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Mindfulness Quotes

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

Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others;
rather, it means never losing the sensation 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 suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though nosotros were total strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

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

Open your heart to who you are, right now, non who yous would like to be.
Not the saint yous're striving to become.
But the being right here earlier you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more than and less than whatever you tin know.
Breathe out, expect in, allow go.
- John Welwood-

If we proceed our attending focused on the nowadays, we can be sure of one affair,
namely that any we are attending to in this moment volition modify,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will sally in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not institute through irresolute our external globe,
simply through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the nighttime, we cannot encounter the low-cal.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

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

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and go something better.
It's virtually befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

You are whole and also function of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may not fifty-fifty know nearly.
You are never lone.
And y'all already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
Y'all belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone you come across is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a bank with a cheque to greenbacks.
"Tin can y'all place yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Yeah, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

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

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

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the near growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this individual in the aforementioned way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just equally wonderful equally sunsets if you can let them be. In fact, mayhap the reason we tin truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control information technology. When I expect at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't discover myself saying, "Soften the orange a niggling on the correct hand corner, and put a fleck more purple along the base, and utilise a footling more pink in the cloud color." I don't do that. I don't endeavour to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

In that location is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the audio of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the merely true guide yous will ever have.
And if yous cannot hear it, you will all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

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

All of you lot are perfect just as y'all are...
... and there is still room for comeback!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It's correct in front end of me if I'thousand paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
Information technology does non mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard piece of work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and yet be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

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

Existence on a spiritual path does non foreclose you from facing times of darkness.
Merely information technology teaches you how to apply the darkness equally a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments always begin with an answer in listen.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be and and so disappear,
and it is also a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that practise not be suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is really difficult, and really amazing,
is giving up 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 light.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -

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

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a volume is man's best friend.
Inside of a domestic dog,
information technology'south too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I practice not practise one mean solar day, I notice it.
If I do not do a second day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I practise not practice a third day, the globe notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

Information technology'southward important to exist aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them merely it'southward just as important not to button beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full credence
and not trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, can you be in affect,
not only 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 heed?
The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mount merely sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always merely being itself.
It remains still as the seasons period into ane some other and as the atmospheric condition changes moment past moment and day past day, calmness abiding all modify…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless you lot're too busy -
and so you should sit for an hour.
- Former Zen adage -

Arguments always brainstorm with an answer in mind.
Conversations brainstorm 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 proceeds immediate admission to our own powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The range of what we remember and do
Is limited past what nosotros neglect to detect
And because we neglect to notice
There is petty nosotros can do
To change
Until we find
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the center wanders or is distracted, bring it dorsum to the signal quite gently...
And even if you did goose egg during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back,
though it went away every time you lot brought it back,
your hour would exist very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response at that place 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 tin have compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're merely recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that you would bring to any dear friend
grappling with the same hurting, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

Information technology's just being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As unproblematic, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each human being'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 honey the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Exercise not now seek the answers, which cannot exist given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare course of customs -
1 that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in ii basic behavior.
Start, we all take an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than annihilation we tin can get from a doctrine, credo, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
2d, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and help us discern the inner teacher'south vox.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what do you want?"
If yous think these are picayune questions,
most people get through their unabridged lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering car -

Yous recall you understand one.
You retrieve you understand two, because one and one make two.
Only, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey human was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

At that place's no problem then great information technology can't be solved.
If it can't be solved, information technology's non a problem, information technology's 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 be authentic, to live past our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the m sweeps merely in the pocket-sized gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen only as a issue of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and small-scale achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick upward an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upwardly for a class fifty-fifty though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to get 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 not know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Maybe ultimately, spiritual merely means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that goose egg is separate or extraneous.
If you come across in this way, and so 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 relate the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Practice not do to others that which is hateful to yous.
All the rest is commentary. Now go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, non 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 cool breeze in summertime, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded past unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

