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Mindfulness Quotes

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The phenomenon is not to walk on h2o.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth,
domicile deeply in the present moment, feeling fully live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Customs does non necessarily mean living face-to-face with others;
rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

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

Once or twice a yr the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Heart,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
1 night he gave a talk that included the all-time advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and practice nothing."
 That's how we try to practise at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit withal and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who yous would like to exist.
Non the saint yous're striving to become.
But the being right here earlier you, within you, around y'all.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more than and less than whatever you tin can know.
Breathe out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attending focused on the nowadays, we can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever information technology is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Conspicuously, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the nighttime, nosotros cannot see the low-cal.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot experience the beloved.
- 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 yous know something helpful only not true, don't say information technology.
If you know something helpful and true, detect the correct time to say information technology.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

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

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

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
yous may not even know nearly.
You are never alone.
And you already belong.
Yous vest to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this jiff.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

Forget your perfect offering.
There is a fissure in everything.
That's how the calorie-free gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this private in the same mode that I capeesh a sunset. People are just every bit wonderful as sunsets if y'all can let them be. In fact, possibly the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot command it. When I wait at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a picayune on the right hand corner, and put a bit more majestic along the base, and use a niggling more pink in the deject color." I don't do that. I don't try to command a dusk. I sentinel with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily cached in mud, it remains completely bright and unaffected.
We only take to uncover it.
- 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 only truthful guide you lot will ever take.
And if you cannot hear it, you lot 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 exist, simply one thing I know: the only ones amidst 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 yous are perfect just as you are...
... and at that place is yet room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to detect happiness.
It's correct in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
Information technology does not mean to be in a identify where in that location is no noise, trouble or hard work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your eye.
- Unknown -

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

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

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

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

There are only two means to live your life.
One is equally though nothing is a phenomenon.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment 1 gives close attending to anything,
even a bract of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
crawly, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The thing that is actually hard, and really amazing,
is giving upwardly 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 low-cal.
An insurmountable difficulty is a dominicus.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will go clear merely when y'all look into your centre.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a book is human's all-time friend.
Inside of a canis familiaris,
it's likewise night to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I do not practice one mean solar day, I detect it.
If I do not practise a second twenty-four hour period, the orchestra notices it.
If I do non do a 3rd 24-hour interval, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'due south important to exist aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it's just every bit of import not to push across them...
Instead we are going to be looking securely into each moment with full acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Through it all, the mountain but sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly irresolute, nevertheless always just being itself.
It remains still as the seasons period into i another and as the weather changes moment by moment and twenty-four hours by twenty-four hours, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we take refused
over again and once again
until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

When flowing h2o meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, information technology pauses.
It increases in volume and force,
filling up in forepart of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

Y'all do not vest to you.
Y'all belong to the universe.
The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you,
but yous may presume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you lot use yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others.
- Buckminster Fuller -

You lot should sit in meditation for xx minutes every twenty-four hour period
- unless you're too busy -
and then you should sit for an hour.
- Onetime Zen adage -

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

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

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

The range of what we recall and do
Is limited past what we fail to notice
And because we fail to observe
In that location is piffling we can practise
To change
Until we notice
How failing to discover
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the eye wanders or is distracted, bring information technology back to the signal quite gently...
And even if you did cipher during the whole of your hour merely bring your heart back,
though it went abroad every time yous brought it back,
your 60 minutes would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

You can have compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that yous would bring to any honey friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges equally you.
- Rick Hanson -

It'due south merely being kind to myself -
coming together myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Every bit unproblematic, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should discover in each human'southward 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 dearest the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very strange tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot exist given you
because you lot would not exist 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 individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Beginning, nosotros all take an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all demand other people to invite, dilate, and help us discern the inner teacher'southward phonation.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow upwards
and get who y'all really are.
- E. East. Cummings -

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

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

You recollect y'all empathize one.
You think you understand two, because one and one make two.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am non virtually then interested in what monkey man was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

At that place is no enlightenment exterior of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

