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Mindfulness Quotes

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

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

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

Once or twice a twelvemonth the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center,
Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.
One 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 nosotros effort to practise at Zen Hospice Projection.
We stay close and practice cypher. We sit all the same and heed to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open up your eye to who yous are, right now, not who y'all would like to be.
Not the saint you're striving to get.
Just the beingness right here before you, inside you lot, effectually you.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you tin know.
Breathe out, look in, allow get.
- John Welwood-

If we keep our attention focused on the present, nosotros can be sure of one thing,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving u.s. the opportunity to exercise accepting whatever it is
that will emerge in the next moment.
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Without the nighttime, nosotros cannot encounter the light.
Without the silence, nosotros cannot hear the music.
Without the possibility of its absenteeism, we cannot feel the dear.
- Lauren Fins -

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

Daring greatly ways the courage to be vulnerable.
It means to show upwardly and exist seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk about how you lot're feeling.
To take the hard conversations.
- Brené Brownish -

Meditation do isn't near trying to throw ourselves abroad
and go something amend.
It'due south almost befriending who we are already.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Be kind, for everyone you lot meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

Nasrudin went into a banking concern with a bank check to cash.
"Tin can you identify yourself?" asked the clerk.
Nasrudin took out a mirror and peered into information technology.
"Aye, that'south me alright."
- Idres Shah -

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now
without wishing it were dissimilar;
enjoying the pleasant without property on when it changes (which it will);
existence with the unpleasant without fearing information technology will always exist this manner (which it won't).
- James Baraz -

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

One of the nearly satisfying feelings I know – and likewise i of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are simply equally wonderful as sunsets if you can permit them exist. In fact, possibly the reason we can truly appreciate a dusk is that we cannot control information technology. When I look at a dusk as I did the other evening, I don't observe myself saying, "Soften the orange a lilliputian on the right mitt corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more than pinkish in the deject color." I don't exercise that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our truthful nature is similar a precious precious stone:
although it may be temporarily cached in mud, information technology remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We merely have to uncover information technology.
- Pema Chodron -

In that location is something in every one of you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
Information technology is the merely truthful guide yous will ever take.
And if you lot cannot hear it, 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 exist, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will exist really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness.
It's right in front of me if I'g paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Chocolate-brown -

Listening is the fine art of entering the skin of the other
and wearing it for a fourth dimension every bit if it were your own.
- David Spangler -

Peace.
Information technology does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
Information technology means to exist in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown -

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

Beingness on a spiritual path does not forestall you from facing times of darkness.
Simply information technology teaches yous how to use the darkness equally a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

Impermanence is both a procedure of continual loss,
in which things be and and then disappear,
and it is also a procedure of continuous rebirth or creativity,
in which things that do not exist all of a sudden announced.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only two ways to alive your life.
One is as though cypher is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a phenomenon.
- Albert Einstein -

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

The matter that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect
and commencement the piece of work of condign yourself.
- Anna Quindlen-

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

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

Outside of a dog,
a book is human being'south best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

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

If I do not exercise ane day, I discover it.
If I practise non practice a second solar day, the orchestra notices it.
If I practice not do a third 24-hour interval, the world notices information technology.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'southward important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long plenty to experience them but it's but as important non to push button across them...
Instead we are going to be looking securely into each moment with total acceptance
and not trying to forcefulness ourselves to be different from how we are right now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

In your meditation practice and in your daily life, tin can you lot be in touch,
non only with the irresolute content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings,
but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself,
residing beneath the surface of your heed?
The lake tin can teach this, remind u.s.a. of the lake within ourselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Through information technology all, the mountain simply sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, yet always simply beingness itself.
Information technology remains yet equally the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment past moment and day by day, calmness constant all alter…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this jiff.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
nosotros take refused
once more and once again
until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -

When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, information technology pauses.
It increases in volume and strength,
filling up in front of the obstacle
and somewhen spilling past information technology.
- I Ching -

