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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is non to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the light-green globe,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does non necessarily mean living face up-to-face with others;
rather, it 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.
Information technology was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a yr the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Middle,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
1 dark he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and do zip."
 That's how nosotros try to exercise at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay shut and practice nothing. We sit still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

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

If nosotros go along our attending focused on the present, we can exist certain of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to exercise accepting whatever it is
that will sally in the side by side moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the dark, we cannot see the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly ways the backbone to be vulnerable.
Information technology means to show upwards and be seen.
To ask for what you lot need.
To talk about how y'all're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

Meditation practise isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and go something improve.
Information technology'southward virtually befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
y'all may not even know near.
Y'all are never solitary.
And you already belong.
Yous belong to humanity.
You lot belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Exist kind, for anybody you meet is fighting a hard boxing.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is simply being enlightened of what is happening right now
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without property on when it changes (which it will);
beingness with the unpleasant without fearing information technology will always exist this fashion (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the lite gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the well-nigh satisfying feelings I know – and likewise 1 of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this individual in the same mode that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you tin can let them be. In fact, perchance the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot command it. When I expect at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't detect myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base of operations, and use a footling more pink in the deject colour." I don't do that. I don't endeavor to control a sunset. I picket with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

There is something in every ane of yous that waits and listens
for the audio of the genuine in yourself.
It is the simply true guide you lot will ever have.
And if you 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, merely i thing I know: the just ones among you lot who will be actually happy are those who accept sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you are perfect merely as you are...
... and there is still room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't accept to chase extraordinary moments to observe happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'thousand paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

Listening is the art of inbound the skin of the other
and wearing information technology for a time every bit if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

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

Forgive others, not considering they deserve forgiveness,
simply because yous deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Being on a spiritual path does not preclude you from facing times of darkness.
Only it teaches y'all how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments always begin with an answer in listen.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and so disappear,
and it is too a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that do not exist suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is equally though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is actually difficult, and actually astonishing,
is giving upward on being perfect
and outset the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

Your vision will become articulate but when y'all look into your heart.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a book is man'south best friend.
Inside of a dog,
information technology's besides dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'south no use trying," she said;
"i can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you lot haven't had much do," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did information technology for one-half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many equally half dozen impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do non do one mean solar day, I find it.
If I practice not practice a 2d day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not do a third day, the earth notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

Information technology'due south of import to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long plenty to experience them but it's just as important not to button across them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total credence
and not trying to force ourselves to be unlike from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation do and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
non merely with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
only also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake tin teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain simply sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always just being itself.
It remains withal as the seasons flow into 1 another and as the conditions changes moment by moment and mean solar day by day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this jiff, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we take refused
again and over 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 book and strength,
filling upward in front of the obstruction
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You lot do non belong to you.
Y'all belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you lot,
but you may assume that y'all are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest reward to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You lot should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless you're too decorated -
then you should sit for an hour.
- Former Zen adage -

Arguments e'er brainstorm with an answer in heed.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -

Mindfulness is almost existence fully awake in our lives.
It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We besides gain immediate access to our ain powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you call up of your trunk equally a musical instrument, the torso browse is a fashion of tuning it.
If you lot think of it as a universe, the trunk browse is a manner to come up to know it.
If you think of your body every bit a house, the body scan is a manner to throw open all the windows
and doors and permit the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we retrieve and do
Is limited by what we fail to detect
And because we fail to detect
There is little nosotros tin can do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to discover
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is not actually about establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are 1 of meditation'due south byproducts, not the practice itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the eye wanders or is distracted, bring information technology back to the indicate quite gently...
And even if you lot did nothing during the whole of your hr merely bring your center back,
though information technology went away every time you brought it back,
your hr would exist very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to cull our response.
In our response lies our growth and our liberty.
- Victor Frankl -

Y'all tin have pity for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the aforementioned warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that you would bring to whatever dear friend
grappling with the aforementioned pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It'due south only being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, concrete or psychological country, with loving kindness.
As simple, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should discover 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 effort to honey the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very strange natural language.
Do not at present seek the answers, which cannot be given y'all
because you would not be able to alive them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Alive the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of customs -
ane that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in ii basic behavior.
First, we all take an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than annihilation we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief arrangement, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help u.s. discern the inner teacher's vox.
- Parker Palmer -

Exist yourself.
Anybody else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde -

