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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth,
home deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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

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

In one case or twice a twelvemonth 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 only, "Stay close and practice nada."
 That'southward how we try to do at Zen Hospice Project.
Nosotros stay shut and practise nothing. We sit nevertheless and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open up your heart to who y'all are, right now, non who you lot would like to be.
Not the saint y'all're striving to go.
But the existence right hither before yous, within you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more than and less than whatever y'all tin know.
Breathe out, look in, permit go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros go on our attention focused on the nowadays, we can exist sure of i thing,
namely that any we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving usa the opportunity to practice accepting whatever information technology is
that will emerge in the adjacent moment.
Conspicuously, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is non establish through changing our external world,
simply through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, we cannot meet the low-cal.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

If you know something hurtful and not truthful, don't say it.
If yous know something hurtful and truthful, don't say information technology.
If you know something helpful only non true, don't say it.
If yous know something helpful and true, notice the right fourth dimension to say it.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Buddha) -

Daring profoundly means the courage to be vulnerable.
It ways to show upwardly and be seen.
To ask for what y'all need.
To talk near how you're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

Exist kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard boxing.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a depository financial institution with a check to greenbacks.
"Tin can you lot identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Aye, that'south me alright."
- Idres Shah -

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

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

One of the near satisfying feelings I know – and as well one of the well-nigh growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this private in the same way that I appreciate a dusk. People are but equally wonderful as sunsets if you can let them exist. In fact, mayhap the reason we can truly capeesh a dusk is that nosotros cannot control it. When I await at a dusk as I did the other evening, I don't observe myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and utilize a little more pink in the cloud color." I don't exercise that. I don't effort to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

In that location is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the audio of the genuine in yourself.
Information technology is the just truthful guide you will ever have.
And if yous cannot hear it, you will all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones amongst you who will exist really happy are those who have sought and establish 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 comeback!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't accept to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'grand paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

Listening is the art of inbound the skin of the other
and wearing information technology for a fourth dimension every bit if information technology were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
It does not hateful to be in a place where there is no noise, problem or difficult work.
It ways to exist in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you lot how to utilize the darkness as a tool to abound.
- Jack Kornfield -

Arguments ever brainstorm with an reply in mind.
Conversation begins with a question .
- unknown -

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

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is every bit though naught is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

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

Une difficulté est une lumière.
Une difficulté insurmontable est united nations soleil.
(A difficulty is a light.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sunday.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will become articulate merely when you wait into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a volume is human being's best friend.
Inside of a dog,
information technology'southward likewise dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'south no use trying," she said;
"ane can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay yous haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a 24-hour interval.
Why, sometimes I've believed equally many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practice not practice one day, I notice it.
If I practise non practice a 2nd day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not practice a third day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be enlightened of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to experience them but it's but equally of import non to push button beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to forcefulness ourselves to be unlike from how nosotros are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
not simply with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
just too 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 within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain simply sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, nonetheless always just existence itself.
It remains still every bit the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day past day, calmness constant all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Plenty.
These few words are plenty.
If non these words, this breath.
If not this jiff, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we take refused
again and again
until at present.
Until at present.
- David Whyte -

When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, it pauses.
It increases in volume and strength,
filling upwardly in front end of the obstruction
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every mean solar day
- unless you're also busy -
and so you should sit for an 60 minutes.
- Old Zen adage -

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

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

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

The range of what nosotros retrieve and do
Is limited past what we neglect to notice
And because nosotros fail to notice
At that place is piffling we can do
To change
Until nosotros notice
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the betoken quite gently...
And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour simply bring your centre back,
though it went away every fourth dimension you brought it back,
your hour would exist very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

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

It's simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological country, with loving kindness.
As elementary, and difficult, 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 man'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
similar locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Exercise non now seek the answers, which cannot exist given you
considering you would non 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 course of community -
i that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
Get-go, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than anything nosotros tin can become from a doctrine, ideology, commonage belief system, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and assist us discern the inner teacher's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes backbone to abound up
and go 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 sympathise growth, it would look like consummate devastation.
- Cynthia Occelli -

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

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

I am not nearly and 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 outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

There's no problem so great it tin't be solved.
If information technology can't be solved, it's not a problem, it'due south reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people really receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and called-for bushes. Most of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live by our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps only in the minor gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen only equally a result of the accumulation of innumerable small-scale steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to choice up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upward for a grade fifty-fifty though nosotros're convinced nosotros don't have the fourth dimension or coin, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the burn drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I practise not know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual but means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nada is carve up or extraneous.
If you lot come across in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. And so is washing the dishes.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Hillel the sage, who was asked to chronicle 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 admirable to others,
but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to adore everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

