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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is not to walk on h2o.
The phenomenon is to walk on the dark-green world,
dwelling deeply in the nowadays moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does non necessarily mean living contiguous with others;
rather, it means never losing the awareness 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 suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though we were total strangers.
Information technology was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once 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 simply, "Stay shut and do nil."
 That'south how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit nonetheless and heed to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you lot are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you lot're striving to become.
But the being right hither before you, within you, around you.
All of y'all is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Exhale out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros go on our attention focused on the present, nosotros tin be sure of one matter,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving united states the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will sally in the adjacent moment.
Clearly, at that place is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non institute through changing our external world,
only 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 absence, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to prove up and exist seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk about how you're feeling.
To accept the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and become something amend.
Information technology's about befriending who nosotros are already.
- Pema Chodron -

Yous are whole and also office of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may not even know nearly.
You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You lot belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Exist kind, for everyone you lot meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is simply beingness aware of what is happening right at present
without wishing information technology were different;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it volition);
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 crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the near satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same fashion that I appreciate a sunset. People are merely as wonderful every bit sunsets if you tin let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a dusk is that we cannot command information technology. When I await at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't notice myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a scrap more imperial along the base, and use a fiddling more pink in the cloud colour." I don't practise that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is similar a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We simply have to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

There is something in every ane of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the just true guide you will e'er have.
And if you 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 exist, but one matter I know: the just ones amongst yous who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't take to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It'southward right in front of me if I'm paying attending 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 ain.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does not mean to exist in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It ways to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your centre.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness,
but considering yous deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

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

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and then disappear,
and information technology is as well a procedure 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 every bit though naught is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment 1 gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

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

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

Your vision will become clear only when you expect into your eye.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

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

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

If I exercise non practise 1 day, I find it.
If I do not practise a second mean solar day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not do a third mean solar day, the globe notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'southward of import to exist enlightened of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to feel them only it's just as important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
and non trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you lot be in impact,
not only with the changing 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 us of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain merely sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, withal always just being itself.
It remains still equally the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day past twenty-four hour period, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

When flowing h2o meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, information technology pauses.
It increases in book and forcefulness,
filling upwardly in forepart of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit down in meditation for xx minutes every twenty-four hour period
- unless yous're likewise busy -
then you should sit for an hour.
- Sometime Zen adage -

Arguments ever begin with an answer in mind.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -

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

If you think of your body as a instrument, the trunk browse is a way of tuning it.
If you think of it every bit a universe, the torso scan is a way to come to know it.
If you retrieve of your body equally a firm, the body scan is a way to throw open up all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it make clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we call back and do
Is express by what nosotros fail to find
And because nosotros fail to discover
There is little we can do
To modify
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the center wanders or is distracted, bring information technology back to the point quite gently...
And even if you did nothing during the whole of your 60 minutes only bring your heart dorsum,
though it went away every fourth dimension you brought information technology dorsum,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

You can have compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're merely recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that y'all would bring to whatsoever love friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you lot.
- Rick Hanson -

It'south only being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As simple, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the undercover 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 heart
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and similar books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Practise not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you lot would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live 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 ii bones beliefs.
Starting time, we all accept 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, nosotros all need other people to invite, amplify, and aid united states of america discern the inner teacher'south vox.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

This is non an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are y'all and what do you want?"
If y'all think these are little questions,
most people go through their unabridged lives without answering either 1.
- Peter Russell's answering machine -

You think you empathize one.
You think you empathize 2, because one and one make two.
But, y'all must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

We ourselves cannot put any magic spell on this globe.
The world 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 it tin't be solved, it's not a problem, it'south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Nearly of the calls nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live past our ain codes of honour.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps but in the small-scale gestures. The groovy breakthroughs in our lives generally happen merely equally a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. Nosotros're called to accomplish out to someone, to pick upwardly an odd book 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 plow left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I practise not know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am yous.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual but ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is divide or inapplicable.
If you run into in this manner, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to chronicle the whole of Torah while continuing on 1 human foot:
"Do not do to others that which is mean to yous.
All the rest is commentary. At present go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, non 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 spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snowfall 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 day
We wake upwards empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the dazzler nosotros love exist what nosotros practise
There are hundreds of style to kneel
And buss the world.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you 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?
- Zhuangzi -

