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Mindfulness Quotes

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The miracle is non to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth,
domicile deeply in the present moment, feeling fully alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Community does not necessarily mean living confront-to-face with others;
rather, information technology means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
- Parker Palmer -

In Louisville, at the corner of Quaternary and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district,
I was of a sudden overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . .
even though nosotros were total strangers.
Information technology 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.
1 dark he gave a talk that included the best communication I've ever heard on caregiving.
He said simply, "Stay shut and practise nothing."
 That's how we try to do at Zen Hospice Project.
We stay close and do zero. We sit nonetheless and listen to the stories.
- Frank Ostaseski -

Open your heart to who you are, right at present, not who you would like to be.
Not the saint yous're striving to become.
Just the being right here before you, within you, around you lot.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever y'all can know.
Exhale out, look in, allow go.
- John Welwood-

If nosotros keep our attending focused on the present, nosotros tin be sure of one matter,
namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change,
giving us the opportunity to practice accepting any information technology is
that will sally in the side by side moment.
Clearly, in that location is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

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

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

Daring greatly means the backbone to be vulnerable.
Information technology means to show up and exist seen.
To ask for what you need.
To talk well-nigh how y'all're feeling.
To have the hard conversations.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

Exist kind, for anybody you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Ian Maclaren -

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

Mindfulness is only existence aware of what is happening right at present
without wishing it were different;
enjoying the pleasant without holding on when information technology changes (which information technology will);
beingness with the unpleasant without fearing it volition e'er exist this mode (which information technology won't).
- James Baraz -

Forget your perfect offering.
At that place is a fissure in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen -

One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also i of the nigh growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same manner that I capeesh a sunset. People are just every bit wonderful as sunsets if you lot tin permit them be. In fact, possibly the reason we can truly capeesh a sunset is that we cannot control information technology. When I wait at a sunset every bit I did the other evening, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the correct hand corner, and put a bit more than purple along the base, and use a fiddling more pinkish in the cloud color." I don't do that. I don't try to command a sunset. I watch with awe every bit information technology unfolds.
- Carl Rogers -

Our truthful nature is like a precious jewel:
although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.
We simply have to uncover it.
- 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 just truthful guide you will e'er have.
And if you lot cannot hear information technology, 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, but 1 thing I know: the only ones amongst you who will be really happy are those who take sought and constitute how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer, to a group of schoolboys. -

All of you are perfect but as you lot are...
... and in that location is however room for improvement!.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to observe happiness.
Information technology'southward right in front of me if I'thousand paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Brené Brown -

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

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

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

Being on a spiritual path does non prevent you lot from facing times of darkness.
But information technology teaches y'all how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.
- Jack Kornfield -

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

Impermanence is both a process of continual loss,
in which things exist and and then disappear,
and it is besides a process of continuous rebirth or inventiveness,
in which things that practice not exist suddenly appear.
- Joseph Goldstein -

There are only ii means 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 shut attention to anything,
even a bract of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent globe in itself.
- Henry Miller -

The matter that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving upwardly on being perfect
and showtime 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 lord's day.)
- Paul Valery -

Your vision will become clear only when you wait into your heart.
Who looks exterior, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens.
- Carl Jung -

Outside of a canis familiaris,
a book is homo'south all-time friend.
Inside of a canis familiaris,
information technology's also dark to read.
- Groucho Marx -

Alice laughed: "In that location's no use trying," she said;
"1 can't believe incommunicable things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practise," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a mean solar day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six incommunicable things earlier breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -

If I practise not practice i mean solar day, I notice it.
If I exercise not exercise a second twenty-four hours, the orchestra notices it.
If I practise not practice a 3rd day, the world notices it.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -

It'south important to be aware of physical limits and to dwell at their purlieus long enough to experience them but it's but as important not to push beyond them...
Instead nosotros are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance
and non trying to force ourselves to exist different from how we are correct now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

