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Mindfulness Quotes

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

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

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district,
I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though nosotros 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 cipher."
 That's how we try to do at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit still and mind to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your middle to who y'all are, right at present, non who you lot would similar to be.
Non the saint you're striving to go.
Simply the being right here before you, inside y'all, effectually you.
All of you lot is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatever you tin know.
Breathe out, wait in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros continue our attention focused on the nowadays, nosotros tin be sure of one thing,
namely that whatever nosotros are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving usa the opportunity to exercise accepting whatsoever information technology is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through changing our external globe,
simply through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the nighttime, we cannot see the low-cal.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, nosotros cannot feel the beloved.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring profoundly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to prove up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk virtually how you lot're feeling.
To accept the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may non even know about.
You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You lot belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this jiff.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Exist kind, for everyone you see is fighting a difficult battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

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

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

One of the nearly satisfying feelings I know – and likewise one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this individual in the aforementioned mode that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you lot can let them exist. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a dusk as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right paw corner, and put a chip more royal along the base, and employ a lilliputian more pinkish in the cloud color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to control a sunset. I sentry with awe every bit 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 accept to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the only truthful guide you lot will e'er take.
And if y'all cannot hear it, you will all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

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

All of you are perfect but every bit you are...
... and there is still 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'g paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

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

Peace.
It does non mean to be in a place where at that place is no dissonance, problem or hard piece of work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and withal exist at-home in your eye.
- Unknown -

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

Beingness on a spiritual path does not forbid you from facing times of darkness.
Only it teaches you how to utilise the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments always begin with an respond 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 process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that practise not exist all of a sudden announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

In that location are simply two ways to alive your life.
1 is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

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

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

Your vision will go clear only when you look into your centre.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a volume is human's best friend.
Inside of a domestic dog,
it's too night to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practise," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practice non practise 1 twenty-four hours, I discover information technology.
If I practise not practice a 2nd day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I exercise not practice a tertiary twenty-four hours, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

Information technology'due south important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them just information technology'due south just as important not to push across them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking securely into each moment with full acceptance
and not trying to forcefulness ourselves to be different from how nosotros are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation do and in your daily life, tin you exist in impact,
not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of sensation itself,
residing below the surface of your listen?
The lake can teach this, remind usa of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain merely sits, experiencing alter in each moment,
constantly irresolute, notwithstanding ever only being itself.
It remains all the same equally the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day by twenty-four hour period, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Plenty.
These few words are plenty.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we accept refused
again and again
until now.
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 strength,
filling upward in front of the obstruction
and somewhen spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You exercise non belong to you.
Yous belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you,
simply you may presume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You should sit down in meditation for 20 minutes every twenty-four hour period
- unless you're too decorated -
and then you should sit for an hour.
- Quondam Zen adage -

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

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

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

The range of what we call back and exercise
Is limited past what we fail to notice
And because we fail to observe
There is piddling we tin practise
To change
Until we observe
How failing to discover
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the center wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your center dorsum,
though it went away every time yous brought it back,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Betwixt stimulus and response there 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 not self-pity.
Yous're only recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the aforementioned warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that yous would bring to whatever dear 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.
Every bit simple, and difficult, equally that!
- Marianne Elliot -

To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to exist inverse
By what we hear.
- Mark Nepo-

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
considering you would not be able to alive them.
And the point is, to alive everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the private quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Outset, nosotros all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we tin can get from a doctrine, credo, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all demand other people to invite, dilate, and help united states discern the inner instructor'due south voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow up
and get who you 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 empathise growth, it would look similar consummate destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering car.
This is a questioning auto.
"Who are you and what practise you lot want?"
If you lot call back these are trivial questions,
most people get through their unabridged lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering car -

You lot think you lot sympathize one.
Yous think you lot empathize two, because one and i make two.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

