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

Community does not necessarily hateful living confront-to-face with others;
rather, information technology 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 commune,
I was all of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though we were full strangers.
Information technology was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

One time or twice a yr 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 best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and do nothing."
 That's how nosotros endeavor to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open up your center to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint yous're striving to become.
Just the existence correct here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever yous can know.
Exhale out, expect in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If we continue our attention focused on the present, we tin be certain of 1 thing,
namely that whatever nosotros are attention to in this moment will change,
giving us the opportunity to do accepting whatever it is
that volition emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non found through irresolute our external globe,
but through irresolute our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

If you know something hurtful and non true, don't say it.
If you know something hurtful and truthful, don't say information technology.
If you know something helpful only not truthful, don't say it.
If you know something helpful and true, discover the right fourth dimension to say it.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring profoundly means the courage to be vulnerable.
Information technology means to show up and be seen.
To inquire for what you need.
To talk about how you're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -

Meditation exercise isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and go something ameliorate.
It's well-nigh befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Be kind, for anybody you see 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.
"Yep, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is simply beingness 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 information technology will e'er be this fashion (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
In that location is a crack in everything.
That'south how the lite gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

I of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the near growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a dusk. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you can permit them exist. In fact, perchance the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that nosotros cannot command information technology. When I wait at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't detect myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a fleck more than purple along the base of operations, and utilize a little more pink in the cloud colour." I don't exercise that. I don't effort to command a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious precious stone:
although information technology may be temporarily cached in mud, it remains completely vivid and unaffected.
Nosotros only have to uncover information technology.
- Pema Chodron -

There is something in every 1 of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the only true guide you will ever have.
And if you lot cannot hear it, you volition all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

I don't know what your destiny will be, but ane affair I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and plant how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't accept to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It'southward right in forepart of me if I'thousand paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -

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

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

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

Being on a spiritual path does not foreclose you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to abound.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

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

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

The matter that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on beingness perfect
and commencement 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 become articulate only when you look into your middle.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a book is man's best friend.
Within of a domestic dog,
information technology'south as well nighttime to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I practice non do one day, I notice it.
If I do not exercise a second twenty-four hours, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not practise a third 24-hour interval, the globe notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

Information technology'due south important to be enlightened of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it's just as of import not to push across them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking securely into each moment with full acceptance
and non trying to force ourselves to be unlike from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
not only with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind usa of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Plenty.
These few words are plenty.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we accept refused
again and once more
until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

When flowing h2o meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, it pauses.
It increases in volume and forcefulness,
filling up in forepart of the obstruction
and eventually spilling by it.
- I Ching -

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

You lot should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every twenty-four hour period
- unless yous're besides busy -
then you should sit down for an hr.
- Old Zen adage -

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

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

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

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

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

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

Betwixt stimulus and response at that place 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 can have compassion for yourself - which is not cocky-pity.
Y'all'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 whatever love friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

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

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

If we could read the surreptitious history of our enemies,
we should observe in each man's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Exist patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not 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 live everything.
Live the questions at present.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

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

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

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

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

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

Yous think you understand ane.
You recollect yous sympathize 2, because one and one brand 2.
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 get.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

In that location's no problem so great it can't exist solved.
If information technology can't exist solved, it's not a problem, information technology's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people really receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and called-for bushes. Almost of the calls nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to alive past our own codes of award.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps simply in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only every bit a result of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and minor achievements. Nosotros're called to reach out to someone, to pick upwards an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign up for a course even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to get to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I do not know who I am, I serve you lot.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Possibly ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is carve up or inapplicable.
If you see in this way, and so 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 relate the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to yous.
All the residual is commentary. At present go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A cool breeze in summer, snowfall in winter.
If your listen isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

There is more than to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today like every other day
We wake upward empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Have down a musical instrument.
Let the dazzler we love be what we exercise
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a human being?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the next world, 'Why were y'all non Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have goose egg to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is but with the heart that one tin see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and meet that I am nil, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that'due south love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled by things,
but by the opinions we take nearly things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees earlier you and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Hither,
And you must treat information technology as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and exist known.
The forest breathes. Listen. Information technology answers,
I have made this identify around you,
If you leave it you lot may come up dorsum again saying Hither.
No two trees are the aforementioned to Raven.
No two branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it observe y'all.
- David Wagoner -

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

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

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

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

The birds have vanished into the heaven,
and at present the concluding cloud drains abroad.
We sit together, the mount and me,
until only the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen principal.
"What can you lot tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'thou a Zen principal. Non a dead Zen primary."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep volition non brand a path on the earth,
so a unmarried thought will non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep concrete path, we walk once again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must call back 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 earth needs. Ask what makes you come alive and get practise information technology.
Considering what the globe needs is people who have come up alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to cease high school and start college.
And and then I was dying to cease college and showtime working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school and so I could return to work.
And and then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to live.
- Bearding -

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 fashion I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every part of our personality that we do not honey
will become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journeying of self-reflection,
you may be at a place that anybody, sooner or afterwards, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems similar almost every moment of your life you're there,
where you lot realize you lot have a selection.
You have a choice whether to open or close, 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 over again and again and 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.
- Bearding -