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

Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment,
constantly changing, nevertheless always just being itself.
It remains still as the seasons flow into one another and as the atmospheric condition changes moment by moment and 24-hour interval by day, calmness abiding all change…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we accept refused
once more and once more
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 upward in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
- I Ching -

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

Y'all should sit in meditation for xx minutes every day
- unless you're too decorated -
then you should sit for an hour.
- Quondam Zen adage -

Arguments e'er brainstorm with an respond in mind.
Conversations begin with a question.
- unknown -

Mindfulness is nigh being fully awake in our lives.
Information technology is virtually perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
We also proceeds immediate admission to our own powerful inner resource
for insight, transformation, and healing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

If y'all think of your body every bit a musical instrument, the torso scan is a way of tuning it.
If you think of it as a universe, the body browse is a way to come up to know it.
If y'all think of your body as a business firm, the body scan is a way 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 remember and exercise
Is express by what we fail to notice
And because nosotros fail to notice
At that place is niggling we can practice
To change
Until we detect
How declining to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R.D. Laing -

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

If the center wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the indicate quite gently...
And even if you did zippo during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back,
though it went abroad every time you brought it dorsum,
your hour would be very well employed.
- St. Francis de Sales -

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

You can accept pity for yourself - which is not self-pity.
Y'all're simply recognizing that 'this is tough, this hurts,'
and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or stop
that you would bring to whatsoever honey friend
grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges equally yous.
- Rick Hanson -

Information technology'due south simply being kind to myself -
coming together myself, whatever my emotional, physical or psychological state, with loving kindness.
As simple, and difficult, as that!
- Marianne Elliot -

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

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

Exist patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
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 y'all
because y'all would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions at present.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

... circles of trust ... are a rare course of community -
one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity -
that is rooted in 2 basic beliefs.
Commencement, we all have an inner instructor whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can go from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.
Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.
- Parker Palmer -

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

It takes backbone to grow upwards
and get who y'all really are.
- E. E. Cummings -

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

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

You call back you empathise one.
You think yous understand two, because ane and 1 brand two.
Merely, yous must also understand "and".
- Sufi saying -

I am not near and so interested in what monkey human 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 great information technology tin can't be solved.
If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, information technology'southward reality.
- Barbara Coloroso -

... few people really receive big calls, in visions of flaming chariots and burning bushes. About of the calls we receive and ignore are ... the daily calls to pay attention to our intuitions, to be accurate, to alive past our own codes of honor.

Our lives are measured out ... not in the grand sweeps but in the small gestures. The keen breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only every bit a consequence of the accumulation of innumerable pocket-size steps and minor achievements. We're chosen to achieve 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 nosotros don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each twenty-four hour period, to turn left instead of correct.
These are the fire drills for our bigger calls.
- Gregg Levoy -

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

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual but means
experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness direct,
a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven,
that nothing is separate or extraneous.
If you see in this style, 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 i foot:
"Exercise not do to others that which is hateful to you lot.
All the balance is commentary. Now go study."
- Talmud, Shabbat 31a -

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

Ten 1000 flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in wintertime.
If your listen isn't overcast by unnecessary things,
This is the best flavour of your life.
- Wu-men -

At that place is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Ghandi -

Today like every other solar day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don't open up the door of your report
And brainstorm reading.
Take downwardly a instrument.
Let the beauty we dearest be what we do
At that place are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
- Rumi -

Tell me what you pay attention to and I volition tell you who yous 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 you not Moses?'
I will know the reply.
Merely if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?'
I will have zilch to say.
- Martin Buber -

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

When I look inside and see that I am zippo, that's wisdom.
When I expect outside and see that I am everything, that's love.
Between these two my life turns.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

We are not troubled by things,
but by the opinions we have well-nigh things.
- Epictetus -