Nosotros ourselves cannot put whatsoever 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'southward no problem so corking it tin can't be solved.
If it can't be solved, it's non a problem, information technology'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 by our ain codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the thousand sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the aggregating of innumerable modest steps and minor achievements. We're chosen to reach out to someone, to pick upwardly an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign upwardly for a class even though nosotros're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each twenty-four hour period, to turn left instead of correct.
These are the fire 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 directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that zip is split or extraneous.
If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while standing on one pes:
"Do not practise to others that which is hateful to y'all.
All the rest is commentary. At present go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

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

At that place is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today like every other 24-hour interval
We wake upward empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take downward a musical instrument.
Permit the beauty we love be what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the globe.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then I awoke.
At present I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
- Zhuangzi -

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

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

When I await inside and see that I am nothing, that'southward wisdom.
When I look exterior and see that I am everything, that's love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand yet.
The copse before you and the bushes beside you are non lost.
Wherever you are is a identify called Here,
And you must treat it every bit a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this identify around you,
If you get out it you lot may come back once more maxim Here.
No 2 trees are the same to Raven.
No ii branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
Y'all are surely lost. Stand up still. The woods knows
Where you are. You must let it find you lot.
- David Wagoner -

Security is more often than not a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor exercise the children of men as a whole feel it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or zilch.
- 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 actually going on.
He liked to signal out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important.
But the bee is at the same time nature'southward vehicle
for conveying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We see things not as they are, but every bit nosotros are.
- H.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 student who went to a Zen master.
"What can you tell me virtually expiry?" the pupil asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen chief. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep will non make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, nosotros 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 inquire what the world needs. Ask what makes you come up alive and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to cease loftier school and showtime higher.
And and so I was dying to end college and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And so I was dying for my children to abound former plenty for schoolhouse and then I could render to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, 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 fashion I know
to avert 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 bounding main;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the body of water does not go dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

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

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

Pity is non a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well tin can nosotros exist 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 we're not entirely sure most who's right 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 right? Could nosotros see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, considering we'll detect ourselves continually rushing around to endeavour to experience secure once more—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true communication can happen only in that open up space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
There are called-for bushes all effectually y'all.
Every tree is full of angels.
Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every part of our personality that nosotros do not love
will become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you accept embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
you may be at a identify that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life yous're there,
where yous realize y'all have a selection.
You have a selection whether to open or close, whether to agree on or allow go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to agree your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to y'all once more and again and once again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not run across.
I sought my God, Just my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And establish all three.
- Anonymous -

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

Is there annihilation I tin can exercise to make myself Enlightened?
As piffling equally you lot tin can exercise to brand the sun ascension in the morning.
And then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To brand sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is zilch you can do to meliorate your soul.
There is cipher you tin do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true 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 beneath the peel of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the cleaved bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the h2o dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is nether the porch besides as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We tin stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything
- not near winning or losing - merely most ceasing to struggle and relaxing as information technology is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit down to meditate.
That mental attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

About of the states demand to be reminded that nosotros are good, that we are lovable, that we vest.
If nosotros knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around united states, nosotros'd reach out and join hands again and once again.
Our relationships accept the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person nosotros run into, we can learn to wait behind the mask
and see the one who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was as if I of a sudden saw the surreptitious 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 1 is in the optics of the Divine.
If only they could all run across themselves as they really are.
If but we could see each other that way all the time.
There would be no more state of war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big trouble would be that nosotros would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. Information technology is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more than common than you lot know, and non far away. There is one farther truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings prove us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
only they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that subsequently the honeymoon comes the spousal relationship.
Later the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: Afterward the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we actually don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important matter of all. We try to do what we recall is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit upwards tall. When there'south a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. Information technology may exist merely the outset of a corking run a risk.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we call it good. But actually we only 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 work, our beloved, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin can come alive but in each detail and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If yous really want to know about a Zen main, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

