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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is non to walk on water.
The phenomenon is to walk on the greenish globe,
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 ways 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 . . .
even though we were full strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a twelvemonth the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One night he gave a talk that included the all-time advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and do zip."
 That'southward how we attempt to practise at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit still and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your center to who you lot are, correct now, not who y'all would similar to be.
Not the saint y'all're striving to get.
Merely the beingness right here before yous, inside yous, around you.
All of you lot is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatsoever you tin can know.
Breathe out, expect in, let become.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the nowadays, we can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting any information technology is
that volition emerge in the adjacent moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through irresolute our external globe,
but through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

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

Daring greatly ways the courage to be vulnerable.
Information technology means to show upward and exist seen.
To ask for what y'all need.
To talk most 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 better.
It'south about befriending who nosotros are already.
- Pema Chodron -

You are whole and too part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may non fifty-fifty know about.
You lot are never alone.
And you lot already belong.
Yous vest to humanity.
You belong to life.
You vest to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone yous meet is fighting a hard boxing.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right at present
without wishing it 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 it won't).
- James Baraz -

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

I of the nigh satisfying feelings I know – and also 1 of the almost growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the aforementioned manner that I appreciate a sunset. People are just equally wonderful as sunsets if you lot tin can allow them be. In fact, perhaps the reason nosotros tin truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the correct paw corner, and put a scrap more purple along the base, and apply a lilliputian more pinkish in the cloud colour." I don't practise that. I don't endeavour to control a sunset. I watch with awe equally information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily cached in mud, information technology remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We only take to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

There is something in every ane of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
Information technology is the but true guide you will ever accept.
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, only ane thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who take sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a grouping of schoolboys. -

All of y'all are perfect but as you lot are...
... and there is withal room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't accept to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
Information technology's right in front of me if I'thousand paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

Listening is the art of inbound the skin of the other
and wearing information technology for a fourth dimension as if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does non hateful to be in a place where there is no dissonance, trouble or difficult work.
Information technology ways to be in the midst of those things and still be at-home in your heart.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, non because they deserve forgiveness,
just because you deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Being on a spiritual path does non foreclose y'all from facing times of darkness.
Merely information technology teaches you how to apply the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

There are just ii ways to live your life.
I is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is really hard, and actually amazing,
is giving upwardly on being perfect
and beginning the work of condign 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 go articulate only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Exterior of a canis familiaris,
a book is human being'due south best friend.
Inside of a dog,
information technology'due south likewise dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There's no apply trying," she said;
"one can't believe incommunicable things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practise," 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 half dozen impossible things earlier breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practice ane day, I observe it.
If I do non do a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do non do a tertiary day, the world notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it's merely every bit of import not to push across them...
Instead we are going to exist looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to be different from how nosotros are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, can you be in impact,
not simply with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but besides with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake tin can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain merely sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly irresolute, yet ever just being itself.
It remains still equally the seasons menses into ane some other and as the weather changes moment by moment and 24-hour interval past day, calmness constant all modify…
- 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
nosotros have refused
again and again
until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

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

Yous do not belong to y'all.
You belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to y'all,
merely you may assume that yous are fulfilling your significance
if you use yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day
- unless you lot're too busy -
so you should sit for an hour.
- One-time Zen aphorism -

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

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

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

The range of what we call back and practise
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And because we neglect to notice
There is little we can do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

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

Between stimulus and response in that location 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 cocky-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that you would bring to any dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you lot.
- Rick Hanson -

It's merely being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Every bit unproblematic, and difficult, equally that!
- Marianne Elliot -

To mind is to lean in softly
With a willingness to exist changed
By what we hear.
- Marking Nepo-

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each man's 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 honey the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do non now seek the answers, which cannot exist given you lot
because you lot would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to alive everything.
Alive the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare grade of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Beginning, we all accept an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything nosotros can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief organisation, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, 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 upward
and become who y'all really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering auto.
This is a questioning car.
"Who are you and what do you desire?"
If you think these are trivial questions,
most people go through their unabridged lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering car -

You think yous understand 1.
You call back you understand two, because one and one make two.
But, you must also empathize "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 any magic spell on this globe.
The world is its ain magic.
- Suzuki Roshi -

