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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,
domicile deeply in the nowadays moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others;
rather, it ways 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 commune,
I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
fifty-fifty though nosotros were full strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a twelvemonth 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 do cipher."
 That's how we try to practise at Zen Hospice Project.
Nosotros stay close and practice aught. Nosotros sit notwithstanding and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you are, correct now, not who you would similar to be.
Not the saint y'all're striving to become.
But the being right here before you, inside you lot, around you lot.
All of you is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatsoever you tin can know.
Breathe out, look in, allow become.
- John Welwood-

If we go on our attending focused on the present, nosotros can be certain of one thing,
namely that any nosotros are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Conspicuously, in that location is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the dark, nosotros cannot encounter the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absenteeism, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

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

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

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

Be kind, for everyone y'all meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a banking concern with a check to greenbacks.
"Can you place yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Yes, that's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is only existence aware of what is happening right now
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without belongings on when it changes (which it will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it volition ever exist this way (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

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

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also i of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you tin let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control information technology. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't observe myself proverb, "Soften the orange a little on the correct hand corner, and put a bit more regal along the base, and use a picayune more pinkish in the deject colour." I don't do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

There is something in every i of yous that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the only truthful guide you volition ever have.
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 one thing I know: the but ones amidst you lot who will be actually happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a grouping of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to observe happiness.
It'southward correct in front of me if I'thou paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

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

Peace.
Information technology does non hateful to be in a place where there is no racket, problem or hard work.
It ways to exist in the midst of those things and notwithstanding exist calm in your centre.
- Unknown -

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

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

Arguments always brainstorm with an answer in mind.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and and so disappear,
and it is as well a procedure of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that practice not exist suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

The moment 1 gives close attention to anything,
fifty-fifty a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The affair that is really hard, and really astonishing,
is giving up on being perfect
and beginning the piece of work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

Your vision volition go clear only when you wait into your middle.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a book is homo'due south best friend.
Inside of a domestic dog,
information technology's besides dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "At that place's no use trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay y'all haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did information technology for half an hour a 24-hour interval.
Why, sometimes I've believed every bit many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practise 1 day, I discover it.
If I practice not practice a 2nd mean solar day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not exercise a third day, the earth notices information technology.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

It's important to be enlightened of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it'southward just every bit important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to be unlike from how we are correct now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation exercise and in your daily life, tin can you exist in touch on,
not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind the states of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mount merely sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, notwithstanding always just being itself.
It remains still every bit the seasons menstruation into i another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day by twenty-four hour period, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If non this jiff, this sitting hither.
This opening to the life
nosotros have refused
once more and again
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 strength,
filling up in front of the obstacle
and somewhen spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You do not belong to you lot.
Y'all belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you,
but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you use yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day
- unless you're too decorated -
so you should sit for an hour.
- Old Zen adage -

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

Mindfulness is nearly existence fully awake in our lives.
It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We too proceeds firsthand access to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you call back of your body equally a musical instrument, the body scan is a fashion of tuning it.
If yous think of it every bit a universe, the trunk scan is a manner to come to know it.
If y'all think of your body as a firm, the body scan is a manner 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 think and do
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And because nosotros fail to notice
There is little we can practice
To change
Until we observe
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is non actually about establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are one of meditation'due south byproducts, not the exercise itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the eye wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And fifty-fifty if you did zero during the whole of your hour merely bring your heart back,
though it went away every time yous brought it dorsum,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

Y'all tin have pity for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the aforementioned warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or terminate
that you would bring to any beloved friend
grappling with the same hurting, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It's simply 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 exist changed
By what we hear.
- Marking Nepo-

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your middle
and try to beloved the questions themselves
like locked rooms and similar books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot exist given y'all
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 2 basic beliefs.
Get-go, we all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything nosotros can go from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help 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 get who you lot really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

For a seed to reach its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
The beat cracks, its insides come up out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't sympathize growth, information technology would look like complete destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning automobile.
"Who are you lot and what exercise you want?"
If you retrieve these are lilliputian questions,
nigh people go through their entire lives without answering either i.
- Peter Russell'south answering machine -

You call up y'all understand 1.
You think you lot understand two, because one and one brand 2.
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 go.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

