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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 earth,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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

In Louisville, at the corner of Quaternary and Walnut, in the center of the shopping commune,
I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though we were total strangers.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

One time or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said just, "Stay close and do zilch."
 That'southward how we effort to practice at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay shut and do zippo. We sit still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your centre to who you are, correct now, not who you would similar to be.
Not the saint you lot're striving to become.
Only the being correct hither earlier you, within you, around you.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more and less than any yous can know.
Breathe out, look in, allow become.
- John Welwood-

If we go on our attention focused on the present, we can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will modify,
giving u.s. the opportunity to exercise accepting whatever information technology is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

If y'all know something hurtful and not truthful, don't say it.
If you lot know something hurtful and truthful, don't say it.
If you know something helpful but not truthful, don't say it.
If you know something helpful and true, find the correct time to say it.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to evidence up and be seen.
To ask for what y'all need.
To talk near how yous're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

Yous are whole and too part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
y'all may not even know near.
You are never alone.
And you already vest.
You vest to humanity.
You lot vest to life.
You vest to this moment, this jiff.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

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

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are only as wonderful every bit sunsets if yous tin can let them exist. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a dusk is that we cannot command it. When I wait at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a footling on the correct hand corner, and put a scrap more than imperial along the base of operations, and employ a fiddling more than pink in the deject color." I don't do that. I don't endeavor to control a sunset. I sentinel with awe every bit it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

In that location is something in every i of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the only true guide you volition ever accept.
And if you 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 one affair I know: the simply ones amidst you who will be actually happy are those who accept sought and plant how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't accept to chase extraordinary moments to observe happiness.
It'south right in front of me if I'yard paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
It does non mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard piece of work.
It means to exist in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, non because they deserve forgiveness,
but considering you deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

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

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be then disappear,
and information technology is too a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that do non exist suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

In that location are just 2 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 one gives close attending to annihilation,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
crawly, indescribably magnificent earth in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The affair that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving upwardly on beingness perfect
and beginning the work of condign yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

Une difficulté est une lumière.
Une difficulté insurmontable est united nations soleil.
(A difficulty is a light.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sunday.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will become clear only when you lot wait into your eye.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

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

Alice laughed: "At that place'south no use trying," she said;
"ane can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I ever did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many equally six incommunicable things earlier breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practice one 24-hour interval, I notice it.
If I practice non practise a second day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I do non practice a 3rd day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

Information technology'south of import to exist enlightened of concrete limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but information technology's simply as 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 exist different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, tin can yous exist in touch,
not only with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but as well with the vast unwavering reservoir of sensation itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake tin teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing modify in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always just being itself.
It remains still every bit the seasons catamenia into one another and as the weather changes moment past moment and day by twenty-four hour period, calmness constant all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

You do non belong to you lot.
You lot belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you lot,
but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your feel to the highest reward to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless y'all're too busy -
then you should sit for an hr.
- Old Zen adage -

Arguments e'er begin with an reply in heed.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -

Mindfulness is nigh being fully awake in our lives.
Information technology is almost perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also proceeds immediate admission to our own powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you call back of your torso as a instrument, the body scan is a mode of tuning it.
If you think of it every bit a universe, the torso browse is a way to come to know information technology.
If you think of your body 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 do
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And because nosotros neglect to notice
There is fiddling we can do
To change
Until we notice
How declining to discover
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the middle wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the signal quite gently...
And even if you lot did nothing during the whole of your 60 minutes but bring your eye back,
though it went away every time you brought it back,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

Y'all can have compassion for yourself - which is not cocky-compassion.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or finish
that you lot would bring to any dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It's simply existence kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As simple, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your eye
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
because you would non be able to live them.
And the point is, to alive everything.
Alive the questions at present.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare grade of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Get-go, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can go from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief arrangement, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and help usa discern the inner teacher's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

Information technology takes courage to grow upwards
and become who you really are.
- East. E. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are y'all and what do yous want?"
If y'all think these are trivial questions,
most people become through their unabridged lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering machine -

You think you empathise ane.
Y'all think you understand two, because ane and one make 2.
But, you must also sympathise "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