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

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

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that'southward wisdom.
When I look exterior and come across that I am everything, that's love.
Between these 2 my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Nosotros are not troubled past things,
just by the opinions we have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand nonetheless.
The trees before you and the bushes beside you lot are non lost.
Wherever yous are is a place called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I accept made this place effectually you,
If you go out it you lot may come back over again proverb Here.
No two trees are the aforementioned to Raven.
No 2 branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on yous,
Yous are surely lost. Stand up still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it notice y'all.
- David Wagoner -

Security is by and large a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or null.
- 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 indicate out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important.
Merely the bee is at the aforementioned time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cantankerous-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a cardinal principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an erstwhile man and have known a corking many troubles,
most of which never happened
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -

We see things not as they are, but as we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

The birds accept vanished into the sky,
and now the last deject drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen master.
"What can you tell me near death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen chief. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single pace will not make a path on the earth,
and so a single thought will not make a pathway in the listen.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and once more.
To make a deep mental path, nosotros 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 enquire what the world needs. Ask what makes you lot come live and go practice it.
Because what the globe needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Outset I was dying to finish high schoolhouse and first college.
Then I was dying to finish college and commencement working.
Then I was dying to ally and take children.
And so I was dying for my children to grow onetime enough for school so I could return to work.
And so I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And 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 accept something to lose.
Y'all are already naked.
In that location is no reason not to follow your centre.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an sea;
if a few drops of the ocean are muddy,
the sea does not become dirty.
- 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 and then homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a relationship betwixt the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a human relationship betwixt equals.
Merely when nosotros know our own darkness well can we be nowadays with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when nosotros recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts be big enough simply to hang out in that infinite where we're non entirely certain most who'south right and who'due south wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we meet, hear, feel other people equally they really are? It is powerful to exercise this way, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing around to attempt to feel secure once more—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. Simply true communication can happen but in that open infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we do non beloved
will become hostile to the states.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
yous may be at a identify that everyone, sooner or afterwards, experiences on the spiritual path.
Subsequently a while it seems like virtually every moment of your life you're at that place,
where you realize yous have a pick.
Yous have a pick whether to open up or close, whether to concord on or allow go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to concur your seat or strike out.
That option is presented to you over again and over again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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.
Come across it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
affect, sense of taste, odour your way to the holy and hidden middle of information technology
considering in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can practice to make myself Enlightened?
Equally piffling as you can do to brand the sun rise in the morning.
So of what utilise are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure yous are not asleep when the dominicus begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nothing y'all can practice to better your soul.
There is naught y'all tin can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the but 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.
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 pipage.
Aye, God is under the porch likewise equally on top 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 can stop struggling with what occurs and run into its truthful face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual do is not about accomplishing anything
- not well-nigh winning or losing - but near ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when nosotros sit down to meditate.
That mental attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If nosotros knew simply how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions afflicted
the hearts of those around the states, nosotros'd achieve out and bring together hands once again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person nosotros see, we tin can acquire to expect behind the mask
and encounter the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

And so it was every bit if I all of a sudden saw the undercover beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-cognition can reach,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each i is in the optics of the Divine.
If simply they could all run into themselves as they really are.
If only nosotros could see each other that way all the fourth dimension.
At that place would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more than greed. …
I suppose the large problem would be that we would fall downwards and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a land of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is i further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
merely they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the wedlock.
Afterwards the election comes the difficult task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we remember that something is going to bring us pleasure, nosotros really don't know what'due south going to happen. When we call up something is going to give usa misery, we don't know. Letting in that location be room for not knowing is the almost of import thing of all. Nosotros endeavor to do what we think is going to help. Just we don't know.
Nosotros never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up alpine. When there'due south a big thwarting,
we don't know if that's the terminate of the story. It may be simply the outset of a great adventure.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros call something bad; we call it good. 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 practice includes our work, our love, our families, and our creativity. Information technology understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably continued, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As 1 wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know virtually a Zen principal, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Permit me keep my distance, always, from those who recollect they take the answers.
Let me keep company 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 there'south enough room for everyone to be passionate, artistic, and successful.
In fact, in that location's more than than room for everyone; there's a demand for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in hither past myself; permit the world fire.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation and so that we can reach out farther and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

