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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is non to walk on h2o.
The miracle is to walk on the green globe,
dwelling securely in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living confront-to-confront with others;
rather, it 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 full strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Middle,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One nighttime he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and do nothing."
 That's how nosotros try to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay shut and practice zippo. We sit all the same and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open up your middle to who you are, right now, not who you lot would like to exist.
Not the saint you're striving to go.
But the being correct here before you, within you, around you.
All of you is holy.
Yous're already more than and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let get.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attending focused on the nowadays, nosotros tin can be sure of one affair,
namely that any nosotros are attention to in this moment will change,
giving united states of america the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that volition emerge in the next moment.
Conspicuously, there is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non establish through changing our external world,
but through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

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

Daring greatly means the backbone to be vulnerable.
It means to show up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk about how you're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Dark-brown -

Meditation exercise isn't most trying to throw ourselves abroad
and become something better.
It's most befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Exist kind, for anybody yous see is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a banking concern with a check to cash.
"Tin can you identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Yes, that'due 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 information technology changes (which information technology will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it will e'er be this way (which information technology 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 virtually satisfying feelings I know – and also 1 of the virtually growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the aforementioned way that I appreciate a sunset. People are but as wonderful every bit sunsets if you can permit them exist. In fact, perchance the reason nosotros tin can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot command it. When I expect at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself maxim, "Soften the orange a piddling on the right mitt corner, and put a fleck more imperial along the base, and use a piddling more pink in the cloud color." I don't practise that. I don't try to control a dusk. I sentinel 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, information technology remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We but have to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

At that place is something in every one of y'all that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the only true guide you will ever accept.
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 be, simply one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be actually happy are those who have sought and establish how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-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.
Information technology does not mean to exist in a identify where there is no noise, problem or difficult piece of work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still exist calm in your eye.
- Unknown -

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

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

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

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

There are only 2 ways to live your life.
One is as though zilch is a miracle.
The other is equally though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment one gives close attention to anything,
fifty-fifty a blade 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 upwards on being perfect
and beginning the piece of work of condign yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

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

Exterior of a domestic dog,
a volume is human'south all-time friend.
Within of a dog,
information technology's also dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'due south no employ trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay y'all haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did information technology for one-half an hour a 24-hour interval.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not do one twenty-four hours, I detect it.
If I exercise not exercise a 2nd day, the orchestra notices it.
If I practice not do a third day, the earth notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'due south important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them but it's just every bit important not to push button across them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full credence
and not trying to strength ourselves to be dissimilar from how we are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing modify in each moment,
constantly irresolute, all the same always just existence itself.
It remains nevertheless as the seasons flow into i another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day by twenty-four hour period, calmness constant all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

You do not belong to you.
You belong to the universe.
The significance of you volition forever remain obscure to you,
just you may assume that y'all are fulfilling your significance
if you utilise yourself to converting all your experience to the highest reward to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

Y'all should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every 24-hour interval
- unless you're as well busy -
then you should sit for an hr.
- Old Zen aphorism -

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

Mindfulness is nigh being fully awake in our lives.
It is near perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
Nosotros also proceeds immediate access to our ain powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you lot think of your body as a musical instrument, the trunk scan is a manner of tuning it.
If yous recall of it as a universe, the body scan is a way to come to know it.
If yous retrieve of your body equally a business firm, the trunk browse is a way to throw open all the windows
and doors and permit the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what nosotros recollect and do
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And considering we fail to notice
In that location is petty we can practise
To change
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the eye wanders or is distracted, bring information technology back to the bespeak quite gently...
And fifty-fifty if you did goose egg during the whole of your 60 minutes merely bring your heart back,
though it went away every fourth dimension you brought it 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 power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

You can have compassion for yourself - which is not cocky-pity.
Y'all're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or stop
that you lot would bring to whatsoever love friend
grappling with the aforementioned pain, upset, or challenges every bit you.
- Rick Hanson -

It'south simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, concrete or psychological land, with loving kindness.
As unproblematic, and difficult, equally that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If nosotros could read the hole-and-corner history of our enemies,
nosotros should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering
plenty to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your centre
and try to beloved the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Do not at present seek the answers, which cannot be given you
considering you would not exist able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of customs -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Kickoff, nosotros all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than annihilation we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective conventionalities system, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher'due south phonation.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