Don't call back the purpose of meditation is to become deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'thousand going to scroll upwardly in here by myself; allow the world fire.'
Not at all.
We get deep into meditation and then that nosotros can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros have to get through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in information technology.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to exist a street sweeper, he should sweep streets fifty-fifty as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets then well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a groovy street sweeper who did his task well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When nosotros brand music nosotros don't exercise it in order to reach a certain signal, such as the finish of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then plain the fastest players would be the best. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journeying. When we dance, the journey itself is the betoken, as when nosotros 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 firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

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

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

As ofttimes happens on the spiritual journeying, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the residue of the world opens up.
All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that airtight kept us from entering a room,
simply what now lies before usa is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things thing almost:
How well did you love?
How fully did yous live?
How deeply did you learn to let become?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I announced to be dissever. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent partition, notwithstanding, hidden deep within each of united states of america
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, e'er-perfect.
This is the closely guarded clandestine of life: that we are all caught upwardly in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When y'all meet anyone, remember it is a holy see.
As you run across him you lot will come across yourself.
Every bit yous treat him y'all will treat yourself.
As you lot recall of him y'all volition 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 lead to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't get out my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Permit us encourage 1 another with spiritual friendship,
conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.
- Ellen Grace O'Brian -

Get and beloved 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, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

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

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

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

Nosotros must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
so as to have the one that is waiting for us.
- E.Thou. Forster -

When is the last fourth dimension that yous had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for chat a lot in this culture?
Just ... a great conversation, in which yous overheard yourself maxim things that you lot never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely plant places within yous that yous thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different airplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your heed for weeks later on ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are nutrient and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to reply. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, showtime taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a course of spiritual hospitality by which yous invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with yous.
- Henri J.Chiliad. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Notwithstanding 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 most. It is almost our deep connections.
It isn't virtually what gender nosotros call back God is,
or whether we fifty-fifty retrieve God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
It 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 honey child, suspension your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you 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 alive and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji equally shared past Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: issues are to be solved, true mysteries are non.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Simply 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 ability of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to prove 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 you have been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you notice the unknown approval that is in everything..
I call back that's how we accept to exercise.
- 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 recall what we're seeking is an experience of being live,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will have resonance inside our own innermost being and reality,
so that we really feel the rapture of being alive.
That'southward what it'southward all finally almost.
- Joseph Campbell -

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

Each i of us, I believe, is a souvenir the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through homo try,
I am convinced information technology 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 us into existence,
and who can residue in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

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

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

A human being is a part of the whole, called by u.s.a. "Universe,"
a part express in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the residue, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting u.s.a. to our personal desires
and to affection for but the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison house
by widening our circumvolve of compassion to encompass all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to reach this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a function of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If y'all pour a handful of salt into a loving cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the common salt into a river, people tin continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and beverage. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and pity are limited, and we endure. Nosotros can't have or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they alter. But when our hearts aggrandize, these aforementioned things don't brand u.s.a. suffer anymore. We accept a lot of agreement and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others every bit they are, and then they accept a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morn I awake torn betwixt a desire to salvage the world and an inclination to bask it.
This makes it difficult to plan the mean solar day. But if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason do nosotros accept for saving it?
In a manner, the savoring must come starting time.
- East.B. White -

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

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

Don't meditate to gear up yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do information technology every bit an human action of honey, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-comeback, for the endless guilt of non doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people'southward lives in a knot. Instead there is at present meditation every bit an act of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and heed to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the honey, the longing, and the fear in your basic.
Open your middle to who you lot are, right at present, non who you would like to exist.
Not the saint you lot're striving to become.
But the beingness right hither earlier you, inside you, around you lot.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more than and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk nearly how we need to practise things to connect.
And on the one mitt that's right, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
Nosotros are connected.
What we need to practice is to go aware of it, to alive it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

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

You practise not have to get out the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Practise not even listen, merely look. Practice non fifty-fifty look. Be placidity, still, and lonely.
The earth will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice. It volition scroll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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