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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is not to walk on h2o.
The phenomenon is to walk on the light-green world,
dwelling deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living contiguous with others;
rather, information technology means never losing the awareness that we are continued 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.
It was like waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

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

Open your centre to who y'all are, right now, non who you would like to be.
Non the saint y'all're striving to get.
But the beingness right here earlier you, inside yous, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than any you can know.
Breathe out, look in, let get.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can exist sure of 1 thing,
namely that any we are attending to in this moment volition change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that will emerge in the adjacent moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not plant through changing our external world,
but through changing our internal landscape.
- Shauna Shapiro -

Without the dark, we cannot see the light.
Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absence, nosotros cannot feel the love.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring profoundly means the courage to exist vulnerable.
It means to prove upwardly and be seen.
To ask for what yous need.
To talk about how yous're feeling.
To take the difficult conversations.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -

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

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may not fifty-fifty know about.
You are never alone.
And y'all already vest.
You lot belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Be kind, for anybody you meet is fighting a difficult boxing.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a banking company with a check to cash.
"Can you identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into it.
"Yes, that'south me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is simply being aware 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 volition e'er exist this way (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That'due south how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

I of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also 1 of the virtually growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are merely every bit wonderful every bit sunsets if y'all can let them exist. In fact, maybe the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that nosotros cannot command it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't observe myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right mitt corner, and put a flake more than purple forth the base of operations, and use a little more pinkish in the deject colour." I don't do that. I don't try to command a sunset. I lookout man with awe equally it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

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

There is something in every i of y'all that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the simply truthful guide y'all will ever take.
And if y'all cannot hear it, yous 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 volition be, but one thing I know: the but ones amid you lot who volition be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a grouping of schoolboys. -

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

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

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

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

Forgive others, not considering they deserve forgiveness,
but because y'all deserve peace
- Jonathan Hule -

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent y'all from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to utilise 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 then disappear,
and it is also a procedure of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do non exist all of a sudden appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two ways to live your life.
1 is as though nothing 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,
crawly, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The thing that is really difficult, and really amazing,
is giving upward 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 light.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will get clear but when you look into your middle.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

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

Alice laughed: "There's no employ trying," she said;
"one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay yous haven't had much practice," 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 as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I do not practise one twenty-four hours, I notice it.
If I practice not practise a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do non practice a third day, the earth notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

Information technology's important to exist aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them but it's just equally of import not to push across them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to strength ourselves to be different from how nosotros are correct now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation do and in your daily life, can you be in touch,
non only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of sensation itself,
residing below the surface of your listen?
The lake tin teach this, remind us of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through it all, the mountain simply sits, experiencing modify in each moment,
constantly changing, withal e'er just being itself.
It remains notwithstanding as the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day past solar day, calmness constant all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Plenty.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and once more
until at present.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, it pauses.
It increases in book and force,
filling upward in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

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

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

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives.
It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
Nosotros also gain immediate admission to our own powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you think of your body as a instrument, the body browse is a way of tuning information technology.
If you think of it as a universe, the body scan is a way to come to know information technology.
If you remember of your trunk as a house, the body browse is a way to throw open all the windows
and doors and allow the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we call back and do
Is express by what we fail to notice
And because we fail to notice
There is lilliputian we tin can practice
To change
Until we notice
How failing to observe
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

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

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

You tin take pity for yourself - which is not self-compassion.
You're but 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 pain, upset, or challenges as yous.
- Rick Hanson -

Information technology's just beingness kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatsoever my emotional, physical or psychological land, with loving kindness.
Equally simple, and hard, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
nosotros should detect in each man'due south life sorrow and suffering
plenty to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

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

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
1 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 anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, commonage belief system, institution, or leader.
2nd, nosotros all need other people to invite, amplify, and assistance us discern the inner teacher's vocalization.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes courage to abound upwardly
and get who you really are.
- E. E. 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 sympathize growth, it would wait like complete devastation.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning car.
"Who are you and what do you desire?"
If you think these are lilliputian questions,
nigh people go through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering automobile -

Yous remember you understand one.
You think yous understand two, because one and one make ii.
Simply, yous must too understand "and".
- Sufi proverb -

I am not almost so interested in what monkey human being was derived from
equally I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

In that location is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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