In that location is more than to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today similar every other day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept downward a instrument.
Let the beauty nosotros love be what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And buss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

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

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the side by side world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the reply.
Just if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have cipher to say.
- Martin Buber -

Information technology is only with the center that one tin come across rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the heart.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that'south wisdom.
When I look outside and run across that I am everything, that'south love.
Betwixt these ii my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand all the same.
The trees earlier y'all and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place chosen Here,
And you must treat information technology as a powerful stranger,
Must inquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Mind. It answers,
I have made this place around yous,
If you go out it you may come up back once more proverb Hither.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No ii branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on yous,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. Y'all must permit it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is by and large a superstition.
Information technology does non exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring take a chance or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is actually going on.
He liked to point out that for the honey bee, information technology is the love that is important.
But the bee is at the same time nature'south vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

The birds take vanished into the sky,
and at present the final cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mount and me,
until just the mount remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen main.
"What can you tell me about decease?" the student asked.
"Zippo," the other replied. "I'm a Zen chief. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a unmarried thought volition not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and once again.
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 alive all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't ask what the globe needs. Inquire what makes y'all come live and get practise information technology.
Because what the world needs is people who have come up alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to finish loftier school and start college.
And so I was dying to cease college and outset working.
Then I was dying to marry and have children.
And and then I was dying for my children to grow sometime plenty for school so I could render 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 best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You lot are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your eye.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an bounding main;
if a few drops of the bounding main are dirty,
the ocean does not get 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's our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is non a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our ain darkness well tin we 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 but to hang out in that space where we're non entirely certain well-nigh who'south right and who's wrong? Could we have no calendar when nosotros walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person incorrect or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this fashion, because nosotros'll discover ourselves continually rushing effectually to try to experience secure again—to brand ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true communication can happen just in that open space.
- 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 crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every office of our personality that nosotros do not love
will become hostile to united states of america.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
y'all may be at a place that everyone, sooner or afterwards, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while information technology seems similar almost every moment of your life you're in that location,
where you realize you have a choice.
Y'all have a selection whether to open or shut, whether to concord on or allow go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to concord your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you again and once again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Only my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, Just my God eluded me.
I sought my 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.
Run into it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and hurting of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, sense of taste, smell your way to the holy and subconscious heart of it
because in the terminal analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin do to make myself Enlightened?
As little every bit you tin can practice to make the lord's day rise in the forenoon.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To make sure you lot are not asleep when the sun begins to rising.
- Anthony de Mello -

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

I believe that the merely true organized religion consists of having a good centre.
- 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.
Lite is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is under the porch too as on top of the mount,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can stop struggling with what occurs and run into its true confront without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is non about accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate.
That mental attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of the states demand to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew simply how powerfully our thoughts, words, and deportment affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships take the potential to exist a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we can acquire to look behind the mask
and meet the one who longs to dearest and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was equally if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge tin can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If simply they could all encounter themselves equally they actually are.
If only nosotros could come across each other that way all the time.
There would exist 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. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a country of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is one farther truth, all the same: They don't concluding.
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.
After the election comes the difficult chore 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 u.s.a. pleasure, we really don't know what's going to happen. When nosotros remember something is going to give us misery, nosotros don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the nigh important thing of all. Nosotros try to do what we think is going to help. But nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit down up tall. When there's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that'southward the end of the story. It may be merely the beginning of a great take a chance.
...Life is similar that.
Nosotros call something bad; we call it skillful. Merely really we just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our work, our love, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin come alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. Every bit 1 wise pupil remarked,
'If you really desire to know about a Zen chief, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we alive with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Allow me proceed my altitude, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Permit me keep visitor always with those who say
'Expect!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

Your generosity toward others is key to your positive experiences in the world.
Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, there'south more than room for anybody; there's 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'm going to curl upwards in here by myself; let the world burn.'
Non at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drop in the body of water,
You are the unabridged ocean in a drop.
- Rumi -

