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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is not to walk on h2o.
The phenomenon is to walk on the green earth,
habitation deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face up 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 all 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 -

One time 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 always heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and practice nothing."
 That's how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Projection.
Nosotros stay close and practise nothing. We sit down notwithstanding 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 you're striving to become.
But the existence right hither before you, within you, around you.
All of you lot is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let become.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros keep our attention focused on the nowadays, nosotros can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatever nosotros are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to do accepting whatever information technology is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, in that location is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not constitute through irresolute our external world,
merely through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

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

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

Meditation do isn't virtually trying to throw ourselves away
and become something improve.
Information technology's 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 nigh.
You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You vest to humanity.
Yous belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for anybody you meet is fighting a hard boxing.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a banking company with a bank check to cash.
"Tin 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 now
without wishing information technology were different;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when information technology changes (which information technology volition);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it will e'er be this way (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -

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

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also ane of the about growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I capeesh a sunset. People are just equally wonderful every bit sunsets if you tin let them exist. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot command it. When I wait at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the correct paw corner, and put a bit more purple forth the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud colour." I don't do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe every bit it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

In that location is something in every 1 of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the simply truthful guide you will ever have.
And if you cannot hear information technology, yous volition all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

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

All of you are perfect merely as you are...
... and there is withal room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

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

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where in that location is no noise, problem or difficult work.
Information technology means to exist in the midst of those things and still exist calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to utilize the darkness equally a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

There are simply two means to live your life.
One is every bit though nothing is a miracle.
The other is every bit though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is actually hard, and really amazing,
is giving upward 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 will become clear just when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a volume is man'due south all-time friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's also dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "At that place's no apply 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 60 minutes a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed every bit many as half dozen impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practise non practice one day, I find it.
If I do not do a 2nd twenty-four hour period, the orchestra notices it.
If I exercise not exercise a third day, the globe notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

It's of import to exist aware of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to experience them but information technology's only as of import not to push across them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to exist different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
not just with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
merely likewise with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind united states of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain just sits, experiencing modify in each moment,
constantly changing, however always just being itself.
Information technology remains still equally the seasons flow into i some other and every bit the weather changes moment by moment and solar day by day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

When flowing h2o meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journeying, information technology pauses.
Information technology increases in volume and forcefulness,
filling up in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You lot exercise not vest to you.
You vest to the universe.
The significance of you volition forever remain obscure to you,
only you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your feel to the highest reward to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

Yous should sit in meditation for xx minutes every day
- unless you're as well busy -
then you should sit for an hour.
- Old Zen adage -

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

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

If y'all think of your body as a instrument, the trunk 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 information technology.
If you think of your body as a business firm, the body 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 we remember and practice
Is limited by what we fail to find
And considering we fail to discover
There is little we can practise
To change
Until nosotros discover
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring information technology back to the bespeak quite gently...
And even if y'all did aught during the whole of your hr but bring your heart back,
though it went away every time you brought it dorsum,
your 60 minutes would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that infinite is our ability to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

Yous can have pity for yourself - which is not cocky-pity.
Y'all're but recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or terminate
that you would bring to whatsoever dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges equally you.
- Rick Hanson -

Information technology'due south only being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
nosotros should find in each homo'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
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Practise not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the betoken is, to alive everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare grade of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the private quest for integrity -
that is rooted in 2 basic beliefs.
First, we all accept an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, establishment, or leader.
Second, nosotros all need other people to invite, amplify, and assist the states discern the inner teacher's vocalization.
- Parker Palmer -

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

Information technology takes courage to grow up
and become who yous really are.
- East. 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, information technology would look like complete destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -

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

You think you understand 1.
You think you understand two, because one and one brand ii.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi maxim -

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

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

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

At that place'south no trouble so peachy information technology can't exist solved.
If information technology can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