In that location is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

In that location's no trouble then great it tin can't be solved.
If it can't exist solved, it's not a trouble, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people really receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Most of the calls nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live past our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps but in the small gestures. The keen breakthroughs in our lives generally happen just every bit a effect of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and modest achievements. Nosotros're called to attain out to someone, to pick up an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign up for a class fifty-fifty though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to 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 non know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am y'all.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual only ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that aught is separate or extraneous.
If you see in this fashion, 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 continuing on one human foot:
"Do non do to others that which is hateful to you lot.
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,
but considering the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

X chiliad flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool cakewalk in summertime, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the all-time 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 musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we practise
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the world.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here and thither; then I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a homo 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 side by side world, 'Why were you non Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they enquire me, "Why were y'all not Zusya?'
I will take cipher to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is only with the heart that one can run into rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look within and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I expect exterior and run into that I am everything, that'southward love.
Between these ii my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are non troubled by things,
but past the opinions we have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up still.
The trees earlier y'all and the bushes beside y'all are not lost.
Wherever you lot are is a place called Here,
And you must care for it as a powerful stranger,
Must inquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Heed. Information technology answers,
I take made this identify around you,
If you leave it you may come up back again saying Hither.
No ii copse are the same to Raven.
No two branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you lot,
You are surely lost. Stand up nonetheless. The forest knows
Where you are. Yous must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor exercise the children of men equally a whole experience information technology.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or zippo.
- 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 point out that for the honey bee, information technology is the honey that is important.
Merely the bee is at the same fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for conveying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Cypher is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an old man and have known a not bad many troubles,
most of which never happened
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

We see things not as they are, but as nosotros are.
- H.One thousand. Tomlinson -

The birds accept vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit down 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 tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen main. Not a expressionless Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a unmarried footstep will not make a path on the earth,
and so a single thought volition not brand a pathway in the mind.
To brand 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 live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't ask what the world needs. Inquire what makes you come alive and go do it.
Considering what the world needs is people who take come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to cease high school and kickoff college.
And and then I was dying to cease college and beginning working.
And so I was dying to marry and take children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school then I could render to piece of work.
And so I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And all of a sudden realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way 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 ocean are dirty,
the body of water does not become muddied.
- 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 make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Pity is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It'south a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our ain 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 be big enough merely to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain about who's correct and who's wrong? Could we take no agenda when nosotros walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? Information technology is powerful to exercise this fashion, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true communication can happen merely in that open up space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we do non dear
will become hostile to u.s..
- Robert Bly -

If yous have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may exist at a place that everyone, sooner or after, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems similar almost every moment of your life y'all're in that location,
where y'all realize you take a selection.
You have a option 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 again and once again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not come across.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And establish all three.
- Anonymous -

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Listen to your life.
See information technology for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and hurting of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, olfactory property your way to the holy and hidden eye of it
because in the final analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there annihilation I can do to brand myself Aware?
As footling as y'all can do to make the dominicus rise in the forenoon.
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 -

There is nothing you can practice to improve your soul.
There is naught you lot can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the just true organized religion consists of having a good centre.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the boggling is waiting quietly beneath the pare of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the cleaved 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 as on acme of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to exist where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We tin can stop struggling with what occurs and encounter its true face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual exercise is not virtually accomplishing anything
- not near winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing equally information technology is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit down to meditate.
That mental attitude spreads into the remainder of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Nearly of us demand to be reminded that nosotros are practiced, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew only how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around the states, we'd reach out and join easily again and again.
Our relationships accept the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person nosotros see, we can learn to look behind the mask
and encounter the i who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was as if I suddenly 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 i is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could meet each other that way all the fourth dimension.
There would exist no more than state of war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big trouble would be that nosotros 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, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more mutual than you know, and not far away. There is 1 further truth, however: They don't terminal.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Later the election comes the difficult task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Subsequently the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we retrieve that something is going to bring us pleasance, we really don't know what'south going to happen. When nosotros call back something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there exist room for not knowing is the most important affair of all. We try to practise what we think is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When at that place's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may exist just the start of a great adventure.
...Life is like that.
We phone call something bad; we call information technology good. But really nosotros only don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our work, our 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 up alive only in each item and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As 1 wise student remarked,
'If yous really want to know nigh a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we alive with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, ever, from those who think they have the answers.
Allow me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't recall the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'k going to curl upwardly in here by myself; let the world fire.'
Not at all.
Nosotros go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the globe exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Y'all are not a driblet in the ocean,
Yous are the unabridged body of water in a drib.
- Rumi -