There'south no problem then peachy it tin't exist solved.
If it can't be solved, it'south not a problem, it'southward reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and called-for 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 own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the chiliad sweeps but in the pocket-sized gestures. The nifty breakthroughs in our lives generally happen just every bit a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to attain out to someone, to pick upward an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced nosotros don't have the fourth dimension or money, to go to our desks each solar 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 you.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that zero is dissever or inapplicable.
If yous see in this way, 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 foot:
"Practice not do to others that which is hateful to you lot.
All the rest is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
only because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to adore everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

10 thousand flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A cool breeze in summer, snowfall in winter.
If your heed isn't overcast 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
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your written report
And begin reading.
Take downward a musical musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do
There are hundreds of manner to kneel
And osculation the globe.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attending to and I will tell you who you are.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset -

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

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

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

When I look inside and run into that I am cypher, that'southward wisdom.
When I look outside and run across that I am everything, that's dear.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up yet.
The trees before you lot and the bushes beside you lot are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Here,
And yous must treat information technology as a powerful stranger,
Must enquire permission to know it and be known.
The wood breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place effectually you,
If yous exit it yous may come back again maxim Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two 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 information technology find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men equally a whole experience information technology.
Fugitive danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring chance or cypher.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to signal out that for the beloved bee, it is the honey that is important.
Simply the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nil is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We meet things not as they are, but as we are.
- H.K. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen chief.
"What can yous tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Cypher," the other replied. "I'grand a Zen master. Not a dead Zen main."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single stride volition not brand a path on the earth,
so a single thought volition not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To brand a deep mental path, we must recall 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 go practice it.
Because what the earth needs is people who take come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And so I was dying to finish higher and first working.
And then I was dying to marry and accept children.
And and then I was dying for my children to grow old plenty for schoolhouse so I could return to work.
And and so I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And suddenly 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 yous are going to die is the best way I know
to avert the trap of thinking you take something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they vest,
Information technology's our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Pity 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 just to hang out in that space where we're not entirely sure almost who'southward right and who's wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with some other person, not know what to say, not make that person incorrect or right? Could we come across, hear, feel other people every bit they really are? It is powerful to practice this manner, considering we'll notice ourselves continually rushing effectually to endeavour to experience secure once again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true communication can happen just in that open up space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
There are called-for bushes all around you.
Every tree is full of angels.
Subconscious dazzler is waiting in every crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every part of our personality that we do non beloved
will become hostile to united states.
- Robert Bly -

If you accept 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 information technology seems like well-nigh every moment of your life you're there,
where y'all realize you lot have a pick.
Y'all take a choice whether to open up or shut, whether to hold on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That selection is presented to you again and again and once more.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Simply my soul I could non meet.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all three.
- Bearding -

If I were chosen upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something similar this:  Listen to your life.
See information technology for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the colorlessness and hurting of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
affect, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden middle of it
because in the terminal analysis all moments are fundamental moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is in that location anything I can do to make myself Aware?
As little every bit you lot can do to brand the sun ascent in the morning.
And then of what apply are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the dominicus begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is cipher you can exercise to improve your soul.
There is null y'all can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only truthful religion 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 extraordinary is waiting quietly below the skin of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the broken canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipage.
Yes, God is under the porch besides as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the forepart row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Marking Nepo -

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

Almost of us need to exist reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and deportment afflicted
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join easily again and over again.
Our relationships have the potential to exist a sacred refuge, a place of healing and enkindling.
With each person we meet, we tin learn to look behind the mask
and run into the ane who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the underground dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor want nor self-knowledge can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves equally they really are.
If but nosotros could encounter each other that mode all the fourth dimension.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would exist that nosotros would autumn downwardly 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 common than you know, and not far abroad. There is one further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings prove us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
merely they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the difficult task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: Afterward the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we recall that something is going to bring us pleasure, nosotros really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to requite u.s. misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most of import thing of all. We endeavor to exercise what we think is going to help. Simply we don't know.
Nosotros never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up alpine. When there's a big thwarting,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may exist just the beginning of a great risk.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; nosotros telephone call information technology good. Merely actually nosotros but don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual exercise includes our work, our love, our families, and our inventiveness. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we alive is our spiritual life. As one wise pupil remarked,
'If you actually desire to know about a Zen principal, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, nosotros live with mysteries also marvelous to exist understood...
Permit me go along my altitude, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company e'er with those who say
'Await!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to become deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'g going to curl upward in here past myself; let the world burn.'
Not at all.
Nosotros become deep into meditation so that we tin can achieve out farther and further to the world exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Yous are not a drop in the sea,
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to become through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a land and remain in it.
This is a kind of expiry.
- Anais Nin -

