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Mindfulness Quotes

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

Customs does non necessarily hateful living confront-to-face up with others;
rather, it means never losing the awareness that nosotros are continued to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the eye of the shopping district,
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 -

In one case or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
Ane night he gave a talk that included the best communication I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and do nothing."
 That'due south how we try to do at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do zippo. We sit down still and heed to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open up your centre to who you are, right at present, not who yous would like to exist.
Non the saint you're striving to become.
Simply the beingness correct here earlier you, inside you, around you lot.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatsoever you can know.
Breathe out, wait in, allow get.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the present, nosotros can exist certain of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attention to in this moment will change,
giving us the opportunity to exercise accepting whatsoever it is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Conspicuously, at that place is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not found through irresolute our external world,
but through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

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

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable.
Information technology means to testify upwards and be seen.
To ask for what you lot need.
To talk near how you're feeling.
To have the difficult conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

Exist kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is simply existence aware of what is happening correct at present
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without belongings on when it changes (which it will);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it volition always be this style (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

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

1 of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also ane of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this private in the aforementioned manner that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful every bit sunsets if you can allow them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control information technology. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right manus corner, and put a scrap more purple forth the base of operations, and use a fiddling more pink in the deject colour." I don't do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe every bit it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely bright and unaffected.
We simply take to uncover it.
- Pema Chodron -

At that place is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the simply true guide you lot volition always take.
And if you lot 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, just one matter I know: the simply ones amid yous who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of y'all are perfect merely every bit yous are...
... and there is nonetheless room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It'due south right in front of me if I'm paying attending and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

Peace.
It does non mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still exist calm in your center.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does non forbid you from facing times of darkness.
Only it teaches you how to use the darkness every bit a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things be and then disappear,
and information technology is as well a process 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 as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The affair that is really hard, and really astonishing,
is giving upwards on being perfect
and beginning the piece of 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 become clear only when you await into your middle.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a volume is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it'southward as well dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "There'southward no use trying," she said;
"i tin can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much do," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for one-half an 60 minutes a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practise not practice ane twenty-four hours, I notice it.
If I do not practise a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do not practice a tertiary mean solar day, the world notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It's important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to experience them simply it's but equally important non to button beyond them...
Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
and non trying to force ourselves to be unlike from how we are right at present.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, can you lot exist in bear upon,
not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
merely also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing below the surface of your mind?
The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake inside ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain just sits, experiencing alter in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always just beingness itself.
It remains nevertheless equally the seasons flow into 1 another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day by day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If non this jiff, this sitting hither.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and over again
until now.
Until now.
- 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 of the obstruction
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day
- unless you're likewise decorated -
then you should sit for an hour.
- Old Zen adage -

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

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

If you call back of your trunk as a instrument, the body scan is a style of tuning information technology.
If you lot think of it as a universe, the body scan is a way to come to know information technology.
If you think of your body as a firm, the body browse is a mode 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 nosotros think and do
Is limited past what we fail to discover
And because we fail to notice
There is niggling nosotros can exercise
To modify
Until we detect
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

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

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

You can have pity for yourself - which is not self-compassion.
You'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 aforementioned hurting, upset, or challenges every bit you lot.
- Rick Hanson -

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

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

If we could read the cloak-and-dagger history of our enemies,
we should discover in each human's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

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

... circles of trust ... are a rare grade of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in 2 basic beliefs.
Beginning, nosotros all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything nosotros can go from a doctrine, credo, collective conventionalities system, institution, or leader.
2d, we all need other people to invite, dilate, and assist usa discern the inner instructor's phonation.
- Parker Palmer -

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

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

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

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

Y'all think you understand one.
You think you lot understand ii, because one and 1 make two.
But, yous must also understand "and".
- Sufi maxim -

I am not nearly and so 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 earth is its ain magic.
- Suzuki Roshi -

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

In that location'south no problem so swell it can't be solved.
If information technology tin can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

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

Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps simply in the pocket-size gestures. The bang-up breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a upshot of the aggregating of innumerable minor steps and minor achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class fifty-fifty though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each mean solar day, to turn left instead of right.
These are the burn down drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

When I do not know who I am, I serve you lot.
When I know who I am, I am y'all.
- Indian Saying -

Perchance ultimately, spiritual simply means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nada is dissever or extraneous.
If you meet in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. 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:
"Practice not do to others that which is hateful to you.
All the balance is commentary. At present go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

