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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 green earth,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean 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 eye 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 -

One time or twice a yr the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Middle,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
Ane night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've e'er heard on caregiving.
He said only, "Stay close and do nothing."
 That'southward how nosotros try to practice at Zen Hospice Projection.
Nosotros stay close and do aught. We sit still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your middle to who you are, right now, non who you lot would similar to exist.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the being right here before y'all, inside you, around you.
All of yous is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever yous can know.
Exhale out, wait in, let become.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can exist certain of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will modify,
giving usa the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that volition emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through changing our external earth,
simply through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the nighttime, we cannot see the low-cal.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly means the backbone to be vulnerable.
It means to show upwardly and be seen.
To ask for what you lot need.
To talk about how you lot're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

Yous are whole and besides function of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may not even know about.
You are never lonely.
And you lot already belong.
You lot vest to humanity.
Yous belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this jiff.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Nasrudin went into a bank with a bank check to cash.
"Tin can you lot place yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into information technology.
"Yes, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now
without wishing it were unlike;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this fashion (which it 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 as well one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this individual in the same fashion that I appreciate a sunset. People are just every bit wonderful as sunsets if y'all can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly capeesh a dusk is that we cannot command it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't detect myself saying, "Soften the orange a niggling on the correct hand corner, and put a scrap more purple along the base, and use a trivial more pinkish in the cloud color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as information technology 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 simply take to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

At that place is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the but true guide you will e'er accept.
And if yous cannot hear information technology, 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, but 1 matter I know: the only ones among you lot who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
Information technology's correct in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

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

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a identify where there is no dissonance, trouble or hard work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and however be calm in your centre.
- Unknown -

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

Beingness on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
Only it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments e'er begin with an reply in mind.
Chat begins with a question .
- unknown -

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be and then disappear,
and information technology is also a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do not be of a sudden announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

The moment one gives shut attending to annihilation,
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 amazing,
is giving up on being perfect
and beginning 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 get articulate only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

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

Alice laughed: "In that location'due south no use trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for one-half an 60 minutes a solar day.
Why, sometimes I've believed equally many every bit half-dozen incommunicable things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not do one day, I notice it.
If I do not practice a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not do a third twenty-four hours, the world notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be aware of concrete limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to experience them but it's just equally of import non to button across them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
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,
non only with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
merely as well with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind u.s. of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, nevertheless always just being itself.
It remains still equally the seasons flow into one another and equally 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 breath, this sitting hither.
This opening to the life
nosotros have refused
once more and once again
until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, it pauses.
It increases in volume and strength,
filling up in forepart of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past information technology.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit in meditation for xx minutes every day
- unless you're too busy -
and so you should sit for an hour.
- Sometime Zen adage -

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

Mindfulness is well-nigh being fully awake in our lives.
Information technology is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also proceeds immediate access to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The range of what we recollect and do
Is limited by what we fail to observe
And considering nosotros fail to discover
In that location is little we tin do
To modify
Until we detect
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is not actually virtually establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are i of meditation'southward byproducts, non the practise itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it dorsum to the indicate quite gently...
And fifty-fifty if you did nix during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back,
though information technology went abroad every time you brought it back,
your 60 minutes would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

You can have compassion 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 lot would bring to any dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges every bit you lot.
- Rick Hanson -

It's simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatsoever my emotional, physical or psychological land, with loving kindness.
Equally simple, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and endeavour to love the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do non at present seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you lot would not be able to live them.
And the bespeak is, to live everything.
Live 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 two bones behavior.
First, we all take an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything nosotros tin get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and assist us discern the inner teacher's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow up
and become who y'all really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

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

This is non an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what do y'all want?"
If you think these are footling questions,
near people get through their unabridged lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering car -

You retrieve you understand i.
Yous call back you understand two, because one and ane brand two.
Merely, you must also empathise "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not nearly so 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 whatsoever magic spell on this world.
The globe is its own magic.
- Suzuki Roshi -