In that location's no problem so keen it tin can't be solved.
If it can't be solved, it's non a problem, it'southward reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Near of the calls nosotros receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live by our own codes of award.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the one thousand sweeps but in the pocket-sized gestures. The nifty breakthroughs in our lives mostly happen merely equally a result of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and modest achievements. We're chosen to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to plough 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 you lot.
When I know who I am, I am yous.
- Indian Proverb -

Maybe ultimately, spiritual but means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that zilch is divide or extraneous.
If you meet in this manner, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline 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:
"Practise not practice to others that which is hateful to you.
All the balance is commentary. At present go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

10 thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snowfall in winter.
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 similar every other twenty-four hours
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your study
And brainstorm reading.
Have downward a instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do
In that location are hundreds of mode to kneel
And osculation the earth.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; so I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of existence 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 answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were yous not Zusya?'
I volition have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I look inside and see that I am cipher, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and meet that I am everything, that'south beloved.
Betwixt these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled past things,
only past the opinions we have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up still.
The trees before y'all and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place chosen Here,
And you must care for it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have fabricated this identify around you,
If you leave it you may come up back again saying Hither.
No two copse are the same to Raven.
No 2 branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
Y'all are surely lost. Stand all the same. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let information technology find yous.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not be in nature,
nor do 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 null.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the total story of what is really going on.
He liked to point out that for the dear bee, it is the honey that is important.
Just the bee is at the same time nature'southward vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Zip is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Nosotros run into things not as they are, merely as we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen master.
"What tin can you tell me about expiry?" the student asked.
"Zip," the other replied. "I'thousand a Zen master. Not a dead Zen primary."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
then a single idea volition non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and over again.
To make a deep mental path, we must call back over and over
the kind of thoughts nosotros wish to dominate 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 y'all come alive and go exercise it.
Considering what the world needs is people who take come up alive.
- Howard Thurman -

The intuitive heed is a sacred gift and the rational heed is a true-blue servant.
We have created a society 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 and so I was dying to finish college and beginning working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old plenty for school so I could render to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And all of a sudden realize I forgot to live.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that yous are going to die is the all-time style I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the bounding main are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- 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,
It's our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

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

Could our minds and our hearts be big enough simply to hang out in that space where we're non entirely certain about who'due south correct and who's wrong? Could we have no calendar when nosotros walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we encounter, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this style, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing effectually to try to experience secure once again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true advice can happen only in that open up infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every function of our personality that we do non love
volition become hostile to usa.
- Robert Bly -

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

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all 3.
- Anonymous -

If I were chosen upon to land in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Heed to your life.
Come across information technology for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your manner to the holy and subconscious center of information technology
because in the last analysis all moments are fundamental moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin can do to brand myself Enlightened?
As petty as yous tin can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
So of what use are the spiritual exercises you lot prescribe?
To make sure you are non asleep when the lord's day begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

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

I believe that the only true religion consists of having a skilful centre.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more than I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Aye, God is nether the porch also as on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true confront without calling it the enemy.
It helps to call up that our spiritual exercise is not virtually accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit down downwardly to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the residual of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Virtually of us need to be reminded that we are skilful, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around united states, nosotros'd attain out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships take the potential to be a sacred refuge, a identify of healing and enkindling.
With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask
and see the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

And then it was as if I all of a sudden saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor want nor self-knowledge can attain,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If simply they could all run into themselves every bit they really are.
If only nosotros could run across each other that style all the fourth dimension.
In that location would be no more war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that nosotros 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, awakening into a land of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you lot know, and not far away. There is one farther truth, all the same: They don't concluding.
Our realizations and awakenings show usa the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
simply they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring usa pleasance, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give u.s.a. misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the almost important thing of all. We try to do what we retrieve is going to assistance. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall apartment or sit up tall. When there'southward a large disappointment,
we don't know if that'due south the stop of the story. It may exist just the beginning of a slap-up gamble.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; we call it good. But really nosotros just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practise 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 can come alive simply in each item and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, e'er, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me continue visitor ever with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't retrieve the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'grand going to curl up in here by myself; let the world fire.'
Not at all.
We become deep into meditation so that nosotros can attain out further and farther to the world exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are not a drop in the body of water,
Y'all are the entire body of water in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a procedure 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 man is chosen to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a keen street sweeper who did his chore well.'
- Martin Luther Male monarch -