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

If a man is called to exist a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets then 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 King -

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

When we brand music we don't do it in club to reach a sure betoken, such as the stop of the composition. If that were the purpose of music and so obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a item place on the flooring equally in a journey. When we dance, the journeying itself is the indicate, 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 -

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

One solar day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How practice y'all continue doing this hard, eye-wrenching work when you lot know you'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are every bit bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'southward respond:
"What yous need to sympathize is this —
just because something'south impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't practise 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 cocky-knowledge? If love was the center of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journeying, we accept arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the earth opens up.
All we need to practice is stop pounding on the door that has only airtight, turn effectually
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that airtight kept usa from entering a room,
just what now lies before us is the remainder of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the cease, these things matter most:
How well did you honey?
How fully did you lot live?
How deeply did you learn to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to exist split. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, notwithstanding, hidden deep inside each of united states of america
is the one Cocky - 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 Cocky within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy run into.
As you lot see him y'all will encounter yourself.
Equally yous care for him y'all will treat yourself.
As you think of him you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

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

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

Become 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 ain essence, 1 is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to practise with developing patience, not with the cheque-out person so much,
just with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I call up that'due south how nosotros have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

We must be willing to let get of the life we have planned
so every bit to accept the ane that is waiting for us.
- Due east.Thousand. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a corking chat, a conversation that wasn't simply two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for chat a lot in this culture?
Just ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you lot knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly institute places inside you that yous idea y'all had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different aeroplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind 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 allowing another to talk while waiting for a take 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 commencement feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a class of spiritual hospitality by which y'all invite strangers to be friends, to go to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to dare 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. All the same their arroyo 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 nigh our deep connections.
It isn't virtually what gender we retrieve God is,
or whether nosotros 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 ofttimes done quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved kid, break your heart no longer.
Each time you guess yourself, you break your center.
Yous pull abroad from the dear that is the well-jump of your vitality.
But 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 central: problems are to be solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Merely 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 human relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perchance the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting get until y'all find the unknown approval that is in everything..
I remember that'south how nosotros have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Often in meditative linguistic communication nosotros 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 y'all demand to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Permit it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not take to do anything to make it come, or make it go, or to permit information technology go.
Nosotros just have to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each ane of united states of america, I believe, is a souvenir the globe is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You don't demand to be extraordinary. If the world is to exist healed through homo effort,
I am convinced it will exist by ordinary people,
people whose beloved for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the web of life that called us into being,
and who tin can residuum in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is oftentimes described as the willingness to simply be with our life equally it is. But this is a difficult concept to become: that practice is not near having a particular country of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it about existence completely gratis of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

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

A human being is a role of the whole, called by united states "Universe,"
a office express in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
every bit something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison house to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must exist to costless ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to attain this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a office of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If yous pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the table salt into a river, people can go on to describe the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the chapters to receive, cover, and transform. When our hearts are pocket-size, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. Only when our hearts expand, these same things don't make the states suffer anymore. Nosotros have a lot of understanding and compassion and tin can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and and then they accept a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn betwixt a desire to salvage the world and an inclination to savor it.
This makes information technology hard to programme the day. Merely if we forget to savor the globe,
what possible reason practise nosotros have for saving information technology?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- Eastward.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 we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our heed.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice it every bit an act of beloved, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer whatsoever need for the subtle aggression of self-comeback, for the countless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an terminate to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps then many people'due south lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

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

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

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

Y'all do not accept to leave the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and mind.
Do not fifty-fifty mind, only expect. Practise not even wait. Be repose, however, and solitary.
The world will freely offering itself to y'all to be unmasked.
It has no choice. Information technology will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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