Life is a procedure of condign, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people neglect is that they wish to elect a country and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote verse.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Rex -

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

When we brand music we don't exercise information technology in order to attain a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then apparently the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing nosotros are non aiming to arrive at a particular place on the flooring as in a journey. When nosotros trip the light fantastic, the journeying itself is the indicate, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the aforementioned thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point 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 u.s.a..
- Pema Chodron -

One twenty-four hours I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How exercise you lot keep doing this difficult, eye-wrenching work when you know you'll wake up 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 lot need to empathise is this —
but 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 World?
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 cocky-knowledge? If love was the center of our being?
- Ganga White -

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

In the end, these things thing nearly:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did y'all acquire to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, notwithstanding, hidden deep within each of united states of america
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all defenseless upward in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to do is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you run into anyone, remember it is a holy run across.
As you come across him you will see yourself.
Equally you treat him yous volition treat yourself.
As y'all think of him you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you volition 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 go out my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd notwithstanding be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Permit us encourage one some other with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

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

Information technology has a lot to practise with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
merely 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 retrieve that'due south how nosotros have to practise.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no respond.
At that place own't always going to be an answer.
In that location never was an respond.
That'southward the respond.
- Gertrude Stein -

If nosotros acquire to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive the states crazy, can be our instructor.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
then as to have the one that is waiting for u.s.a..
- East.Chiliad. Forster -

When is the last fourth dimension that you lot had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't just 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew yous knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that yous thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the ii of you on to a different plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your heed for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drinkable for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to answer. Listening is paying total attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accustomed, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more than fully, and fifty-fifty to dare to be silent with yous.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

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

My beloved child, break your middle no longer.
Each fourth dimension you judge yourself, you break your eye.
You lot pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
Simply at present the time has come, your time, to alive and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of united states of america?
Only 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 evidence up 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 y'all accept been given as fully and courageously as possible and non letting go until y'all observe the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that's how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that's what we're really seeking.
I think what nosotros're seeking is an feel of beingness live,
so that our life experiences on the purely concrete plane
will take resonance within our own innermost beingness and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of beingness live.
That's what it'due south all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
permit go of thoughts, allow get of emotions, let become of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting go suggests that y'all demand to do something.
A better phrase to piece of work with is "Let information technology be." Let it exist.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not take to do anything to brand it come up, or go far go, or to let it go.
Nosotros just have 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 need to be extraordinary. If the globe is to exist healed through human effort,
I am convinced it will exist by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who tin open to the web of life that called usa into being,
and who can remainder in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Do is ofttimes described every bit the willingness to simply be with our life as information technology is. Just this is a difficult concept to get: that practice is not near having a detail state of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it nearly being 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, information technology's the very demand that life be a particular mode that nigh guarantees a continuing country of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being is a part of the whole, called by usa "Universe,"
a part limited in fourth dimension and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the residual, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to u.s., restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for simply the few people nearest u.s..
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,
but the striving for such accomplishment is in itself a function of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you lot pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the h2o becomes undrinkable. Just if you pour the common salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, encompass, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are express, and we suffer. We can't take or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't brand u.s. endure anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. Nosotros accept others as they are, so they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every forenoon I awake torn between a desire to relieve the world and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to plan the day. Only if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason do we have for saving it?
In a fashion, the savoring must come showtime.
- East.B. White -

Get out your forepart door and your back door open.
Permit your thoughts to come and become.
But don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to amend yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it every bit an deed of dearest, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this fashion there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the countless guilt of non doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation every bit an act of honey.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

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

Sometimes people talk most how nosotros need to practise things to connect.
And on the one paw that'south right, merely on the other paw, information technology understates what is.
Nosotros are connected.
What nosotros demand to do is to become aware of it, to alive it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

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

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Practice non even mind, simply expect. Do not even await. Be quiet, all the same, and solitary.
The world will freely offering itself to y'all to be unmasked.
It has no option. It will roll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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