... few people actually receive large calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Most of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attending to our intuitions, to be accurate, to alive by our ain codes of award.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps but in the pocket-sized gestures. The smashing breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a event of the aggregating of innumerable small steps and small-scale achievements. We're called to attain out to someone, to pick upwardly an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upward for a course even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each solar day, to plough left instead of right.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I practise non know who I am, I serve you.
When I know who I am, I am you.
- Indian Proverb -

Mayhap ultimately, spiritual only means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or inapplicable.
If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing scientific discipline is spiritual. 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 hateful to you lot.
All the balance is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
but considering the gift of sainthood makes information technology possible for them to admire everybody else.
- Thomas Merton -

X g flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the all-time flavour of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

Today like every other 24-hour interval
We wake upward empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Have down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love exist what we practise
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And osculation the earth.
- Rumi -

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; so I awoke.
At present I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of beingness a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they inquire me in the next world, 'Why were you not Moses?'
I will know the respond.
Merely if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have zip to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I await inside and run into that I am aught, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that'south dear.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled past things,
simply by the opinions we take nigh things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable nowadays.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you lot and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Hither,
And y'all must treat it every bit a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The woods breathes. Listen. Information technology answers,
I accept made this place around you,
If you leave it you lot may come back again maxim Hither.
No 2 trees are the same to Raven.
No 2 branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you lot,
You lot are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it observe y'all.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men equally a whole experience information technology.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring take chances or zilch.
- 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 dearest bee, it is the dearest that is important.
Merely the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-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 former human being and have known a nifty many troubles,
virtually of which never happened
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Mark Twain) -

We see things not every bit they are, simply every bit we are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

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

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

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

Don't inquire what the globe needs. Ask what makes you come live and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who take come live.
- Howard Thurman -

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

First I was dying to terminate high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish higher and start working.
And and then I was dying to marry and have children.
And and so I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school 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.
- 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 yous are going to die is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you take something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason non to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

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

Compassion is non a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Simply when we know our own darkness well can we exist present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes existent when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts exist big enough just to hang out in that space where we're non entirely certain about who's right and who'due south wrong? Could nosotros have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, non know what to say, not make that person incorrect or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? Information technology is powerful to practice this way, because nosotros'll find ourselves continually rushing around to try to experience secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. But true communication tin happen only in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we practise not dear
will become hostile to u.s.a..
- Robert Bly -

If you have embarked on this journeying of self-reflection,
y'all may exist at a identify that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Afterwards a while it seems similar well-nigh every moment of your life you lot're in that location,
where yous realize you lot have a choice.
Y'all take a choice whether to open up or close, whether to hold on or permit go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That pick is presented to you lot once again and again and once more.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Simply my soul I could non come across.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my blood brother, And institute all three.
- Bearding -

If I were chosen upon to land in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, information technology would be something like this:  Listen to your life.
Meet it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and hurting of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, gustation, odour your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the terminal analysis all moments are cardinal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
Every bit little equally you tin practise to make the sun ascent in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To make sure yous are not asleep when the lord's day begins to ascension.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nil you tin practise to improve your soul.
There is zero yous can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true 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 beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Lite is in both the broken canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the h2o dripping from the drainage pipage.
Yes, God is under the porch besides equally on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to exist where nosotros are.
- Marking Nepo -

We tin stop 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 not about accomplishing anything
- not almost winning or losing - simply almost ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

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

And so it was equally if I of a sudden saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each ane 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 way all the time.
In that location would be no more state of 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 exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more mutual than you know, and not far abroad. In that location is i farther truth, however: They don't final.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
simply they pass. ...
Nosotros all know that afterward the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Later on the ballot comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros think that something is going to bring the states pleasance, we actually don't know what'southward going to happen. When we think something is going to requite the states misery, we don't know. Letting at that place be room for non knowing is the most important affair of all. We try to do what we remember is going to help. Merely nosotros don't know.
Nosotros never know if we're going to autumn flat or sit down up alpine. When in that location's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be but the start of a great take chances.
...Life is like that.
Nosotros telephone call something bad; nosotros call it good. But really we just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our work, our love, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably continued, that the universal truths of spiritual life tin come alive merely in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As 1 wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

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

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'thousand going to curl up in here by myself; allow the world burn down.'
Non at all.
We become deep into meditation so that we tin can reach out further and farther to the world exterior.
- Eknath Easwaran -