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

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

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

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

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

The range of what nosotros call up and do
Is express by what we fail to notice
And because we fail to notice
At that place is little we can do
To change
Until we notice
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently...
And even if you did aught during the whole of your hour but bring your heart dorsum,
though information technology went abroad every time you 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 -

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

Information technology's simply being kind to myself -
meeting myself, any my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
Every bit simple, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your centre
and endeavour to love the questions themselves
similar locked rooms and similar books
that are written in a very foreign natural language.
Exercise not now seek the answers, which cannot be given y'all
because you would not exist able to alive them.
And the bespeak is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in two basic behavior.
Starting time, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more than reliable than anything nosotros can go from a doctrine, ideology, collective conventionalities system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all demand other people to invite, dilate, and assistance us discern the inner teacher's vocalization.
- Parker Palmer -

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

Information technology takes courage to grow up
and go who y'all actually are.
- E. East. Cummings -

For a seed to attain its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
The beat out cracks, its insides come up out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete devastation.
- Cynthia Occelli -

This is not an answering machine.
This is a questioning machine.
"Who are you and what practice you want?"
If yous think these are trivial questions,
about people get through their entire lives without answering either one.
- Peter Russell's answering machine -

You think y'all sympathize one.
Y'all call up y'all empathise two, because one and one brand two.
But, you must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not virtually and then interested in what monkey man was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Loren Eiseley -

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

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

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

... few people actually receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. Nearly of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be authentic, to live by our own codes of honour.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the m sweeps but in the small gestures. The nifty breakthroughs in our lives by and large happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and pocket-sized achievements. We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a form even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each twenty-four hour period, to plough 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 you.
- Indian Saying -

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual only ways
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or extraneous.
If y'all see in this way, and 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:
"Do not do to others that which is hateful to you.
All the rest is commentary. Now go report."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

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

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

Today like every other mean solar day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your study
And begin reading.
Accept downward a musical instrument.
Let the dazzler we dear exist what we practise
There are hundreds of fashion to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

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

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

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

Information technology is merely with the heart that i can encounter rightly:
what is essential is invisible to the heart.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery -

When I look within and see that I am nothing, that'south wisdom.
When I look outside and run into that I am everything, that'southward love.
Betwixt these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

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

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The copse before you and the bushes beside you are non lost.
Wherever you are is a place called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must inquire permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Heed. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If y'all get out it y'all may come dorsum again saying Here.
No two trees are the aforementioned to Raven.
No ii branches the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
Y'all are surely lost. Stand still. The woods knows
Where you lot are. Yous must let it find you.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly a superstition.
Information technology does non 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 adventure or cipher.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted 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 love bee, it is the dearest that is of import.
Merely the bee is at the aforementioned time nature'southward vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nix is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

We come across things not as they are, merely as we are.
- H.K. Tomlinson -

The birds have vanished into the heaven,
and now the final deject drains away.
Nosotros sit together, the mountain and me,
until simply the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

Ram Dass tells of a pupil who went to a Zen principal.
"What tin you tell me near decease?" the student asked.
"Nothing," the other replied. "I'm a Zen principal. Not a dead Zen primary."
- Stephan Rechtschaffen -

As a unmarried footstep will non brand a path on the globe,
then a single idea will non make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep concrete path, we walk again and again.
To brand a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau -

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

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

The intuitive heed is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
Nosotros take created a club that honors the servant and has forgotten the souvenir.
- bearding (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) -

Offset I was dying to finish loftier schoolhouse and start college.
And and then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And and then I was dying to marry and take children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow onetime enough for schoolhouse so I could return to work.
And and then I was dying to retire.
And now, 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 you are going to die is the best way I know
to avoid the trap of thinking yous have something to lose.
Yous are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs -

Y'all must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are muddied,
the bounding main does non become dirty.
- 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 forest?
- Thoreau -

