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

Community does not necessarily hateful living face-to-face with others;
rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are continued 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 -

In one case or twice a twelvemonth the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Heart,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One dark he gave a talk that included the all-time advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said only, "Stay close and do nothing."
 That's how we try to do at Zen Hospice Project.
Nosotros stay close and do nothing. We sit down yet and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who yous are, right now, not who you lot would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to get.
But the being right hither before y'all, inside you, effectually you.
All of you is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatever yous tin can know.
Exhale out, wait in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros keep our attention focused on the present, we can be sure of 1 matter,
namely that any nosotros are attending to in this moment will change,
giving united states the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that volition sally in the next moment.
Conspicuously, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the dark, nosotros cannot run across the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the dearest.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly ways the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to show up and exist seen.
To enquire for what you need.
To talk near how yous're feeling.
To take the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

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

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

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

Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's 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 private in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are only equally wonderful equally sunsets if yous can let them be. In fact, maybe the reason we can truly appreciate a dusk is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset equally I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a picayune on the right paw corner, and put a chip more imperial along the base, and use a little more pink in the deject color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to command a sunset. I picket with awe equally it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
Information technology is the just truthful guide y'all will ever have.
And if yous cannot hear it, you volition 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 volition be, just one thing I know: the only ones amidst you who will be actually happy are those who have sought and institute how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a grouping of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to notice happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'chiliad paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Dark-brown -

Listening is the fine art of inbound the pare of the other
and wearing information technology for a fourth dimension as if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does not hateful to exist in a place where in that location is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and all the same be calm in your center.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But information technology teaches yous how to utilize the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments ever 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 then disappear,
and information technology is also a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that do not exist all of a sudden appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only ii means to live your life.
One is as though nada is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The thing that is really hard, and actually amazing,
is giving upwards on being perfect
and beginning the work of becoming 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 sun.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will go articulate but when y'all look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a volume is homo's all-time friend.
Within of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I do not practice i day, I notice it.
If I do not practice a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I exercise not practice a third day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to experience them but it's just as important non to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking securely into each moment with full acceptance
and non trying to force ourselves to exist different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
not merely with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
only also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain but sits, experiencing alter in each moment,
constantly changing, however e'er just existence itself.
It remains notwithstanding as the seasons flow into one another and every bit the weather changes moment by moment and day past twenty-four hours, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If non this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
nosotros have 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 upwardly in front of the obstruction
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

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

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

Mindfulness is nigh being fully awake in our lives.
It is near perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
Nosotros likewise gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you think of your body as a instrument, the torso scan is a style of tuning it.
If you think of information technology as a universe, the torso scan is a manner to come to know it.
If y'all think of your body as a house, the body scan is a mode to throw open all the windows
and doors and permit the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we think and practice
Is limited by what we fail to detect
And because we fail to notice
There is little nosotros can do
To alter
Until we observe
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And even if you lot did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back,
though information technology went abroad every fourth dimension you brought information technology back,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

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

It's simply beingness kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatsoever my emotional, concrete or psychological land, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be changed
By what we hear.
- Marker Nepo-

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should discover in each human'south life sorrow and suffering
plenty 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 similar books
that are written in a very strange natural language.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot exist given you
because you would not exist able to alive them.
And the bespeak is, to alive everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
i that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in 2 bones behavior.
First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can go from a doctrine, credo, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and assistance u.s.a. discern the inner teacher'south voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow up
and go who y'all really are.
- Eastward. E. Cummings -

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

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

You think you sympathize ane.
You lot recollect you understand 2, because one and one brand two.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

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

In that location is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

There's no problem and then great it can't be solved.
If it tin'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 we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be accurate, to live past our own codes of accolade.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the m sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives mostly happen only as a outcome of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick upward an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class fifty-fifty though nosotros're convinced we don't have the time or money, to get to our desks each mean solar day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

