives.
It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also gain firsthand admission to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you lot recall of your body as a musical instrument, the body scan is a manner of tuning it.
If you think of it every bit a universe, the trunk scan is a mode to come to know information technology.
If you think of your body equally a house, the body scan is a way to throw open all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of sensation sweep information technology clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we think and do
Is express by what we fail to discover
And because we neglect to notice
There is petty we can exercise
To change
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practise of meditation is not really near establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are one of meditation's byproducts, not the practise itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the bespeak quite gently...
And even if y'all did nothing during the whole of your hour just bring your heart back,
though it went away every time yous brought information technology back,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Betwixt 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 liberty.
- Victor Frankl -

You lot tin can take compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or stop
that you would bring to whatever beloved friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges every bit you.
- Rick Hanson -

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

To heed is to lean in softly
With a willingness to exist inverse
By what nosotros hear.
- Mark Nepo-

If nosotros could read the hole-and-corner 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 center
and endeavor to honey the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very strange tongue.
Do not at present seek the answers, which cannot exist given you
because y'all would non exist able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare grade of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the private quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Beginning, we all take an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than annihilation we can get from a doctrine, credo, commonage belief system, institution, or leader.
2nd, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help u.s.a. discern the inner teacher's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow upward
and become who y'all really are.
- East. Due east. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning automobile.
"Who are yous and what practise you want?"
If you think these are footling questions,
most people become through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering machine -

You think you understand i.
Yous think y'all understand 2, because one and one brand 2.
But, y'all must also sympathize "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

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

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

There'southward no trouble and then great it tin't be solved.
If it tin't exist solved, it's non a problem, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Most of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attending to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live by our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the m sweeps but in the modest gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen only every bit a result of the aggregating of innumerable minor steps and pocket-size achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class fifty-fifty though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to get to our desks each solar day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the fire 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 direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that cipher is separate or extraneous.
If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And then is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Practise not exercise to others that which is mean to you lot.
All the rest is commentary. Now go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them beauteous to others,
but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

Ten chiliad flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool cakewalk in summertime, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't overcast by unnecessary things,
This is the best flavor of your life.
- Wu-men -

In that location is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today like every other day
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your written report
And brainstorm reading.
Take downward a musical instrument.
Allow the beauty we love be what nosotros practice
At that place are hundreds of mode to kneel
And kiss the globe.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell yous who you are.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset -

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; and so I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a human 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 inquire me in the next world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I volition have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is only with the heart that i can encounter 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 meet that I am everything, that'due south love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Nosotros are not troubled by things,
merely past the opinions we take nearly things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand even so.
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 information technology as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around y'all,
If you leave it yous may come up back once again proverb Here.
No 2 trees are the same to Raven.
No 2 branches the same 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 must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole feel it.
Fugitive danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring take chances or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

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

I am an old man and have known a keen many troubles,
well-nigh of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

Nosotros see things not equally they are, simply equally we are.
- H.Yard. Tomlinson -

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last deject drains away.
We sit down together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a educatee who went to a Zen master.
"What can you tell me nearly death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen primary. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

Equally a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
and so a single thought volition not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk over again and once more.
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. Inquire what makes y'all come alive and go practice it.
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 club that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

First I was dying to cease high school and get-go higher.
And and then I was dying to cease college and start working.
And so I was dying to ally and have children.
And so I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school and so I could return to piece of work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And 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 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 non to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they belong,
Information technology's our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It'due south a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our ain darkness well tin can we exist present with the darkness of others.
Pity becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts be big plenty only to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain almost who's right and who's wrong? Could we take no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, non know what to say, not brand that person wrong or correct? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they actually are? Information technology is powerful to practice this way, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing around to endeavour to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true communication can happen simply in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
At that place are called-for bushes all around y'all.
Every tree is total of angels.
Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every part of our personality that nosotros practice non dear
volition go hostile to u.s.a..
- Robert Bly -

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

I sought my soul, Simply my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, Merely my God eluded me.
I sought my blood brother, And found 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 exist 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, taste, smell your manner to the holy and subconscious heart of it
because in the last assay all moments are cardinal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As little as you can do to brand the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To make sure you are non asleep when the sun begins to ascension.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is zilch you tin can do to improve your soul.
There is nothing y'all can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the simply true religion consists of having a good heart.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more than I realize that God is everywhere
and the boggling is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Lite is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yep, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Marker Nepo -

We can cease struggling with what occurs and see its truthful face up without calling it the enemy.
Information technology helps to recall that our spiritual practice is non virtually accomplishing anything
- not most winning or losing - simply about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as information technology is.
That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Nearly of us need to exist reminded that nosotros are good, that we are lovable, that nosotros vest.
If we knew simply how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions afflicted
the hearts of those around us, we'd attain out and join hands over again and once again.
Our relationships accept the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and enkindling.
With each person we meet, nosotros can learn to wait behind the mask
and run into the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was equally if I all of a sudden saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-cognition tin can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all run across themselves as they really are.
If only we could come across each other that manner all the time.
In that location would be no more state of war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more than greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that nosotros would autumn down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than yous know, and not far away. At that place is one farther truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings evidence u.s. the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that afterwards the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard chore of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, nosotros actually don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, we don't know. Letting there exist room for not knowing is the virtually important matter of all. We endeavor to do what we think is going to help. Simply we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there'due south a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the stop of the story. It may be merely the showtime of a great adventure.
...Life is similar that.
We phone call something bad; we telephone call it good. But really nosotros only 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 beloved, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably continued, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive but in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to exist understood...
Permit me proceed my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Allow 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 primal to your positive experiences in the earth.
Know that there's enough room for everyone to exist passionate, artistic, and successful.
In fact, there's more room for everyone; there'due south a demand for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl upwards in here by myself; let the world burn.'
Not at all.
Nosotros become deep into meditation so that we tin accomplish out further and farther to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drib in the ocean,
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process 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 it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to exist a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even every bit a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of sky and world will suspension to say,
'Here lived a not bad street sweeper who did his task well.'
- Martin Luther King -

