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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is non to walk on h2o.
The phenomenon is to walk on the greenish earth,
dwelling house deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does non necessarily mean living confront-to-face up with others;
rather, information technology means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, in the eye of the shopping district,
I was of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though we were total strangers.
It was similar 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 close and practise nothing."
 That's how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay shut and do nothing. We sit still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open up your heart to who you are, correct at present, non who you would similar to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the existence right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you lot is holy.
You're already more and less than any yous tin can know.
Exhale out, wait in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attending focused on the nowadays, we can be certain of one thing,
namely that any we are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to practise accepting any information technology is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through changing our external world,
only through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the night, we cannot see the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the beloved.
- Lauren Fins -

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it.
If y'all know something hurtful and true, don't say information technology.
If you know something helpful but not true, don't say information technology.
If you know something helpful and true, notice the right time to say information technology.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring greatly ways the backbone to be vulnerable.
It ways to show up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk nigh how y'all're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

Meditation exercise isn't near trying to throw ourselves away
and get something better.
Information technology'south about befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may not even know virtually.
Yous are never alone.
And you already vest.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You vest to this moment, this jiff.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone yous meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a depository financial institution with a check to cash.
"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 enlightened of what is happening right at present
without wishing it were unlike;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when information technology changes (which it will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it volition always be this style (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 -

1 of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same mode that I capeesh a sunset. People are just every bit wonderful every bit sunsets if you can allow them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a dusk as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a picayune on the correct hand corner, and put a chip more purple along the base, and employ a footling more than pinkish in the cloud color." I don't practise that. I don't endeavor to command a sunset. I watch with awe equally it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the audio of the genuine in yourself.
It is the simply truthful guide you volition always have.
And if you 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, merely one thing I know: the but ones amid you who will be actually happy are those who accept sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't take to chase extraordinary moments to detect happiness.
It'due south right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -

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

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

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

Existence on a spiritual path does non prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But information technology teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

Impermanence is both a procedure of continual loss,
in which things exist and and so disappear,
and it is also a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do not exist of a sudden announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

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

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

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

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

Outside of a dog,
a book is man'southward best friend.
Within of a domestic dog,
information technology's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'due south no utilize trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven'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 earlier breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practice not practice one day, I find it.
If I do not practise a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I practice non practice a 3rd day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to exist aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them merely it's just equally important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply 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 practice and in your daily life, can you exist in touch,
not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake tin teach this, remind us of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mount only sits, experiencing alter in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always just being itself.
Information technology remains still every bit the seasons flow into i some other and every bit the atmospheric condition changes moment by moment and day past day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

Yous do not vest to you lot.
Y'all vest to the universe.
The significance of y'all will forever remain obscure to you,
just you 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 24-hour interval
- unless you lot're too busy -
then you should sit for an 60 minutes.
- Old Zen aphorism -

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

Mindfulness is almost being fully awake in our lives.
It is virtually perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also gain firsthand access to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you think of your body as a musical instrument, the body scan is a way of tuning it.
If you think of it as a universe, the body scan is a way to come to know it.
If you remember of your body as a house, the trunk browse is a way to throw open all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what nosotros think and do
Is limited by what we neglect to notice
And because nosotros fail to observe
There is picayune we can do
To alter
Until nosotros notice
How failing to detect
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the bespeak quite gently...
And even if you did zippo during the whole of your hour but bring your eye dorsum,
though information technology went away every time you 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 infinite is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

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

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

To mind is to lean in softly
With a willingness to exist changed
By what nosotros hear.
- Marker Nepo-

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each man'southward 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 love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Practise not now seek the answers, which cannot be 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 form of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two bones behavior.
First, nosotros all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can become from a doctrine, credo, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and assistance us discern the inner teacher'southward voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning car.
"Who are you and what do you want?"
If you lot retrieve these are footling questions,
well-nigh people become through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell'southward answering machine -

You lot think you understand ane.
You remember you lot understand two, because one and i make two.
But, you must as well sympathize "and".
- Sufi proverb -

