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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is not to walk on water.
The phenomenon is to walk on the green earth,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the eye of the shopping district,
I was of a sudden 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 -

In one case or twice a year 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 merely, "Stay close and do nothing."
 That's how we endeavour to practise at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and do aught. We sit down yet and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

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 being correct hither before you, within you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatsoever you lot tin know.
Exhale out, await in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros keep our attention focused on the present, we can be certain of ane matter,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving u.s.a. the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will sally in the adjacent moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not establish through changing our external world,
but through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

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

Daring greatly means the courage to exist vulnerable.
It ways to show up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk about how you lot're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brownish -

Meditation practise isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and go something better.
Information technology'south nigh befriending who nosotros are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Be kind, for everyone you encounter is fighting a hard boxing.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is simply existence aware of what is happening right now
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which information technology will);
beingness with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

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

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the virtually growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I capeesh a sunset. People are just every bit wonderful as sunsets if y'all can allow them be. In fact, peradventure the reason nosotros tin can truly appreciate a dusk is that we cannot control information technology. When I look at a dusk as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orangish a little on the correct mitt corner, and put a bit more than purple along the base, and use a little more than pinkish in the deject color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to control a dusk. I lookout man with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious precious stone:
although information technology may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We simply accept to uncover information technology.
- Pema Chodron -

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

I don't know what your destiny will be, merely i thing I know: the only ones among you who volition exist actually happy are those who accept sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase boggling moments to find happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness,
but because y'all deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to utilize the darkness equally a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments e'er begin with an respond in mind.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

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

There are merely 2 means to alive your life.
I is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is every bit though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect
and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

Your vision will go clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Exterior of a dog,
a book is human being'southward all-time friend.
Within of a domestic dog,
it's besides dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said;
"ane 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 half dozen impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practise not practice ane day, I notice it.
If I do not practice a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not practice a tertiary solar day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

It'south important to be aware of concrete limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them merely it'due south but as important non to push beyond them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to be unlike from how we are correct at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you call up of your body as a musical musical instrument, the body scan is a way of tuning it.
If y'all call back of it equally a universe, the body browse is a way to come to know it.
If you think of your body as a house, the body scan is a manner to throw open up all the windows
and doors and permit the fresh air of awareness sweep it make clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

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

You can have compassion for yourself - which is non self-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the aforementioned warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or finish
that yous would bring to whatever dearest friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It's simply being kind to myself -
coming together myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Every bit uncomplicated, and difficult, every bit that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If nosotros could read the undercover history of our enemies,
we should find in each human'due south life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your eye
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because yous would non be able to live them.
And the signal is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
1 that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Commencement, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are yous and what practise you lot want?"
If yous think these are niggling questions,
well-nigh people go through their entire lives without answering either i.
- Peter Russell's answering machine -

Yous think yous understand 1.
You think y'all understand ii, because i and one brand two.
But, you must besides empathise "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am non nearly so interested in what monkey human being was derived from
every bit I am in what kind of monkey he is to go.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

There's no problem and then cracking it can't be solved.
If it tin can't be solved, it'south not a problem, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive large calls, in visions of flaming chariots and called-for bushes. Near of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be accurate, to alive by our own codes of accolade.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the thou sweeps but in the pocket-sized gestures. The nifty breakthroughs in our lives more often than not happen only as a result of the aggregating of innumerable small steps and small-scale achievements. Nosotros're chosen to achieve out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a form even though nosotros're convinced nosotros don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I do non know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Maybe ultimately, spiritual only ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or extraneous.
If you see in this way, and then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And so is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while standing on one pes:
"Do not do to others that which is mean to you.
All the residuum is commentary. At present go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten thousand flowers in bound, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind 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 twenty-four hours
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Permit the dazzler nosotros love be what we exercise
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the world.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then I awoke.
At present I wonder: Am I a human 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 adjacent earth, 'Why were yous non Moses?'
I volition know the reply.
But if they inquire me, "Why were you lot non Zusya?'
I will have goose egg to say.
- Martin Buber -

Information technology is just with the heart that one tin see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the centre.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

