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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 globe,
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 we are continued to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, in the centre of the shopping commune,
I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
fifty-fifty though we were total strangers.
Information technology was similar waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

Once or twice a yr the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One dark he gave a talk that included the best advice I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and do nothing."
 That'southward how we try to exercise at Zen Hospice Project.
Nosotros stay close and do cypher. Nosotros sit down still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you lot are, correct now, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
Just the being correct here before you lot, within you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, wait in, permit become.
- John Welwood-

If we go along our attention focused on the present, nosotros can exist certain of one thing,
namely that whatsoever we are attending to in this moment will alter,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting any information technology is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the nighttime, we cannot run across the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot experience the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly ways the courage to exist vulnerable.
It means to show upwardly and exist seen.
To ask for what y'all need.
To talk about how you're feeling.
To take the difficult conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

Yous are whole and also function of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may non even know near.
Yous are never alone.
And you already vest.
Yous belong to humanity.
Yous vest to life.
Yous belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for everyone y'all run across is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a banking company 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 being enlightened of what is happening right now
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without belongings on when it changes (which it volition);
being with the unpleasant without fearing information technology will always be this way (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
At that place is a crevice in everything.
That'southward how the lite 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 same way that I capeesh a sunset. People are merely as wonderful as sunsets if you can allow them exist. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin truly capeesh a sunset is that nosotros cannot command it. When I await at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself maxim, "Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more majestic along the base, and employ a little more pinkish in the deject color." I don't practice 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 gem:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, information technology remains completely vivid and unaffected.
We simply take to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

At that place is something in every ane of you that waits and listens
for the audio of the genuine in yourself.
It is the but truthful guide yous will ever take.
And if you 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 exist, but 1 matter I know: the only ones amongst 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 you lot are perfect merely as you are...
... and there is still room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase boggling moments to observe happiness.
It'southward correct in front of me if I'm paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a identify where there is no noise, trouble or hard piece of work.
It ways to be in the midst of those things and all the same be calm in your center.
- Unknown -

Forgive others, non because they deserve forgiveness,
but because you lot deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

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

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and and so disappear,
and it is too a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that do not be all of a sudden announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

In that location are only two ways to live your life.
I is every bit though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

The moment i gives shut attention to anything,
even a bract of grass, information technology becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent earth in itself.
- Henry Miller -

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

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

Your vision will go clear only when you expect into your center.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

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

Alice laughed: "In that location's no use trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I ever did it for one-half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed every bit many equally six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

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

It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to experience them simply it's simply every bit of import not to button beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
and not trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are correct now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, tin can you be in bear upon,
not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
simply also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake tin teach this, remind u.s.a. of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, nevertheless always just beingness itself.
It remains still as the seasons flow into one another and equally the conditions changes moment by moment and twenty-four hours by twenty-four hours, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are plenty.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
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 upwards in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day
- unless y'all're too busy -
then you lot should sit down for an hour.
- Erstwhile Zen adage -

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

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives.
It is nearly perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also gain firsthand access to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

The range of what nosotros call back and do
Is express past what we neglect to notice
And because nosotros fail to find
In that location is little nosotros can do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to observe
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

The practice of meditation is not really about establishing inner stillness...
The moments of stillness are 1 of meditation's byproducts, non the practice itself.
- Erik Walker Wikstrom -

If the middle wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And even if you did cipher during the whole of your hr simply bring your heart back,
though information technology went away every time you lot brought it back,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

Y'all can have compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity.
You're only 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 dear friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.
- Rick Hanson -

It's merely being kind to myself -
meeting myself, any my emotional, physical or psychological land, with loving kindness.
Equally simple, and difficult, every bit that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your center
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not at present seek the answers, which cannot be given y'all
because you would non exist able to alive them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic beliefs.
First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than annihilation we can go from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief organisation, institution, or leader.
2nd, nosotros all demand other people to invite, dilate, and help u.s. discern the inner teacher's vocalism.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes backbone to grow upwards
and become who yous really are.
- East. Eastward. Cummings -

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

This is non an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are y'all and what practice yous want?"
If you think these are trivial questions,
most people go through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell'due south answering machine -

You recollect yous understand one.
You think you understand two, because ane and one make two.
Only, you must also empathize "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not nearly then interested in what monkey man was derived from
every bit I am in what kind of monkey he is to get.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

