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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green world,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Customs does non necessarily hateful living contiguous with others;
rather, it means never losing the awareness that nosotros 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 all of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
fifty-fifty though we were total strangers.
Information technology 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.
Ane night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and practise nothing."
 That's how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and do nix. We sit however and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

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

If we keep our attending focused on the present, we can be sure of ane thing,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving united states the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non found through changing our external world,
simply through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, we cannot see the lite.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absenteeism, 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 it.
If you know something helpful just not truthful, don't say it.
If you 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.
Information technology means to show up and be seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk about how y'all're feeling.
To accept the difficult conversations.
- Brené Brown -

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away
and go something amend.
Information technology'south almost befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

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

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

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

One of the about 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 just as wonderful every bit sunsets if you can permit them exist. In fact, perchance the reason nosotros can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself maxim, "Soften the orange a picayune on the correct hand corner, and put a bit more than imperial forth the base, and use a petty more pink in the deject colour." I don't practice that. I don't effort to control a sunset. I spotter with awe every bit it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although information technology may be temporarily cached in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We simply accept to uncover information technology.
- Pema Chodron -

There is something in every one of you lot that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the but truthful guide you volition e'er take.
And if y'all cannot hear it, yous 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 among you who will exist really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you lot are perfect simply as you are...
... and at that place is even so room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to detect happiness.
It'due south right in front end of me if I'chiliad paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
It does not 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 eye.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness,
only because yous deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Beingness on a spiritual path does not foreclose you from facing times of darkness.
But information technology teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and then disappear,
and it is likewise a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that do non exist suddenly announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only 2 ways to alive your life.
1 is as though null is a phenomenon.
The other is every bit though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The affair that is really difficult, and really astonishing,
is giving upwards 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 light.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -

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

Outside of a dog,
a volume is homo's best friend.
Within of a dog,
it's too dark 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 practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I ever did it for half an 60 minutes a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed equally many equally vi impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practice one mean solar day, I detect information technology.
If I do not exercise a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not practice a tertiary day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

Information technology's of import to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them merely it's merely equally important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to exist looking securely into each moment with full acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to be dissimilar from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation exercise and in your daily life, can y'all be in touch,
not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
simply likewise with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your heed?
The lake can teach this, remind united states of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain but sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet e'er just being itself.
It remains nonetheless as the seasons period into one another and every bit the atmospheric condition changes moment by moment and day by day, calmness abiding 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 over again
until now.
Until now.
- 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 eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every solar day
- unless you're too busy -
then y'all should sit for an hr.
- Old Zen adage -

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

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

If y'all think of your body as a musical instrument, the body scan is a way of tuning information technology.
If you call back of it as a universe, the body scan is a fashion to come to know it.
If y'all think of your trunk every bit a firm, the body scan is a way to throw open up 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 nosotros fail to detect
And because nosotros fail to notice
There is little nosotros tin can do
To modify
Until we notice
How failing to find
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

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

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

Y'all tin have compassion for yourself - which is non cocky-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the aforementioned warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or terminate
that y'all would bring to any dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as yous.
- Rick Hanson -

It'due south just being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, every bit that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we 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
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Practise non at present seek the answers, which cannot be given you
considering you would not be able to live 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 individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two bones beliefs.
First, we all accept an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
2d, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and help u.s.a. discern the inner teacher's vox.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

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

Y'all think you sympathise one.
You think you understand two, considering one and one make 2.
But, you lot must too empathise "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

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

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

At that place'south no problem and so slap-up it can't exist solved.
If it tin't exist solved, information technology'due south not a trouble, it'south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

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

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps simply in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the aggregating of innumerable modest steps and small achievements. We're called to achieve out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upwards for a class even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn 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.
- Indian Maxim -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual just means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is split or inapplicable.
If you lot encounter in this way, and 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 continuing on 1 foot:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to you lot.
All the residuum is commentary. At present go written report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool cakewalk in summer, snow in wintertime.
If your listen isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best flavor of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other day
We wake upwards empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take downward a musical instrument.
Allow the beauty we love exist what nosotros do
There are hundreds of mode to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

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

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the adjacent world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I volition know the answer.
But if they inquire me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I volition have cypher to say.
- Martin Buber -

Information technology is but with the centre that one tin see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the center.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look within and see that I am goose egg, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and come across that I am everything, that'due south love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you lot and the bushes abreast you lot are not lost.
Wherever you are is a identify chosen Here,
And you lot must treat it equally a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this identify effectually you,
If yous get out information technology y'all may come up back again saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on y'all,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You lot must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

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

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to betoken out that for the beloved bee, it is the love that is of import.
But the bee is at the same fourth dimension nature'south vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each upshot connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We come across things not as they are, but as nosotros are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen primary.
"What can yous tell me near death?" the educatee asked.
"Nil," the other replied. "I'one thousand a Zen master. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single pace volition not make a path on the earth,
so a unmarried idea will not make a pathway in the listen.
To make a deep physical path, we walk once more and again.
To make a deep mental path, nosotros must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to boss our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

Don't ask what the earth needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who take come up alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Offset I was dying to terminate loftier school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and offset working.
And and so I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to alive.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way 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 center.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose organized religion in humanity.
Humanity is similar an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are muddy,
the ocean does non become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