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

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

At that place'southward no problem and then slap-up it tin can't be solved.
If it tin can't be solved, it's not 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 nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to alive by our own codes of laurels.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps only in the minor gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives more often than not happen only as a outcome of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to selection upwards an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't take the fourth dimension or money, to go to our desks each twenty-four hour period, to plough left instead of right.
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 lot.
- Indian Proverb -

Possibly ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that cypher is dissever or extraneous.
If you lot come across in this mode, and so everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And so is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The saints are what they are, non because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
merely 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 absurd cakewalk in summer, snowfall in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other twenty-four hour period
We wake upward empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love exist what we practice
There are hundreds of style to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- 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 here and thither; then I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a human 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 next globe, 'Why were y'all not Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they inquire me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

It is only with the eye that one tin can run into rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the centre.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look within and see that I am nada, that'southward wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that'due south love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Nosotros are not troubled past things,
but past the opinions we take about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand even so.
The copse before you and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever yous are is a identify chosen Here,
And you lot must treat it every bit a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Mind. It answers,
I have fabricated this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back once more 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 yous,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The woods knows
Where yous are. Yous must let it find you lot.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole feel information technology.
Avoiding 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 full story of what is actually going on.
He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is of import.
Just the bee is at the aforementioned time nature'south vehicle
for conveying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Cypher is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an one-time man and take known a bang-up many troubles,
most of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

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

The birds have vanished into the heaven,
and at present the terminal cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until merely the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

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

As a single stride will non brand a path on the earth,
then a unmarried thought volition non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep concrete path, we walk over again and over again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts nosotros wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift -

Don't ask what the earth needs. Inquire what makes you come alive and become do it.
Considering what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Start I was dying to finish high schoolhouse and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And and then I was dying to marry and have children.
So I was dying for my children to abound one-time plenty for schoolhouse so I could return to work.
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 dice is the best manner I know
to avert the trap of thinking you accept something to lose.
Y'all are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your eye.
- Steve Jobs -

You lot must not lose organized religion in humanity.
Humanity is similar an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the bounding main does not go dingy.
- 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 woods?
- Thoreau -

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

Compassion is non a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a human relationship between equals.
Only when nosotros know our own darkness well tin can nosotros exist nowadays with the darkness of others.
Pity becomes existent when nosotros 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 certain about who'south correct and who'southward 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 wrong or right? Could we see, hear, experience other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing effectually to attempt to feel secure once more—to make ourselves or them either right or incorrect. But true communication can happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
In that location are burning bushes all effectually y'all.
Every tree is total of angels.
Hidden dazzler is waiting in every nibble.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

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

If yous have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may exist at a place that anybody, sooner or afterward, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you lot're at that place,
where yous realize you have a pick.
You accept a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or allow go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to agree your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you again and again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not encounter.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all three.
- Bearding -

If I were chosen upon to country in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Mind to your life.
See information technology for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, gustatory modality, smell your way to the holy and hidden eye of it
considering in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there annihilation I tin do to make myself Enlightened?
As fiddling as you can do to make the sun rising in the morning.
And so of what use are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To make sure you are non asleep when the sun begins to rising.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is null you can exercise to meliorate your soul.
There is nil you lot can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the merely true religion consists of having a adept eye.
- 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 pare of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage piping.
Yep, God is under the porch every bit well every bit on acme 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 -

Nosotros tin can finish struggling with what occurs and encounter its true face without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to recollect that our spiritual practice is non about accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - just most ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit downwardly to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Almost of u.s. need to be reminded that nosotros are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around united states, we'd reach out and join hands once more and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we can larn to look backside the mask
and meet the ane who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

So information technology was as if I all of a sudden saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-cognition tin attain,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If merely they could all see themselves as they really are.
If but nosotros could see each other that fashion all the fourth dimension.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more than greed. …
I suppose the big problem would exist that we 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 country of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you lot know, and not far away. There is one further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings testify u.s. the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that subsequently the honeymoon comes the wedlock.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros call up that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what'southward going to happen. When nosotros recollect something is going to give united states of america misery, nosotros don't know. Letting there exist room for non knowing is the nigh important thing of all. We try to practice what we think is going to help. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit down up tall. When there's a big disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that'due south the finish of the story. It may be just the outset of a great take chances.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros telephone call something bad; nosotros phone call information technology skilful. Only really we just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our piece of work, our dearest, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably continued, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin come alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we alive is our spiritual life. Every bit one wise student remarked,
'If you lot really desire to know well-nigh a Zen primary, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we alive with mysteries too marvelous to exist understood...
Permit me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me proceed company ever with those who say
'Wait!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't recollect the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl upward in here by myself; permit the world burn.'
Not at all.
We get deep into meditation so that we tin reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drib in the sea,
You are the unabridged 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 state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is chosen 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 pause to say,
'Here lived a swell street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Rex -