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

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

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

There's no problem so great it can't be solved.
If it can't exist solved, it's not a problem, it'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 alive by our ain codes of award.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the 1000 sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives mostly happen merely as a consequence of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign up for a course fifty-fifty though we're convinced nosotros don't accept the fourth dimension or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the burn 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 y'all.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness straight,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is dissever or extraneous.
If you see in this fashion, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline 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 pes:
"Do not do to others that which is mean to you lot.
All the balance is commentary. At present get study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, non considering their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to adore everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A absurd breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other day
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your written report
And begin reading.
Have downwards a instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And buss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what y'all 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.
At present I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a human being?
- Zhuangzi -

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

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

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

We are non troubled by things,
but by the opinions nosotros have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The copse before you and the bushes abreast you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a identify called Here,
And you must treat it every bit a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and exist known.
The woods breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If yous leave it you may come dorsum again maxim Here.
No two copse are the same to Raven.
No ii branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is generally 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 adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to exist happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to bespeak out that for the dear bee, it is the honey 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.
Zero is isolated. Each consequence connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an onetime human being and accept known a not bad many troubles,
almost of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

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

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

Ram Dass tells of a educatee who went to a Zen master.
"What can yous tell me almost decease?" the student asked.
"Cipher," the other replied. "I'm a Zen primary. Not a expressionless Zen main."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single idea will non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must call up over and over
the kind of thoughts nosotros wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

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

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a true-blue retainer.
Nosotros have created a social club that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

First I was dying to finish high school and showtime higher.
And then I was dying to finish higher and start working.
And so I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, 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 y'all are going to dice is the best fashion I know
to avoid the trap of thinking yous have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason non to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose organized religion in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the bounding main are dirty,
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 woods?
- Thoreau -

Our bodies know they belong,
It'due south our minds that make our lives then homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is non a relationship betwixt the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a human relationship between equals.
Just when nosotros know our own darkness well can 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 only to hang out in that infinite where we're not entirely certain about who's correct and who'due south incorrect? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, non know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, experience other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to effort to feel secure again—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true communication can happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every function of our personality that nosotros do not dearest
will get hostile to u.s.a..
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
y'all may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like well-nigh every moment of your life y'all're in that location,
where yous realize you have a choice.
You have a choice whether to open up or close, whether to hold 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 again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, Simply my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And establish all iii.
- Anonymous -

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something similar this:  Heed to your life.
Meet it for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, gustatory modality, olfactory property your way to the holy and subconscious heart of it
because in the last assay all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there annihilation I can exercise to make myself Enlightened?
As little equally you can do to make the sunday rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To make sure yous are not asleep when the sun begins to ascension.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is nada you can do to improve your soul.
There is zippo you can practice to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

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

The further I wake into this life, the more than I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly below the skin of all that is ordinary.
Low-cal 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 as well as on peak of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can stop struggling with what occurs and encounter its true face without calling information technology the enemy.
Information technology helps to call up that our spiritual practice is non almost accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit down down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the remainder of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Well-nigh of u.s.a. need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that nosotros vest.
If nosotros knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd achieve 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 come across, we can acquire to look behind the mask
and run across the ane who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

And so it was every bit if I suddenly saw the secret dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can achieve,
the cadre 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 only nosotros could see each other that way all the fourth dimension.
There would be no more state of war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that nosotros would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more than common than yous know, and non far abroad. There is 1 further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
merely they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the matrimony.
Afterwards the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Afterwards the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros call back that something is going to bring united states of america pleasure, we actually don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give united states misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the well-nigh important matter of all. We attempt to do what we recall is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up alpine. When there's a big disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be simply the beginning of a great adventure.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; nosotros phone call information technology good. But 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 piece of work, our dear, 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 want to know virtually a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my altitude, always, from those who recall they have the answers.
Permit me keep visitor e'er with those who say
'Await!' and express mirth in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

