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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is non to walk on water.
The phenomenon is to walk on the green earth,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living confront-to-confront with others;
rather, it means never losing the sensation that nosotros are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the eye of the shopping commune,
I was suddenly 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 -

Once or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One dark he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said just, "Stay shut and do null."
 That's how we endeavour to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and exercise nada. Nosotros sit down still and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your centre to who you are, right at present, not who you would like to be.
Non the saint you're striving to become.
Only the being right here before you, inside you lot, around you.
All of y'all is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Exhale out, expect in, permit go.
- John Welwood-

If we go along our attention focused on the present, we tin can be sure of ane affair,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatsoever it is
that volition emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not establish through changing our external globe,
only through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the night, nosotros cannot run into the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot experience the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly means the backbone to be vulnerable.
It ways to evidence up and exist seen.
To enquire for what y'all need.
To talk about how you're feeling.
To accept the hard conversations.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves abroad
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 fifty-fifty know well-nigh.
You lot are never alone.
And yous already belong.
Y'all belong to humanity.
Y'all belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this jiff.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Nasrudin went into a depository financial institution with a check to cash.
"Can y'all 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 different;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will);
existence with the unpleasant without fearing information technology volition always be this way (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
In that location is a crack in everything.
That's how the lite gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and besides one of the about growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this private in the same way that I appreciate a dusk. People are simply every bit wonderful as sunsets if you can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly capeesh a sunset is that we cannot control information technology. When I look at a dusk every bit I did the other evening, I don't observe myself saying, "Soften the orange a trivial on the correct mitt corner, and put a chip more purple along the base of operations, and use a trivial more pink in the cloud color." I don't do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I scout with awe every bit it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

At that place is something in every 1 of y'all that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the simply truthful guide you will ever accept.
And if you cannot hear it, y'all 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 1 thing I know: the merely ones amidst you who will exist actually happy are those who have sought and constitute how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you lot are perfect just as yous are...
... and in that location is still room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Listening is the fine art of entering the peel of the other
and wearing it for a time every bit if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
Information technology does not hateful to exist in a place where in that location is no dissonance, trouble or hard piece of work.
Information technology means to be 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.
Only information technology teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments always brainstorm with an answer in heed.
Chat begins with a question .
- unknown -

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

At that place are only two ways to live your life.
1 is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is really difficult, and really astonishing,
is giving up on being perfect
and outset the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your center.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a domestic dog,
a book is man's all-time friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "In that location'due south no use 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 mean solar day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as half dozen impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not exercise one day, I notice it.
If I do not practice a 2d solar day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I exercise not practise a third day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it's just as important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total credence
and not trying to strength ourselves to exist different from how we are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Through it all, the mountain simply sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly irresolute, notwithstanding ever just being itself.
It remains still as the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day past day, calmness abiding all alter…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

Yous do non vest to you lot.
You vest to the universe.
The significance of you lot will forever remain obscure to you,
but you may presume that you lot are fulfilling your significance
if you employ yourself to converting all your feel to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

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

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

Mindfulness is about beingness 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 think of your trunk as a musical instrument, the body scan is a way of tuning information technology.
If yous call up of it as a universe, the torso browse is a manner to come up to know it.
If you think of your trunk as a house, the body scan is a fashion to throw open up all the windows
and doors and permit the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we recollect and do
Is limited past what nosotros fail to observe
And because we fail to notice
In that location is lilliputian we can exercise
To alter
Until nosotros detect
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The do of meditation is non really virtually 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 dorsum to the point quite gently...
And even if you did null during the whole of your hr only bring your centre back,
though it went abroad every fourth dimension you lot brought it dorsum,
your 60 minutes would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response in that location is a space.
In that infinite is our power to cull our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

You tin can have compassion for yourself - which is non self-pity.
You lot're just 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 love friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It'due south simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, any my emotional, concrete or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Equally unproblematic, and difficult, every bit that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should notice in each man'south life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Exist patient toward all that is unsolved in your middle
and attempt to love the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Do non at present seek the answers, which cannot be given you lot
because yous 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 beliefs.
Get-go, we all accept an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything nosotros tin can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and help u.s. discern the inner teacher'southward voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes backbone to abound up
and go who y'all really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you lot and what practice yous want?"
If you think these are lilliputian questions,
nearly people become through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell'due south answering machine -

