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Mindfulness Quotes

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The phenomenon is non to walk on h2o.
The phenomenon is to walk on the green earth,
home deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living contiguous with others;
rather, it ways never losing the awareness that nosotros are connected 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 . . .
even though we were total strangers.
It was similar waking from a dream of separateness..
- Thomas Merton -

One time 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 advice I've always heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and do nothing."
 That's how we try to exercise at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and practice nothing. Nosotros sit still and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your eye to who you are, right at present, non who you would similar to be.
Non the saint you're striving to become.
But the being right here before you lot, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You lot're already more and less than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, await in, let go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros keep our attention focused on the nowadays, we can be sure of ane affair,
namely that whatever nosotros are attending to in this moment will change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is
that volition emerge in the adjacent moment.
Conspicuously, in that location is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Happiness is not plant through changing our external world,
just through changing our internal mural.
- Shauna Shapiro -

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

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

Daring greatly means the courage to exist vulnerable.
It means to bear witness up and exist seen.
To ask for what yous need.
To talk nigh how you lot're feeling.
To have the difficult conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

You are whole and too part of larger and larger circles of wholeness
you may non even know almost.
You are never alone.
And you already vest.
You 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 battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a bank with a cheque to greenbacks.
"Tin 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 existence enlightened of what is happening right now
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it volition);
being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be 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 -

One of the well-nigh satisfying feelings I know – and also i of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my affectionate this private in the same way that I capeesh a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if yous can allow them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we tin truly capeesh a sunset is that nosotros cannot control it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don't observe myself maxim, "Soften the orange a piffling on the right paw corner, and put a flake more imperial forth the base, and utilize a little more pink in the cloud color." I don't do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I sentry with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our true nature is like a precious jewel:
although it 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 one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the 18-carat in yourself.
It is the only true guide y'all will ever have.
And if you lot cannot hear information technology, you volition all of your life
spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls...
- Howard Thurman -

I don't know what your destiny volition be, but one matter I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and plant how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a grouping of schoolboys. -

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

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

Listening is the fine art of entering 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 be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or difficult piece of work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and nonetheless be at-home in your eye.
- Unknown -

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

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness.
But it teaches you how to apply 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 so disappear,
and it is also a process of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that practice non exist suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

The moment one gives close attending to anything,
fifty-fifty a blade of grass, information technology becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
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 calorie-free.
An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision volition become articulate only when y'all look into your heart.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a dog,
a volume is human being'south all-time friend.
Inside of a canis familiaris,
it'due south also dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I do non practice i day, I find it.
If I do not practice a second day, the orchestra notices it.
If I do non do a 3rd day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy January Paderewski -

Information technology'southward important to exist aware of physical limits and to dwell at their boundary long enough to feel them just it'south but as important 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 nosotros are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practise and in your daily life, tin you exist in bear upon,
non only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
simply as well with the vast unwavering reservoir of sensation itself,
residing beneath 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 change in each moment,
constantly changing, still always merely being itself.
It remains nonetheless as the seasons menses into one some other and as the weather changes moment past moment and day by day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

When flowing h2o meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journeying, it pauses.
It increases in volume and strength,
filling up in front of the obstruction
and eventually spilling past information technology.
- I Ching -

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

Yous should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every mean solar day
- unless you're also 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 well-nigh being fully awake in our lives.
Information technology is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
Nosotros also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If you think of your body equally a musical musical instrument, the torso scan is a way of tuning it.
If y'all recollect of information technology as a universe, the body scan is a way to come to know it.
If you call up of your trunk as a business firm, the body scan is a fashion to throw open all the windows
and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it make clean.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

The range of what we recollect and exercise
Is express by what we fail to observe
And considering nosotros fail to observe
There is footling we can do
To change
Until we detect
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And even if y'all did naught during the whole of your hour but bring your heart dorsum,
though it went away every time you brought it dorsum,
your 60 minutes would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

Betwixt 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 freedom.
- Victor Frankl -

Y'all tin can accept compassion for yourself - which is not cocky-compassion.
You lot're but recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or terminate
that you would bring to any dearest friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as yous.
- Rick Hanson -

It'southward simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, whatever my emotional, concrete or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Equally simple, and hard, equally that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to dearest the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and similar books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Practice not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would non exist able to alive them.
And the signal is, to live everything.
Live the questions at present.
- 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 accept an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can become from a doctrine, credo, commonage belief system, establishment, or leader.
Second, we all demand other people to invite, amplify, and help united states discern the inner teacher's vocalisation.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes backbone to grow upward
and become who you actually are.
- Eastward. Eastward. Cummings -

For a seed to attain its greatest expression, it must come up completely undone.
The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't empathize growth, it would expect like consummate destruction.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering car.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you lot and what do you want?"
If you lot think these are trivial questions,
most people become through their entire lives without answering either 1.
- Peter Russell's answering machine -

You lot call up you understand one.
Y'all think yous understand two, because i and i make 2.
But, you lot must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am non near then interested in what monkey homo was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to go.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