10 thousand flowers in bound, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't overcast by unnecessary things,
This is the all-time season of your life.
- Wu-men -

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

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

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

I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here 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 man?
- Zhuangzi -

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say,
"If they ask me in the next world, 'Why were yous not Moses?'
I volition know the reply.
But if they enquire me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have cypher to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I look inside and run into that I am naught, that's wisdom.
When I look exterior and see that I am everything, that's honey.
Betwixt these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled past things,
merely by the opinions we take about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

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

Security is more often than not a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring hazard or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the total story of what is really going on.
He liked to point out that for the dearest bee, information technology is the honey that is important.
Merely the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle
for conveying out cantankerous-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a key principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each consequence connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an quondam human and have known a bully many troubles,
virtually of which never happened
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Marking Twain) -

Nosotros run into things not every bit they are, but equally we are.
- H.Grand. Tomlinson -

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

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

As a unmarried footstep volition non make a path on the earth,
then a single thought will non brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk once more and again.
To make a deep mental path, nosotros must remember 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 world needs. Ask what makes you come up alive and go practice information technology.
Considering what the globe needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman -

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

Showtime I was dying to finish loftier school and start college.
And and then I was dying to stop college and outset working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school and then I could return to work.
And so 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 you are going to die is the best mode I know
to avoid the trap of thinking you lot have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It'due south a relationship betwixt equals.
Simply when nosotros know our ain darkness well tin can we be present with the darkness of others.
Pity becomes real when nosotros recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -

Could our minds and our hearts exist big enough just to hang out in that space where nosotros're not entirely certain 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 wrong or right? Could we see, hear, experience other people as they really are? Information technology is powerful to practice this way, considering nosotros'll observe ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure once more—to make ourselves or them either right or incorrect. Merely true communication can happen only in that open infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that we do not love
volition go hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If you accept embarked on this journey of cocky-reflection,
yous may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
Later a while it seems like almost every moment of your life y'all're there,
where you realize you lot have a selection.
You lot accept a selection whether to open up or shut, whether to hold on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That choice is presented to you once more and again and once more.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would exist something like this:  Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
bear on, sense of taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden eye of it
considering in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there annihilation I can do to make myself Aware?
As fiddling as yous can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
And then of what apply are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To brand sure you are not asleep when the sunday begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

In that location is naught you lot can exercise to amend your soul.
At that place is nothing y'all can practice to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true religion consists of having a skillful 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 below the pare of all that is ordinary.
Low-cal is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yeah, God is nether the porch besides every bit on top of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to exist where we are.
- Marking Nepo -

Nosotros can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true confront without calling it the enemy.
It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not nearly accomplishing anything
- not well-nigh winning or losing - but nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing every bit it is.
That is what we are doing when nosotros sit down to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the residue of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Almost of us demand to be reminded that we are proficient, that we are lovable, that we belong.
If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, nosotros'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships accept the potential to be a sacred refuge, a identify of healing and awakening.
With each person we meet, nosotros can learn to look behind the mask
and meet the i who longs to love and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

And so it was equally if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-noesis can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If but 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 cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, awakening into a state of timeless grace - these experiences are more than common than you lot know, and not far away. There is one further truth, however: They don't concluding.
Our realizations and awakenings show u.s. the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that after the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard job of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the aforementioned: Subsequently the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we remember that something is going to bring us pleasance, nosotros really don't know what'southward going to happen. When we think something is going to give united states misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for non knowing is the most important affair of all. Nosotros try to do what we think is going to help. Only nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to autumn flat or sit up alpine. When there'southward a big disappointment,
we don't know if that'southward the end of the story. Information technology may be just the kickoff of a not bad hazard.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we call it adept. Merely 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 dear, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably continued, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive only in each detail and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As 1 wise educatee remarked,
'If you really want to know about a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we alive with mysteries likewise marvelous to exist understood...
Let me continue my altitude, always, from those who recollect they take the answers.
Let me go along company 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 in that location's enough room for anybody to be passionate, creative, and successful.
In fact, there's more than room for anybody; there's a need for everyone.
- Marianne Williamson -

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl upwards in here by myself; allow the world fire.'
Not at all.
We get deep into meditation then that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

You are non a drop in the ocean,
You are the unabridged ocean in a drib.
- Rumi -