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

Our lives are measured out ... not in the chiliad sweeps but in the small gestures. The swell breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a event of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and pocket-size achievements. We're chosen to accomplish out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to become to our desks each twenty-four hour period, to plow left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I do non know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Saying -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nada is separate or extraneous.
If you see in this manner, 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 relate the whole of Torah while standing on ane pes:
"Exercise not practise to others that which is hateful to y'all.
All the rest is commentary. Now go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten thou flowers in jump, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your heed isn't overcast past 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 report
And begin reading.
Take downward a musical instrument.
Let the beauty nosotros beloved be what nosotros do
At that place are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you lot pay attention to and I will tell you 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 man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they enquire me in the next world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I volition know the reply.
Merely if they enquire me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I will take nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I look within and see that I am nothing, that'due south wisdom.
When I look outside and run across that I am everything, that's love.
Between these 2 my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand nonetheless.
The trees before you and the bushes abreast you lot are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Hither,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know information technology and be known.
The woods breathes. Listen. It answers,
I take made this place effectually yous,
If you leave it y'all may come up back once more saying Hither.
No two copse are the same to Raven.
No 2 branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you lot,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The woods knows
Where yous are. You must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor exercise the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring take a chance or zippo.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted of stating that what seems to exist happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is actually going on.
He liked to bespeak out that for the beloved bee, it is the honey that is of import.
But the bee is at the same time nature'southward 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 have known a great many troubles,
most of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -

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

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains abroad.
Nosotros sit together, the mountain and me,
until simply the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen master.
"What tin can you tell me about death?" the educatee asked.
"Cipher," the other replied. "I'm a Zen chief. Non a dead Zen chief."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single stride volition not make a path on the earth,
so a single idea will not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep concrete path, we walk over again and once more.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we 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 become do it.
Because what the globe needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Showtime I was dying to terminate loftier school and start college.
And so I was dying to stop college and start working.
And so I was dying to ally and accept children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to piece of work.
And and then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And 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 lot 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.
There 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 muddied,
the sea does non become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

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

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

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

Could our minds and our hearts be large enough just to hang out in that space where we're not entirely sure about who's correct and who's wrong? Could we take no agenda when nosotros walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non brand that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people equally they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, because we'll notice ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. Merely true advice can happen just in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we do non dearest
will go hostile to u.s.a..
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems similar almost every moment of your life you're there,
where yous realize you accept a choice.
You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold 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, Only my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all 3.
- Bearding -

If I were called upon to land in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Listen to your life.
See information technology for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, sense of taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden centre of it
because in the last assay all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

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

There is cipher you tin do to improve your soul.
At that place is goose egg you lot can practice to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

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

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Calorie-free is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is nether the porch as well as on height of the mountain,
and joy is in both the forepart row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

Nosotros can terminate struggling with what occurs and see its true confront without calling it the enemy.
It helps to retrieve that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing annihilation
- not about winning or losing - just most ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit downwardly to meditate.
That mental attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of u.s.a. need to be reminded that we are expert, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around united states of america, we'd reach out and join easily again and again.
Our relationships take the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and enkindling.
With each person we run into, we tin learn to expect backside the mask
and run into the one who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then information technology was every bit if I of a sudden saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-noesis tin reach,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each i is in the optics of the Divine.
If merely they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could encounter each other that style all the time.
In that location would be no more state of war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would exist 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 common than you lot know, and not far abroad. There is one further truth, withal: They don't concluding.
Our realizations and awakenings bear witness united states of america the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
merely they laissez passer. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros recall that something is going to bring united states pleasure, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give usa misery, nosotros don't know. Letting there exist room for not knowing is the most important matter of all. We try to do what we think is going to aid. Simply nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit upwards tall. When there's a large disappointment,
we don't know if that'due south the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we call information technology good. Just 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 piece of 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 merely in each item and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As i wise student remarked,
'If you really desire to know virtually a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries as well marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they take the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to become deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'chiliad going to roll up in hither past myself; let the earth burn.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation and then that nosotros tin reach out further and further to the world exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You lot are not a driblet in the ocean,
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 land and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a homo is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even every bit a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of sky and earth volition break to say,
'Hither lived a corking street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we brand music we don't do it in gild to reach a certain signal, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to go far at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, equally when nosotros play music the playing itself is the betoken. And exactly the same thing is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