Paradise is thus not and then much a place,
equally liberation into the fullness and bounty
of everyday feel.
- Ian Baker -

When we make music we don't practise information technology in order to attain a sure betoken, such as the terminate of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then evidently the fastest players would be the best. Likewise, when we are dancing we are non aiming to make it at a particular identify on the flooring as in a journey. When we trip the light fantastic toe, the journey itself is the point, every bit when nosotros play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point 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
can that which is indestructible be institute in us.
- Pema Chodron -

Ane mean solar day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you go on doing this hard, heart-wrenching piece of work when you lot know you lot'll wake upwards tomorrow to issues that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's respond:
"What you need to empathise is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do information technology!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
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 self-knowledge? If love was the eye of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the earth opens up.
All nosotros demand to practice is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door backside us -
and welcome the largeness of life that at present lies open to our souls.
The door that airtight kept united states from entering a room,
but what now lies earlier us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter near:
How well did yous honey?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did yous learn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be separate. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Below this credible partitioning, nevertheless, subconscious deep within each of us
is the one Self - eternal, space, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded hole-and-corner of life: that nosotros are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a nowadays and non giving information technology.
- William Arthur Ward -

When y'all meet anyone, remember it is a holy see.
As you see him you will see yourself.
As yous care for him you volition treat yourself.
Every bit yous think of him y'all will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Class 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 still be in prison house.
- Nelson Mandela -

Let us encourage 1 another with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

Get and honey someone exactly as they are and lookout man how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When 1 feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, 1 is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to do with developing patience, non with the bank check-out person so much,
only with your own hurting that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I think that'due south how we have to do.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If we acquire to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive u.s.a. crazy, can exist our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to allow get of the life nosotros have planned
then as to have the one that is waiting for united states.
- Eastward.M. Forster -

When is the final time that you had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't simply two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a great chat, in which you lot overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew? That yous heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely plant places within you that you thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different airplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your listen for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and potable for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to answer. 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 start feeling accepted, offset taking their words more than seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to dare to be silent with you lot.
- 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 for all human beings.
Information technology comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is near our deep connections.
It isn't nearly what gender we retrieve God is,
or whether nosotros even recall God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is oft washed quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My dearest child, break your heart no longer.
Each fourth dimension y'all guess yourself, you interruption your center.
You pull away from the honey that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The stardom...
is primal: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of the states?
But that nosotros be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously mitt 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 testify upwardly for any life may offering and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you accept been given as fully and courageously equally possible and not letting become until you find the unknown approval that is in everything..
I think that's how we have to do.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't retrieve that's what we're really seeking.
I call back what nosotros're seeking is an experience of existence alive,
then that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will take resonance within our own innermost existence and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being live.
That's what it's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting get of things:
allow go of thoughts, let get of emotions, let become of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting become suggests that you lot need to do something.
A better phrase to piece of work with is "Permit information technology be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We practise not have to practice anything to make it come, or brand information technology go, or to let it become.
We simply have to allow it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each i of the states, I believe, is a souvenir the earth is giving to itself at present, a unique gift. …
You don't demand to be extraordinary. If the globe is to be healed through man effort,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the spider web of life that chosen usa into being,
and who tin rest in the vitality of that larger trunk.
- Joanna Macy -

Practise is oftentimes described as the willingness to simply exist with our life as information technology is. But this is a difficult concept to become: that practice is not near having a detail land of listen, such every bit calmness. Nor is information technology about being completely costless of feet. This is non to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will essentially diminish.

Simply, ironically, information technology'south the very demand that life be a detail way that almost guarantees a continuing state of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being being is a part of the whole, called by united states "Universe,"
a part limited in time and infinite.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the remainder, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our chore must be to gratis ourselves from this prison house
by widening our circle of pity to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to reach this completely,
simply the striving for such achievement is in itself a function of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

I take never met a person whose greatest demand was anything other than existent, unconditional love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you pour a handful of salt into a loving cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the table salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and information technology has the capacity to receive, cover, and transform. When our hearts are small, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We tin can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they change. But when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't brand us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and tin can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the globe and an inclination to enjoy it.
This makes it hard to plan the mean solar day. But if we forget to savour the world,
what possible reason practise nosotros take for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- Due east.B. White -

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

Our days are happier when we give people a fleck of our eye rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an human action of honey, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way at that place is no longer any need for the subtle assailment of self-improvement, for the countless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless circular of trying and then hard that wraps and then many people's lives in a knot. Instead at that place is at present meditation equally an act of dear.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downward wherever you are and mind to the air current that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your basic.
Open up your eye to who you are, right now, non who you would similar to be.
Non the saint you lot're striving to become.
Simply the being right here before yous, inside you, around you.
All of yous is holy.
You're already more and less than whatsoever you can know.
Breathe out, await in, let go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk virtually how nosotros need to do things to connect.
And on the 1 hand that's right, but on the other manus, it understates what is.
Nosotros are continued.
What nosotros demand to practice is to become aware of it, to live information technology, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what yous have.
Do what y'all tin can.
Be who yous are.
- Forrest Church building -

You do not take to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Practise not even wait. Be quiet, however, and lone.
The earth will freely offer itself to you to exist unmasked.
It has no choice. It volition curlicue in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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