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Mindfulness Quotes

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

Customs does not necessarily hateful living face-to-face 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 district,
I was of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
fifty-fifty though we were total strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

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

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

If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can be certain of i matter,
namely that whatever we are attention to in this moment will change,
giving the states the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will sally in the side by side moment.
Clearly, in that location is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not plant through irresolute our external world,
but through irresolute our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, nosotros cannot meet the light.
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 true, don't say information technology.
If you know something hurtful and truthful, don't say it.
If y'all know something helpful but not true, don't say it.
If you know something helpful and truthful, detect the correct time to say it.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to testify up and exist seen.
To ask for what yous need.
To talk most how you're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Dark-brown -

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

Y'all are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may non even know about.
You are never lone.
And you already belong.
Y'all belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for anybody you run across is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right at present
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without belongings on when it changes (which it volition);
being 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 nigh satisfying feelings I know – and besides 1 of the most 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 equally wonderful as sunsets if you can let them be. In fact, mayhap the reason we can truly appreciate a dusk is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't notice myself maxim, "Soften the orange a niggling on the right mitt corner, and put a scrap more imperial forth the base of operations, and use a little more pinkish in the cloud colour." I don't do that. I don't endeavour to control a sunset. I watch with awe equally information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

In that location is something in every 1 of yous that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the but true guide you volition ever 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 volition exist, but i thing I know: the simply ones among yous who will exist really happy are those who have sought and plant how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you are perfect only every bit yous are...
... and there is still room for comeback!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In that location are only two means to live your life.
Ane is as though null is a miracle.
The other is every bit though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment one gives close attention to annihilation,
fifty-fifty a blade of grass, information technology becomes a mysterious,
crawly, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The thing that is really hard, and actually amazing,
is giving up on being perfect
and beginning the piece of 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 volition get clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's besides night to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I do not practice one day, I notice it.
If I do not practice a 2d day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do non practice a third 24-hour interval, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'south important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them simply it'due south simply as important not to push across them...
Instead we are going to exist looking securely into each moment with full credence
and non trying to force ourselves to be dissimilar from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, tin y'all be in touch,
non only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but as well with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your listen?
The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing alter in each moment,
constantly irresolute, even so e'er only being itself.
It remains still as the seasons menstruum into one another and as the weather condition changes moment by moment and twenty-four hours by twenty-four hours, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If non these words, this breath.
If non this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
nosotros have refused
once again and again
until at present.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

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

You lot do non belong to you.
You lot vest to the universe.
The significance of yous volition forever remain obscure to you,
but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your feel to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

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

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

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

If you recall of your body as a instrument, the body scan is a way of tuning it.
If y'all think of it every bit a universe, the trunk scan is a way to come to know information technology.
If you retrieve of your body as a house, the body scan is a style to throw open 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 limited by what we fail to detect
And because we neglect to observe
There is little we can do
To alter
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 middle wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the indicate quite gently...
And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hr but bring your centre back,
though information technology went abroad every fourth dimension you brought information technology back,
your hour would exist very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response at that place is a space.
In that infinite is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our liberty.
- Victor Frankl -

Yous can have compassion for yourself - which is non self-pity.
You're but recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that you lot would bring to any beloved friend
grappling with the same hurting, upset, or challenges as you lot.
- Rick Hanson -

It's only being kind to myself -
coming together myself, any my emotional, physical or psychological country, with loving kindness.
As uncomplicated, and hard, every bit that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If nosotros could read the clandestine history of our enemies,
we should find in each man'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
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not at present seek the answers, which cannot exist given y'all
because you lot would not be able to alive them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Alive 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 two basic beliefs.
First, we all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than annihilation we tin get from a doctrine, ideology, commonage belief system, institution, or leader.
2d, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help united states of america discern the inner teacher'south voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow upward
and get who you actually are.
- E. East. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what exercise you desire?"
If you think these are piffling questions,
most people go through their entire lives without answering either ane.
- Peter Russell's answering motorcar -

You call back you understand one.
You think yous understand ii, because one and one make two.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not about and then interested in what monkey man was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to go.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