Y'all are not a drop in the sea,
You lot are the unabridged ocean in a drop.
- Rumi -

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states nosotros take to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of decease.
- Anais Nin -

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

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

When we make music we don't practise it in guild to accomplish a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then apparently the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the flooring as in a journeying. When we trip the light fantastic, 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 always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

One 24-hour interval I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you keep doing this hard, heart-wrenching work when you know you'll wake up tomorrow to issues that are as bad or worse than the ones yous're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's answer:
"What you lot need to empathise is this —
just because something's incommunicable doesn't hateful you shouldn't do information technology!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy h2o - the river, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If honey was the center of our being?
- Ganga White -

Equally often happens on the spiritual journey, we accept arrived at the center of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the earth opens up.
All we need to practise is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door behind u.s. -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
but what now lies before the states is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things matter most:
How well did you dear?
How fully did you lot live?
How deeply did you larn to let get?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I announced to be divide. Nosotros differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, still, hidden deep within each of united states
is the one Self - eternal, space, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded underground of life: that we are all defenseless up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter.
As yous see him you volition run into yourself.
As yous care for him you will treat yourself.
Equally you think of him yous will retrieve of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Grade in Miracles -

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would pb to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd all the same exist in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

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

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

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

There own't no reply.
There ain't always going to be an answer.
There never was an answer.
That'southward the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

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

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

When is the concluding time that you had a neat conversation, a chat that wasn't just ii intersecting monologues, which is what passes for chat a lot in this civilization?
But ... a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself proverb things that you never knew you knew? That yous heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely establish places within you that you lot idea you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a unlike plane? ... a conversation that connected to sing in your mind for weeks subsequently ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drink for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing some other to talk while waiting for a adventure 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 get-go feeling accepted, first taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a class of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- Henri J.One thousand. Nouwen -

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

My honey child, break your centre no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you break your center.
You pull away from the beloved that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But 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 non a problem but a mystery. The stardom...
is fundamental: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Just that we be in its presence,
that nosotros fully, consciously mitt 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 testify up for whatsoever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Mayhap the wisdom lies in engaging the life yous 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'south how we 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 think what we're seeking is an experience of being live,
and then that our life experiences on the purely concrete plane
will accept resonance within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually experience the rapture of being alive.
That's what it's all finally almost.
- Joseph Campbell -

Frequently in meditative language nosotros speak of letting go of things:
let go of thoughts, let become of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the correct phrase,
because letting go suggests that you need to do something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Permit information technology be.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We do not have to practice annihilation to brand information technology come, or make information technology go, or to let it go.
We but have to allow it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

Practise is often described as the willingness to only be with our life as it is. But this is a hard concept to get: that do is non about having a particular state of mind, such as calmness. Nor is information technology most beingness completely free of anxiety. This is non to deny that we volition, in fact, experience more than self-possession, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

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

A human being is a part of the whole, chosen by us "Universe,"
a role limited in time and infinite.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison house to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to amore for but the few people nearest united states.
Our task must be to costless 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,
just 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 love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you lot pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the h2o becomes undrinkable. But if yous cascade the table salt into a river, people tin can continue to draw the water to cook, launder, and drinkable. The river is immense, and information technology has the capacity to receive, encompass, and transform. When our hearts are small-scale, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We tin can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make u.s.a. suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can cover others. Nosotros accept others as they are, and then they take a run a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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

Leave your front door and your back door open up.
Permit your thoughts to come and get.
Just 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 ready yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer whatever need for the subtle aggression of cocky-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. It offers the possibility of an terminate to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps and then 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 most enlightenment.
Sit down wherever yous are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the dearest, 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.
Non the saint you're striving to go.
But the being right here before y'all, inside you, around you lot.
All of you is holy.
Yous're already more and less than whatever you lot can know.
Breathe out, look in, let become.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how nosotros need to exercise things to connect.
And on the 1 mitt that's right, but on the other hand, it understates what is.
Nosotros are connected.
What we need to do is to get enlightened of information technology, to live it, to limited information technology.
- John A. Powell -

Want what yous have.
Do what you can.
Exist who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You practice not take to exit the room. Remain sitting at your table and heed.
Do non even mind, simply wait. Do not fifty-fifty wait. Be quiet, still, and alone.
The earth volition freely offer itself to you lot to be unmasked.
It has no pick. Information technology will gyre in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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