It takes courage to grow up
and become who you really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't empathise growth, it would look like consummate destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning car.
"Who are you and what exercise y'all desire?"
If you think these are trivial questions,
well-nigh people go through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering motorcar -

Y'all think y'all understand one.
You remember you empathise two, because one and one make ii.
Only, you lot must too empathize "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not about so interested in what monkey human being 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 globe.
The world is its own magic.
- Suzuki Roshi -

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

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

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

Our lives are measured out ... non in the 1000 sweeps merely in the small gestures. The swell breakthroughs in our lives more often than not happen merely equally a upshot of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and small-scale achievements. We're chosen to accomplish out to someone, to selection up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upwards for a course even though nosotros're convinced nosotros don't have the fourth dimension or coin, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I practise not know who I am, I serve yous.
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 dissever or inapplicable.
If you see in this way, and so everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
but because the souvenir of sainthood makes information technology possible for them to adore everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

X chiliad flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your heed isn't overcast by 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
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take down a instrument.
Let the beauty nosotros love be what nosotros do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what y'all pay attention to and I volition tell you who you are.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset -

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then 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 earth, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the answer.
Just if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is only with the center that i can see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and see that I am cypher, that'southward wisdom.
When I expect exterior and see that I am everything, that's love.
Betwixt these ii my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled past things,
but by the opinions we have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you and the bushes beside y'all are non lost.
Wherever yous are is a place called Here,
And y'all must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The woods breathes. Mind. Information technology answers,
I accept made this place around yous,
If you leave it you may come up dorsum again saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No 2 branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You lot are surely lost. Stand still. The woods knows
Where you are. You must permit it discover you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is more often than not a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor practice the children of men as a whole experience it.
Fugitive danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nil.
- 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 indicate out that for the honey bee, it is the dear that is important.
Only the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a central principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each consequence connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We run across things not equally they are, but every bit we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen master.
"What tin y'all tell me nearly death?" the student asked.
"Nix," the other replied. "I'yard a Zen master. Not a dead Zen primary."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep volition non make a path on the earth,
and so a single idea will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and 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 you alive all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't enquire what the globe needs. Enquire what makes you come alive and go do it.
Because what the globe needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Commencement I was dying to stop loftier school and showtime college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And and then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school and then I could render to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, 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 y'all are going to die is the all-time mode I know
to avoid the trap of thinking y'all take something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they belong,
It's our minds that brand our lives and then homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts exist big enough just to hang out in that space where we're non entirely certain about who's right and who's wrong? Could we have no calendar when we walk into a room with some other person, not know what to say, non make that person wrong or correct? Could nosotros see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this manner, because we'll notice ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true communication can happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we practice not love
will go hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If y'all have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like near every moment of your life you're there,
where you realize you have a option.
You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to concur on or let become,
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 again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Only my soul I could non see.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my 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 be something like this:  Heed 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 mode to the holy and hidden heart of it
considering in the concluding assay all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can do to brand myself Enlightened?
As little equally you lot tin do to brand the lord's day rise in the morning.
Then of what employ are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure y'all are non comatose when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is nothing you tin do to amend your soul.
There is nada you can exercise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only truthful religion consists of having a good heart.
- 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.
Low-cal 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.
Yes, God is under the porch also equally on acme 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 can stop struggling with what occurs and see its truthful face up without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything
- non about winning or losing - but well-nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing every bit it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit down down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and deportment 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 identify of healing and enkindling.
With each person nosotros run across, we tin acquire to look behind the mask
and see the ane who longs to honey and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

And so it was as if I suddenly saw the hush-hush beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves equally they really are.
If only we could encounter each other that style all the time.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the large problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. Information technology 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 you know, and not far away. There is 1 farther truth, all the same: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings evidence us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that later the honeymoon comes the matrimony.
Afterward the election comes the difficult task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: Later the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we remember that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what'south going to happen. When we call back something is going to give u.s.a. misery, we don't know. Letting at that place exist room for not knowing is the most important matter of all. We try to exercise what we think is going to assistance. But we don't know.
We never know if nosotros're going to autumn flat or sit up tall. When there's a big disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that's the end of the story. Information technology may be just the start of a bully adventure.
...Life is like that.
We telephone call something bad; we telephone call it good. But really we just 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 love, 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 live only in each item and personal circumstance. How nosotros live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen main, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my altitude, ever, from those who think they have the answers.
Permit me keep company always with those who say
'Wait!' 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 plenty room for everyone to exist passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, there's more than than room for everyone; there's a demand for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in hither past myself; let the world burn.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation then that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drop in the ocean,
Y'all are the entire ocean in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros have to get 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 homo is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even every bit a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets then well that all the hosts of heaven and earth volition pause to say,
'Here lived a dandy street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When nosotros make music we don't do it in gild to reach a certain betoken, such equally the cease of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are non aiming to go far at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journeying itself is the point, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the betoken. And exactly the same matter is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the indicate of life is ever 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 establish in us.
- Pema Chodron -

