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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,
dwelling securely in the nowadays moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others;
rather, it means never losing the sensation that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of Quaternary and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district,
I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
fifty-fifty though nosotros were total strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Middle,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
Ane nighttime he gave a talk that included the best advice I've always heard on caregiving.
He said only, "Stay close and practise goose egg."
 That's how nosotros endeavour to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit even so and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

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

If we go on our attention focused on the present, nosotros tin be sure of one thing,
namely that any we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving united states of america the opportunity to practice accepting any information technology is
that volition emerge in the adjacent moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non found through irresolute our external world,
but through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, we cannot run across the calorie-free.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

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

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

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

Be kind, for everyone yous come across is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is but 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 volition always be this way (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -

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

Ane of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also i of the virtually growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are simply as wonderful as sunsets if you lot can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot command it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orangish a piddling on the right mitt corner, and put a bit more than purple forth the base, and use a trivial more pinkish in the cloud color." I don't exercise that. I don't endeavor to control a dusk. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our truthful nature is similar a precious precious stone:
although information technology may exist temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We simply have to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the audio of the genuine in yourself.
It is the only true guide you lot volition ever have.
And if yous cannot hear it, you lot 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 one thing I know: the only ones amid you who will be really happy are those who take sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of y'all are perfect only as you are...
... and there is still room for comeback!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't take to chase extraordinary moments to notice happiness.
It's right in forepart of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

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

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

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

Being on a spiritual path does not forestall you lot from facing times of darkness.
Just information technology teaches y'all how to utilise the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments always brainstorm with an answer in listen.
Chat begins with a question .
- unknown -

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

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

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

The thing that is actually hard, and really astonishing,
is giving upwards on beingness perfect
and beginning the work of condign yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

Your vision volition go clear but when y'all look into your centre.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Exterior of a dog,
a volume is human's best friend.
Within of a dog,
it'due south too night to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I practice not do ane twenty-four hours, I discover it.
If I practise non practice a 2d day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I exercise not exercise a third solar day, the globe notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

It's important to be enlightened of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them simply it'south merely every bit important non to push across them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking securely 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 y'all be in impact,
non only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
merely also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain simply sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, nonetheless always merely existence itself.
Information technology remains even so as the seasons menstruum into one another and equally the weather changes moment past moment and day past day, calmness abiding all alter…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If non these words, this breath.
If non this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
Until at present.
- David Whyte -

When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journeying, it pauses.
It increases in volume and strength,
filling up in front of the obstruction
and somewhen spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You do non belong to you lot.
You vest to the universe.
The significance of you volition forever remain obscure to you,
but you lot may assume that you 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 down in meditation for 20 minutes every twenty-four hours
- unless you're as well busy -
and then you should sit down for an hour.
- Old Zen aphorism -

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

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

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

The range of what we think and do
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And considering we fail to notice
There is little we can do
To change
Until we notice
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it dorsum to the point quite gently...
And even if you did zip during the whole of your hr but bring your heart back,
though it went away every time you brought information technology dorsum,
your hr would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

You tin can have compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You lot're only recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or stop
that y'all would bring to whatever dearest friend
grappling with the aforementioned pain, upset, or challenges equally you lot.
- Rick Hanson -

Information technology'south just beingness kind to myself -
coming together myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological country, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your centre
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and similar books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
considering you would not be able to live them.
And the betoken is, to live everything.
Alive the questions at present.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
First, we all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
2nd, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and aid united states discern the inner teacher's phonation.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what practice y'all want?"
If you think these are trivial questions,
well-nigh people go through their entire lives without answering either i.
- Peter Russell'southward answering machine -

Yous call up you understand one.
You think you understand two, because one and one make 2.
But, you lot must also understand "and".
- Sufi maxim -

I am not nearly and so interested in what monkey homo was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to get.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

