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Mindfulness Quotes

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The phenomenon is non to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green globe,
dwelling securely in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Customs does not necessarily hateful living contiguous with others;
rather, it means never losing the sensation that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

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

Once 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 communication I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and do nil."
 That's how we try to do at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and practice goose egg. We sit however and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your centre to who y'all are, right at present, non who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
Merely the existence correct here before yous, within yous, effectually you.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more than and less than any you tin can know.
Breathe out, expect in, let get.
- John Welwood-

If we go on our attention focused on the nowadays, we can be sure of one matter,
namely that any we are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving united states the opportunity to practise accepting any it is
that volition emerge in the next moment.
Conspicuously, at that place is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the dark, we cannot run across 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 non true, don't say it.
If you know something hurtful and true, don't say information technology.
If you know something helpful but non true, don't say it.
If you lot know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to show up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk most how y'all're feeling.
To take the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

Exist kind, for everyone you encounter is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a bank with a check to cash.
"Tin you lot identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into information technology.
"Yes, that'southward me alright."
- Idres Shah -

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

Forget your perfect offering.
At that place is a crack in everything.
That'due south how the low-cal gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also ane of the nigh growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I capeesh a dusk. People are just every bit wonderful as sunsets if you can let them be. In fact, possibly the reason we tin truly capeesh a sunset is that we cannot command it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a piddling on the correct hand corner, and put a fleck more royal along the base, and utilize a little more than pinkish in the cloud color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to control a dusk. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is similar a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We just take to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the just true guide you lot will ever have.
And if you cannot hear information technology, you will all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

I don't know what your destiny will be, but i matter I know: the only ones among yous who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you are perfect just every bit you are...
... and in that location is withal room for comeback!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
Information technology's right in front of me if I'1000 paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and still be at-home in your center.
- Unknown -

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

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

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and then disappear,
and it is too a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do non exist of a sudden appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two means to live your life.
One is every bit though aught is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment 1 gives close attention to anything,
even a bract of grass, information technology becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The affair that is really difficult, and really amazing,
is giving upwardly on being perfect
and first the piece of 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 heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a volume is man'due south best friend.
Within of a dog,
information technology's also dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'due south no use trying," she said;
"1 tin can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay y'all 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 every bit six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I exercise not practice i twenty-four hour period, I notice it.
If I do non practice a second mean solar day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I do not practice a third day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'due south of import 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 full credence
and non trying to forcefulness ourselves to be different from how nosotros are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always just existence itself.
It remains all the same every bit the seasons catamenia into i another and equally the atmospheric condition changes moment by moment and day past day, calmness constant all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every twenty-four hour period
- unless you're likewise decorated -
so you lot should sit down for an hour.
- Old Zen adage -

Arguments always begin with an respond in heed.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -

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

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

The range of what we think and practise
Is express past what we fail to notice
And because we neglect to notice
In that location is fiddling nosotros can exercise
To change
Until we notice
How declining to detect
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is non actually almost establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are 1 of meditation'due south byproducts, non 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 lot did aught during the whole of your 60 minutes but bring your centre back,
though it went abroad every time you brought it dorsum,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response at that place is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

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

It's simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological country, with loving kindness.
As unproblematic, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If nosotros could read the cloak-and-dagger history of our enemies,
we should find in each human being'due south life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your middle
and effort to dearest the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the bespeak is, to alive everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of customs -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic behavior.
Outset, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can go from a doctrine, credo, collective conventionalities system, institution, or leader.
2nd, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and aid us discern the inner teacher'south voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to abound up
and become who you really are.
- Due east. East. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning automobile.
"Who are you and what practise you want?"
If you retrieve these are trivial questions,
most people get through their unabridged lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell'due south answering machine -

You think you sympathise one.
You lot think you understand two, because ane and ane make 2.
Only, yous must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

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

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

There's no trouble so corking it can't be solved.
If it can't be solved, it's non a trouble, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning 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 grand sweeps but in the small-scale gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen only as a result of the aggregating of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to accomplish out to someone, to pick upwardly an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upwards for a grade fifty-fifty though nosotros're convinced we don't have the time or money, to get to our desks each mean solar day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the burn down drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