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

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up still.
The copse before you and the bushes abreast you are not lost.
Wherever y'all are is a place called Hither,
And you must care for it as a powerful stranger,
Must enquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. Information technology answers,
I accept made this place around you,
If you exit it y'all may come dorsum again saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you,
You lot are surely lost. Stand nonetheless. The woods knows
Where you are. You must let it detect you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor exercise the children of men every bit a whole feel information technology.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring take a chance 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 honey bee, it is the honey that is important.
But the bee is at the same fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a cardinal principle of nature.
Nix is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an old homo and have known a bully many troubles,
virtually of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

Nosotros see things not as they are, only as we are.
- H.G. Tomlinson -

The birds accept vanished into the heaven,
and now the last deject drains abroad.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until just the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen master.
"What can y'all tell me nearly expiry?" the student asked.
"Zilch," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single step will non brand a path on the globe,
then a single idea will not brand a pathway in the mind.
To brand a deep physical path, we walk again and over 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 lot live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't ask what the globe needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go exercise 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 true-blue servant.
We have created a guild that honors the retainer and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

Get-go I was dying to finish loftier schoolhouse and start higher.
And and so I was dying to finish higher and start working.
And and then I was dying to marry and take children.
And so I was dying for my children to abound old enough for schoolhouse so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that you are going to dice is the best manner I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
At that place is no reason non to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

You must non lose organized religion in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are muddied,
the ocean does not go dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

In my walks, I would fain render to my senses.
What business take 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 -

Compassion is non a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when nosotros know our ain darkness well tin nosotros be present with the darkness of others.
Pity 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 nearly who's right and who's wrong? Could we accept no agenda when nosotros walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not brand that person incorrect or right? Could we come across, hear, feel other people as they really are? Information technology is powerful to practice this way, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing effectually to endeavor to experience secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. Only true communication tin can happen but in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that nosotros do non love
will go hostile to the states.
- Robert Bly -

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

I sought my soul, Merely my soul I could non run into.
I sought my God, Simply my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all iii.
- Anonymous -

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

Is in that location anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As little equally you can do to make the sun ascent in the morn.
And then of what utilise are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

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

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

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the 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 as well as on elevation 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 tin stop struggling with what occurs and see its truthful face up without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to recall that our spiritual practice is not virtually accomplishing annihilation
- not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing equally information technology is.
That is what we are doing when we sit down down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the residual of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Well-nigh of us need to be reminded that we are skilful, that nosotros are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around usa, we'd reach out and bring together easily once again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we can learn to expect behind the mask
and see the i who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then information technology was as if I all of a sudden saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-noesis tin can attain,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves equally they actually are.
If merely we could come across each other that way all the fourth dimension.
At that place would be no more war, no more than hatred, no more cruelty, no more than greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that nosotros would fall downward 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 y'all know, and non far away. There is ane further truth, yet: They don't terminal.
Our realizations and awakenings bear witness us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Subsequently the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Later on the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, nosotros don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. Nosotros attempt to do what we recall is going to help. But nosotros don't know.
Nosotros never know if we're going to fall flat or sit upwardly tall. When there's a big thwarting,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a not bad adventure.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; nosotros call it practiced. But really we just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practise includes our work, our beloved, our families, and our inventiveness. Information technology understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin come alive only in each detail and personal circumstance. How nosotros live is our spiritual life. Every bit 1 wise student remarked,
'If you lot 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 distance, always, from those who call back they accept the answers.
Let me continue visitor always with those who say
'Look!' 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 enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, at that place'southward more than room for everyone; in that location's a need for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to gyre up in hither by myself; let the globe burn.'
Not at all.
We become deep into meditation so that we tin reach out farther and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are non a drib in the ocean,
You are the unabridged sea in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a land 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 every bit a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets and so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a keen street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

Paradise is thus non so much a identify,
equally liberation into the fullness and compensation
of everyday experience.
- Ian Baker -

When we make music nosotros don't practise it in lodge to accomplish a sure point, such every bit the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music so plain the fastest players would be the best. As well, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we trip the light fantastic toe, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the bespeak. And exactly the same thing is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

Only to the extent that nosotros expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
can that which is indestructible exist found in the states.
- Pema Chodron -