There's no trouble so great information technology tin't exist solved.
If information technology can't be solved, information technology'southward not a trouble, information technology'southward reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people really receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Well-nigh of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to exist authentic, to live by our own codes of honour.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the yard sweeps but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives more often than not happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We're called to attain out to someone, to pick up an odd volume on the library shelf, to sign up for a grade fifty-fifty though we're convinced we don't accept the time or coin, to become to our desks each day, to turn left instead of correct.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

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

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or extraneous.
If you run 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 relate the whole of Torah while standing on one foot:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to you lot.
All the residual is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, non because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
only because the gift of sainthood makes information technology possible for them to admire everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

X thousand flowers in leap, the moon in autumn,
A absurd breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded past unnecessary things,
This is the best flavor of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other solar day
Nosotros wake upward empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take down a musical musical instrument.
Let the dazzler we love be what we exercise
There are hundreds of manner to kneel
And osculation the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell y'all 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 human who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the adjacent globe, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the reply.
Only if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I volition have zip to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I wait within and see that I am nada, that'south wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that's love.
Between these ii my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled by things,
but by the opinions nosotros have most things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand up still.
The trees earlier you and the bushes beside you are non lost.
Wherever you are is a identify chosen Here,
And you must treat information technology as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Heed. It answers,
I accept made this place around you,
If you go out it you lot may come back over again saying Hither.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You lot are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you lot are. You must allow it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men every bit 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 addicted of stating that what seems to exist happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is of import.
But the bee is at the same fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nil is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an erstwhile man and have known a great many troubles,
nearly of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

Nosotros see things non as they are, simply as we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

The birds have vanished into the heaven,
and at present the last deject drains away.
We sit down together, the mount and me,
until simply the mount remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen primary.
"What can yous tell me about decease?" the educatee asked.
"Cypher," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Not a dead Zen primary."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

Every bit a unmarried footstep will not make a path on the earth,
then a single thought volition non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

Don't ask what the earth needs. Enquire what makes you come live and go practise 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 servant.
We have created a society that honors the retainer and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

First I was dying to end loftier school and start higher.
And then I was dying to finish higher and start working.
And and then I was dying to marry and have children.
And and then I was dying for my children to grow old plenty for school and so I could return to piece of work.
And so I was dying to retire.
And at present, I am dying...
And suddenly 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 you are going to dice is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Y'all are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

In my walks, I would fain render to my senses.
What business concern 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 and so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

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

Could our minds and our hearts be large plenty just to hang out in that infinite where nosotros're not entirely sure about who's right and who's wrong? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person incorrect or correct? Could nosotros come across, hear, feel other people equally they really are? It is powerful to do this way, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing around to effort to feel secure once again—to brand ourselves or them either right or wrong. Simply true communication tin happen merely 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 crumb.
- Macrina Wiederkehr -

Every part of our personality that we do not beloved
will become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
you lot may be at a place that everyone, sooner or subsequently, experiences on the spiritual path.
Subsequently a while it seems similar about every moment of your life you're in that location,
where you realize you have a choice.
You accept a choice whether to open up or close, whether to concur on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you lot over again and over again and once more.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If I were chosen upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, information technology would be something like this:  Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the colorlessness and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
bear on, gustation, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the last assay all moments are primal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As little as you lot can do to make the lord's day rise in the morning time.
And then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are non asleep when the dominicus begins to rising.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is zero you tin can do to ameliorate your soul.
In that location is nix you can practise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

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

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere
and the extraordinary is waiting quietly below the pare 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 h2o dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yeah, God is nether the porch besides as on pinnacle of the mount,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

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

Nigh of united states of america need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If nosotros knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join easily over again and once more.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a identify of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, we can learn to expect behind the mask
and meet the one who longs to dear and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the clandestine beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can attain,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that style all the time.
There would be no more war, no more than hatred, no more than cruelty, no more than greed. …
I suppose the large problem would exist that we would fall downwards and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, enkindling into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and non far abroad. At that place is one further truth, however: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings evidence us the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that later on the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the aforementioned: Afterward the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros think that something is going to bring us pleasance, we really don't know what'south going to happen. When we call back something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting in that location be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. Nosotros endeavour to exercise what we recollect is going to aid. But we don't know.
We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that'south the cease of the story. Information technology may exist just the showtime of a great risk.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros call something bad; nosotros call it expert. 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 practice 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 come live only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. Every bit one wise student remarked,
'If you lot really want to know about a Zen main, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