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

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or extraneous.
If you encounter 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 relate the whole of Torah while continuing on one pes:
"Exercise not do to others that which is mean to yous.
All the rest is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A cool breeze in summertime, snow in wintertime.
If your mind isn't clouded past unnecessary things,
This is the best flavour of your life.
- Wu-men -

In that location 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 down a musical musical instrument.
Permit the beauty we dearest be what we do
There are hundreds of fashion to kneel
And osculation the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attending to and I volition tell you who you 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 ask me in the adjacent earth, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were yous not Zusya?'
I will accept nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is simply with the heart that 1 can see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look within and encounter that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I wait exterior and see that I am everything, that'due south love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you lot and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I accept made this place around you,
If you leave information technology you may come back again saying Here.
No ii trees are the same to Raven.
No 2 branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand up nevertheless. The woods knows
Where you are. Yous must let information technology observe you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men every bit a whole experience it.
Fugitive danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the total story of what is really going on.
He liked to bespeak out that for the dearest bee, it is the honey that is important.
But 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.
Zip is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Nosotros see things not every bit they are, just as we are.
- H.One thousand. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen principal.
"What can you tell me most death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

Every bit a single footstep will not brand a path on the earth,
so a unmarried thought volition not make a pathway in the mind.
To brand a deep concrete path, we walk again and again.
To brand 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. Inquire what makes you come alive and get practise it.
Because what the world needs is people who accept come live.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Beginning I was dying to terminate high school and starting time college.
And then I was dying to finish college and beginning working.
And then I was dying to ally and have children.
And so I was dying for my children to grow old plenty for school so I could return to work.
And and then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore -

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you accept something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they belong,
Information technology'southward our minds that brand our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a relationship betwixt the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when nosotros know our own darkness well tin 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 exist big enough just to hang out in that space where nosotros're not entirely sure most who's correct and who's wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non brand that person wrong or right? Could we come across, hear, feel other people as they really are? Information technology is powerful to practice this way, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or incorrect. But truthful communication tin happen but in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every office of our personality that we do non love
will become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you accept embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a identify that everyone, sooner or later on, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you lot're there,
where you realize you have a choice.
Y'all accept a choice whether to open or shut, whether to hold on or let get,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That option is presented to you again and again and once more.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Simply my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, Just my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all three.
- Bearding -

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

Is in that location anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
Every bit piffling equally you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what utilise are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To make certain you are not asleep when the lord's day begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is nothing you can do to ameliorate your soul.
There is aught y'all can practice to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true organized religion consists of having a practiced center.
- 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.
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 under the porch as well as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the forepart row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Marking Nepo -

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

Most of us need to be reminded that we are skilful, that nosotros are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around u.s.a., we'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to exist a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person nosotros meet, we can learn to look behind the mask
and see the one who longs to dear and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was every bit if I of a sudden saw the secret dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge tin attain,
the core of their reality, the person that each i is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all run across themselves as they really are.
If simply we could meet each other that manner all the time.
There would be no more than war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a land of timeless grace - these experiences are more mutual than you know, and not far away. There is ane further truth, notwithstanding: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the earth, and they bring transformation,
only they laissez passer. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the matrimony.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Afterward the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we recollect something is going to give united states of america misery, nosotros don't know. Letting in that location be room for non knowing is the virtually of import thing of all. Nosotros attempt to practice what nosotros think is going to help. But nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall apartment or sit up tall. When in that location's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the terminate of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros phone call something bad; we phone call information technology expert. Just actually 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 inventiveness. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come live only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you actually want to know well-nigh a Zen main, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we alive with mysteries besides marvelous to exist understood...
Let me keep my distance, e'er, from those who call back they have the answers.
Allow me go along company ever with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't recall the purpose of meditation is to get deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to whorl up in hither by myself; let the world burn.'
Not at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and farther to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drop in the body of water,
You are the entire ocean in a drib.
- 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 state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- 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 poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of sky and earth will intermission to say,
'Here lived a peachy street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When nosotros brand music we don't practice information technology in social club to accomplish a sure indicate, such as the terminate of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the all-time. Besides, when nosotros are dancing we are non aiming to arrive at a particular identify on the floor as in a journey. When we trip the light fantastic toe, the journey itself is the point, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same matter is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is ever arrived at in the firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