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

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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a relationship between equals.
Merely when nosotros know our own darkness well can we exist present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes existent when nosotros recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts exist big enough just to hang out in that infinite where we're non entirely certain about who'south correct and who's wrong? Could nosotros have no calendar when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non brand that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, experience other people equally they really are? It is powerful to practice this mode, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to attempt to experience secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or incorrect. But truthful advice can happen only in that open up infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that nosotros do non love
will become hostile to the states.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journeying of self-reflection,
y'all may exist at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Later on a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you're there,
where you realize you lot have a choice.
Yous have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or let become,
whether to harden or soften, whether to agree your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you over again and over again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Merely my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, Only my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all three.
- Anonymous -

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

Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As fiddling equally you can exercise to brand the sun rise in the morning time.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you lot are non comatose when the sun begins to ascent.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nothing y'all tin can do to amend your soul.
There is naught you can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true religion consists of having a practiced 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 water dripping from the drainage piping.
Yes, God is under the porch besides as on tiptop of the mount,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We tin can finish struggling with what occurs and run across its true face without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not nigh accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - merely well-nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing equally it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the residuum of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of u.s.a. need to be reminded that nosotros are good, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew merely how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around united states, nosotros'd accomplish out and join hands once again and over again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, nosotros can larn to await behind the mask
and see the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

So it was equally if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-noesis can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that way all the fourth dimension.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the large trouble would exist 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, enkindling into a country of timeless grace - these experiences are more than mutual than yous know, and not far away. There is i further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings testify usa the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that later on the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Later the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring u.s.a. pleasure, we really don't know what'southward going to happen. When we recall something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the virtually important affair of all. Nosotros try to do what we think is going to help. Simply we don't know.
Nosotros never know if nosotros're going to autumn flat or sit upwards tall. When there'southward a big disappointment,
we don't know if that'southward the terminate of the story. It may be just the kickoff of a great gamble.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; nosotros telephone call it good. Merely 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 work, our love, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin come alive only in each item and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise educatee remarked,
'If you really desire to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we alive with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, e'er, from those who call back they have the answers.
Permit me go along visitor always with those who say
'Wait!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket 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 then that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drop in the sea,
You are the unabridged bounding main in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of condign, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in information technology.
This is a kind of decease.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is chosen to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth volition pause to say,
'Hither lived a bully street sweeper who did his chore well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we make music nosotros don't do information technology in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then apparently the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are non aiming to arrive at a particular identify on the floor every bit in a journey. When nosotros trip the light fantastic toe, the journey itself is the signal, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same affair is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the betoken of life is ever arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, middle-wrenching work when you know you'll wake upwards tomorrow to bug that are as bad or worse than the ones you lot're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'due south answer:
"What you demand to sympathise is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
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 dearest was the center of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As frequently happens on the spiritual journey, we take arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the globe opens up.
All nosotros need to exercise is cease pounding on the door that has but airtight, turn around
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open up to our souls.
The door that airtight kept u.s.a. from inbound a room,
just what at present lies before us is the balance of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did y'all live?
How deeply did y'all learn to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to exist separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this credible division, however, hidden deep within each of united states of america
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, always-perfect.
This is the closely guarded undercover of life: that nosotros are all defenseless upwards 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 it.
- William Arthur Ward -

When y'all come across anyone, remember information technology is a holy see.
Every bit y'all run across him you will run into yourself.
As y'all treat him you will treat yourself.
Equally you think of him yous volition think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you volition find 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 leave my bitterness and hatred backside,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

Go and love someone exactly every bit 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 do 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 honey to that rawness and soreness.
I call back that's how we take to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

Nosotros must be willing to let get of the life nosotros have planned
so equally to take the one that is waiting for the states.
- Eastward.M. Forster -

When is the last fourth dimension that you lot had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't just 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this civilization?
But ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew yous knew? That you lot heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly establish places within you that y'all idea you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a unlike aeroplane? ... a chat that continued to sing in your mind 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 allowing some other to talk while waiting for a gamble to answer. Listening is paying total attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to outset feeling accepted, offset taking their words more than seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a class of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- 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 homo beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender nosotros recall God is,
or whether we even recall God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is oft done quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you suspension your heart.
You pull abroad from the dearest that is the well-bound of your vitality.
Just now the time has come, your time, 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 non a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is cardinal: problems are to be solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of united states of america?
Only that we be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to bear witness upwardly for any life may offer and meet with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and alter the inevitable….
Perchance the wisdom lies in engaging the life you lot have been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until yous find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that's how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Ofttimes in meditative language we speak of letting get of things:
let go of thoughts, allow go of emotions, permit go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the correct phrase,
considering letting go suggests that you need to do something.
A improve phrase to work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We do non have to do anything to brand it come up, or brand information technology go, or to allow it go.
We just take to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

Do is oftentimes described every bit the willingness to simply exist with our life as it is. Merely this is a difficult concept to go: that practice is not most having a particular land of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it about being completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

But, ironically, it'due south the very need that life be a particular way that well-nigh guarantees a continuing land of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

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

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

If you lot pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if y'all cascade the salt into a river, people tin can 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 suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they change. Simply when our hearts expand, these same things don't make u.s. suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others equally they are, and so they accept a take a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every forenoon I awake torn betwixt a desire to relieve the world and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it difficult to program the day. But if nosotros forget to relish the globe,
what possible reason do we take for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come kickoff.
- E.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 heart rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to better yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it equally an act of dearest, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way at that place is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. Information technology offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying and so hard that wraps then many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation equally an act of love.
How incessantly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

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

Sometimes people talk nearly how we need to practice things to connect.
And on the one hand that's correct, merely on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to do is to become aware of it, to alive it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you have.
Practise what you can.
Be who yous are.
- Forrest Church -

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and listen.
Exercise non even listen, but wait. Do non even wait. Be quiet, still, and lone.
The globe volition freely offer itself to you lot to be unmasked.
It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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