If I were chosen upon to land 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 pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
considering in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is in that location annihilation I can practice to make myself Aware?
Every bit little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
And so of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is goose egg you lot can exercise to amend your soul.
There is nix you tin do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only truthful organized religion consists of having a skillful heart.
- The Dalai Lama -

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

We can stop struggling with what occurs and run into its truthful face without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual exercise is not almost accomplishing anything
- non about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing every bit 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 -

Nigh of u.s.a. need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we vest.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around united states, we'd reach out and join hands once again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a identify of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we tin larn to await behind the mask
and see the one who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was equally if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor want nor self-cognition can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If but they could all come across themselves as they really are.
If but we could run across each other that way all the time.
In that location would be no more state of war, no more than hatred, no more cruelty, no more than greed. …
I suppose the big problem would exist that nosotros would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. 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 abroad. There is i further truth, withal: They don't terminal.
Our realizations and awakenings prove us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that later the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasance, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there exist room for non knowing is the most important thing of all. We endeavour to do what we call up is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall apartment or sit up tall. When there's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that'southward the end of the story. It may exist only the beginning of a great risk.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we call it proficient. Merely really we just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our piece of work, our love, our families, and our creativity. Information technology understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive merely in each detail and personal circumstance. How nosotros live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If y'all really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my altitude, ever, from those who call up they take the answers.
Let me go on company ever with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; permit the world burn.'
Not at all.
We become 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 bounding main,
Yous are the unabridged body of water in a drop.
- Rumi -

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

If a human being is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of sky and earth will intermission to say,
'Here lived a dandy street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Rex -

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

When we make music nosotros don't do information technology in order to accomplish a sure betoken, such equally the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music and then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Besides, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journeying. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Only to the extent that we betrayal ourselves over and over to annihilation
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 exercise you proceed doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when you know you'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are equally bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'southward reply:
"What you need to understand is this —
only considering something'southward incommunicable doesn't mean yous shouldn't exercise it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our organized 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-knowledge? If beloved was the center of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens upwardly.
All we need to exercise is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind united states of america -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
simply what at present lies before us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things affair most:
How well did you lot love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you lot learn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

Y'all and I appear to exist separate. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Below this apparent sectionalization, however, hidden deep within each of united states
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded surreptitious of life: that we are all caught upwards 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 meet anyone, remember information technology is a holy meet.
Every bit you encounter him you will run into yourself.
As you treat him you volition treat yourself.
Every bit you think of him you volition think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Grade in Miracles -

As 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 withal be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Permit the states encourage i another 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 i feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, i is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to exercise with developing patience, non with the cheque-out person then much,
but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and dearest to that rawness and soreness.
I retrieve that'due south how we take to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to let go of the life we take planned
so equally to have the one that is waiting for us.
- Due east.M. Forster -

When is the terminal fourth dimension that you had a nifty chat, a chat that wasn't simply ii intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Merely ... a nifty conversation, in which you overheard yourself maxim things that y'all never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly institute places within you that you thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the ii of you lot on to a unlike aeroplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your heed for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than assuasive some other to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to outset feeling accepted, first taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to cartel to be silent with you.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

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

My honey child, suspension your middle no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, y'all pause your heart.
You pull away from the love that is the well-bound of your vitality.
But at present the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji equally shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

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

Over the years I have seen the ability of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to testify up for whatever life may offering and see with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perchance the wisdom lies in engaging the life you take been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you observe the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I call back that's how nosotros have to do.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Ofttimes in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting go of things:
let go of thoughts, let go of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting go suggests that you demand to do something.
A improve phrase to work with is "Let information technology be." Permit it exist.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We do non have to do anything to brand it come, or brand it become, or to let it go.
We just have to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each 1 of us, I believe, is a souvenir the globe is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through human endeavor,
I am convinced it volition be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the web of life that called us into existence,
and who can rest in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

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

Simply, ironically, it's the very need that life be a particular manner that almost guarantees a continuing land of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A man being is a office of the whole, called by u.s.a. "Universe,"
a part limited in fourth dimension and infinite.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
equally something separated from the rest, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
past widening our circle of compassion to comprehend all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to reach this completely,
but the striving for such accomplishment 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 annihilation other than existent, unconditional beloved.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you lot pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to melt, launder, and potable. The river is immense, and information technology has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we endure. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we need that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. We take a lot of understanding and pity and can embrace others. We take others as they are, then they have a run a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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

Leave your front door and your dorsum door open up.
Permit your thoughts to come up and go.
Merely don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

Our days are happier when nosotros give people a bit of our middle rather than a piece of our listen.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to ameliorate yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, exercise it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of cocky-improvement, for the countless guilt of non doing enough. It offers the possibility of an terminate to the ceaseless circular of trying so hard that wraps so many people'due south lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation equally an deed of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downwards wherever you lot are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open up your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the existence right here before y'all, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever y'all can know.
Breathe out, wait in, let go.
- John Welwood -

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

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

You exercise non have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and mind.
Practise not even heed, simply wait. Practise not even wait. Be serenity, however, and solitary.
The earth will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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