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How practise you go on doing this difficult, heart-wrenching work when y'all know y'all'll wake upward tomorrow to bug that are as bad or worse than the ones yous're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's answer:
"What you lot demand to sympathise is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do it!"
- 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 cocky-knowledge? If dearest was the center of our being?
- Ganga White -

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

In the end, these things matter about:
How well did you love?
How fully did you lot live?
How securely did yous acquire to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

Y'all and I announced to be separate. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Below this credible partitioning, nonetheless, subconscious deep within each of the states
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded hole-and-corner of life: that we are all caught upward in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is have off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When yous meet anyone, think it is a holy meet.
As y'all encounter him you will see yourself.
As you lot treat him you will treat yourself.
As y'all call up of him you volition think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you lot will discover yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

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

Allow united states encourage one 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 rapidly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When ane feels seen and appreciated in their ain essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

Information technology has a lot to practise with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
simply 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'south how nosotros take to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If nosotros learn to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, can exist our instructor.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to allow go of the life we have planned
then as to have the i that is waiting for u.s.a..
- E.Grand. Forster -

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

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a hazard to reply. Listening is paying total attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to kickoff feeling accepted, first taking their words more 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 fully, and even to dare to be silent with you lot.
- Henri J.K. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Withal their approach to life comes from a deep caring and concern for all homo beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is most. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender we call back God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
Information technology 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 beloved child, intermission your centre no longer.
Each time you gauge yourself, you break your middle.
You pull away from the dearest that is the well-jump of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your fourth dimension, 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 key: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Only that nosotros exist in its presence,
that we fully, consciously paw 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 upwards for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you take been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you find the unknown approval that is in everything..
I think that's how we have to practise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that's what nosotros're actually seeking.
I remember what nosotros're seeking is an feel of being alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will accept resonance inside our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
That's what information technology'due south all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

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

Each 1 of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique souvenir. …
You lot don't need 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 fright.
People who can open to the web of life that called us into being,
and who can rest in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is frequently described as the willingness to simply exist with our life every bit it is. Simply this is a difficult concept to become: that practice is not almost having a particular state of heed, such equally calmness. Nor is information technology about beingness completely gratis of anxiety. This is not to deny that we volition, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will essentially diminish.

But, ironically, it's the very demand that life be a particular way that almost guarantees a continuing country of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human existence is a part of the whole, called by the states "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the remainder, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This mirage is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest u.s..
Our task must be to costless ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of pity to cover all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to attain this completely,
merely the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than existent, unconditional beloved.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you pour a scattering of salt into a cup of water, the h2o becomes undrinkable. Only if you cascade the table salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to melt, launder, and drinkable. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are express, and nosotros suffer. Nosotros can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't brand us suffer anymore. We accept a lot of understanding and compassion and can cover others. We have others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning time I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to relish information technology.
This makes it difficult to program the 24-hour interval. But if we forget to savor the earth,
what possible reason do we have for saving it?
In a mode, the savoring must come starting time.
- E.B. White -

Go out your front end door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come up and go.
Merely don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to better yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an human activity of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way in that location is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of cocky-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the incessant circular of trying so hard that wraps then many people's lives in a knot. Instead in that location is now meditation as an act of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downwards wherever yous are and heed to the current of air that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your basic.
Open your heart to who y'all are, right at present, not who y'all would similar to exist.
Not the saint you lot're striving to go.
But the being right here before you, inside you, effectually yous.
All of you is holy.
Yous're already more and less than any you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let become.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we demand to do things to connect.
And on the one hand that's right, but on the other hand, information technology understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to do is to go enlightened of it, to live information technology, to limited it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you have.
Exercise what y'all can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

Yous do non have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Exercise not even mind, merely wait. Do not even expect. Be repose, still, and solitary.
The world volition freely offering itself to you to exist unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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