Ten k flowers in spring, the moon in fall,
A cool breeze in summertime, snowfall in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded past unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other solar day
We wake upwards empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept downwardly a musical musical instrument.
Allow the dazzler we love be what we exercise
At that place are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

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

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they enquire me in the next world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the answer.
But if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have nothing to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

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

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before yous and the bushes beside yous are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must enquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I take fabricated this place around you,
If you leave it you may come up back again saying Here.
No two copse are the same to Raven.
No two branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand notwithstanding. The woods knows
Where you lot are. You must let it find yous.
- David Wagoner -

Security is more often than not a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men equally a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or 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 point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is of import.
But the bee is at the aforementioned time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Zippo is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We see things non as they are, but equally we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

The birds take vanished into the heaven,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit 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 can you tell me about death?" the student asked.
"Goose egg," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Not a expressionless Zen main."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

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

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

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

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

Get-go I was dying to finish loftier schoolhouse and commencement college.
And then I was dying to stop higher and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and take children.
And so I was dying for my children to abound old enough for school so I could return to piece of work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And suddenly realize I forgot to alive.
- Anonymous -

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

Remembering that y'all are going to die is the all-time way I know
to avert the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Y'all are already naked.
There is no reason non to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they vest,
It'southward our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

Compassion is not a relationship betwixt the healer and the wounded.
It'south a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes existent when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts be big enough but to hang out in that space where we're non entirely certain well-nigh who's correct and who'due south incorrect? Could we have 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, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way, considering nosotros'll observe ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. Just truthful communication can happen but 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 beauty is waiting in every nibble.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every office of our personality that we exercise not honey
volition become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Subsequently a while it seems like about every moment of your life you're there,
where you realize you lot take a pick.
You take a pick whether to open or close, whether to concord on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to concord your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you over again and again and over again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not come across.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And constitute all three.
- Bearding -

If I were chosen 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 into it 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 mode to the holy and hidden heart of it
considering in the concluding assay all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin do to brand myself Enlightened?
As lilliputian as you tin do to make the lord's day rise in the morning.
Then of what apply are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To make certain you are not comatose when the sunday begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

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

I believe that the merely truthful religion consists of having a good heart.
- The Dalai Lama -

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the cleaved bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipage.
Yes, God is under the porch as well every bit on meridian of the mount,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where nosotros are.
- Mark Nepo -

We can cease struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling information technology the enemy.
Information technology helps to remember that our spiritual practice is non about accomplishing anything
- not about winning or losing - but nearly ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that nosotros belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions afflicted
the hearts of those around the states, we'd reach out and join hands again and once again.
Our relationships accept the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we come across, we tin learn to await behind the mask
and see the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was as if I all of a sudden saw the secret dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge tin accomplish,
the cadre of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all come across themselves as they actually are.
If only nosotros could see each other that mode all the time.
At that place would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the large trouble would be that we would fall downwardly 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 farther truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings evidence us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
simply they pass. ...
We all know that later on the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Afterward the election comes the hard chore of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: Later on the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what'south going to happen. When nosotros think something is going to give us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for non knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to practise what nosotros think is going to help. But we don't know.
Nosotros never know if nosotros're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When at that place's a big thwarting,
we don't know if that's the terminate of the story. It may be but the get-go of a dandy gamble.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we call information technology good. Only actually we merely don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our work, our honey, our families, and our inventiveness. 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 live is our spiritual life. Every bit i wise student remarked,
'If you lot really want to know about a Zen chief, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood...
Let me go on my altitude, e'er, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep visitor always with those who say
'Look!' 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'south enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, there's more than than room for anybody; there's a need for anybody.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to gyre up in here past myself; let the globe burn.'
Not at all.
We get deep into meditation so that we tin can reach out further and further to the globe outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Yous are not a drop in the ocean,
You are the entire body of water in a drop.
- Rumi -

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

If a man is called to exist a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even every bit 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 pause to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther Rex -

Paradise is thus not then much a identify,
as liberation into the fullness and bounty
of everyday experience.
- Ian Baker -

