A Miracle of Us Being Able to Meet Again

Mindfulness Quotes

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

Community does not necessarily mean living face up-to-face up with others;
rather, information technology means never losing the sensation that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, in the heart of the shopping district,
I was of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though nosotros were total strangers.
Information technology was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

In one case 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 always heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay close and do nothing."
 That's how nosotros try to do at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and do nothing. We sit yet and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who yous are, correct at present, not who you would similar to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the being right here earlier you, within you lot, effectually you lot.
All of yous is holy.
Y'all're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If we continue our attending focused on the present, we can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment volition alter,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever information technology is
that will emerge in the adjacent moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating credence.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non found through changing our external globe,
but through irresolute our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the nighttime, we cannot see the calorie-free.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, nosotros cannot feel the dear.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly means the backbone to be vulnerable.
Information technology means to show up and exist seen.
To enquire for what you need.
To talk most how you're feeling.
To take the hard conversations.
- Brené Brownish -

Meditation practice isn't most trying to throw ourselves abroad
and become something better.
Information technology's about befriending who nosotros are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

Nasrudin went into a bank with a check to cash.
"Tin y'all identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"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 it changes (which it will);
existence with the unpleasant without fearing it will ever exist this manner (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -

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

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the aforementioned manner that I appreciate a sunset. People are just equally wonderful as sunsets if you tin permit them be. In fact, possibly the reason we can truly capeesh a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I expect at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't find myself maxim, "Soften the orange a piffling on the right mitt corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and utilize a little more pink in the cloud colour." I don't exercise that. I don't try to command a dusk. I watch with awe as information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

At that place is something in every one of y'all that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
Information technology is the only truthful guide yous will always have.
And if you 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 exist, merely 1 thing I know: the just ones among you who will be actually happy are those who take sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't take to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
Information technology's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

Listening is the fine art of entering the skin of the other
and wearing it for a fourth dimension as if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does not mean to exist in a place where there is no racket, problem or hard work.
Information technology means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness,
just considering you lot deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Beingness on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to abound.
- 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 exist and then disappear,
and it is too a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do not be suddenly announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are simply 2 ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment i gives shut attention to annihilation,
even a bract of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
crawly, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The thing that is really hard, and really astonishing,
is giving up on being perfect
and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

Your vision will go clear only when y'all look into your eye.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

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

Alice laughed: "At that place's no employ trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you oasis't had much practise," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did information technology for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many every bit half-dozen impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

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

It's of import to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them but information technology'due south just as important not to button beyond them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full credence
and non trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can y'all be in touch,
not just with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but too with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your heed?
The lake can teach this, remind u.s. of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mount simply sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always but being itself.
Information technology remains all the same every bit the seasons flow into i another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day by solar day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Plenty.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If non this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and once 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 strength,
filling upwards in front end of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit in meditation for xx minutes every day
- unless you're besides busy -
then you should sit for an hr.
- One-time Zen adage -

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

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

If you call back of your body equally a instrument, the body browse is a way of tuning it.
If you think of it as a universe, the trunk scan is a style to come to know it.
If yous think of your body every bit a firm, the body scan is a style to throw open up all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we think and practise
Is limited past what we neglect to notice
And because we fail to notice
There is trivial nosotros tin do
To change
Until nosotros find
How declining to observe
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is not actually about establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are 1 of meditation'due south byproducts, not the practice itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the eye wanders or is distracted, bring it dorsum to the point quite gently...
And even if you did nothing during the whole of your 60 minutes but bring your heart dorsum,
though it went away every time y'all brought it back,
your 60 minutes would exist very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Between stimulus and response in that location is a space.
In that space is our power 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.
You're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end
that you would bring to any love friend
grappling with the same hurting, upset, or challenges as y'all.
- Rick Hanson -

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

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

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

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

... circles of trust ... are a rare class of community -
ane that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic behavior.
Offset, nosotros all accept an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, credo, commonage belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, nosotros all demand other people to invite, amplify, and aid us discern the inner instructor's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to grow upwardly
and become who y'all really are.
- East. East. Cummings -

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

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what do yous want?"
If yous think these are niggling questions,
about people go through their entire lives without answering either i.
- Peter Russell'due south answering auto -