There'southward no problem and so neat information technology tin't be solved.
If information technology can't be solved, information technology's not a problem, it'southward reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Most of the calls nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to exist authentic, to live by our own codes of accolade.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the 1000 sweeps but in the small gestures. The slap-up breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a event of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and minor achievements. We're chosen to reach out to someone, to pick upwards an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't have the time or coin, to go to our desks each day, to plow left instead of right.
These are the burn drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

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

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that zip is split or extraneous.
If you run across in this way, 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 standing on one foot:
"Do not practise to others that which is hateful to you.
All the remainder is commentary. At present go report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten yard flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A cool cakewalk in summer, snowfall in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best flavour of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take downwards a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we practice
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the world.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attending to and I will tell y'all 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 homo who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a homo?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the next world, 'Why were you non Moses?'
I will know the answer.
Simply if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will take zip to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

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

We are non troubled by things,
but by the opinions we have almost things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up even so.
The trees before you and the bushes beside you lot are not lost.
Wherever yous are is a place chosen Here,
And you lot must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The wood breathes. Mind. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you exit it you may come back again saying Here.
No two copse are the same to Raven.
No ii branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you,
Yous are surely lost. Stand notwithstanding. The forest knows
Where y'all are. You lot must allow information technology find you.
- David Wagoner -

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

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

I am an quondam human and accept known a great many troubles,
most of which never happened
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

We see things not as they are, but every bit nosotros are.
- H.Grand. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen master.
"What tin you tell me almost death?" the educatee asked.
"Zero," the other replied. "I'm a Zen main. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep will not make a path on the globe,
so a single thought volition non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep concrete path, we walk once more 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 y'all 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 it.
Considering what the globe needs is people who have come live.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to finish loftier schoolhouse and start higher.
And and so I was dying to end college and offset working.
And so I was dying to marry and have children.
And and so I was dying for my children to grow old enough for schoolhouse then I could return to work.
And and so I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And all of a sudden realize I forgot to live.
- Bearding -

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best manner I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
At that place is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

You lot must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not get dingy.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

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

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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It'due south a human relationship between equals.
Only when nosotros know our ain darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion 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 infinite where nosotros're not entirely certain about who'southward right and who'due south wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with some other person, non know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practise this fashion, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing around to try to experience secure again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true communication can happen simply in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
At that place are burning bushes all effectually you.
Every tree is total of angels.
Hidden dazzler is waiting in every crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every part of our personality that we exercise non dear
will get hostile to usa.
- Robert Bly -

If y'all have embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
you lot may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Later on a while it seems like most every moment of your life you're in that location,
where yous realize y'all have a choice.
Yous have a choice whether to open up or close, whether to hold on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to concur your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to y'all again and once again and once again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Just my soul I could not meet.
I sought my God, Just my God eluded me.
I sought my blood brother, And found 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.
See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of information technology no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch on, sense of taste, smell your style to the holy and hidden heart of it
considering in the last analysis all moments are cardinal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there annihilation I can do to make myself Aware?
As petty equally you can practise to brand the sun ascension in the morn.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To brand certain you are not asleep when the sunday begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

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

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

The farther I wake into this life, the more than 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 broken canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipage.
Yes, God is under the porch as well as on meridian of the mount,
and joy is in both the forepart row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where nosotros are.
- Marking Nepo -

Nosotros tin can stop struggling with what occurs and see its truthful face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practise is not well-nigh accomplishing annihilation
- not about winning or losing - just nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit downwardly to meditate.
That 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 we knew simply how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and enkindling.
With each person we run into, we can learn to await behind the mask
and see the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was as if I suddenly saw the secret dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-noesis 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 as they really are.
If merely we could see each other that style all the time.
In that location would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would exist that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is one further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the spousal relationship.
Later the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Afterward the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros call up that something is going to bring united states of america pleasance, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we call up something is going to give united states of america misery, we don't know. Letting at that place be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to practise what we retrieve is going to help. Just we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall apartment or sit upwardly tall. When there'southward a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may exist just the showtime of a great adventure.
...Life is like that.
We telephone call something bad; we telephone call information technology good. Simply actually 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 love, 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 simply in each particular and personal circumstance. How we alive is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you really desire to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, e'er, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' 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 exist passionate, artistic, and successful.
In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there'southward a need 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'chiliad going to scroll up in here by myself; let the globe burn.'
Non at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we tin can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drib in the sea,
Yous are the unabridged bounding main in a driblet.
- Rumi -