This is non an answering motorcar.
This is a questioning automobile.
"Who are you and what do yous want?"
If you think these are fiddling questions,
most people go through their entire lives without answering either 1.
- Peter Russell'south answering motorcar -

You lot think you empathise 1.
You call back yous understand two, considering 1 and i make two.
Simply, you lot must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am non nigh so interested in what monkey human was derived from
equally I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

At that place is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

In that location's no trouble and so great it can't be solved.
If it can't be solved, it's non a trouble, information technology'south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and called-for bushes. Most of the calls nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be accurate, to live by our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the g sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and modest achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't accept 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 practice not know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness straight,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is split or extraneous.
If you lot run into in this fashion, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And then is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to chronicle the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to y'all.
All the rest is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten g flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A absurd breeze in summertime, snow in winter.
If your heed 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 twenty-four hour period
We wake upwards empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Have downwardly a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love exist what we exercise
At that place are hundreds of manner to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

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

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

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

When I await inside and meet that I am cypher, that's wisdom.
When I look exterior and see that I am everything, that's dear.
Between these ii my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand notwithstanding.
The copse before you and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a identify called Here,
And you lot must care for it as a powerful stranger,
Must enquire permission to know it and exist known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this identify effectually you,
If you lot leave it you lot may come up back over 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 however. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience information technology.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring hazard 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 signal out that for the beloved bee, it is the dearest that is important.
But the bee is at the aforementioned time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cantankerous-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Zero is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

The birds take 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 pupil who went to a Zen principal.
"What can you tell me nearly death?" the student asked.
"Cipher," the other replied. "I'm a Zen principal. Non a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

Equally a single pace will non make a path on the globe,
so a single thought will not brand a pathway in the mind.
To brand a deep physical path, we walk again and once more.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to boss our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

Don't ask what the world needs. Enquire what makes you come alive and go do information technology.
Considering what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to finish high schoolhouse and start college.
And and then I was dying to end college and showtime working.
So I was dying to ally and have children.
And and then I was dying for my children to grow erstwhile enough for school then I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And all of a sudden realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best mode I know
to avert the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
At that place is no reason non to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the body of water are muddy,
the ocean 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 wood?
- Thoreau -

Our bodies know they belong,
It'south our minds that brand our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

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

Could our minds and our hearts be big enough just to hang out in that infinite where we're non entirely certain about who's correct and who's wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non make that person incorrect or right? Could we run into, hear, feel other people as they actually are? It is powerful to practise this fashion, considering we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to endeavour to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true communication can happen only in that open infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

If you have embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
you may exist at a place that everyone, sooner or afterwards, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems similar almost every moment of your life you're at that place,
where you realize you accept a selection.
You lot accept a choice whether to open or shut, whether to agree on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That selection is presented to you again and again and over again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could non come across.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all 3.
- 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:  Mind to your life.
Come across it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the colorlessness and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, gustatory modality, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the terminal assay all moments are central moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can practise to make myself Enlightened?
Equally little as you can practice to make the sunday rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make certain you are not asleep when the sun begins to ascension.
- Anthony de Mello -

In that location is nothing you can practise to improve your soul.
At that place is null you can practise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true faith consists of having a good middle.
- The Dalai Lama -

The farther 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 piping.
Yes, God is nether the porch as well equally on summit of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can stop struggling with what occurs and meet its truthful confront without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is non about accomplishing annihilation
- non about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Nigh of u.s. need to exist reminded that we are practiced, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If nosotros knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around usa, nosotros'd attain out and join hands over 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 can larn to look behind the mask
and see the one who longs to dearest and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was as if I of a sudden 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 i is in the optics of the Divine.
If only they could all run across themselves every bit they actually are.
If only we could see each other that way all the time.
There would exist no more war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the large problem would be that we would fall down 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 state of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and non far away. There is 1 further truth, however: They don't concluding.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Subsequently the ballot comes the difficult task of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the aforementioned: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring u.s. pleasure, we really don't know what'southward going to happen. When we recall something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to do what we think is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit down upwardly tall. When there's a big thwarting,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. Information technology may be simply the kickoff of a great adventure.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; we call it good. Merely really nosotros 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 honey, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin can come live only in each detail and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. Equally one wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know well-nigh a Zen chief, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, nosotros live with mysteries too marvelous to exist understood...
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they accept the answers.
Let me proceed company always with those who say
'Look!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