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

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual only means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that null is separate or extraneous.
If you come across in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And then is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while standing on i foot:
"Do non practise 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, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to adore everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summertime, snow in winter.
If your heed isn't clouded past unnecessary things,
This is the all-time flavor of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today similar every other day
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty nosotros love exist what we exercise
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what yous pay attention to and I volition 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 beingness a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a homo?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they inquire me in the next globe, 'Why were yous not Moses?'
I volition know the respond.
Simply if they ask me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that'south wisdom.
When I look exterior and run across that I am everything, that's love.
Between these 2 my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are non troubled by things,
but by the opinions nosotros take about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The copse before you lot and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Here,
And you lot must treat it equally a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know information technology and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have fabricated this place around you,
If you leave information technology you may come back again proverb Hither.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No ii branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you,
Y'all are surely lost. Stand yet. The woods knows
Where you lot are. You must let information technology find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is more often than not a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor practise 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 nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to exist happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to point out that for the dear bee, it is the dearest that is of import.
But the bee is at the aforementioned time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a primal principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an old human being and take known a nifty many troubles,
most of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

We see things not as they are, but equally nosotros are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains abroad.
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 tin can you lot tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Nix," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Not a dead Zen chief."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

Every bit a unmarried footstep volition not brand a path on the globe,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk once again and 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 world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and become exercise it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

The intuitive mind is a sacred souvenir and the rational mind is a faithful retainer.
Nosotros accept created a gild that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

First I was dying to finish high school and start higher.
And then I was dying to finish college and commencement working.
And then I was dying to marry and accept children.
And so I was dying for my children to grow former enough 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 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 yous are going to die is the all-time way I know
to avert the trap of thinking you accept something to lose.
Y'all are already naked.
There is no reason non to follow your eye.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

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

Compassion is not a human relationship betwixt the healer and the wounded.
It'due south a relationship between equals.
Merely when nosotros know our ain darkness well tin we exist present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when nosotros recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts be big plenty just to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain nearly who's right and who'south wrong? Could we have no calendar when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not brand that person wrong or right? Could nosotros see, hear, feel other people every bit they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to endeavor to feel secure once more—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. Merely truthful communication tin happen but in that open up space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we practice non love
will go hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
you may be at a place that anybody, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Later a while information technology seems like almost every moment of your life you're there,
where y'all realize you take a choice.
You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or permit go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That pick is presented to you again and again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not come across.
I sought my God, Simply my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And constitute all iii.
- Anonymous -

If I were chosen 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.
Run across it for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the boredom and pain of information technology no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, sense of taste, olfactory property your way to the holy and hidden center of it
because in the concluding assay all moments are cardinal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin practice to make myself Aware?
As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are non comatose when the sun begins to rising.
- Anthony de Mello -

At that place is cipher you tin can do to improve your soul.
There is nothing you can exercise 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 boggling is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the broken canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the h2o dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is nether the porch as well equally on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can cease struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to call up that our spiritual do is not about accomplishing anything
- not nigh winning or losing - only nearly 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 residual of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of u.s. need to exist reminded that we are skillful, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew simply how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and bring together easily again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we run into, we can learn to look behind the mask
and come across the one who longs to dear and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was every bit if I suddenly saw the cloak-and-dagger dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge tin can attain,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves as they really are.
If but we could come across 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 big trouble would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a land of timeless grace - these experiences are more mutual than y'all know, and not far away. At that place is one further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings bear witness u.s.a. the reality of the earth, and they bring transformation,
only they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that after the honeymoon comes the spousal relationship.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: Later the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we recollect 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 give united states misery, we don't know. Letting in that location be room for not knowing is the nigh important thing of all. We try to do what we think is going to help. But we don't know.
Nosotros never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up alpine. When in that location'due south a large disappointment,
nosotros don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be merely the beginning of a keen take a chance.
...Life is like that.
We telephone call something bad; we phone call it good. Just really nosotros simply 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 dearest, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come live only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As ane wise pupil remarked,
'If you really want to know nigh a Zen principal, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to exist understood...
Permit me go on my altitude, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me proceed company always with those who say
'Look!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket effectually yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'grand going to curl upward in here by myself; let the earth burn down.'
Non at all.
We go deep into meditation so that we can accomplish out further and further to the globe exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Y'all are non a drop in the bounding main,
You lot are the entire ocean in a driblet.
- Rumi -

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

If a human is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poesy.
He should sweep streets and then well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Hither lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we brand music we don't do it in order to achieve a certain bespeak, such as the end of the limerick. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a detail place on the flooring every bit in a journeying. When we trip the light fantastic toe, the journey itself is the point, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same affair is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How exercise you keep doing this hard, middle-wrenching work when you know y'all'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's respond:
"What you need to empathise is this —
simply because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't exercise information technology!"
- 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 h2o - 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 being?
- Ganga White -