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

If a human being is called to exist 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 sky and globe will pause to say,
'Hither lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

Paradise is thus non so much a place,
as liberation into the fullness and bounty
of everyday experience.
- Ian Baker -

When we make music nosotros don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such every bit the cease of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would exist the all-time. Also, when we are dancing nosotros are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the flooring as in a journeying. When nosotros trip the light fantastic, the journey itself is the betoken, as when nosotros play music the playing itself is the bespeak. And exactly the aforementioned 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 nosotros expose ourselves over and over to anything
can that which is indestructible be found in us.
- Pema Chodron -

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

What if our organized religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Instructor was life?
If wisdom was cocky-knowledge? If dear was the heart of our being?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the globe opens up.
All nosotros demand to exercise is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept usa from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the residue of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the finish, these things matter well-nigh:
How well did you love?
How fully did you alive?
How deeply did you acquire to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

Yous and I appear to be separate. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of united states
is the 1 Cocky - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all defenseless up in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to practise is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Feeling gratitude and non expressing it is similar wrapping a nowadays and non giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -

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

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

Allow the states encourage one 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 as they are and picket how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, ane is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

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

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

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we accept planned
and then as to have the one that is waiting for the states.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the concluding fourth dimension that you had a great chat, a chat that wasn't but ii intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this civilization?
But ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew yous knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places inside you that y'all thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a dissimilar plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks later on ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a 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 get-go feeling accustomed, first taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to dare to exist silent with you.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

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

My beloved child, break your center no longer.
Each time you gauge yourself, you lot suspension your heart.
Y'all pull abroad from the dearest that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your fourth dimension, 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 but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of usa?
Only that we be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I take seen the ability of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatever life may offer and come across with it
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Possibly the wisdom lies in engaging the life you lot take been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you notice the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think 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 think that'due south what we're actually seeking.
I retrieve what we're seeking is an experience of being live,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we really feel the rapture of being live.
That's what it's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

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

Each 1 of united states of america, I believe, is a gift the globe is giving to itself at present, 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 dearest for this life is even greater than their fearfulness.
People who tin can open to the web of life that called united states into being,
and who tin can remainder in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Do is ofttimes described as the willingness to merely be with our life every bit it is. But this is a difficult concept to go: that practice is not most having a particular state of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it nearly being completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more self-possession, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

But, ironically, it's the very demand that life be a particular way that almost guarantees a continuing state of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A homo beingness is a office of the whole, called past u.s.a. "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the remainder, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to amore for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to gratuitous ourselves from this prison
past widening our circle of pity to encompass all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to accomplish this completely,
only the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you cascade a handful of common salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. Only if you cascade the salt into a river, people tin can continue to depict the water to melt, launder, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we endure. Nosotros can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they change. Merely when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. Nosotros have a lot of agreement and compassion and tin can cover others. We accept others equally they are, and so they have a hazard to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn betwixt a desire to salvage the world and an inclination to bask information technology.
This makes it hard to plan the mean solar day. But if we forget to bask the globe,
what possible reason exercise nosotros have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- East.B. White -

Get out your front door and your back door open up.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Simply don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do information technology equally an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer whatever need for the subtle assailment of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. It offers the possibility of an cease to the ceaseless round of trying and so hard that wraps and then many people'southward lives in a knot. Instead in that location is at present meditation every bit an act of dear.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the dear, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your middle to who you are, correct at present, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you lot're striving to go.
But the being right hither before you lot, inside y'all, effectually you lot.
All of yous is holy.
You lot're already more than and less than whatsoever you tin know.
Breathe out, expect in, permit get.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the 1 hand that's correct, but on the other manus, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to do is to become aware of information technology, to live it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

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

You exercise not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Practice not even listen, simply wait. Do not fifty-fifty look. Be quiet, even so, and alone.
The world will freely offer itself to yous to be unmasked.
It has no option. Information technology will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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