Your generosity toward others is key to your positive experiences in the world.
Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, there's more 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 coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curlicue upwards in here by myself; let the world burn.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we tin can reach out further and further to the world exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

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

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

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 practise it in club to achieve a sure point, such every bit the terminate of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Besides, when we are dancing we are not aiming to get in at a particular identify on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the signal, every bit when nosotros play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Only to the extent that we betrayal ourselves over and over to anything
tin can 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 do you go along doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when you know you'll wake upwards tomorrow to problems that are equally bad or worse than the ones y'all're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'southward answer:
"What you lot need to understand is this —
just considering something's impossible doesn't hateful you shouldn't do information technology!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy h2o - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-noesis? If love was the eye of our existence?
- Ganga White -

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

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

You and I appear to be separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, all the same, hidden deep inside each of u.s.a.
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded hugger-mugger of life: that we are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to practice is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Cocky inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you come across anyone, recollect information technology is a holy encounter.
As you lot see him you volition run into yourself.
As you treat him yous will care for yourself.
As y'all retrieve of him you will retrieve of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you lot volition discover yourself or lose yourself.
- A Class in Miracles -

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

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

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

It has a lot to do with developing patience, non with the check-out person so much,
but with your ain pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and honey to that rawness and soreness.
I retrieve that's how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

We must exist willing to permit go of the life we have planned
so as to accept the i that is waiting for us.
- East.M. Forster -

When is the terminal time that you had a groovy conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Simply ... a nifty conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew? That y'all heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within y'all that you thought you had lost ... a chat that brought the two of you on to a different plane? ... a conversation that connected to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a gamble to answer. 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 first feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- Henri J.Thousand. Nouwen -

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

My dearest child, break your heart no longer.
Each time yous judge yourself, you break your centre.
You pull abroad from the beloved that is the well-spring of your vitality.
Simply at present the time has come up, your time, to alive and to trust the goodness that yous are.
- Bapuji every bit shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem just a mystery. The distinction...
is key: issues are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Just 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 up for whatsoever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Maybe the wisdom lies in engaging the life yous have been given equally fully and courageously as possible and non letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I retrieve that's how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Often in meditative language we speak of letting become of things:
let go of thoughts, let go of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting get suggests that you demand to do something.
A better phrase to piece of work with is "Permit it exist." Allow it exist.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We practise not have to practise anything to go far come, or brand it get, or to permit information technology become.
We merely have to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You lot don't need to be boggling. If the world is to be healed through human try,
I am convinced it will exist past ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who tin open to the web of life that called us into existence,
and who tin rest in the vitality of that larger torso.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is oft described as the willingness to simply be with our life equally it is. Just this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not about having a detail country of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it about being completely free of feet. This is non to deny that nosotros will, in fact, feel more self-possession, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

Simply, ironically, information technology'south the very demand that life be a particular fashion that almost guarantees a continuing land of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A homo existence is a part of the whole, called past us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting the states to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our job must be to free ourselves from this prison house
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
only the striving for such achievement is in itself a function of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If yous pour a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. Only if you cascade the salt into a river, people tin can continue to draw the water to cook, launder, and beverage. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, comprehend, and transform. When our hearts are pocket-sized, our understanding and pity are express, and we endure. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they modify. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. Nosotros accept a lot of understanding and compassion and tin can comprehend others. Nosotros accept others as they are, and and then they have a take a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the earth and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to plan the day. Simply if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason exercise we have for saving information technology?
In a style, the savoring must come first.
- East.B. White -

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

Our days are happier when we give people a flake of our heart rather than a piece of our heed.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to prepare yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice information technology as an act of beloved, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer whatever need for the subtle aggression of cocky-improvement, for the countless guilt of non doing enough. Information technology offers the possibility of an finish to the incessant round of trying and so difficult that wraps and then many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an human action of dearest.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget most enlightenment.
Sit down down wherever you lot are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, correct at present, not who yous would like to exist.
Non the saint you're striving to get.
But the being right here before y'all, inside y'all, effectually you.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more than and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, expect in, let become.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the one paw that's right, merely on the other mitt, it understates what is.
Nosotros are continued.
What we need to do is to become enlightened of it, to live it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you accept.
Do what you tin can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You exercise not take to get out the room. Remain sitting at your table and mind.
Do non even listen, simply expect. Practice not even wait. Be quiet, still, and lonely.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no option. It will whorl in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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