Paradise is thus not and so much a place,
every bit liberation into the fullness and compensation
of everyday feel.
- Ian Bakery -

When we make music we don't exercise it in order to accomplish a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music so obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing nosotros are not aiming to arrive at a item place on the floor as in a journeying. When we trip the light fantastic, the journey itself is the signal, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

I day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How exercise you lot proceed doing this difficult, centre-wrenching work when you know you'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 lot need to understand is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean y'all shouldn't practise 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 World?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If love was the centre of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, nosotros have arrived at the centre 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 closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind usa -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept usa from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you honey?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be separate. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent partitioning, withal, hidden deep inside each of usa
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 within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy run across.
Every bit you see him yous will see yourself.
Every bit you lot treat him you will treat yourself.
As you think of him yous will call up of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will 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 behind,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Let united states of america encourage one 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 as they are and watch how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

Information technology has a lot to practise with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and dear to that rawness and soreness.
I think that's how we have to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location own't no answer.
There own't ever going to exist an answer.
There never was an respond.
That's the reply.
- Gertrude Stein -

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
and then equally to have the one that is waiting for us.
- Eastward.Thou. Forster -

When is the terminal time that you had a bully conversation, a conversation that wasn't but two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a groovy conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you lot never knew you knew? That y'all heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely establish places within you that you thought yous had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterward ...
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 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 start feeling accepted, first taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a class of spiritual hospitality by which you lot invite strangers to exist friends, to get to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to cartel to exist 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 bones kindness.
That is what spirituality is almost. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't almost what gender we call up God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is frequently done quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved kid, break your centre no longer.
Each time you estimate yourself, you suspension your center.
Y'all pull abroad from the love that is the well-jump of your vitality.
But now the fourth dimension has come up, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that y'all are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem merely a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: bug are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Merely that nosotros be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously manus ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional human relationship to life …,
a willingness to show up for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Mayhap the wisdom lies in engaging the life you lot have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting get until y'all find the unknown approval that is in everything..
I call up that's how nosotros have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

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

Each 1 of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
Y'all don't demand to be extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through man attempt,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose dearest for this life is fifty-fifty greater than their fear.
People who can open to the spider web of life that called us into existence,
and who can balance in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is frequently described as the willingness to simply be with our life as it is. Just this is a hard concept to get: that practice is not about having a item land of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it virtually existence completely free of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

Just, ironically, it's the very demand that life be a particular style that almost guarantees a continuing state of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being is a part of the whole, called past us "Universe,"
a office limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the balance, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to usa, restricting united states of america to our personal desires
and to affection for merely the few people nearest usa.
Our task must exist to gratis ourselves from this prison
by widening our circumvolve of pity to comprehend all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but 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 anything other than real, unconditional honey.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you pour a scattering of common salt into a cup of water, the h2o becomes undrinkable. But if you lot pour the common salt into a river, people tin continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the chapters to receive, cover, and transform. When our hearts are small-scale, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they modify. Merely when our hearts expand, these same things don't brand usa suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and tin embrace others. We accept others as they are, and and then they have a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to relish it.
This makes it hard to plan the twenty-four hours. But if we forget to savor the globe,
what possible reason do we have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come up first.
- E.B. White -

Go out your front 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 bit of our center rather than a slice of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to set yourself, to heal yourself, to amend yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, exercise it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this fashion there is no longer any demand for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an cease to the ceaseless circular of trying so difficult that wraps and then many people'southward lives in a knot. Instead at that place is at present meditation equally an deed of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down down wherever you are and listen to the air current that is singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who yous are, correct at present, not who you would like to be.
Non the saint yous're striving to become.
But the existence correct hither earlier yous, within yous, effectually y'all.
All of you is holy.
Yous're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, permit get.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the one hand that'south right, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What nosotros demand to do is to become aware of information technology, to live it, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what yous take.
Exercise what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

You do not accept to exit the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Exercise not even listen, merely wait. Exercise not even wait. Be quiet, still, and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It will curlicue in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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