Ane solar day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How practise you keep doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when y'all know you'll wake upward tomorrow to issues that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'south answer:
"What you need to understand is this —
merely considering something's impossible doesn't mean yous shouldn't do information technology!"
- 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?
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 honey was the center of our beingness?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journeying, we have arrived at the eye of a paradox:
each fourth dimension a door closes, the remainder of the world opens up.
All we need to exercise is end pounding on the door that has just closed, plow effectually
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open up to our souls.
The door that airtight kept us from entering a room,
but what at present lies earlier us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the terminate, these things affair most:
How well did you love?
How fully did yous live?
How deeply did you larn to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

When you lot see anyone, remember it is a holy encounter.
Every bit you see him you will meet yourself.
Equally you lot care for him y'all volition treat yourself.
Equally you recall of him you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will detect yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would atomic number 82 to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't exit my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still exist in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

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

It 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 honey to that rawness and soreness.
I think that's how we take to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

Nosotros must be willing to allow go of the life we have planned
so as to have the i that is waiting for us.
- Due east.M. Forster -

When is the terminal time that y'all had a nifty conversation, a conversation that wasn't but two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a bully conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that yous never knew yous knew? That yous heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the 2 of you on to a dissimilar plane? ... a conversation that connected 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 assuasive another to talk while waiting for a take chances 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 start feeling accepted, outset taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you lot invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to cartel to be silent with you.
- Henri J.One thousand. Nouwen -

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

My dearest child, interruption your heart no longer.
Each time you lot guess yourself, you break your center.
Yous pull away from the honey that is the well-jump of your vitality.
But at present the time has come up, your fourth dimension, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji every bit shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is non a trouble but a mystery. The stardom...
is central: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are non.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
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 show upwardly for any life may offer and see with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you accept been given equally fully and courageously every bit possible and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I call back that'due south how we accept to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a significant for life.
I don't call up that's what we're really seeking.
I think what we're seeking is an feel of being live,
and so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will have resonance inside our own innermost being and reality,
so that nosotros really experience the rapture of beingness live.
That's what information technology'due south all finally nearly.
- Joseph Campbell -

Frequently in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting go of things:
permit get of thoughts, let go of emotions, permit become of pain.
Sometimes that is non exactly the right phrase,
because letting go suggests that you lot need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let information technology be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
Nosotros exercise not take to practice anything to brand it come up, or make it go, or to let it become.
We simply accept to let information technology exist.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each i of united states, I believe, is a gift the world is giving to itself at present, a unique gift. …
You don't demand to exist extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through human effort,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fright.
People who can open up to the web of life that called us into being,
and who tin rest in the vitality of that larger trunk.
- Joanna Macy -

Exercise is often described as the willingness to simply be with our life as it is. But this is a hard concept to get: that practice is non about having a particular land of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it almost being completely free of feet. This is not to deny that nosotros volition, in fact, experience more self-possession, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

Simply, ironically, information technology's the very demand that life exist a item fashion that nigh guarantees a continuing state of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A man beingness is a office of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part express in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the balance, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison house to us, restricting united states to our personal desires
and to amore for merely the few people nearest us.
Our job must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle 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 achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If y'all pour a handful of salt into a loving cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. But if yous pour the salt into a river, people tin continue to draw the h2o to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, encompass, and transform. When our hearts are minor, our understanding and compassion are limited, and nosotros suffer. We can't take or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they change. Merely when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of agreement and compassion and tin can embrace others. Nosotros have others as they are, and then they take a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn betwixt a desire to save the globe and an inclination to savor information technology.
This makes it hard to programme the solar day. But if nosotros forget to savor the world,
what possible reason do nosotros have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

Our days are happier when nosotros requite people a bit of our center rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to set yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, exercise it as an act of dear, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. Information technology offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so difficult that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is at present meditation as an act of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downwards wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fearfulness in your bones.
Open your heart to who you lot are, right at present, non who you lot would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
Merely the being correct here before you, within you, around you lot.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you lot tin can know.
Breathe out, look in, allow go.
- John Welwood -

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

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

You practise not have to exit the room. Remain sitting at your table and heed.
Do not even heed, only wait. Do non fifty-fifty wait. Be repose, still, and lonely.
The world will freely offer itself to you lot to exist unmasked.
Information technology has no selection. Information technology will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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