As frequently happens on the spiritual journey, nosotros have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.
All we demand to practise is stop pounding on the door that has just airtight, turn effectually
- which puts the door behind us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from inbound a room,
just what at present lies earlier us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the terminate, these things thing most:
How well did you lot love?
How fully did y'all live?
How securely did you acquire to allow get?
- Jack Kornfield -

Yous and I appear to be separate. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of u.s.
is the ane Self - eternal, infinite, e'er-perfect.
This is the closely guarded cloak-and-dagger of life: that we are all defenseless upward in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to exercise is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you lot run across anyone, think it is a holy encounter.
As you lot see him you will come across yourself.
Every bit y'all care for him y'all will care for yourself.
As you call up of him you will call up of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him yous will observe yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my liberty,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd notwithstanding exist in prison house.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

Go and love someone exactly equally 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 so much,
but with your ain pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I think that's how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no answer.
There own't always going to exist an respond.
At that place never was an reply.
That's the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

If nosotros learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who bulldoze us crazy, can exist our instructor.
- Pema Chodron -

We must exist willing to let get of the life we have planned
so as to have the one that is waiting for us.
- Due east.1000. Forster -

When is the concluding time that you lot had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't merely ii intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Just ... a corking chat, in which y'all overheard yourself maxim things that you lot never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places inside you that yous thought yous had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you lot on to a dissimilar plane? ... a conversation that connected to sing in your mind for weeks after ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food 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 attending to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The dazzler of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to go to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- Henri J.One thousand. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Yet 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 virtually. Information technology is about our deep connections.
Information technology isn't almost what gender we think God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is often washed quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My love child, break your centre no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, y'all suspension your middle.
Yous pull away from the love that is the well-bound of your vitality.
But now the fourth dimension has come, your time, to alive and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji every bit shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is cardinal: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery inquire of us?
Only that we exist in its presence,
that we fully, consciously paw ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the ability of taking an unconditional human relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatever life may offering and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and modify the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously as possible and non letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that'southward how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a significant for life.
I don't retrieve that'south what nosotros're really seeking.
I recollect what nosotros're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely concrete plane
will have resonance inside our own innermost beingness and reality,
so that nosotros really feel the rapture of beingness alive.
That'southward what it's all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

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

Each ane of the states, I believe, is a souvenir the world is giving to itself now, a unique souvenir. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the globe is to be healed through homo effort,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the web of life that chosen united states into being,
and who can residuum in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is often described as the willingness to only be with our life as it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that practice is not about having a particular state of mind, such as calmness. Nor is information technology well-nigh existence completely complimentary of anxiety. This is non to deny that we will, in fact, experience more 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 standing state of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being being is a function of the whole, called past us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest u.s.a..
Our chore must exist to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circumvolve of pity to cover 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 have never met a person whose greatest demand was anything other than real, unconditional love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If yous pour a scattering of common salt into a loving cup of h2o, the h2o becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people tin can continue to draw the h2o to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and information technology has the capacity to receive, encompass, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and pity are limited, and we suffer. Nosotros can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. Just when our hearts aggrandize, these aforementioned things don't brand united states of america suffer anymore. We have a lot of agreement and pity and tin encompass others. We have others every bit they are, and so they accept a adventure to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morn I awake torn between a desire to save the earth and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it difficult to plan the twenty-four hour period. Simply if we forget to savour the world,
what possible reason practise we have for saving it?
In a manner, the savoring must come first.
- Due east.B. White -

Leave your front 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 nosotros give people a bit of our centre rather than a piece of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to amend yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice information technology as an act of beloved, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this style there is no longer any need for the subtle assailment of cocky-improvement, for the countless guilt of non doing enough. Information technology offers the possibility of an cease to the ceaseless circular of trying so hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation equally an human activity of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downward wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fright in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now, non who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to go.
Simply the being right here before you, inside y'all, effectually you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you tin can know.
Breathe out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk almost how we demand to do things to connect.
And on the one hand that'due south right, but on the other manus, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to exercise is to get aware of it, to live it, to limited it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you take.
Practice what you tin can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You do non have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and mind.
Do non even listen, only wait. Do non fifty-fifty wait. Exist tranquillity, still, and solitary.
The world volition freely offering itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It will gyre in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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