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

If a homo 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 volition break to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Rex -

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

When we make music we don't do it in guild to reach a certain point, such every bit the finish of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would exist the all-time. As well, when we are dancing we are not aiming to get in at a particular identify on the flooring as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the signal of life is always arrived at in the firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

Only to the extent that nosotros expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
can that which is indestructible be found in u.s.a..
- Pema Chodron -

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when you know you'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are equally bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's answer:
"What you need to understand is this —
just considering something's impossible doesn't hateful yous shouldn't do it!"
- 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 Globe?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If love was the center of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As oft happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the center of a paradox:
each fourth dimension a door closes, the rest of the globe opens up.
All we demand to practice is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, plough around
- which puts the door behind the states -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that airtight kept us from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you dearest?
How fully did you live?
How securely did you lot larn to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I announced to be separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of us
is the one Self - eternal, space, 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 practice is have off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When yous meet anyone, remember information technology is a holy encounter.
As you run into him yous volition see yourself.
As you treat him yous will treat yourself.
As yous think of him you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him yous will notice yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

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

Let usa encourage 1 some other with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

Get and beloved someone exactly as they are and watch how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When 1 feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

Information technology has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the cheque-out person and then much,
but with your own hurting that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I think that'southward how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location ain't no answer.
In that location own't ever going to be an respond.
There never was an answer.
That'due south the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
so equally to have the one that is waiting for us.
- E.One thousand. Forster -

When is the last fourth dimension that you lot had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't but two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this civilization?
But ... a great chat, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you lot never knew you knew? That you lot heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly found places within y'all that you thought you had lost ... a chat that brought the two of you on to a different airplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your heed for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and beverage 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 start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a course of spiritual hospitality by which y'all invite strangers to be friends, to go to know their inner selves more fully, and fifty-fifty to dare to be silent with yous.
- Henri J.One 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 concern for all human beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is virtually. Information technology is about our deep connections.
It isn't nearly what gender we recollect God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is ofttimes done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your heart no longer.
Each fourth dimension you guess yourself, you suspension your centre.
You pull away from the honey that is the well-leap of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you lot are.
- Bapuji equally shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

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

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatever life may offering and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you lot take been given as fully and courageously every bit possible and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I call up that's how nosotros accept to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't remember that'south what we're really seeking.
I recollect what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical aeroplane
will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
That'south what information technology'south all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

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

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

Practice is frequently described every bit the willingness to simply be with our life as it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not virtually having a particular state of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it virtually being completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

But, ironically, information technology's the very demand that life be a particular way that most guarantees a continuing state of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human existence is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part express in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to the states, restricting united states of america to our personal desires
and to amore for just the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison house
past 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,
merely 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 demand was anything other than real, unconditional love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you lot pour a handful of table salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you lot pour the salt into a river, people can go on to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and pity are limited, and we suffer. We tin't have or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they modify. Simply when our hearts expand, these same things don't make united states suffer anymore. Nosotros have a lot of understanding and compassion and tin can comprehend others. Nosotros have others every bit they are, and and then they have a run a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the globe and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it difficult to plan the twenty-four hour period. But if we forget to savour the world,
what possible reason do we have for saving it?
In a manner, the savoring must come up commencement.
- East.B. White -

Exit your front door and your dorsum door open.
Permit your thoughts to come and become.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to prepare yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do information technology as an act of beloved, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle assailment of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying and then hard that wraps so many people'south lives in a knot. Instead at that place is now meditation as an act of love.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

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

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

Desire what you lot have.
Do what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You do not accept to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and heed.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Do non even wait. Be quiet, notwithstanding, and solitary.
The world volition freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no selection. It volition ringlet in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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