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Mindfulness Quotes

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

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

In Louisville, at the corner of Quaternary and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district,
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.
1 night he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said merely, "Stay shut and exercise nothing."
 That's how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and do null. We sit down still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you are, correct now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the beingness right here before you, inside y'all, around yous.
All of yous is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you lot tin know.
Breathe out, look in, let become.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the present, we tin can be certain of one thing,
namely that whatsoever nosotros are attention to in this moment will modify,
giving us the opportunity to practise accepting whatever it is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through changing our external world,
only through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the nighttime, we cannot run into the light.
Without the silence, we 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 truthful, don't say it.
If yous know something helpful only not true, don't say it.
If yous know something helpful and truthful, detect the correct 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 ask for what you lot demand.
To talk about how you're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

Yous are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
yous may not fifty-fifty know well-nigh.
Yous are never alone.
And you lot already belong.
Yous belong to humanity.
Yous vest to life.
Yous belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone you lot meet 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's me alright."
- Idres Shah -

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

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

1 of the virtually satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the virtually growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same style that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful equally sunsets if you tin let them exist. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset equally I did the other evening, I don't discover myself saying, "Soften the orange a picayune on the right mitt corner, and put a scrap more than purple along the base, and use a niggling more pinkish in the cloud color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to command a sunset. I watch with awe as information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

At that place is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the just true guide y'all will e'er 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 will be, only one thing I know: the merely ones amid you lot who will exist really happy are those who have sought and plant how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'one thousand paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

Listening is the art of inbound the skin of the other
and wearing information technology for a time as 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 work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and even so be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does non preclude y'all from facing times of darkness.
Only it teaches you lot how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments ever begin with an answer in heed.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be and and so disappear,
and it is also a procedure of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that exercise not exist suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two ways to alive your life.
One is as though zip is a phenomenon.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

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

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

Your vision will become clear only when y'all look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a book is man'southward all-time friend.
Within of a dog,
information technology's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I practise not practice 1 day, I notice it.
If I do non practice a second day, the orchestra notices information technology.
If I do not exercise a third solar day, the world notices information technology.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

Information technology's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long plenty to experience them but information technology'south only equally important not to push beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full credence
and not trying to strength ourselves to be different from how we are correct at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, tin can y'all be in touch,
non only with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
just also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your mind?
The lake tin teach this, remind usa of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always but being itself.
It remains still every bit the seasons menstruum into i another and as the weather condition changes moment by moment and mean solar day by day, calmness abiding all alter…
- 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.
Information technology increases in volume and force,
filling up in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

You practice non vest to you.
You vest to the universe.
The significance of yous will forever remain obscure to you,
only you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you employ yourself to converting all your feel to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You lot should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless you're too decorated -
and then you should sit down for an hr.
- Former Zen adage -

Arguments e'er begin with an answer in mind.
Conversations brainstorm with a question.
- unknown -

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

If you lot think of your body every bit a musical instrument, the body scan is a mode of tuning it.
If y'all call up of it as a universe, the trunk scan is a fashion to come to know it.
If you lot retrieve of your body as a house, the trunk browse is a way to throw open all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we call up and do
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And considering nosotros fail to notice
There is little we can do
To change
Until we notice
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

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

Between stimulus and response in that location is a space.
In that space is our ability to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our liberty.
- Victor Frankl -

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

Information technology'southward simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, equally that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

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

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of customs -
one that supports rather than supplants the private quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two bones beliefs.
Starting time, we all accept an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than annihilation we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective conventionalities system, institution, or leader.
Second, nosotros all need other people to invite, dilate, and help us discern the inner teacher's phonation.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to abound up
and become who you really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

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

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

You lot think you sympathise one.
You think you sympathize two, because i and i make two.
Only, you must besides sympathise "and".
- Sufi maxim -

I am non almost so interested in what monkey man was derived from
equally I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

At that place's no problem so peachy it can't be solved.
If it tin can't be solved, it's not a problem, it'due south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Nigh of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attending to our intuitions, to be authentic, to alive past our ain codes of honor.