Linger longer in the unrepeatable present.
- Dorothy Harsen -

Stand still.
The trees before you and the bushes abreast you are not lost.
Wherever yous are is a identify chosen Here,
And yous must treat it every bit a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and exist known.
The forest breathes. Heed. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it y'all may come up back again saying Here.
No two trees are the aforementioned to Raven.
No two branches the aforementioned to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush-league does is lost on you,
Yous are surely lost. Stand still. The woods knows
Where you are. You must let it find y'all.
- David Wagoner -

Security is mostly 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 run a risk or goose egg.
- Helen Keller -

Buckminster Fuller himself was addicted of stating that what seems to be happening
at the moment is never the total story of what is actually going on.
He liked to bespeak out that for the honey bee, information technology is the honey that is important.
But the bee is at the aforementioned fourth dimension nature's vehicle
for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.
Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature.
Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn -

I am an old human being and accept known a great many troubles,
virtually of which never happened
- anonymous (sometimes attributed to Marker Twain) -

We run across things non equally they are, but every bit we are.
- H.1000. Tomlinson -

The birds take vanished into the sky,
and at present the last cloud drains away.
Nosotros sit together, the mountain and me,
until merely the mountain remains.
- Li Po -

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

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

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

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

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

Kickoff I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And so I was dying to stop college and start working.
Then I was dying to marry and have children.
And so I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then 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 y'all are going to die is the best way I know
to avert the trap of thinking you take something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason non to follow your middle.
- Steve Jobs -

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

In my walks, I would fain return 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 belong,
It's our minds that make our lives so homeless.
- John O'Donahue -

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

Could our minds and our hearts exist big enough simply to hang out in that space where nosotros're non entirely certain about who's right and who's wrong? Could we accept no calendar when we walk into a room with some other person, not know what to say, not brand that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they actually are? It is powerful to practise this way, because we'll find ourselves continually rushing around to endeavor to feel secure again—to brand ourselves or them either right or incorrect. Simply true advice can happen just in that open infinite.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Every part of our personality that nosotros practise non love
volition go hostile to us.
- Robert Bly -

If y'all accept embarked on this journey of self-reflection,
you may be at a identify that everyone, sooner or after, experiences on the spiritual path.
After a while it seems like near every moment of your life you're there,
where you lot realize you have a choice.
You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or permit get,
whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out.
That pick is presented to you again and again and again.
- Pema Chodron -

I sought my soul, But my soul I could non see.
I sought my God, Merely my God eluded me.
I sought my brother, And found all three.
- Anonymous -

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

Is there anything I can exercise to brand myself Enlightened?
Equally little as you lot can practise to make the sun rise in the morning.
And so of what use are the spiritual exercises y'all prescribe?
To brand certain you are not comatose when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -

There is nothing you can do to improve your soul.
There is cypher you can exercise to stain your soul.
- Inyat Khan -

I believe that the only true religion consists of having a adept 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 skin of all that is ordinary.
Light is in both the broken canteen and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
Yes, God is under the porch equally well as on elevation of the mount,
and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if nosotros are willing to be where nosotros are.
- Marker Nepo -

We can stop struggling with what occurs and run across its true face without calling it the enemy.
Information technology helps to recollect that our spiritual exercise is not about accomplishing anything
- non about winning or losing - just well-nigh ceasing to struggle and relaxing every bit it is.
That is what nosotros are doing when we sit to meditate.
That attitude spreads into the residue of our lives.
- Pema Chodron -

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

Then it was as if I of a sudden saw the secret dazzler of their hearts,
the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor cocky-knowledge can reach,
the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine.
If only they could all see themselves as they really are.
If only we could run across each other that fashion all the fourth dimension.
In that location would exist no more war, no more than hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. …
I suppose the big trouble would be that we would fall downward and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton -

Enlightenment does exist. It is possible to awaken. Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the Divine, enkindling into a country of timeless grace - these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away. There is one further truth, notwithstanding: They don't terminal.
Our realizations and awakenings evidence the states the reality of the world, and they bring transformation,
merely they pass. ...
We all know that afterward the honeymoon comes the wedlock.
After the election comes the hard task of governance.
In spiritual life information technology is the same: After the ecstasy comes the laundry.
- Jack Kornfield -

When we think that something is going to bring the states pleasure, nosotros really don't know what'south going to happen. When we think something is going to give usa misery, we don't know. Letting there exist room for not knowing is the most of import thing of all. We attempt to do what we think is going to assistance. Only we don't know.
Nosotros never know if nosotros're going to fall flat or sit down up tall. When at that place's a large disappointment,
we don't know if that's the finish of the story. It may exist just the beginning of a keen run a risk.
...Life is similar that.
We telephone call something bad; we phone call it good. Merely actually 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 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 one wise student remarked,
'If you really want to know nearly a Zen master, talk to their spouse.'
- Jack Kornfield -

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to exist understood...
Let me continue my distance, ever, from those who call up they have the answers.
Let me keep company e'er with those who say
'Await!' and express mirth in astonishment, and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver -

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

Don't call back the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness,
wrap a coating around yourself, and say,
'How cozy! I'yard going to scroll upwards in here by myself; let the world burn.'
Non at all.
We go deep into meditation and so that we can reach out further and further to the globe outside.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

Life is a procedure of becoming, a combination of states nosotros have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in information technology.
This is a kind of expiry.
- Anais Nin -

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

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

When we brand music nosotros don't do it in social club to achieve a sure point, such every bit the end of the limerick. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the all-time. Also, when nosotros are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor equally in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, equally when nosotros play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the firsthand moment.
- Alan Watts -

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

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

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

As often happens on the spiritual journeying, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox:
each time a door closes, the rest of the earth opens up.
All we need to practice is end pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around
- which puts the door backside the states -
and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open up to our souls.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room,
but what now lies before us is the remainder of reality.
- Parker Palmer -

In the end, these things thing most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you alive?
How deeply did you acquire to permit go?
- Jack Kornfield -

You and I appear to be carve up. We differ in colour, size, and shape ...
in ideas, tastes, and prejudices ...
Beneath this apparent division, nevertheless, hidden deep within each of u.s.
is the 1 Cocky - eternal, space, always-perfect.
This is the closely guarded secret of life: that we are all caught up in a divine masquerade,
and all nosotros are trying to practise is accept off our masks to reveal the pure, perfect Self within.
- Eknath Easwaran -

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

When you run into anyone, call up it is a holy encounter.
Equally you see him you will run into yourself.
Equally yous treat him you will treat yourself.
Every bit you think of him y'all will call up of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
- A Course in Miracles -

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my liberty,
I knew if I didn't get out my bitterness and hatred backside,
I'd even so 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 love someone exactly as they are and sentry how speedily
they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
- Wes Angelozzi -

It has a lot to practice with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much,
but 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 recollect that'southward how we have to practice.
- Pema Chodron -

There ain't no respond.
At that place ain't ever going to be an answer.
There never was an answer.
That'southward the answer.
- Gertrude Stein -

If we larn to open up our hearts, anyone,
including the people who bulldoze usa crazy, can be our teacher.
- Pema Chodron -

We must exist willing to allow become of the life we take planned
then as to have the one that is waiting for us.
- E.Chiliad. Forster -

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

Listening is much more allowing another to talk while waiting for a adventure to respond. Listening is paying total attending 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 you invite strangers to be friends, to become to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
- Henri J.One thousand. Nouwen -

During my life I take 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 concern for all homo beings.
Information technology comes from a basic kindness.
That is what spirituality is well-nigh. It is about our deep connections.
It isn't almost what gender nosotros think God is,
or whether we even think God exists
or what rituals we perform or the creeds nosotros profess.
It 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 love child, pause your centre no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you break your eye.
You pull away from the love that is the well-leap of your vitality.
But at present the time has come, your time, to live and to trust the goodness that you lot are.
- Bapuji equally shared by Kirpal Venanji and Tara Brach -