Simply to the extent that nosotros expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin 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 practice you keep doing this hard, middle-wrenching work when you know you lot'll wake up tomorrow to bug that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's answer:
"What you need to understand is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't exercise it!"
- Parker Palmer -

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

As oftentimes happens on the spiritual journey, nosotros take arrived at the center of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens upwardly.
All we need to exercise is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept u.s. from inbound a room,
only what at present lies before us is the remainder of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did y'all dear?
How fully did yous live?
How deeply did y'all learn to let become?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be divide. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, even so, hidden deep within each of us
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, always-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught upward in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to do is have off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you lot come across anyone, remember it is a holy encounter.
As y'all run into him you will see yourself.
Equally you treat him you volition treat yourself.
As you retrieve of him you will recollect of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you lot will detect yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course 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 exit my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still be in prison house.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

Get and honey someone exactly equally they are and lookout how speedily
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 practice with developing patience, not with the check-out person and 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 call up that's how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

We must be willing to allow go of the life nosotros have planned
then as to have the one that is waiting for us.
- Eastward.G. Forster -

When is the concluding fourth dimension that y'all had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't simply 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Merely ... a great conversation, in which yous overheard yourself proverb things that you never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly found places within you that you idea you had lost ... a conversation that brought the 2 of you on to a different plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your heed for weeks subsequently ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and potable for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more allowing another 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 kickoff feeling accepted, kickoff taking their words more seriously and discovering their truthful selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you lot invite strangers to exist friends, to go to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- Henri J.Grand. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Yet their arroyo to life comes from a deep caring and business organisation for all human beings.
It comes from a bones kindness.
That is what spirituality is nigh. It is virtually our deep connections.
It isn't near what gender nosotros recall God is,
or whether we even retrieve God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
Information technology is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is frequently done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, yous break your heart.
You pull away from the beloved that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But at present the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji every bit shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a trouble but a mystery. The stardom...
is central: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery enquire of us?
Only that nosotros be in its presence,
that nosotros fully, consciously manus ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I accept seen the power of taking an unconditional human relationship to life …,
a willingness to show upward for whatever life may offer and run across with it
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Possibly the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously every bit possible and not letting get until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that's how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

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

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

Practice is often described as the willingness to simply exist with our life as it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not about having a detail state of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it nearly beingness completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

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

A human being existence is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the residuum, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to usa, restricting us to our personal desires
and to amore for merely the few people nearest united states of america.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to cover all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
just the striving for such achievement is in itself a function of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the h2o becomes undrinkable. But if you cascade the table salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the chapters to receive, encompass, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We tin't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these aforementioned things don't make u.s.a. endure anymore. Nosotros take a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and so they have a take chances to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to salve the earth and an inclination to savor information technology.
This makes it hard to plan the 24-hour interval. Only if we forget to relish the globe,
what possible reason do we take for saving it?
In a mode, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

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

Our days are happier when we give people a flake of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to meliorate yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it every bit an human action of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way at that place is no longer whatever need for the subtle assailment of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. Information technology offers the possibility of an terminate to the incessant round of trying then hard that wraps then many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is at present meditation as an act of honey.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you lot are and heed to the air current that is singing in your veins.
Feel the honey, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your centre to who you are, right now, not who yous would like to be.
Not the saint y'all're striving to go.
Simply the being right here before you, inside you lot, effectually yous.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than any you tin can know.
Breathe out, await in, let go.
- John Welwood -

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

Want what y'all take.
Do what you can.
Exist who you are.
- Forrest Church -

Yous do non take to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait. Be repose, all the same, and lone.
The world will freely offer itself to you to exist unmasked.
Information technology has no pick. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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