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

At that place's no problem so great it can't exist solved.
If it can't exist solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people really 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 attention to our intuitions, to be accurate, to live past our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps but in the minor gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign upwardly for a course even though we're convinced nosotros don't take the time or coin, to go to our desks each day, to plough 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 only means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or inapplicable.
If yous run into in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to chronicle the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Do non do to others that which is hateful to you.
All the rest is commentary. At present get written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

X g flowers in jump, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summertime, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today similar every other day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your report
And brainstorm reading.
Take down a instrument.
Let the beauty nosotros dearest exist what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will 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 beingness a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a homo?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the adjacent world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the reply.
Just if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is simply with the centre that one tin can come across rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and see that I am goose egg, that'south wisdom.
When I look exterior and see that I am everything, that'southward love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled by things,
only by the opinions nosotros have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand nevertheless.
The trees before yous and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever y'all are is a place called Hither,
And you must care for it as a powerful stranger,
Must enquire permission to know it and be known.
The wood breathes. Listen. It answers,
I take made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back once again saying Here.
No ii 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,
Y'all are surely lost. Stand up nonetheless. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you lot.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men every bit a whole feel it.
Fugitive danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or zero.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted of stating that what seems to be 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 dear that is important.
But the bee is at the same fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a key principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Nosotros come across things not as they are, just as we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

The birds accept vanished into the sky,
and at present the last deject drains away.
Nosotros sit down together, the mount and me,
until merely the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen main.
"What can you lot tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Zippo," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Non a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

Equally a single stride will non make 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 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 you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

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

The intuitive heed is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a true-blue retainer.
We take created a guild that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

Showtime I was dying to finish loftier schoolhouse and start higher.
And then I was dying to end college and start working.
And so I was dying to marry and have children.
So I was dying for my children to grow onetime enough for school so I could render to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you accept something to lose.
You are already naked.
In that location is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they vest,
It's our minds that brand our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

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

Could our minds and our hearts be big enough just to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain about 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 right? Could we come across, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to exercise this fashion, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing effectually to effort to feel secure once again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. But truthful communication tin happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
There are called-for bushes all around y'all.
Every tree is full of angels.
Hidden dazzler is waiting in every crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every function of our personality that we practice not love
will become hostile to the states.
- Robert Bly -

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

I sought my soul, But my soul I could non encounter.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all iii.
- Bearding -

If I were called upon to country in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something similar this:  Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, gustatory modality, smell your fashion to the holy and hidden centre 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 brand myself Enlightened?
As little as yous tin do to make the sun rise in the morning time.
And so of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To make certain yous are non asleep when the sun begins to ascent.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nothing yous can practice to improve your soul.
There is nothing yous can practice to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the but true organized religion consists of having a expert center.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly below the peel 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 as well equally on summit 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 meet its true face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to recall that our spiritual practise is not about accomplishing anything
- not virtually winning or losing - just about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as information technology is.
That is what we are doing when we sit to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of united states of america demand to exist reminded that we are good, that nosotros are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those effectually us, we'd reach out and join easily again and again.
Our relationships take the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we can larn to wait behind the mask
and see the i who longs to dear and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