Simply to the extent that nosotros expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin can that which is indestructible exist found in us.
- Pema Chodron -

One solar day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How practise you keep doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when y'all know you'll wake upwardly tomorrow to bug that are equally bad or worse than the ones you lot're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's reply:
"What you demand to understand is this —
but because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do information technology!"
- 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-knowledge? If love was the middle of our beingness?
- Ganga White -

Equally 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 we demand to do is terminate pounding on the door that has only closed, plough effectually
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that at present lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the residuum of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things thing well-nigh:
How well did y'all love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be separate. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent sectionalisation, nonetheless, hidden deep inside each of u.s.
is the 1 Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all defenseless up 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 nowadays and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -

When you meet anyone, recollect information technology is a holy encounter.
Every bit you see him you will encounter yourself.
As y'all care for him you lot volition treat yourself.
Every bit you think of him you will think 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 atomic number 82 to my liberty,
I knew if I didn't get out my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd nonetheless exist in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

Go and love someone exactly every bit they are and sentry 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 check-out person so 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 we accept to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

We must be willing to let go of the life nosotros take planned
so as to have the 1 that is waiting for united states of america.
- Eastward.G. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a swell conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Just ... a peachy conversation, in which y'all overheard yourself maxim things that you never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places inside you that you thought you had lost ... a chat that brought the two of you on to a different plane? ... a chat that connected to sing in your heed for weeks afterward ...
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 reply. 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 starting time feeling accepted, start taking their words more than seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you lot.
- Henri J.Yard. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Nonetheless their approach to life comes from a deep caring and business organisation for all human beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't most what gender we think God is,
or whether we fifty-fifty recollect God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It 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 honey child, intermission your centre no longer.
Each time you gauge yourself, you interruption your heart.
You pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But at present the time has come up, your time, to alive 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 merely a mystery. The distinction...
is cardinal: problems are to be solved, truthful mysteries are non.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Only that we exist in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I accept seen the ability of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatsoever life may offer and run into with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting get until you find the unknown approving that is in everything..
I think that'due south how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what we're all seeking is a pregnant for life.
I don't retrieve that's what nosotros're really seeking.
I think what we're seeking is an feel of being alive,
and then that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will take resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
so that nosotros really feel the rapture of being live.
That'due south what information technology's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting go of things:
let go of thoughts, let become of emotions, permit go of pain.
Sometimes that is non exactly the right phrase,
because letting go suggests that you need to practice something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it exist." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We do non have to do anything to go far come up, or make information technology get, or to let it go.
We only accept to permit it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique souvenir. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through human effort,
I am convinced information technology will be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is fifty-fifty greater than their fright.
People who can open to the web of life that chosen us into beingness,
and who can balance in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practise is ofttimes described as the willingness to merely be with our life as information technology is. But this is a hard concept to get: that practice is not most having a particular state of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it most being completely free of feet. This is not to deny that nosotros will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will essentially diminish.

But, ironically, information technology'southward the very demand that life be a item style that almost guarantees a continuing state of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

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

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

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the common salt into a river, people tin can continue to draw the h2o to cook, wash, and beverage. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our agreement and pity are limited, and we suffer. Nosotros can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they modify. Simply when our hearts expand, these same things don't make united states of america suffer anymore. We accept a lot of understanding and pity and tin embrace others. Nosotros have others equally they are, and so they have a take a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn betwixt a want to save the world and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to plan the day. Merely if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason practise we have for saving information technology?
In a way, the savoring must come beginning.
- E.B. White -

Go out your front door and your dorsum door open.
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 mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to set yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an human action of honey, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way at that place is no longer any demand for the subtle aggression of cocky-comeback, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the incessant circular of trying and then hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation equally an act of dear.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and mind to the current of air that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your basic.
Open your heart to who yous are, correct now, not who yous would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
Simply the being correct here earlier you lot, inside y'all, around yous.
All of you is holy.
You're already more than and less than any you can know.
Exhale out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood -

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

Want what you have.
Do what y'all can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Practice not even mind, simply wait. Practice not fifty-fifty wait. Exist quiet, yet, and lonely.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice. It will gyre in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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