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

... few people really receive large 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 grand sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and modest achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign upwardly for a form even though we're convinced we don't take the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of correct.
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 Maxim -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that null is separate or extraneous.
If you see in this style, and so everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. 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:
"Exercise non do to others that which is mean to you.
All the rest is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten chiliad flowers in bound, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summertime, snowfall in wintertime.
If your mind isn't clouded 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
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Have downward a musical instrument.
Permit the beauty nosotros dear be what we do
In that location are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here and thither; so I awoke.
At present I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of existence 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 adjacent world, 'Why were y'all non Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I will have aught to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I expect within and see that I am cipher, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and come across that I am everything, that's love.
Between these 2 my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Nosotros are not troubled by things,
but by the opinions we take about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever yous are is a place called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know information technology and exist known.
The woods breathes. Mind. It answers,
I accept made this place effectually you,
If you leave information technology you may come back once again saying Hither.
No ii trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where yous are. Y'all must let it find you lot.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does non exist in nature,
nor do 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 risk or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to bespeak out that for the honey bee, it is the beloved that is important.
Simply the bee is at the aforementioned time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cantankerous-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a central principle of nature.
Nil is isolated. Each outcome connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an one-time homo and accept known a smashing many troubles,
most of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -

We see things non every bit they are, but every bit nosotros are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen master.
"What can you lot tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Zilch," the other replied. "I'one thousand a Zen main. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

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

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

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes yous come alive and become exercise it.
Considering what the globe needs is people who accept come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Beginning I was dying to terminate high school and get-go college.
And and then I was dying to finish college and beginning working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow quondam enough for school so I could return 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 style I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you take something to lose.
You are already naked.
There 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 bounding main are dirty,
the bounding main does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses.
What concern accept 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 make our lives then homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a human relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a human relationship between equals.
Just when we know our own darkness well can nosotros 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 have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people every bit they actually are? It is powerful to practice this mode, because we'll notice ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. Simply true communication can happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we practise not dear
will become hostile to u.s.a..
- Robert Bly -

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

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not 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 exist something similar this:  Mind to your life.
Meet it for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the colorlessness and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, sense of taste, smell your fashion to the holy and hidden centre of it
because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin do to make myself Enlightened?
As little equally y'all can do to brand the lord's day ascension in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make certain you are not comatose when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is nothing you can do to improve your soul.
In that location is nothing you can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

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

The farther 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.
Light 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 likewise equally on height of the mountain,
and joy is in both the forepart row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

Nosotros can end struggling with what occurs and come across its true face without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual do is not about accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit 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 we vest.
If we knew only how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around u.s.a., we'd reach out and bring together hands again and over again.
Our relationships take the potential to exist a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, nosotros can larn to await backside the mask
and see the one who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then information technology was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor want nor self-knowledge tin can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that way all the time.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. Information technology is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty 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, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings prove united states of america the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that after the honeymoon comes the union.
After the election comes the hard job of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: Subsequently the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros retrieve that something is going to bring united states pleasure, we really don't know what's going to happen. When nosotros think something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We endeavour to do what nosotros think is going to aid. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit upwardly tall. When there'due south a big disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that's the cease of the story. It may be only the beginning of a bully take a chance.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we call it good. But actually nosotros 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 inventiveness. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin can come up alive but in each item and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As i 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 be understood...
Allow me proceed my altitude, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let 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 in that location's plenty room for everyone to exist passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, in that location's more than room for anybody; at that place's a demand for anybody.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't retrieve the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'k going to roll up in hither by myself; let the world burn.'
Non at all.
Nosotros go deep into meditation then that we can reach out further and further to the globe exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You lot are not a drop in the bounding main,
You are the entire body of water in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to become through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in information technology.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets fifty-fifty equally a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and globe will pause to say,
'Here lived a peachy street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Male monarch -

Paradise is thus not then much a place,
every bit liberation into the fullness and compensation
of everyday experience.
- Ian Baker -

When we brand music we don't do it in order to accomplish a certain point, such as the stop of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then plain the fastest players would exist the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to make it at a particular identify on the floor every bit in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the signal. And exactly the aforementioned affair is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
can that which is indestructible be found in u.s.a..
- Pema Chodron -