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

If a man is chosen to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poesy.
He should sweep streets and so well that all the hosts of sky and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a bully street sweeper who did his task well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we make music we don't practise it in society to reach a certain point, such every bit the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Likewise, when we are dancing we are non aiming to get in at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the indicate, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same matter is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the bespeak of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Just to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
tin that which is indestructible exist plant in us.
- Pema Chodron -

One mean solar day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How practise you keep doing this hard, heart-wrenching piece of work when you know y'all'll wake upwardly tomorrow to problems that are equally bad or worse than the ones you're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie'south answer:
"What you need to empathize is this —
just considering something's incommunicable doesn't hateful yous shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our religion was each other?
If our practise 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 cocky-knowledge? If love was the middle of our beingness?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journeying, nosotros have arrived at the eye of a paradox:
each fourth dimension a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.
All we demand to exercise is terminate pounding on the door that has but closed, turn around
- which puts the door backside us -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
just what now lies earlier us is the residue of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the stop, these things thing most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you larn to allow go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I announced to be dissever. Nosotros differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Below this apparent division, however, hidden deep within each of us
is the 1 Cocky - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that nosotros are all caught upward in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to do is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

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

Equally 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.
- Nelson Mandela -

Permit united 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 every bit they are and watch how quickly
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen and appreciated in their ain essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person and so much,
only with your own hurting that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and dear to that rawness and soreness.
I remember that's how we have to exercise.
- Pema Chodron -

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

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, can exist our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
so every bit to have the one that is waiting for united states.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the last time that you had a great conversation, a conversation that wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Just ... a great conversation, in which yous overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you lot knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that admittedly establish places within you that you lot thought you had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of yous on to a different airplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks later on ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and beverage for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than assuasive some other to talk while waiting for a take chances to reply. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking their words more than seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality past which yous invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more fully, and fifty-fifty to dare to exist silent with you.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

During my life I have met some of the kindest people who don't consider themselves spiritual at all. Nonetheless their approach to life comes from a deep caring and business organisation for all human being beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is virtually. Information technology is well-nigh our deep connections.
It isn't nearly what gender nosotros think God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds we profess.
It is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
It is often washed quietly, with no fanfare. ... It is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My beloved child, break your heart no longer.
Each time you guess yourself, you break your heart.
You lot pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the fourth dimension has come up, your fourth dimension, to live and to trust the goodness that you lot are.
- Bapuji every bit shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is non a trouble but a mystery. The distinction...
is central: bug are to be solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of united states of america?
Simply that we be in its presence,
that nosotros 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 show 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 y'all have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until yous notice the unknown approving that is in everything..
I think that's how nosotros take to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

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

Each 1 of u.s.a., I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself at present, a unique souvenir. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the world is to exist healed through human effort,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people,
people whose dearest for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who tin open to the spider web of life that called united states into being,
and who tin rest in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Exercise is ofttimes described as the willingness to merely be with our life every bit information technology is. Only this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not nearly having a item country of mind, such as calmness. Nor is it nigh being completely gratis of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

Simply, ironically, it'due south 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, called by us "Universe,"
a office limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
equally something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This mirage is a kind of a prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to amore for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to complimentary ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
just the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If you cascade a handful of common salt into a cup of water, the h2o becomes undrinkable. But if you cascade the table salt into a river, people tin proceed to draw the water to cook, wash, and potable. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are minor, our agreement and compassion are express, and nosotros endure. Nosotros can't take or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we need that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us endure anymore. Nosotros have a lot of understanding and compassion and can encompass others. Nosotros accept others every bit they are, so they accept a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morn I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to enjoy it.
This makes it hard to programme the day. Just if we forget to savor the earth,
what possible reason do nosotros have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come up starting time.
- E.B. White -

Go out your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

Our days are happier when nosotros give people a bit of our heart rather than a slice of our heed.
- unknown -

Don't meditate to gear up yourself, to heal yourself, to better yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, exercise it as an act of dearest, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way at that place is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. Information technology offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying then hard that wraps and so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is at present meditation as an act of love.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit downwardly wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the dear, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your middle to who you are, right at present, not who you would like to be.
Non the saint yous're striving to get.
Just the being right hither earlier you lot, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you lot can know.
Exhale out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood -

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

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

You do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and mind.
Do non even listen, only await. Do not even expect. Exist quiet, still, and lonely.
The earth volition freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It volition roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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