... at its deepest levels life is non a trouble merely a mystery. The distinction...
is fundamental: problems are to exist solved, true mysteries are not.
... And what does mystery ask of us?
Just 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 have seen the power of taking an unconditional relationship to life …,
a willingness to bear witness upwardly for whatsoever life may offering and meet with it
rather than wishing to edit and change the inevitable….
Maybe the wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously as possible and not letting go until y'all find the unknown blessing that is in everything..
I call back that's how we accept to exercise.
- Rachel Naomi Remen -

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

Oft in meditative linguistic communication we speak of letting get of things:
let become of thoughts, permit go of emotions, permit become of hurting.
Sometimes that is not exactly the right phrase,
because letting get suggests that you need to practice something.
A better phrase to work with is "Let it exist." Permit information technology be.
Everything comes and goes past itself.
We do not take to do annihilation to make it come up, or make it get, or to let it get.
We just take to let it be.
- Joseph Goldstein -

Each one of united states of america, I believe, is a gift the globe is giving to itself now, a unique gift. …
You don't need to be extraordinary. If the world is to be healed through human effort,
I am convinced information technology will exist by ordinary people,
people whose honey for this life is even greater than their fearfulness.
People who tin open to the web of life that called united states of america into beingness,
and who can remainder in the vitality of that larger body.
- Joanna Macy -

Practice is often described as the willingness to only be with our life as it is. Simply this is a difficult concept to get: that practice is not near having a particular state of listen, such as calmness. Nor is information technology nearly beingness completely costless of anxiety. This is non to deny that we will, in fact, experience more equanimity, and that our fears will substantially diminish.

Merely, ironically, information technology's the very need that life be a particular way that almost guarantees a continuing state of feet, unease, and dissatisfaction.
- Ezra Bayda -

A human being is a part of the whole, chosen by usa "Universe,"
a function express in fourth dimension and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical mirage of his consciousness.
This mirage is a kind of a prison to usa, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for only the few people nearest us.
Our task must be to free 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 accomplishment 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 y'all pour a handful of salt into a cup of h2o, the water becomes undrinkable. Simply if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to melt, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are pocket-sized, our agreement and compassion are limited, and we endure. We tin can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make united states endure anymore. Nosotros accept a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We have others as they are, and so they have a chance to transform.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to relieve the globe and an inclination to savor information technology.
This makes it difficult to plan the twenty-four hour period. But if we forget to savor the world,
what possible reason practice we have for saving it?
In a mode, the savoring must come up outset.
- East.B. White -

Leave your front door and your dorsum door open up.
Let your thoughts to come and become.
Only don't serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki -

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

Don't meditate to prepare yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, practice it as an act of dear, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this style there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of non doing enough. It offers the possibility of an terminate to the incessant round of trying so difficult that wraps and so many people's lives in a knot. Instead at that place is now meditation equally an act of beloved.
How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
- Bob Sharples -

Forget most enlightenment.
Sit downwardly wherever you are and listen to the air current that is singing in your veins.
Experience the love, the longing, and the fear in your basic.
Open your center to who you are, right now, non who you would like to exist.
Not the saint you lot're striving to become.
Simply the being right here before yous, within you, around yous.
All of you is holy.
You're already more and less than whatever you tin can know.
Exhale out, expect in, permit go.
- John Welwood -

Sometimes people talk about how we need to do things to connect.
And on the ane mitt that's correct, just on the other manus, it understates what is.
We are connected.
What we need to do is to become enlightened of information technology, to live it, to limited it.
- John A. Powell -

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

You lot do not have to leave the room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even heed, only wait. Do not even look. Be quiet, withal, and lonely.
The world will freely offer itself to y'all to exist unmasked.
Information technology has no choice. It will scroll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka -

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