Ane day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do y'all keep doing this hard, eye-wrenching work when you know y'all'll wake upwards tomorrow to problems that are every bit bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's answer:
"What you lot need to empathize is this —
only because something'southward incommunicable doesn't mean y'all shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our organized religion was each other?
If our exercise was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the World?
If forests were our church?
If holy h2o - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If love was the center of our being?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journeying, nosotros take arrived at the center of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the balance of the world opens up.
All we demand to do is end pounding on the door that has just airtight, plow around
- which puts the door behind united states -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from inbound a room,
merely what now lies before usa is the residual of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did yous learn to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to exist separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Below this credible division, however, hidden deep within each of u.s.a.
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, e'er-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is similar wrapping a nowadays and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -

When y'all meet anyone, recollect it is a holy encounter.
Equally you see him yous volition come across yourself.
Equally you treat him you will treat yourself.
As you think of him you volition retrieve of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him yous will notice yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

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

Let u.s. encourage i 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 equally they are and spotter how rapidly
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 -

Information technology has a lot to do 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 call back that's how we have to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location ain't no answer.
There own't e'er going to be an reply.
There never was an answer.
That's the respond.
- Gertrude Stein -

If we learn to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive united states of america crazy, can be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to allow go of the life we have planned
so every bit to have the one that is waiting for us.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the last time that y'all had a great conversation, a chat that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a great conversation, in which you lot overheard yourself proverb things that you never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you lot thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of yous on to a different plane? ... a chat that connected to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and drinkable for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attending to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to get-go feeling accepted, showtime taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which yous invite strangers to exist friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with yous.
- Henri J.Yard. 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 organization for all human beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is virtually. It is almost our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender we retrieve God is,
or whether nosotros even think God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is often done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your heart no longer.
Each time y'all guess yourself, yous pause your heart.
You pull abroad from the dear that is the well-jump of your vitality.
But at present the time has come up, your fourth dimension, to alive and to trust the goodness that you lot are.
- Bapuji every bit shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

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

Over the years I accept seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show upwardly for any life may offer and encounter with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting get until you detect the unknown approval that is in everything..
I call up that's how nosotros have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Oftentimes in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
allow go of thoughts, permit go of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting get suggests that y'all need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Permit it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We practice not have to do anything to make it come, or make it go, or to allow it become.
We just accept to allow it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each ane of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself at present, a unique gift. …
You don't need to exist extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through homo attempt,
I am convinced it will exist by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fearfulness.
People who tin open up to the web of life that chosen us into being,
and who can residue in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is often described as the willingness to simply be with our life as it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that practice is not well-nigh having a particular state of mind, such as calmness. Nor is information technology about being completely free of anxiety. This is non to deny that we will, in fact, experience more than self-possession, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

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

A human existence is a office of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a role limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to u.s., restricting u.s. to our personal desires
and to amore for merely the few people nearest united states of america.
Our chore must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circumvolve of compassion to comprehend all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
simply the striving for such 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 real, unconditional dearest.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. Just if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to melt, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. Only when our hearts aggrandize, these aforementioned things don't make us endure anymore. Nosotros have a lot of understanding and compassion and tin embrace others. Nosotros accept others as they are, and then they have a take a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning time I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savour it.
This makes it hard to program the day. Just if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason practice we have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Get out your front door and your back door open.
Permit your thoughts to come up and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to ameliorate yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do information technology as an deed 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 terminate to the ceaseless round of trying and then difficult that wraps so many people'southward lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an deed of beloved.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit wherever yous 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 centre to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
Merely the being right here before yous, within you, effectually you.
All of yous is holy.
Yous're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Exhale out, look in, permit go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the ane manus that's right, simply on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to exercise is to become aware of information technology, to live it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you have.
Practise what you tin can.
Exist who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You do non accept to go out the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and listen.
Practise not even heed, simply expect. Do not fifty-fifty await. Be quiet, still, and lonely.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice. Information technology will whorl in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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