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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 globe,
habitation deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Customs does not necessarily hateful living face-to-face with others;
rather, information technology means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping commune,
I was suddenly overwhelmed past the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though we were total strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a twelvemonth the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
I night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've e'er heard on caregiving.
He said merely, "Stay close and do nothing."
 That's how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit nonetheless and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your center to who you are, correct at present, not who y'all would like to exist.
Not the saint y'all're striving to go.
Just the being correct here before y'all, inside you, around y'all.
All of you is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatsoever you can know.
Breathe out, await in, allow go.
- John Welwood-

If we continue our attending focused on the nowadays, we can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will sally in the next moment.
Conspicuously, at that place is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

If you know something hurtful and not truthful, don't say it.
If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it.
If yous know something helpful just not truthful, don't say information technology.
If yous know something helpful and true, find the correct fourth dimension to say it.
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring greatly means the courage to exist vulnerable.
It ways to prove up and be seen.
To enquire for what you lot 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 become something improve.
Information technology'due south virtually befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Be kind, for anybody you lot meet is fighting a hard battle.
- 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.
"Aye, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is just being enlightened of what is happening right now
without wishing information technology were different;
enjoying the pleasant without belongings on when it changes (which it will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it volition ever be this fashion (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -

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

One of the virtually satisfying feelings I know – and too one of the well-nigh growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if yous can allow them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't discover myself proverb, "Soften the orangish a little on the right manus corner, and put a fleck more purple along the base, and utilize a little more than pink in the deject color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe every bit it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

There is something in every ane of yous that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
Information technology is the but true guide you will ever take.
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 thing I know: the simply ones amid you 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 simply equally you are...
... and there is still room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to detect happiness.
It's correct 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 fourth dimension as if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does not mean to exist in a identify where there is no dissonance, trouble or hard work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and all the same exist calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you lot from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches y'all how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be and then disappear,
and information technology is likewise a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do non be all of a sudden appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

At that place are only two ways to alive your life.
1 is equally though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a phenomenon.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is actually 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 un soleil.
(A difficulty is a calorie-free.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Exterior of a dog,
a book is man'due south best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it'south too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I do not practise ane twenty-four hours, I detect it.
If I practice not practice a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do non practice a third day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them merely it'south only as important not to push beyond them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to strength ourselves to be dissimilar from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly irresolute, still always merely being itself.
It remains nevertheless as the seasons menses into ane another and equally the conditions changes moment past moment and mean solar day past day, calmness constant all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Plenty.
These few words are plenty.
If non these words, this jiff.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we accept refused
over again and again
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 strength,
filling up in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling by it.
- I Ching -

You lot practise non belong to you.
You belong to the universe.
The significance of you lot will forever remain obscure to yous,
just y'all may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you utilize yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You lot should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every solar day
- unless you lot're besides decorated -
then you should sit for an 60 minutes.
- Old Zen adage -

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

Mindfulness is most being fully awake in our lives.
It is virtually perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
Nosotros too gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The range of what we think and practise
Is limited past what we fail to notice
And because nosotros fail to notice
At that place is lilliputian we tin can do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to observe
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

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

Between stimulus and response in that location is a space.
In that space 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 cocky-compassion.
Y'all're but recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or terminate
that you would bring to any dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges equally you.
- Rick Hanson -

It'southward simply existence kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatsoever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Every bit uncomplicated, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be inverse
By what nosotros hear.
- Mark Nepo-

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to beloved the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very strange tongue.
Exercise not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you lot
because you would non be able to alive them.
And the point is, to alive everything.
Live the questions now.
- 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 instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything we tin get from a doctrine, credo, collective conventionalities organisation, institution, or leader.
Second, we all demand other people to invite, amplify, and help usa discern the inner instructor's vocalism.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes backbone to grow upward
and become who yous actually are.
- E. Eastward. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering auto.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what do you lot desire?"
If you think these are little questions,
most people go through their entire lives without answering either i.
- Peter Russell's answering automobile -

You think y'all understand one.
You think you empathise two, because 1 and one make two.
But, you must as well understand "and".
- Sufi maxim -