Yous think y'all understand one.
You think you understand two, because i and i brand 2.
But, you must also empathize "and".
- Sufi saying -

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

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

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

There'south no problem then peachy it tin can't be solved.
If information technology 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 alive by our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the m sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the aggregating of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick upwardly an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upwards for a form even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each twenty-four hour period, to turn left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I exercise not know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you lot.
- Indian Saying -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual only means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is dissever or extraneous.
If you run across in this way, so everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline is spiritual. And so is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The saints are what they are, not considering their sanctity makes them beauteous to others,
but because the souvenir of sainthood makes it possible for them to adore everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

Ten yard flowers in jump, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in wintertime.
If your listen isn't overcast by 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 twenty-four hours
We wake upwardly empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty nosotros dear be what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then I awoke.
At present I wonder: Am I a human being 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 enquire me in the next world, 'Why were you non Moses?'
I will know the answer.
Simply if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I wait inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that's beloved.
Between these ii my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Nosotros are non troubled by things,
only past the opinions we have almost things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up still.
The trees before you and the bushes abreast you are non lost.
Wherever y'all are is a place chosen Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must enquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. Information technology answers,
I have fabricated this identify around you,
If yous leave it you may come back again saying 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 y'all,
You are surely lost. Stand up nevertheless. The forest knows
Where yous are. Y'all must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is by and large a superstition.
Information technology does not be in nature,
nor practice the children of men as a whole experience information technology.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was 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 beloved that is important.
But the bee is at the same fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for carrying out cantankerous-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

The birds take vanished into the heaven,
and now the last cloud drains abroad.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen primary.
"What can yous tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'yard a Zen master. Not a expressionless Zen master."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single footstep will non make a path on the earth,
so a single idea will not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must call back over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to boss our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

Don't ask what the earth needs. Ask what makes you come live and get do information technology.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to finish high school and commencement college.
And then I was dying to cease higher and start working.
And so I was dying to marry and take children.
And and then I was dying for my children to abound old enough for school so I could render to work.
And and then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And all of a sudden realize I forgot to live.
- Bearding -

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking yous have something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
In that location is no reason non to follow your centre.
- Steve Jobs -

Y'all must not lose religion in humanity.
Humanity is similar an ocean;
if a few drops of the sea are dirty,
the body of water does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

In my walks, I would fain render to my senses.
What business accept 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 between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Just 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 be big enough just to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain about who's correct and who'due south incorrect? Could we accept no calendar when nosotros walk into a room with some other person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could nosotros see, hear, experience other people as they actually are? Information technology is powerful to practice this way, because nosotros'll observe ourselves continually rushing around to try to experience secure once again—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. Merely truthful advice can happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

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

I sought my soul, But my soul I could non come across.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And plant all 3.
- Bearding -

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:  Heed to your life.
Run across it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the colorlessness and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
impact, taste, scent your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
considering in the concluding analysis all moments are fundamental moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is at that place annihilation I can practice to make myself Aware?
As little as you can do to make the dominicus ascent in the morning.
Then of what apply are the spiritual exercises yous prescribe?
To brand certain you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

In that location is nothing you can do to improve your soul.
There is cipher yous tin can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the but true faith consists of having a good heart.
- The Dalai Lama -

The farther I wake into this life, the more than I realize that God is everywhere
and the boggling is waiting quietly beneath 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 water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is under the porch as well equally on top of the mount,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to exist where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

Nosotros tin stop struggling with what occurs and see its truthful face without calling information technology the enemy.
It helps to recall that our spiritual do is not near accomplishing anything
- not near winning or losing - but well-nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the remainder of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Well-nigh of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we vest.
If we knew merely how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and over again.
Our relationships take the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we come across, we tin learn to look behind the mask
and see the one who longs to honey and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was every bit if I of a sudden saw the hush-hush beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge tin can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all run across themselves as they actually are.
If only we could come across each other that way all the time.
At that place 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 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 common than y'all know, and not far away. There is ane further truth, yet: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings prove the states the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the difficult job of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: Afterwards the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasance, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we retrieve something is going to requite usa misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important affair of all. Nosotros try to do what we think is going to assistance. Merely nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit upward alpine. When in that location'south a big thwarting,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be merely the beginning of a swell adventure.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros telephone 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 exercise 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 can come live merely in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As one wise educatee remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, nosotros live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, e'er, from those who recall they have the answers.
Let me keep visitor always with those who say
'Look!' and express mirth in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'thousand going to curl up in hither by myself; permit the world burn.'
Not at all.
Nosotros get deep into meditation and so that we can reach out further and further to the world exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Yous are not a drop in the sea,
Y'all are the entire sea in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a procedure of becoming, a combination of states we accept to become through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a country and remain in it.
This is a kind of expiry.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is chosen to be 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 world volition intermission to say,
'Here lived a groovy street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we brand music we don't do it in order to accomplish a sure point, such as the end of the limerick. If that were the purpose of music so obviously the fastest players would be the best. Likewise, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journeying. When nosotros dance, the journeying itself is the point, equally when we play music the playing itself is the betoken. And exactly the same matter is truthful in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