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

You are not a driblet in the ocean,
You lot are the unabridged ocean 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 information technology.
This is a kind of expiry.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even equally a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote verse.
He should sweep streets and so well that all the hosts of heaven and world will pause to say,
'Hither lived a great street sweeper who did his task well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we brand music nosotros don't practise it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music and so obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a item place on the flooring every bit in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the betoken, as when nosotros 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 ever arrived at in the firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

But to the extent that nosotros expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
can that which is indestructible be found in united states of america.
- Pema Chodron -

Ane day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How practise you keep doing this hard, center-wrenching work when you know yous'll wake up tomorrow to issues that are as bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's answer:
"What you demand to empathize is this —
but considering something'south impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our organized religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy water - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-cognition? If beloved was the centre of our being?
- Ganga White -

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

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

Y'all and I appear to be carve up. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of us
is the 1 Self - eternal, space, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded clandestine of life: that we are all defenseless up in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros 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 y'all meet anyone, remember information technology is a holy run into.
Equally you run into him you will run across yourself.
As you treat him you will treat yourself.
Every bit you think of him you lot will remember of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him yous will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

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

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

Go and love someone exactly as they are and spotter how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When 1 feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person then much,
just with your ain pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I think that's how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we accept planned
and then as to have the one that is waiting for us.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the terminal time that you lot had a great chat, a conversation that wasn't only 2 intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Only ... a swell conversation, in which y'all overheard yourself maxim things that you never knew you knew? That you lot heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that yous thought yous had lost ... a chat that brought the 2 of you on to a different airplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your listen for weeks afterwards ...
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 attending to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to showtime feeling accepted, offset taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more than fully, and fifty-fifty to dare to exist silent with y'all.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Yet their approach to life comes from a deep caring and business organisation 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 nosotros recollect God is,
or whether we even remember God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is ofttimes washed quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, intermission your heart no longer.
Each time you approximate yourself, you interruption your heart.
You pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
Only at present the fourth dimension has come, your fourth dimension, to alive and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji equally shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is non a problem only a mystery. The stardom...
is primal: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery enquire of us?
Only that we exist 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 human relationship to life …,
a willingness to bear witness up for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you lot have been given every bit fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until yous find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I think that'due south how we take to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't recall that's what we're really seeking.
I think what nosotros're seeking is an experience of being alive,
and so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will take resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
That'south what it's all finally almost.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
let become of thoughts, let get of emotions, let become of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting become suggests that you demand to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Permit it exist.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We do not have to practice anything to make it come, or get in become, or to let it go.
Nosotros but take to permit information technology be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

Do is often described as the willingness to only exist with our life every bit it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not about having a item state of mind, such every bit calmness. Nor is it nearly being completely complimentary of feet. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, feel more equanimity, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

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

A homo beingness is a part of the whole, chosen by u.s.a. "Universe,"
a part express in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest usa.
Our chore must exist to free ourselves from this prison house
past widening our circle of compassion to encompass all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its dazzler.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a 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 beloved.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the 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, cover, and transform. When our hearts are small, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and nosotros demand that they change. Simply when our hearts expand, these same things don't brand the states endure anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and tin embrace others. Nosotros accept others every bit they are, and and then they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to salvage the world and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to program the twenty-four hour period. Merely if we forget to relish the globe,
what possible reason do we have for saving information technology?
In a style, the savoring must come get-go.
- E.B. White -

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

Our days are happier when nosotros requite people a fleck of our heart rather than a slice of our mind.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to set yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, exercise it equally an human action of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle assailment of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing plenty. Information technology offers the possibility of an finish to the ceaseless round of trying so difficult that wraps then many people's lives in a knot. Instead in that location is now meditation equally an deed of dear.
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 honey, the longing, and the fearfulness in your bones.
Open up your eye to who you are, correct now, not who yous would similar to be.
Not the saint you're striving to get.
But the being right here before yous, inside you, effectually you.
All of you lot is holy.
You're already more than and less than whatsoever you tin can know.
Exhale out, wait in, allow become.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk near how we need to do things to connect.
And on the one manus that'due south right, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
We are continued.
What we need to do is to become aware of it, to alive information technology, to limited information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Desire what you have.
Do what yous can.
Exist who y'all are.
- Forrest Church -

You practice not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and heed.
Practice not even listen, simply await. Do not even wait. Be quiet, all the same, and solitary.
The world volition freely offering itself to you lot to exist unmasked.
It has no selection. It will gyre in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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