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

Pity is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
Information technology's a human relationship between equals.
Only when nosotros know our own darkness well tin can we exist nowadays 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 not entirely certain about who's right and who's wrong? Could we have no calendar when we walk into a room with another person, non know what to say, not brand that person wrong or correct? Could we see, hear, experience other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this fashion, because we'll detect ourselves continually rushing around to try to feel secure once again—to make ourselves or them either right or incorrect. But true advice can happen simply in that open infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
At that place 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 exercise not dearest
will become hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If yous have embarked on this journeying of cocky-reflection,
you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or subsequently, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems similar about every moment of your life y'all're there,
where you lot realize you have a option.
You have a choice whether to open or close, 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 again and again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not encounter.
I sought my God, Merely 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, information technology would be something like this:  Mind 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:
touch on, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the last analysis all moments are cardinal moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner-

Is there anything I tin can practice to make myself Aware?
Equally little as you can do to brand the sun rise in the morning.
And so of what utilise are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

In that location is zip you lot can practise to ameliorate your soul.
There is zilch you can do to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

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

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

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

Most of u.s. need to exist reminded that we are good, that nosotros are lovable, that we vest.
If nosotros knew merely how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected
the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join easily once more and again.
Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening.
With each person we encounter, we can learn to look backside the mask
and see the ane who longs to honey and be loved.
- Tara Brach -

And then it 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 can achieve,
the core of their reality, the person that each i is in the eyes of the Divine.
If simply they could all see themselves as they actually are.
If simply we could see each other that style all the time.
There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big trouble would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does be. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded liberty 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. There is i further truth, notwithstanding: They don't terminal.
Our realizations and awakenings show us the reality of the globe, and they bring transformation,
but they laissez passer. ...
We all know that afterwards the honeymoon comes the marriage.
After the election comes the hard chore of governance.
In spiritual life it is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When nosotros remember that something is going to bring united states of america pleasure, nosotros really don't know what'due south going to happen. When we retrieve something is going to requite us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the almost important thing of all. We effort to practice what we call up is going to help. But we don't know.
Nosotros never know if nosotros're going to fall flat or sit down upwards tall. When there's a large disappointment,
we don't know if that'south the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a neat adventure.
...Life is similar that.
We call something bad; we call information technology good. But really nosotros just don't know.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Truly, we live with mysteries also marvelous to be understood...
Let me keep my distance, e'er, from those who call back they have the answers.
Let me keep visitor always with those who say
'Look!' and express joy in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't remember the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a blanket around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'thousand going to curl up in hither by myself; let the world burn.'
Non at all.
We go deep into meditation and then that we can achieve out further and farther to the earth outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

Life is a process of condign, a combination of states we have to get through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of expiry.
- Anais Nin -

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven equanimous music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and globe volition pause to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
- Martin Luther King -

Paradise is thus not so much a place,
equally liberation into the fullness and compensation
of everyday feel.
- Ian Bakery -

When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such every bit the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then apparently the fastest players would be the best. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are non aiming to get in at a particular place on the flooring as in a journeying. When we dance, the journey itself is the bespeak, every bit when we play music the playing itself is the bespeak. 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 -

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

One mean solar day I asked Kassie [Temple] the question that had been vexing me:
"How do you go along doing this difficult, heart-wrenching work when you lot know you'll wake up tomorrow to issues that are every bit bad or worse than the ones you lot're dealing with today?"
I've never forgotten Kassie's respond:
"What you need to understand is this —
just because something's impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do it!"
- Parker Palmer -

What if our faith was each other?
If our do 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 Instructor was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge? If beloved was the middle of our being?
- Ganga White -

Every bit often happens on the spiritual journeying, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the residue of the world opens up.
All nosotros need to practise is stop pounding on the door that has just airtight, turn around
- which puts the door backside u.s.a. -
and welcome the largeness of life that at present lies open to our souls.
The door that airtight kept united states of america from inbound a room,
but what at present lies before u.s.a. is the rest of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things affair most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you lot live?
How deeply did you larn to let go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to exist split up. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this credible partition, yet, hidden deep within each of us
is the i Self - eternal, infinite, ever-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all we are trying to do is take off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Cocky within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you encounter anyone, remember information technology is a holy encounter.
Equally you encounter him you will see yourself.
As you treat him you lot will treat yourself.
As you think of him you lot will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him y'all volition discover 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 behind,
I'd still be in prison.
- Nelson Mandela -