Your generosity toward others is key to your positive experiences in the world.
Know that at that place's plenty room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, in that location'southward more than room for anybody; there's a need for anybody.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't recall the purpose of meditation is to become deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'grand going to whorl up in hither by myself; allow the world burn down.'
Non at all.
Nosotros go deep into meditation so that we tin accomplish out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You lot are non a drib in the ocean,
You are the entire body of water in a drib.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of condign, a combination of states we take to get through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a land 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 every bit a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote verse.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his chore well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we make music we don't do information technology in society to reach a certain point, such equally the finish of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Besides, when we are dancing nosotros are non aiming to make it at a particular place on the floor every bit in a journey. When we dance, the journeying itself is the bespeak, equally when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is e'er arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Merely to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
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 practice you keep doing this hard, eye-wrenching work when y'all know yous'll wake upward tomorrow to problems that are as 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 —
simply considering something's impossible doesn't hateful you shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our do was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-cognition? If love was the centre of our being?
- Ganga White -

As oft happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the centre of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens upwardly.
All we need to do 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 airtight kept usa from entering a room,
but what now lies before united states of america is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did y'all 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 ...
Below this credible division, however, subconscious deep within each of united states
is the one Self - eternal, space, e'er-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all caught upwardly in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do 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 information technology.
- William Arthur Ward -

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter.
As you lot see him you lot volition see yourself.
Every bit you treat him you will care for yourself.
As yous think of him you will recall of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Grade in Miracles -

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

Let usa 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 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 -

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 love to that rawness and soreness.
I retrieve that's how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

We must exist willing to permit go of the life nosotros accept planned
so every bit to take the one that is waiting for us.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a cracking conversation, a conversation that wasn't merely ii intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew y'all knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that y'all idea yous had lost ... a conversation that brought the ii of you on to a different 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 start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a class of spiritual hospitality past which yous invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to exist silent with you.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

During my life I take 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 organisation for all human beings.
Information technology comes from a bones kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is about our deep connections.
Information technology isn't about what gender we think God is,
or whether we even remember God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is oft done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your middle no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, yous pause your heart.
Y'all pull abroad from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your time, to alive and to trust the goodness that y'all are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is non a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: problems are to be solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of u.s.a.?
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 ability of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to bear witness up for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given equally fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you notice the unknown approval that is in everything..
I remember that's 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's what nosotros're really seeking.
I think what we're seeking is an experience of beingness alive,
and then that our life experiences on the purely physical airplane
will have resonance inside our own innermost existence and reality,
so that nosotros actually feel the rapture of being alive.
That'southward what it'due south all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

Oftentimes in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
let become of thoughts, let get of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting get suggests that you need to exercise something.
A better phrase to work with is "Allow it be." Allow it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We practise not have to do anything to brand it come, or brand it go, or to allow information technology go.
We only take to let it exist.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

Practice is often described as the willingness to simply be with our life as it is. Only this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not about having a particular state of mind, such equally calmness. Nor is it almost being completely costless of feet. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more self-possession, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

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

A human existence is a part of the whole, called past us "Universe,"
a part express in fourth dimension and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This mirage is a kind of a prison to united states, restricting united states of america to our personal desires
and to amore for only the few people nearest us.
Our chore must be to free ourselves from this prison
past widening our circumvolve of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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 accept never met a person whose greatest demand was annihilation other than existent, unconditional dear.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If y'all cascade a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the table salt into a river, people can continue to draw the h2o to cook, launder, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small-scale, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we need that they change. Only when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't make the states suffer anymore. Nosotros have a lot of understanding and compassion and can comprehend others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a gamble to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morn I awake torn between a desire to salve the world and an inclination to savor information technology.
This makes it hard to plan the day. But if nosotros forget to savor the world,
what possible reason exercise we have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- Due east.B. White -

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

Our days are happier when nosotros requite people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -

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

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

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the ane hand that'south right, just on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What nosotros need to do is to get aware of information technology, to live it, to limited it.
- John A. Powell -

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

You lot practise not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, only await. Do not fifty-fifty wait. Exist quiet, still, and lone.
The world will freely offering itself to y'all to exist unmasked.
It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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