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

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

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

At that place's no problem and then smashing it tin't be solved.
If it tin't exist solved, it's non a trouble, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

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

Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps but in the pocket-size gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen simply as a upshot of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick upwardly 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 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 lot.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Maxim -

Peradventure ultimately, spiritual simply ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that cypher is separate or extraneous.
If yous see in this way, and then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline is spiritual. And so is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while continuing on ane foot:
"Do non do to others that which is hateful to you.
All the residual is commentary. Now go report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

10 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 to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today like every other day
Nosotros wake upwards empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your written report
And begin reading.
Accept down a musical musical instrument.
Allow the beauty we love be what we do
There are hundreds of mode to kneel
And buss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what y'all pay attention to and I will tell yous who you lot 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 man?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the next earth, 'Why were y'all non Moses?'
I will know the reply.
But if they ask me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I volition take nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is only with the heart that 1 can see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the centre.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I wait outside and meet that I am everything, that's love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever yous are is a place called Here,
And yous must care for it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I take fabricated this identify around yous,
If you leave information technology y'all may come back again saying Hither.
No 2 trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on yous,
You are surely lost. Stand notwithstanding. The forest knows
Where you are. You must permit information technology detect you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does non exist in nature,
nor exercise 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 cipher.
- 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 beloved bee, information technology is the honey that is important.
But the bee is at the same time nature'due south vehicle
for conveying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a central principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an old man and take known a great many troubles,
most of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

We run into things not as they are, but as nosotros are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

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

Equally a single stride will not make a path on the world,
and then a single thought will non make 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 recollect over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to boss our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes yous come alive and get do it.
Because what the earth needs is people who take come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Offset I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And and then I was dying to finish higher and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and accept children.
Then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that you are going to dice is the all-time way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking yous take something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
At that place is no reason not to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

Yous must not lose religion in humanity.
Humanity is similar an ocean;
if a few drops of the sea are dirty,
the ocean does not go 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 forest?
- Thoreau -

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

Compassion is non a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a human relationship betwixt equals.
Simply when we know our own darkness well can 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 only to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain about who's right and who's wrong? Could nosotros accept 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 as they really are? It is powerful to practice this mode, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to attempt to feel secure once again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true communication can happen just in that open up space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

If yous take embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Later on a while information technology seems like almost every moment of your life you're there,
where you realize you have a choice.
You have a selection whether to open or close, whether to concord on or allow go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you again and once more and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could non see.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my blood brother, And found all three.
- Anonymous -

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Heed to your life.
Meet information technology for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the boredom and hurting of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, gustatory modality, smell your mode to the holy and subconscious middle of information technology
considering in the last analysis all moments are central moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
Every bit little equally you lot can do to brand the dominicus rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To make sure you are not comatose when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nothing yous can practice to meliorate your soul.
At that place is nil you 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.
Calorie-free is in both the cleaved bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yep, God is under the porch besides every bit on top of the mount,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We tin can finish struggling with what occurs and encounter its true face up without calling information technology the enemy.
Information technology helps to remember that our spiritual do is non about 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 downward to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Nigh of usa demand to be reminded that we are good, that nosotros are lovable, that nosotros vest.
If we knew but how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions afflicted
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 nosotros meet, we tin learn to look backside the mask
and see the one who longs to dearest and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was every bit if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves every bit they actually are.
If only we could see 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 greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. Information technology is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than yous know, and not far abroad. At that place is i further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Later on the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what'south going to happen. When nosotros think something is going to give u.s.a. misery, we don't know. Letting at that place be room for not knowing is the almost important affair of all. We attempt to do what nosotros recollect is going to assistance. But we don't know.
We never know if nosotros're going to autumn flat or sit up tall. When there'southward a large disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that's the terminate of the story. It may be simply the beginning of a corking adventure.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros telephone call something bad; we phone 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 beloved, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise educatee remarked,
'If you really want to know almost a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries besides marvelous to be understood...
Permit me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me go along company always with those who say
'Expect!' and express mirth in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

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

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

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros have to get through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of decease.
- Anais Nin -