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

... few people really 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 authentic, to live by our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... non in the grand sweeps but in the minor gestures. The not bad breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a event of the accumulation of innumerable small-scale steps and pocket-sized achievements. Nosotros're called to reach out to someone, to option up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign upwards for a class even though we're convinced we don't accept the time or money, to go to our desks each 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.
When I know who I am, I am y'all.
- Indian Maxim -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual only means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness straight,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is carve up or inapplicable.
If you lot see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.
Doing science is spiritual. Then 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 lot.
All the rest is commentary. At present get study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten thousand flowers in jump, 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 -

In that location is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today similar every other day
Nosotros wake up empty and scared.
Don't open the door of your written report
And begin reading.
Take downwardly a instrument.
Allow the beauty we honey exist what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the world.
- Rumi -

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

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

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

It is merely with the center that ane can run across rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

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

We are non troubled by things,
but past the opinions we have about things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand notwithstanding.
The trees before you and the bushes abreast yous are non lost.
Wherever you are is a place chosen Hither,
And y'all must treat it every bit a powerful stranger,
Must inquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you lot,
If you leave it you may come back again saying Hither.
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 even so. The woods knows
Where you are. You must let it notice you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not be 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 adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
He liked to point out that for the honey bee, information technology is the honey that is of import.
But the bee is at the aforementioned fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for carrying out cantankerous-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Zero is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We see things not equally they are, but equally nosotros are.
- H.M. Tomlinson -

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

Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen chief.
"What can y'all tell me nearly death?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen master. Not a expressionless Zen chief."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a single stride will non brand a path on the world,
so a unmarried thought will not brand a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk once again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to boss our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

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

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational listen is a true-blue retainer.
Nosotros have created a gild that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

Starting time I was dying to stop high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and first working.
And and so I was dying to marry and take children.
So I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
So I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying...
And all of a sudden 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 yous are going to dice is the best way I know
to avert the trap of thinking you take something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
At that place is no reason not to follow your eye.
- Steve Jobs -

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

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

Our bodies know they vest,
It's our minds that brand our lives and then homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

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

Could our minds and our hearts be big enough just to hang out in that space where we're not entirely certain about who's correct and who's incorrect? Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, non make that person wrong or correct? Could we see, hear, feel other people equally they actually are? It is powerful to practice this way, because we'll observe ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure again—to make ourselves or them either right or wrong. Merely truthful communication can happen simply in that open space.
- Pema Chodron -

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

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

If you accept embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you lot may exist at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems similar almost every moment of your life you're there,
where you lot realize you accept a pick.
You take a pick whether to open up or close, whether to hold on or let go,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That selection is presented to you again and again and once more.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, Just my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, But my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all 3.
- Anonymous -

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything
I was trying to say, it would be something like this:  Listen to your life.
Run into it for the fathomless mystery that information technology is.
In the colorlessness and hurting of information technology no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch on, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden center of it
considering in the terminal assay all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there annihilation I tin can practise to brand myself Enlightened?
As little equally yous tin can exercise to brand the sun ascent in the forenoon.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To brand sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is aught you tin can do to improve your soul.
There is naught you can practise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true organized religion consists of having a proficient middle.
- 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 skin of all that is ordinary.
Calorie-free is in both the broken canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the h2o dripping from the drainage piping.
Yes, God is under the porch as well as on height of the mountain,
and joy is in both the front end row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where we are.
- Mark Nepo -

Nosotros can terminate struggling with what occurs and encounter its true face without calling it the enemy.
It helps to retrieve that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing annihilation
- non near winning or losing - but near ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
That is what we are doing when nosotros sit down down to meditate.
That mental attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

Most of united states of america need to be reminded that nosotros 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 usa, we'd reach out and join hands again and again.
Our relationships take the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person nosotros run into, we can larn to wait behind the mask
and run into the one who longs to love and exist loved.
- Tara Brach -

And so information technology was equally if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge tin can accomplish,
the core of their reality, the person that each 1 is in the eyes of the Divine.
If just they could all see themselves as they really are.
If simply we could come across each other that way all the time.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more than cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the large 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 common than yous know, and not far away. At that place is ane farther truth, all the same: They don't last.
Our realizations and awakenings show u.s. the reality of the earth, and they bring transformation,
but they pass. ...
We all know that later the honeymoon comes the marriage.
Afterwards the election comes the difficult task of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we call back that something is going to bring us pleasure, we really don't know what's going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, we don't know. Letting in that location be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. Nosotros try to do what nosotros think is going to assist. Only nosotros don't know.
We never know if we're going to autumn apartment or sit up tall. When in that location's a big disappointment,
we don't know if that's the end of the story. Information technology may be just the beginning of a great gamble.
...Life is like that.
We call something bad; we phone call it practiced. But actually nosotros only don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