Let usa 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 watch how chop-chop
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When 1 feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to do with developing patience, non with the check-out person and so much,
simply with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability,
and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness.
I recall that'due south how we have to do.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no answer.
There ain't always going to be an answer.
There never was an answer.
That's the respond.
- Gertrude Stein -

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

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

When is the terminal time that you had a slap-up conversation, a conversation that wasn't merely two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this civilisation?
But ... a great conversation, in which y'all overheard yourself saying things that yous never knew you lot knew? That y'all heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely establish places inside yous that you thought y'all had lost ... a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different aeroplane? ... a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks after ...
I've had some of them recently ... they are food and beverage for the soul.
- John O'Donohue -

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to answer. 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 accustomed, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to be friends, to go to know their inner selves more than fully, and even to cartel to be 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 approach to life comes from a deep caring and business concern for all human being beings.
It comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is nearly. It is virtually our deep connections.
It isn't about what gender we think God is,
or whether we even recollect God exists
or what rituals nosotros perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
Information technology is experiencing and acting from our deep connections.
Information technology is often washed quietly, with no fanfare. ... Information technology is a friendliness to all life.
- Diane Mariechild -

My love child, interruption your heart no longer.
Each time you guess yourself, you break your heart.
You pull away from the dearest that is the well-spring of your vitality.
But now the fourth dimension 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 trouble but a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: bug are to be solved, truthful mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery enquire of the states?
Merely that we be in its presence,
that we fully, consciously hand ourselves over.
That is all, and that is everything.
- Phil Simmons -

Over the years I accept seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to show upward for whatever life may offer and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Perhaps the wisdom lies in engaging the life you accept been given as fully and courageously as possible and non letting become until you notice the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I call back that's how we have to practice.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Frequently in meditative language we speak of letting go of things:
let become of thoughts, let become of emotions, permit get of pain.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
considering letting go suggests that you demand to practise something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it be." Let it be.
Everything comes and goes by itself.
We exercise non have to practice anything to make it come, or arrive go, or to permit information technology get.
Nosotros just accept to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each i of us, I believe, is a gift the earth is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
Yous don't need to exist extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through man effort,
I am convinced information technology will exist past ordinary people,
people whose beloved for this life is even greater than their fear.
People who can open to the web of life that chosen us into being,
and who tin residue in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practise is frequently described as the willingness to simply exist with our life equally it is. But this is a difficult concept to get: that exercise is not well-nigh having a particular country of listen, such as calmness. Nor is information technology well-nigh beingness completely costless of anxiety. This is not to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears volition substantially diminish.

But, ironically, it'southward the very demand that life exist a particular fashion that almost guarantees a continuing land of anxiety, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A man beingness is a role of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a function limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
equally something separated from the rest, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of a prison to u.s., restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to gratuitous 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,
but 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 love.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -

If you cascade a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. Simply if you pour the common salt into a river, people can continue to describe the water to cook, launder, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts aggrandize, these same things don't make the states suffer anymore. We take a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others every bit they are, and then they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every forenoon I awake torn betwixt a desire to save the earth and an inclination to savor it.
This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savour the world,
what possible reason do nosotros have for saving it?
In a way, the savoring must come first.
- E.B. White -

Exit your front end door and your dorsum door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and become.
Just don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice information technology equally an act of beloved, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way in that location is no longer whatever demand 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 then hard that wraps then many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation every bit an act of honey.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins.
Feel the beloved, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your middle to who you lot are, right now, non who y'all would similar to be.
Not the saint yous're striving to become.
But the being right hither earlier you, inside y'all, around you.
All of you is holy.
Y'all're already more and less than whatsoever y'all tin know.
Exhale out, expect in, permit go.
- John Welwood -

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

Desire what you take.
Do what you can.
Be who you are.
- Forrest Church building -

Yous do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your tabular array and listen.
Do non even listen, but await. Practice not even wait. Exist quiet, still, and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It volition roll in ecstasy at your anxiety.
- Franz Kafka -

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