When nosotros make music nosotros don't exercise information technology in order to achieve a certain point, such as the terminate of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then plain the fastest players would be the best. As well, when we are dancing nosotros are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When nosotros trip the light fantastic toe, the journeying itself is the betoken, equally when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the aforementioned affair is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is e'er arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Only 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 practice you lot keep doing this difficult, heart-wrenching piece of work when you know you'll wake up tomorrow to problems that are as bad or worse than the ones yous're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'due south answer:
"What you lot demand to understand is this —
only because something's impossible doesn't mean yous 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 Globe?
If forests were our church?
If holy h2o - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-noesis? If love was the middle of our existence?
- Ganga White -

Equally often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.
All we demand to do is stop pounding on the door that has merely closed, plow 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 united states of america from entering a room,
merely what now lies before us is the remainder of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the terminate, these things matter well-nigh:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

Yous and I appear to be separate. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Below this apparent sectionalisation, however, hidden deep within each of u.s.a.
is the ane Cocky - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all defenseless up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to exercise 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 information technology.
- William Arthur Ward -

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

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

Permit the states 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 love someone exactly as they are and scout how rapidly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to do with developing patience, non with the cheque-out person so much,
but 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 call up that'south how we accept to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If we larn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who bulldoze us crazy, tin can be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must exist willing to let get of the life nosotros have planned
and so as to accept the one that is waiting for usa.
- E.Chiliad. Forster -

When is the last time that y'all had a great conversation, a chat that wasn't merely 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Just ... a cracking conversation, in which you overheard yourself proverb things that you lot never knew yous knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within yous that you thought you lot 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 after ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drinkable for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than assuasive another to talk while waiting for a chance to answer. Listening is paying total attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to outset feeling accustomed, kickoff taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which you invite strangers to exist friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and fifty-fifty to cartel to be silent with you.
- Henri J.Yard. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. All the same their approach to life comes from a deep caring and concern for all human beings.
Information technology comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is about. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender we think God is,
or whether we even retrieve God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It is experiencing and interim from our deep connections.
Information technology is ofttimes done quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, suspension your centre no longer.
Each time you gauge yourself, you lot break your heart.
You pull away from the beloved that is the well-jump of your vitality.
Simply now the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared past Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: issues are to be solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery enquire of us?
Just that we be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to prove up for whatsoever life may offering and run across with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given equally fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think 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 think that'southward what we're really seeking.
I remember what we're seeking is an feel of being live,
then that our life experiences on the purely concrete plane
will have resonance inside our own innermost existence and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
That'due south what it'southward all finally about.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting go of things:
permit become of thoughts, permit become of emotions, permit go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the correct phrase,
because letting become suggests that y'all need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it exist." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not accept to do annihilation to make it come, or make it go, or to let information technology go.
We but have to let it exist.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each 1 of usa, I believe, is a gift the globe is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You lot don't need to exist boggling. If the world is to be healed through homo effort,
I am convinced it volition be by ordinary people,
people whose love for this life is fifty-fifty greater than their fearfulness.
People who can open to the web of life that called u.s.a. into being,
and who can rest in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Exercise is oft described as the willingness to simply exist with our life every bit information technology is. But this is a difficult concept to become: that practice is not about having a particular country of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it most being completely complimentary of anxiety. This is non to deny that we will, in fact, experience more self-possession, and that our fears will essentially diminish.

But, ironically, information technology'southward the very need that life be a particular mode that almost guarantees a standing land of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being being is a function of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part express in time and infinite.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
every bit something separated from the balance, a kind of optical delusion 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 u.s.a..
Our job must exist to gratuitous ourselves from this prison house
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to reach this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

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

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to bask it.
This makes information technology hard to plan the day. But if nosotros forget to savor the world,
what possible reason practise we accept for saving information technology?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Leave your forepart door and your dorsum door open up.
Let your thoughts to come up and go.
But don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to meliorate yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of dear, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this fashion there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the countless guilt of not doing plenty. It offers the possibility of an end to the incessant round of trying then hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an human activity of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are and listen 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 lot are, right now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you lot're striving to become.
But the being right here earlier you lot, within you lot, effectually you.
All of yous is holy.
Yous're already more than and less than whatever y'all can know.
Breathe out, await in, let become.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk most how nosotros need to do things to connect.
And on the 1 hand that'southward right, merely on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are continued.
What we demand to do is to become aware of information technology, to live it, to limited information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you accept.
Do what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

Yous do not take to get out the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even mind, simply wait. Do not even look. Be repose, nevertheless, and solitary.
The globe will freely offer itself to you lot to be unmasked.
It has no choice. Information technology will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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