1 twenty-four hours I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do y'all keep doing this hard, eye-wrenching work when you lot know yous'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 answer:
"What y'all need to sympathize is this —
merely because something's impossible doesn't mean you lot shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the World?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - 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 heart of our being?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journeying, we have arrived at the heart 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 merely closed, plow around
- which puts the door behind the states -
and welcome the largeness of life that at present lies open up to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter near:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How securely 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, however, hidden deep within each of the states
is the one Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to practise is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Cocky 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 come across.
Equally you see him y'all will run into yourself.
As you treat him you lot will treat yourself.
Equally you retrieve of him you volition call back 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 exit my bitterness and hatred backside,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

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

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the bank check-out person and then much,
but with your own hurting that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I remember that'due south how we accept to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If nosotros learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who bulldoze u.s. crazy, tin be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must exist willing to permit get of the life nosotros have planned
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Due east.Thou. Forster -

When is the last fourth dimension that y'all had a swell conversation, a conversation that wasn't just 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
But ... a slap-up conversation, in which y'all overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew? That y'all heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly institute places within you that you thought yous had lost ... a conversation that brought the ii of you lot on to a different plane? ... a chat that connected to sing in your mind for weeks later on ...
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 risk 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, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a class of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you lot.
- Henri J.1000. Nouwen -

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

My beloved child, break your centre no longer.
Each time you lot estimate yourself, you break your heart.
Y'all pull away from the love that is the well-jump of your vitality.
Merely now the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a trouble simply a mystery. The stardom...
is fundamental: issues are to exist solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of the states?
Simply that we be in its presence,
that nosotros fully, consciously paw ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to evidence upwardly for whatever life may offering and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and non letting get until you find the unknown approval that is in everything..
I think that's how we accept to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what nosotros're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't recollect that's what nosotros're really seeking.
I think what we're seeking is an experience of beingness alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely concrete plane
will have resonance within our own innermost beingness and reality,
so that we actually experience the rapture of existence alive.
That's what it's all finally near.
- 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 non exactly the right phrase,
because letting go suggests that y'all need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not have to do anything to make it come, or make it go, or to allow it get.
We just accept to let information technology be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of us, I believe, is a souvenir the globe is giving to itself now, a unique souvenir. …
You don't demand to exist boggling. If the world is to be healed through human effort,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who tin can open to the web of life that called united states of america into existence,
and who tin can residual in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practise is often described equally the willingness to only exist with our life every bit information technology is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not about having a detail land of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it about beingness completely gratis of feet. This is non to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will essentially diminish.

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

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the residue, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison house to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circumvolve of pity to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
merely the striving for such achievement is in itself a office 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 love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

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

Every morning time I awake torn between a desire to save the earth and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to programme the 24-hour interval. But if we forget to savor the globe,
what possible reason exercise nosotros take for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- East.B. White -

Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and become.
Simply don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

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

Forget virtually enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and heed to the current of air that is singing in your veins.
Experience the love, the longing, and the fright in your bones.
Open up your heart to who you are, right at present, non who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the being correct here before you, within you, around you.
All of you lot is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever y'all tin can know.
Breathe out, look in, allow get.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how nosotros need to practice things to connect.
And on the one hand that's right, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What nosotros need to practise is to become enlightened of it, to live it, to limited information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you have.
Do what you tin.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and heed.
Do not even mind, simply wait. Do not even wait. Be placidity, still, and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to yous to exist unmasked.
It has no selection. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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