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

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

When we make music we don't exercise information technology in order to achieve a certain point, such as the cease of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Likewise, when nosotros are dancing nosotros are non aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the signal, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same matter is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is ever arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, eye-wrenching work when you know you'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'due south answer:
"What you need to understand is this —
simply considering something's impossible doesn't hateful you shouldn't do information technology!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our organized religion was each other?
If our practise 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 Instructor was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If dear was the middle of our being?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we accept arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens upwards.
All nosotros demand to practise is finish pounding on the door that has merely airtight, turn around
- which puts the door behind usa -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept united states from entering a room,
but what at present lies before us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the cease, these things matter most:
How well did you dearest?
How fully did y'all live?
How deeply did you learn to permit become?
- Jack Kornfield -

You lot and I appear to be split. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent sectionalisation, however, hidden deep within each of usa
is the ane Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught upwards in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to do is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

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

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

Permit the states encourage ane another with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

Become and dearest 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, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and beloved to that rawness and soreness.
I call up that's how nosotros have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no answer.
At that place ain't ever going to exist an answer.
In that location never was an answer.
That'southward the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

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

We must exist willing to permit go of the life we have planned
and then as to have the one that is waiting for us.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the last time that yous had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this civilization?
Just ... a great chat, in which y'all overheard yourself maxim things that you never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you lot thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the ii of you on to a different plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your listen 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 another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying total attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The dazzler of listening is that those who are listened to commencement feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a grade of spiritual hospitality by which yous invite strangers to exist friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to cartel to exist silent with you.
- Henri J.1000. Nouwen -

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

My dear child, break your heart no longer.
Each time you gauge yourself, yous break your middle.
You lot pull away from the love that is the well-bound of your vitality.
Simply at present the time has come, your time, to live 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 only a mystery. The distinction...
is central: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Only that we exist in its presence,
that nosotros fully, consciously paw ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I accept seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for any life may offer and meet with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Possibly the wisdom lies in engaging the life yous accept been given as fully and courageously equally possible and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I remember that'southward how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Often in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
allow go of thoughts, let get of emotions, allow go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
considering letting go suggests that you need to do something.
A amend phrase to work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do non have to practice anything to make it come up, or go far go, or to permit information technology go.
Nosotros just accept to allow it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each ane of u.s., I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through homo attempt,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose dearest for this life is fifty-fifty greater than their fear.
People who tin can open up to the web of life that called us into beingness,
and who can residuum in the vitality of that larger trunk.
- Joanna Macy -

Practise is oft described as the willingness to but be with our life equally it is. Merely this is a difficult concept to get: that practise is not about having a particular land of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is information technology well-nigh beingness completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more than equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

But, ironically, information technology'southward the very demand that life exist a particular way that near guarantees a standing land of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being beingness is a part of the whole, called by u.s.a. "Universe,"
a function limited in time and infinite.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This mirage is a kind of a prison house to us, restricting u.s. to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must exist to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of pity to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
only the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you pour a handful of common salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. Merely if you cascade the table salt into a river, people can continue to draw the h2o to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, comprehend, and transform. When our hearts are minor, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't take or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we need that they modify. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can cover others. We accept others as they are, and and so they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morn I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to bask it.
This makes information technology hard to plan the twenty-four hours. But if we forget to bask the globe,
what possible reason exercise we have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Get out your front door and your dorsum door open up.
Let your thoughts to come up and get.
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 mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to prepare yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any demand for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an stop to the ceaseless round of trying then hard that wraps and so many people'southward lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and listen to the air current that is singing in your veins.
Experience the love, the longing, and the fright in your bones.
Open your centre to who you are, right now, not who you lot would like to be.
Non the saint yous're striving to become.
But the beingness right here before yous, inside you, effectually you.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more than and less than any y'all can know.
Breathe out, wait in, let become.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the one manus that's right, but on the other hand, information technology understates what is.
Nosotros are connected.
What nosotros need to do is to go enlightened of it, to live it, to express information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you accept.
Practise what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

You practice not have to exit the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Practice not even listen, merely wait. Do not even wait. Be quiet, however, and lonely.
The world will freely offering itself to you lot to be unmasked.
Information technology has no pick. It will roll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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