You think you understand one.
Yous think yous understand 2, considering one and one make two.
Only, you lot must also empathize "and".
- Sufi proverb -

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

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

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

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

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Almost of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live by our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps but in the small gestures. The corking breakthroughs in our lives more often than not happen merely equally a result of the aggregating of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. Nosotros're called to achieve out to someone, to option up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though nosotros're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of correct.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

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

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness straight,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nil is divide or extraneous.
If you see in this style, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And then is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while continuing on one pes:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to you lot.
All the rest is commentary. Now go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, not considering 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 k flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool cakewalk in summertime, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best flavor of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your report
And brainstorm reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Permit the beauty we love be what nosotros do
In that location 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 yous are.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset -

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; so 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 human?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they enquire me in the side by side world, 'Why were y'all not Moses?'
I volition know the respond.
But if they inquire me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I will accept nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I expect within and see that I am naught, that's wisdom.
When I await outside and see that I am everything, that's love.
Betwixt these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up yet.
The trees earlier y'all and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever y'all are is a place chosen Hither,
And y'all must treat information technology as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know information technology and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. Information technology answers,
I have fabricated this identify around yous,
If you leave information technology you may come up back once more saying Here.
No ii copse are the aforementioned 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 up still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must permit it find yous.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not 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 cipher.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to exist happening
at the moment is never the total story of what is really going on.
He liked to point out that for the beloved bee, it is the honey that is of import.
But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a central principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an old man and have known a bang-up many troubles,
well-nigh of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -

We meet things not as they are, simply as we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a educatee who went to a Zen master.
"What can you tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'yard a Zen master. Non a dead Zen main."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a unmarried stride volition non brand a path on the earth,
so a unmarried thought will non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk over 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 live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't inquire what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and become do information technology.
Because what the world needs is people who take come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Start I was dying to finish high schoolhouse and start college.
And and then I was dying to terminate college and start working.
So I was dying to marry and accept children.
And so I was dying for my children to abound old enough for school and then I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to alive.
- 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 lot are going to die is the best style I know
to avoid the trap of thinking yous have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is similar an bounding main;
if a few drops of the ocean are muddy,
the sea does not become dingy.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

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

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

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

Could our minds and our hearts be large enough but to hang out in that space where nosotros're not entirely certain about who'southward correct and who's wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or correct? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to do this way, considering we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure once again—to make ourselves or them either right or incorrect. Only true advice can happen only in that open up 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 part of our personality that we do non love
volition become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If yous accept embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
you may be at a identify that anybody, sooner or after, experiences on the spiritual path.
Later on a while it seems similar most every moment of your life y'all're there,
where you realize you take a choice.
You take a selection whether to open or close, whether to hold on or permit go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That pick is presented to y'all once again and again and over again.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would exist something like this:  Listen to your life.
Come across information technology for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
bear upon, gustatory modality, aroma your fashion to the holy and hidden heart of information technology
because in the last analysis all moments are cardinal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin do to brand myself Enlightened?
As piddling equally yous tin do to make the sun rise in the morning.
And so of what employ are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To brand sure y'all are non asleep when the dominicus begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is zippo you can practice to improve your soul.
In that location is cypher you can exercise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

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

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the boggling is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the h2o dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yeah, God is nether the porch as well as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can end struggling with what occurs and see its true confront without calling information technology the enemy.
Information technology helps to remember that our spiritual practise is non about accomplishing anything
- not most winning or losing - just well-nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when nosotros sit down down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the residuum of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of the states need to be reminded that we are skilful, that nosotros are lovable, that nosotros vest.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and deportment afflicted
the hearts of those around us, we'd accomplish out and join easily again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we run across, we can larn to await behind the mask
and see the one who longs to beloved and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was as if I of a sudden saw the secret dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-cognition can achieve,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If merely they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that way all the time.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall downwards and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. Information technology is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, enkindling into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more mutual than yous know, and not far away. There is one further truth, however: They don't final.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that subsequently the honeymoon comes the matrimony.
Later on the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring u.s.a. pleasure, nosotros really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give united states of america misery, nosotros don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the nigh important affair of all. Nosotros try to practice what we think is going to assistance. Only nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to autumn apartment or sit upwardly alpine. When there's a large disappointment,
we don't know if that's the terminate of the story. It may be just the kickoff of a great run a risk.
...Life is like that.
We phone call something bad; nosotros phone call information technology skillful. 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 do includes our work, our love, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive just in each particular and personal circumstance. How nosotros live is our spiritual life. As one wise pupil remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries as well marvelous to be understood...
Permit me keep my altitude, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Permit me keep company e'er with those who say
'Wait!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