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

Enlightenment does exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, enkindling into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than yous know, and not far away. There is one further truth, notwithstanding: They don't final.
Our realizations and awakenings evidence us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
simply they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the matrimony.
After the election comes the hard chore of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the aforementioned: Later the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we actually don't know what'due south going to happen. When we retrieve something is going to give us misery, nosotros don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the well-nigh important thing of all. Nosotros try to practise what we think is going to help. But nosotros don't know.
We never know if nosotros're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there'south a large disappointment,
we don't know if that'southward the finish of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great chance.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; we call it skilful. 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 exercise includes our piece of work, our dearest, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin can come up live only in each particular and personal circumstance. How nosotros live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If yous really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, nosotros live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, ever, from those who call up they take the answers.
Let me keep visitor always with those who say
'Look!' and express mirth in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't call up the purpose of meditation is to get deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to gyre upwards in here past myself; permit the world burn down.'
Not at all.
Nosotros get deep into meditation so that nosotros can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a driblet in the ocean,
Yous are the entire ocean in a driblet.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros 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 human is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even equally a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of sky and globe will interruption to say,
'Here lived a peachy street sweeper who did his job 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 it in club to reach a sure betoken, such every bit the end of the limerick. If that were the purpose of music then manifestly the fastest players would be the all-time. Besides, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a item identify on the floor as in a journey. When nosotros dance, the journeying itself is the indicate, 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 signal of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, centre-wrenching work when you know you lot'll wake upwardly tomorrow to problems that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's reply:
"What you need to empathize is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you lot 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 building?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-cognition? If love was the eye of our being?
- Ganga White -

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

In the end, these things affair most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you lot live?
How securely did you larn to allow get?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be dissever. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of u.s.a.
is the one Self - eternal, space, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught upwards 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 non expressing it is similar wrapping a present and non giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -

When you meet anyone, call up it is a holy see.
As y'all come across him y'all will see yourself.
Every bit you care for him you will treat yourself.
Equally you think of him you will recollect of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find 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 still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

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

It has a lot to exercise with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I think that's how we accept to do.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

Nosotros must be willing to let become of the life we have planned
and then as to have the one that is waiting for united states of america.
- E.G. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a groovy conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a not bad conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew yous knew? That yous heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly found places within you that yous thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you lot on to a dissimilar airplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your listen for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than assuasive some other to talk while waiting for a gamble to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The dazzler of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, beginning taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to go to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to dare to be silent with y'all.
- Henri J.1000. Nouwen -

During my life I take met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Notwithstanding their approach to life comes from a deep caring and business organization for all man beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't nigh what gender we think God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is ofttimes done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, interruption your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you lot break your centre.
Yous pull away 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 yous are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of usa?
Just 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 upward for any life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perchance the wisdom lies in engaging the life yous accept been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I call back that's how we have to exercise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Often in meditative language we speak of letting become of things:
let go of thoughts, let become of emotions, allow go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
considering letting get suggests that you need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We practise not have to practise anything to make information technology come up, or make it get, or to permit information technology become.
We just accept to let 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 demand to exist extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through human being effort,
I am convinced information technology will be past ordinary people,
people whose beloved for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the web of life that chosen united states into existence,
and who tin residuum in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Do is often described as the willingness to but be with our life as it is. Only this is a difficult concept to become: that do is non virtually having a particular state of heed, such as calmness. Nor is it most beingness completely free of anxiety. This is non to deny that we volition, in fact, feel more than self-possession, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

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

A human being is a part of the whole, called by united states of america "Universe,"
a part limited in fourth dimension and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
equally something separated from the rest, 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 amore for but the few people nearest united states of america.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circumvolve of compassion to encompass all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
just the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you cascade a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if yous pour the salt into a river, people can go along to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the chapters to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We tin can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they modify. Just when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. We take a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We have others every bit they are, and then they accept a hazard to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morn I awake torn between a desire to salvage the world and an inclination to savor information technology.
This makes it hard to program the day. Merely if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason do we take for saving it?
In a manner, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and become.
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 ameliorate yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practise it every bit an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless circular of trying and so hard that wraps so many people'due south lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an deed of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget nigh enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the beloved, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open up your heart to who you are, correct now, not who you would similar to be.
Not the saint you're striving to get.
But the being right here earlier you lot, within you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, await in, permit go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk almost how we need to do things to connect.
And on the i manus that's correct, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to practise is to become enlightened of it, to live information technology, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what yous accept.
Do what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and heed.
Exercise non even listen, only expect. Exercise not even wait. Be quiet, withal, and solitary.
The earth will freely offer itself to you lot to be unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It volition roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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