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

When I do non know who I am, I serve y'all.
When I know who I am, I am you lot.
- Indian Proverb -

Mayhap ultimately, spiritual but means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nil is separate or inapplicable.
If you see in this fashion, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. Then is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to chronicle the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Do non exercise to others that which is hateful to yous.
All the rest is commentary. Now get study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, not 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 autumn,
A absurd breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other 24-hour interval
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And brainstorm reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Allow the beauty nosotros love be what nosotros do
There are hundreds of mode to kneel
And osculation the globe.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a homo 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 world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the reply.
Only if they enquire me, "Why were you non Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

Information technology is but with the centre that 1 can see rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the center.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I await exterior and meet that I am everything, that's love.
Betwixt these 2 my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled by things,
but by the opinions we take about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up nonetheless.
The trees before y'all and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place chosen Hither,
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 accept made this identify around you,
If yous get out information technology you may come back again proverb Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on yous,
Y'all are surely lost. Stand even so. The forest knows
Where yous are. You lot must let it find you lot.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does not exist in nature,
nor practise the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring take chances or nothing.
- 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 signal out that for the honey bee, it is the dearest that is important.
Only the bee is at the same time nature'southward vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a key principle of nature.
Zero is isolated. Each upshot connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an erstwhile human being and have known a peachy many troubles,
virtually of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Marking Twain) -

We run across things non as they are, merely as we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a educatee who went to a Zen master.
"What tin can you tell me about death?" the pupil asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'chiliad a Zen chief. Not a dead Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single stride will not brand a path on the earth,
and then a single thought will non brand a pathway in the heed.
To brand a deep concrete path, nosotros walk once again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

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

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

First I was dying to cease loftier school and start college.
And so I was dying to finish higher and start working.
And so I was dying to ally and have children.
So I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And 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 lot are going to dice is the best mode I know
to avert the trap of thinking yous accept something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
At that place is no reason not to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

Yous must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the body of water are dingy,
the ocean does non go dingy.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses.
What business have 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 then homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is non a relationship betwixt the healer and the wounded.
Information technology'due south a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our ain darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts exist big plenty just to hang out in that space where nosotros're not entirely certain near who's right and who's wrong? Could we take no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, experience other people as they really are? It is powerful to exercise this way, because we'll notice ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure over again—to make ourselves or them either correct or wrong. But true advice can happen but in that open infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we do not love
will go hostile to united states of america.
- Robert Bly -

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

I sought my soul, But my soul I could non see.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my blood 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 exist something like this:  Listen to your life.
Run across information technology for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the boredom and hurting of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
affect, gustatory modality, odor your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the final analysis all moments are central moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin do to make myself Aware?
As lilliputian every bit you can do to make the lord's day ascent in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To make sure you are non comatose when the sun begins to ascension.
- Anthony de Mello -

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

I believe that the only true faith consists of having a practiced middle.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly below the skin of all that is ordinary.
Calorie-free is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the h2o dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is nether the porch likewise equally on height of the mount,
and joy is in both the forepart row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

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

Near of us need to exist reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew but how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions afflicted
the hearts of those around u.s.a., nosotros'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships have the potential to exist a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we run across, nosotros can larn to look backside the mask
and run across the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the undercover dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If but they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that way all the time.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall downwards 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 land of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is ane further truth, nonetheless: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show united states of america the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
simply they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the wedlock.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: Subsequently the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, nosotros actually don't know what's going to happen. When we call back something is going to requite us misery, nosotros don't know. Letting in that location exist room for not knowing is the most important affair of all. We try to do what we think is going to help. Merely we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there'south a large thwarting,
we don't know if that's the cease of the story. It may be just the outset of a cracking adventure.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; we call information technology good. Just 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 love, 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 alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we alive is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you actually want 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, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company e'er with those who say
'Expect!' 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 exist passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, there'due south more than than room for everyone; in that location's a need for anybody.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't call back the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curlicue up in here by myself; let the world burn.'
Not at all.
We get deep into meditation so that we can achieve out further and farther to the earth outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Y'all are not a drop in the ocean,
You are the entire body of water 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 state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin -

If a homo is called to exist a street sweeper, he should sweep streets fifty-fifty as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and globe will interruption to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Rex -

Paradise is thus non so much a identify,
equally liberation into the fullness and bounty
of everyday experience.
- Ian Baker -

When we make music we don't practice it in order to attain a sure point, such every bit the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music and then manifestly the fastest players would be the all-time. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a item place on the flooring as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the aforementioned thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the betoken of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Simply to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin can that which is indestructible be found in usa.
- Pema Chodron -

One day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, center-wrenching piece of work when you know you'll wake upwardly tomorrow to issues that are every bit bad or worse than the ones y'all're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's reply:
"What you lot need to empathize is this —
just considering something's incommunicable doesn't hateful y'all shouldn't do 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 building?
If holy h2o - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Instructor was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If love was the centre of our being?
- Ganga White -

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

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

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

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

When yous see anyone, remember information technology is a holy encounter.
As you see him y'all volition come across yourself.
Equally you treat him y'all will care for yourself.
As you lot think of him you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

Equally I walked out the door toward the gate that would atomic number 82 to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still be in prison house.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

Become and dear someone exactly as they are and sentinel how chop-chop
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen and appreciated in their ain essence, 1 is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to practise with developing patience, not with the bank check-out person so much,
only with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I recall that's how nosotros accept to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

At that place ain't no respond.
There ain't e'er going to be an reply.
There never was an answer.
That's the reply.
- Gertrude Stein -

If nosotros learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, tin exist our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must exist willing to permit go of the life we have planned
so as to take the one that is waiting for u.s.a..
- Eastward.Yard. Forster -

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

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a hazard to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to kickoff feeling accepted, offset taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a grade of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to exist silent with yous.
- Henri J.M. 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.
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 fifty-fifty recollect God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is ofttimes done quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My dear kid, break your heart no longer.
Each time you gauge yourself, you break your heart.
You lot pull away from the dear that is the well-jump of your vitality.
But now the time has come, your time, to alive and to trust the goodness that y'all 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 central: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery inquire of us?
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 accept seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatsoever life may offer and meet with information technology
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perchance the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously equally possible and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that'south how we have to practise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Frequently in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
let go 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 practise something.
A meliorate phrase to work with is "Permit it be." Permit information technology exist.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not have to do anything to make it come up, or go far become, or to permit information technology go.
We only have to permit it exist.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of us, I believe, is a souvenir the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
Yous don't need to exist extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through human effort,
I am convinced information technology will be past ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the web of life that called us into being,
and who can balance in the vitality of that larger trunk.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is frequently described as the willingness to only exist 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 it about existence completely complimentary of feet. This is non to deny that we volition, in fact, experience more self-possession, and that our fears will essentially diminish.

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

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a function limited in time and infinite.
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 the states, restricting us to our personal desires
and to amore for but the few people nearest us.
Our chore must be to free ourselves from this prison
past widening our circle of compassion to comprehend all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
just the striving for such accomplishment is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you cascade the salt into a river, people can continue to depict the water to melt, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the chapters to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and pity are limited, and nosotros endure. We can't have or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make united states of america suffer anymore. We take a lot of agreement and compassion and can embrace others. We have others as they are, and then they have a take chances to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every forenoon I awake torn between a desire to salvage the world and an inclination to bask information technology.
This makes it difficult to plan the mean solar day. But if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason exercise we accept for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- East.B. White -

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

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

Don't meditate to prepare yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it equally an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer whatsoever demand for the subtle aggression of cocky-comeback, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. Information technology offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is at present meditation every bit an human activity of dearest.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget well-nigh enlightenment.
Sit downward wherever you lot are and heed to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right at present, non who you would like to exist.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
Merely the existence right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of yous is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, expect in, let go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the ane paw that's right, simply on the other mitt, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to do is to become aware of it, to live information technology, to express information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Want what y'all have.
Practise what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

Yous do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even mind, simply await. Do not even wait. Be quiet, still, and solitary.
The world will freely offering itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice. Information technology will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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