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

When we make music nosotros don't do information technology in social club to reach a sure point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music and then obviously the fastest players would be the all-time. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to make it at a item identify on the floor every bit in a journeying. When nosotros dance, the journeying itself is the signal, equally when nosotros play music the playing itself is the betoken. And exactly the same matter is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Merely to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin can that which is indestructible exist found in u.s.a..
- Pema Chodron -

I day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you continue doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when you 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'due south answer:
"What you demand to sympathize is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you lot shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

In the end, these things affair near:
How well did yous love?
How fully did you live?
How securely did you learn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

When yous meet anyone, recollect information technology is a holy encounter.
As you encounter him you will meet yourself.
As y'all treat him you will treat yourself.
Equally yous think of him yous will call up of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Form in Miracles -

Equally I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my liberty,
I knew if I didn't get out my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still 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 -

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

It has a lot to practise with developing patience, non with the check-out person then much,
merely with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and beloved to that rawness and soreness.
I remember that's how nosotros have to practise.
- Pema Chodron -

There own't no respond.
There own't ever going to be an answer.
There never was an reply.
That'southward the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

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

Nosotros must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
so equally to have the one that is waiting for united states.
- E.Chiliad. Forster -

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

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

During my life I accept met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. All the same their approach to life comes from a deep caring and business organisation for all human beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is most our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender nosotros recollect God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is often washed quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My dearest child, break your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, y'all pause your heart.
You pull away from the love that is the well-bound of your vitality.
Merely at present the time has come, your fourth dimension, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem simply a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: issues are to be solved, truthful mysteries are non.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Merely 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 up for whatever life may offering and encounter with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perchance the wisdom lies in engaging the life yous have been given as fully and courageously equally possible and not letting become until yous detect 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 recollect that's what we're actually seeking.
I think what we're seeking is an feel of being live,
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 feel the rapture of being alive.
That's what it's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative language we speak of letting get of things:
let become of thoughts, let go of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
considering letting go suggests that you need to practice something.
A meliorate phrase to work with is "Let it be." Permit it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not accept to do anything to make it come, or make information technology become, or to let it go.
We just have to let information technology be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
Y'all don't need to be boggling. If the globe is to exist healed through human effort,
I am convinced it volition be past ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is fifty-fifty greater than their fear.
People who tin open to the web of life that chosen us into being,
and who tin rest in the vitality of that larger trunk.
- Joanna Macy -

Exercise is oft described as the willingness to simply be with our life every bit it is. Merely 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 being completely costless of feet. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more than equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

But, ironically, information technology's the very demand that life be a particular way that near guarantees a continuing state of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part limited in fourth dimension and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the remainder, 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 complimentary ourselves from this prison house
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to accomplish this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a role of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you cascade a handful of table salt into a cup of h2o, the h2o becomes undrinkable. Merely if yous pour the table salt into a river, people tin can keep to draw the h2o to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, cover, 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 we demand that they change. Just when our hearts expand, these same things don't brand us suffer anymore. We take a lot of understanding and compassion and tin embrace others. We accept others as they are, and 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 savor it.
This makes it hard to programme the day. But if we forget to savour the globe,
what possible reason do we have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- Eastward.B. White -

Leave your front door and your back 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 bit of our center 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, practise it equally an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying and so hard that wraps so many people'south lives in a knot. Instead there is at present meditation as an deed of dear.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Experience the honey, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open up your heart to who yous are, right now, not who yous would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you lot.
All of y'all is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let get.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk nearly how we need to practice things to connect.
And on the 1 hand that'due south correct, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
Nosotros are connected.
What we need to do is to go aware of information technology, to live information technology, to express information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Want what y'all have.
Exercise what you can.
Exist who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You lot do non have to exit the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Practise not even listen, just wait. Practise not fifty-fifty wait. Be quiet, still, and lone.
The world will freely offering itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no selection. Information technology will curl in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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