If a human is called to be 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 then well that all the hosts of heaven and earth volition pause to say,
'Hither lived a great street sweeper who did his chore well.'
- Martin Luther King -

Paradise is thus not so much a place,
every bit liberation into the fullness and compensation
of everyday experience.
- Ian Bakery -

When nosotros make music we don't exercise it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the limerick. 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 get in at a item place on the flooring as in a journey. When we dance, the journeying itself is the point, as 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 -

But to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin that which is indestructible be found in us.
- Pema Chodron -

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

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church building?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was cocky-noesis? If beloved was the center of our being?
- Ganga White -

As oft happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the residuum of the world opens upward.
All nosotros need to do is cease pounding on the door that has merely closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept the states from entering a room,
but what now lies before united states is the remainder of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter about:
How well did you love?
How fully did you alive?
How deeply did you learn to allow become?
- Jack Kornfield -

You lot and I appear to be split. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent sectionalisation, nonetheless, hidden deep within each of united states of america
is the 1 Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

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

Every bit I walked out the door toward the gate that would pb to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd however be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Let united states encourage one another with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

Get and dear someone exactly as they are and watch how speedily
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,
simply 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 remember that's how nosotros accept to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location ain't no answer.
There ain't e'er going to exist an answer.
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 u.s.a. crazy, tin exist our instructor.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to let go of the life we take planned
so equally to accept the i that is waiting for us.
- E.Grand. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a nifty chat, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Only ... a swell conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you lot knew? That you lot heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely plant places inside you lot that y'all idea you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plane? ... a chat that continued to sing in your heed for weeks afterwards ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and drinkable for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing some other 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 showtime feeling accepted, commencement taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by 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. Even so their approach to life comes from a deep caring and concern for all human being beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is near. It is most our deep connections.
It isn't most what gender we recollect God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is often done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your center no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you break your middle.
You pull away from the beloved that is the well-bound of your vitality.
But now the fourth dimension 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 merely a mystery. The stardom...
is fundamental: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Only that we be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show upward for whatever life may offering and come across with it
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Maybe the wisdom lies in engaging the life you take been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you find the unknown approving that is in everything..
I call up that's how we have to practise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Ofttimes in meditative language we speak of letting become of things:
let go of thoughts, allow go of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
considering letting go suggests that y'all need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Allow it be." Allow it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
Nosotros practise not have to do anything to make it come up, or make it go, or to allow information technology go.
We merely have to let information technology be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of us, I believe, is a souvenir the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
Y'all don't need to be extraordinary. If the earth is to be healed through man 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 usa into being,
and who can rest in the vitality of that larger trunk.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is ofttimes described every bit the willingness to simply be with our life as information technology is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that practice is not well-nigh having a particular country of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it near beingness completely gratis of anxiety. This is non to deny that nosotros volition, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

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

A human existence is a part of the whole, called by the states "Universe,"
a role express 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 delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection 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 attain this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you cascade a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. Just if y'all cascade the common salt into a river, people can continue to describe the water to cook, launder, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they modify. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't brand u.s.a. suffer anymore. We have a lot of agreement and compassion and tin can embrace others. Nosotros take others as they are, and so they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to bask it.
This makes it difficult to plan the day. Only if we forget to relish the world,
what possible reason do we accept for saving it?
In a style, the savoring must come up first.
- Eastward.B. White -

Leave your front end door and your back door open.
Let your thoughts to come and become.
Simply don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our centre 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 deed of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this mode there is no longer whatever need for the subtle aggression of self-comeback, for the countless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so difficult that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an human activity of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downwardly wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the dear, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, correct now, not who y'all would like to be.
Non the saint you're striving to become.
Simply the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
Yous're already more than and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, permit go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk nigh how nosotros need to do things to connect.
And on the one mitt that's right, but on the other mitt, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to practise is to become aware of it, to live it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you have.
Practice what you can.
Exist who yous are.
- Forrest Church building -

You do non accept to leave the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and listen.
Practise not even listen, merely wait. Do not even look. Exist repose, still, and solitary.
The world will freely offering itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no option. It will roll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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