With spiritual maturity ... comes a sense of the sacred that is integrated and personal. ... Integrated and personal spiritual practice includes our work, our honey, our families, and our creativity. It understands that the personal and the universal are inextricably connected, that the universal truths of spiritual life can come alive only in each particular and personal circumstance. How we live is our spiritual life. As i wise student remarked,
'If y'all actually want to know well-nigh a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, nosotros live with mysteries besides marvelous to exist understood...
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they accept the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Wait!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't recollect the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here past myself; permit the world fire.'
Not at all.
Nosotros get deep into meditation then that we tin can reach out further and further to the world outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

Life is a process of condign, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- 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 poesy.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his chore well.'
- Martin Luther King -

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

When we make music nosotros don't do it in club to reach a sure point, such as the end of the limerick. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Too, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular identify on the floor as in a journeying. When we trip the light fantastic, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same affair is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Alan Watts -

Merely to the extent that nosotros expose ourselves over and over to annihilation
can that which is indestructible exist establish in the states.
- Pema Chodron -

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

What if our religion was each other?
If our do was our life? If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Globe?
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-knowledge? If love was the heart of our existence?
- Ganga White -

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the residual of the world opens upwards.
All we need to do is terminate pounding on the door that has just closed, plow around
- which puts the door behind the states -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls.
The door that closed kept u.s.a. from entering a room,
simply what now lies earlier us is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things affair most:
How well did yous love?
How fully did you lot live?
How securely did you learn to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You lot and I appear to be divide. We differ in color, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this credible division, however, hidden deep within each of us
is the 1 Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded hugger-mugger of life: that we are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to practice is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Cocky inside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

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

Every bit I walked out the door toward the gate that would atomic number 82 to my freedom,
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Permit 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 dear 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 own essence, ane is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

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

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

If nosotros learn to open our hearts, anyone,
including the people who drive us crazy, can be our instructor.
- Pema Chodron -

We must be willing to let go of the life we take planned
so as to accept the ane that is waiting for us.
- E.M. Forster -

When is the terminal time that you had a swell conversation, a conversation that wasn't but two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture?
Simply ... a great conversation, in which you lot overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew? That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought y'all had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plane? ... a chat that continued to sing in your heed for weeks later ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and drinkable 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 attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings.
The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to offset feeling accepted, start taking their words more than 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 fully, and fifty-fifty to dare to exist silent with you.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -

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

My beloved kid, intermission your center no longer.
Each time y'all judge yourself, you break your center.
You pull away from the love that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the time has come up, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you are.
- Bapuji as shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is not a problem but a mystery. The stardom...
is cardinal: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Merely that we exist in its presence,
that nosotros fully, consciously paw ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I have seen the power of taking an unconditional human relationship to life …,
a willingness to show upward for whatsoever life may offering and come across with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Mayhap the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given equally fully and courageously every bit possible and not letting go until you find the unknown approving that is in everything..
I think that's how nosotros have to practise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

People say that what we're all seeking is a significant for life.
I don't recollect that's what we're really seeking.
I retrieve what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
then that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will accept resonance within our own innermost beingness and reality,
so that nosotros really feel the rapture of being live.
That's what it's all finally nigh.
- Joseph Campbell -

Often in meditative language we speak of letting become of things:
permit go of thoughts, let get of emotions, let go of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting become suggests that y'all need to exercise something.
A better phrase to piece of work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We do not accept to do anything to make it come, or brand it go, or to let it get.
We just have to permit it exist.
- Joseph Goldstein -

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

Exercise is often described as the willingness to merely exist with our life every bit it is. But this is a difficult concept to go: that practice is not about having a detail state of mind, such as calmness. Nor is information technology nearly being completely complimentary of feet. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, feel more than self-possession, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

Only, ironically, information technology'south the very need that life exist a particular way that well-nigh guarantees a continuing state of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being is a part of the whole, called by the states "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to united states, restricting usa to our personal desires
and to affection for simply the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
past widening our circumvolve of compassion to embrace 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 role of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
- Einstein -

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

If yous pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the common salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and beverage. The river is immense, and information technology has the chapters to receive, comprehend, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we endure. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they alter. But when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't make us endure anymore. We accept a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We have others as they are, and then they accept a risk to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn betwixt a want to save the earth and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason exercise nosotros accept for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come up first.
- East.B. White -

Leave your front door and your back door open up.
Permit your thoughts to come and go.
But don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it equally an human action of honey, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this mode in that location is no longer whatever need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the incessant round of trying so difficult that wraps and then many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an human action of beloved.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down down wherever you lot are and mind to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the honey, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who yous are, correct now, not who you would similar to exist.
Not the saint you're striving to become.
But the being right here before yous, inside yous, around you.
All of y'all is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you tin can know.
Exhale out, look in, let go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to exercise things to connect.
And on the one hand 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 live information technology, to express it.
- John A. Powell -

Want what you accept.
Practise what you tin.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church -

You lot exercise not take to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do non fifty-fifty listen, simply wait. Do not even expect. Exist tranquillity, all the same, and lonely.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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