Your generosity toward others is central to your positive experiences in the globe.
Know that there'due south enough room for anybody to exist passionate, artistic, and successful.
In fact, in that location's more than room for anybody; there'southward a need for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; allow the world fire.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation then that we tin attain out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros have to go through.
Where people neglect is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- 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 verse.
He should sweep streets and so well that all the hosts of sky and earth volition pause to say,
'Here lived a corking street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When nosotros make music nosotros don't exercise it in lodge to achieve a certain point, such every bit the finish of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would exist the best. Besides, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journeying. When we trip the light fantastic toe, the journey itself is the betoken, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same affair is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Merely to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to anything
can that which is indestructible be found in us.
- Pema Chodron -

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do yous keep doing this difficult, heart-wrenching work when you know you'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are equally bad or worse than the ones you lot're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'south respond:
"What y'all demand to understand is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you lot shouldn't practice it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Globe?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-cognition? If love was the center 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 nosotros demand to do is stop pounding on the door that has only airtight, turn around
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open up to our souls.
The door that closed kept u.s.a. from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the balance of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

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

Y'all and I announced to be divide. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent partition, notwithstanding, hidden deep within each of usa
is the 1 Self - eternal, infinite, e'er-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all caught upwards in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to practice is take 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, retrieve it is a holy come across.
As you run across him you will come across yourself.
Equally you treat him you will treat yourself.
As y'all think of him you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will discover 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 go out my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still exist in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

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

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
but with your own hurting that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I call back that'southward how we take to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no answer.
There ain't always going to exist an respond.
There never was an answer.
That's the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

If nosotros learn to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive united states of america crazy, tin can exist our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must exist willing to permit go of the life we have planned
so equally to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Due east.M. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a dandy conversation, a conversation that wasn't only 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a nifty conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you lot knew? That y'all heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly found places within yous that you lot thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the 2 of yous on to a unlike plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your listen for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing some other to talk while waiting for a take a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The dazzler of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, showtime taking their words more than seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to exist friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be 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. Still their approach to life comes from a deep caring and concern for all human beings.
Information technology comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is nearly. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't near what gender we call up God is,
or whether we fifty-fifty think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is ofttimes done quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My love child, pause your center no longer.
Each time you lot judge yourself, y'all suspension your heart.
Y'all pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared past Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

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

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life y'all have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting get until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that'south how nosotros 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 we're really seeking.
I call back what we're seeking is an experience of being live,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will take resonance inside our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually experience the rapture of being alive.
That's what information technology's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

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

Each one of united states, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
Yous don't need to be boggling. If the world is to be healed through human being attempt,
I am convinced information technology will be past ordinary people,
people whose love 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 can rest in the vitality of that larger torso.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is ofttimes described as the willingness to simply be with our life as it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that practice is not about having a item country of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it most existence completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we volition, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

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

A man being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part limited 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 delusion is a kind of a prison house to u.s.a., restricting united states of america to our personal desires
and to amore for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to accomplish this completely,
just the striving for such accomplishment is in itself a office of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If y'all pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you cascade the table salt into a river, people tin can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and beverage. The river is immense, and information technology has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We tin can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they modify. But when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't brand us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can cover others. Nosotros accept others as they are, and and so they take a run a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the earth and an inclination to savor information technology.
This makes it hard to programme the twenty-four hours. Only if we forget to savor the earth,
what possible reason do nosotros take for saving information technology?
In a way, the savoring must come outset.
- Due east.B. White -

Go out your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and get.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it every bit an act of honey, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any demand for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps and then many people'due south lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downward wherever yous are and heed to the current of air that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fearfulness in your bones.
Open your eye to who you are, correct now, not who you would like to be.
Non the saint yous're striving to go.
Simply the beingness right here before you, within yous, around yous.
All of you is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, allow become.
- John Welwood -

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

Want what you take.
Exercise what you tin can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

You exercise not have to get out the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, just expect. Do not even expect. Be quiet, however, and alone.
The world will freely offer itself to y'all to be unmasked.
It has no choice. It will scroll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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