Quote Able : Quotable ∼ Response Able : Responsible
Responsible | Response Able
In Gestalt Therapy: the ability to Respond {consciously, in awareness} instead of unconsciously react to a situation
Quotable | Quote Able
In TMEese: the ability to speak and express oneself {articulately, meaningfully} instead of ... you know, blubber
Quotations are like wayside robbers who leap out, brandishing weapons,
and relieve the idler of his certainty. - Walter Benjamin
~and~
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ― Winston S. Churchill
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January 11 | 2019
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
— Mark Twain
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January 10 | 2019
What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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January 9 | 2019
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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January 8 | 2019
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
—Dale Carnegie
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“Feel the fear and do it anyway”
— Susan Jeffries
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January 7 | 2019
Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.
- Carl Jung
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December 24 | 2018
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge.
-Eckhart Tolle
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October 29 | 2018
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
― Tim Fargo
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October 22 | 2018
Betrayal leaves us at a fork in the road … we can become stuck in a bad moment forever or we can put it behind us for good. We decide our path.
- Carmen Harra
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October 13 | 2018
There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do and thus through you into this world…The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm…If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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October 12 | 2018
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~ Pierre Tailhard de Chardin
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October 11 | 2018
We move in eternal regions, yet worry about property here.
~ Rumi
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October 10 | 2018
We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageos love.
- Marc Gafni
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October 9 | 2018
Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
― Steve Goodier
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October 8 | 2018
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful", they say, "why would I bother taking action at all ?" My answer is "Because that's what love does". To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action.
~ Byron Katie
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October 1 | 2018
Referencing the past is only useful when it can be made a stepping stone towards a desirable future.
- Graig Moriarty
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September 28 | 2018
In years past, I realized I was thinking in a certain way whenever I was angry and depressed. I realized that feelings of anger and depression were only expressions of distorted awareness resulting from my thinking, instead of a clear awareness of my feelings and needs. I decided I’d rather be in a world of my choosing than in one of anger and depression. So I practiced being conscious whenever that was going on and translating the anger and depression into my needs and feelings.
~ Marshall Rosenberg
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September 27 | 2018
But if kindness, especially towards ourselves, is not our habit, where will it come from?
~Sharon Salzberg
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September 25 | 2018
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September 24 | 2018
Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.
― Brené Brown
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September 23 | 2018
Just notice purely who would you be without the thought, without replacing the thought with anything?
~ Byron Katie
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September 20 | 2018
this body is the expression, it is the pen through which you are writing your testament to god
do not idolize the pen over the story you came here to write.
- Bentinho Massaro
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September 17 | 2018
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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September 11 | 2018
Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering.
~Parker J. Palmer
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August 28 | 2018
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.
- Jill Taylor
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August 27 | 2018
In truth, there is not us and them.
Us is them. Them is us.
We are That.
All is That. That is all.
~ Mooji
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August 24 | 2018
When we are in touch with our unmet need we never feel shame, guilt, self-anger, or the depression that we feel when we think that what we did was wrong. We feel sadness, deep sadness, sometimes frustration, but never depression, guilt, anger, or shame. Those four feelings tell us we are making moralistic judgments at the moment we are feeling those feelings. Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.
~ Marshall Rosenberg (Getting Past the Pain Between Us)
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August 23 | 2018
Who you are cannot be put into words. When the concept-ridden mind subsides, the Light of the Infinite begins to shine through. Then, words are no longer for you; they are merely tools to assist others in awakening to the Infinite Within, too.
- Bentinho Massaro
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August 20 | 2018
The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it's open
- Zappa
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August 18 | 2018
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Ram Dass
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August 15 | 2018
You either control your mind or it controls you.
-Napoleon Hill
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August 13 | 2018
We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
- Sue Monk Kidd
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August 12 | 2018
A machine can be controlled; a living system, according to the systemic understanding of life, can only be disturbed.
—Capra
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August 11 | 2018
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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August 10 | 2018
The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are – without apology, without excuses, without masks …
- Debbie Ford
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August 7 | 2018
The mind must be utterly silent. Not asking, not hoping for experience. It must be completely still. Only then is there a possibility of that light which will dispel our darkness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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August 6 | 2018
May you feel safe. May you feel content. May you feel strong. May you live with ease.
~Sylvia Boorstein
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August 4 | 2018
Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present.
- Louise Hay
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August 3 | 2018
Once we open to the flow of energy within our body, we open to the flow of energy within the universe.
- Dr. Wilhelm Reich
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August 2 | 2018
Do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
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August 1 | 2018
Ever tried, ever failed. No matter. Tried again, failed again. Fail Better.
- Samuel Beckett
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July 30 | 2018
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.-
- Mahatma Gandhi
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July 29 | 2018
You and I
should live
As if
you and I
Never heard
Of a you
And an I
- Rumi
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July 28 | 2018
The acceptance of ourselves as flawed creatures seems to me what love really is.
~Alain de Botton
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July 25 | 2018
In order to do what we love — whether we are woodworkers, legal-aid attorneys, emergency room physicians, or novelists — we must first know ourselves as deeply as we are able. Know your own bone. This self-knowledge can be messy. But it is at the center of our life’s work, this gnawing, this unearthing. There is never an end to it. Our deepest stories — our bones — are our best teachers. Gnaw it still.
~Dani Shapiro
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July 23 | 2018
Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.
-Ted Kooser
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July 14 | 2018
Can you transmute confusion into mystery?
- Bentinho Massaro
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July 13 | 2018
Because you think you know what love looks like,
what it should or shouldn't be, it becomes invisible to
you. It's the blind seeking what doesn't exist. You beg,
you plead, you bend over backward and do all sorts of other emotional acrobatics in this unending search for happy endings.
Only by seeking the truth within you you will find the love you can never lose. And when you find it, your natural response to everything is appreciation.
This would be my one prayer, because the answer to it brings the end of time and space. It brings the energy of pure unlimited mind, set free in all its power and goodness.
When you stop seeking love, it leaves you with nothing to do; it leaves you with the experience of “being done”, in a doing that is beyond you.
It is absolutely effortless.
And a whole lot gets done in it, beyond what you think could ever have been accomplished.
- Byron Katie
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July 11 | 2018
Perfectionism is armor. It's not internally driven like healthy striving. It's externally driven and fueled by "What will people think?"
- Brene Brown
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July 10 | 2018
Few people are powerful enough, persuasive, persistent, consistent, and charismatic enough to change the world all at once, but everyone has the ability to affect the three feet around them by behaving more ethically, honestly, and compassionately toward those they meet.
~Sharon Salzberg
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July 8 | 2018
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being
- Hafiz of Shiraz
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June 29 | 2018
No problem exists in life, only situations. It is the Mind that interprets a problem.
~Mooji
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June 28 | 2018
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience.
Taking responsability for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
~ Byron Katie
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June 22 | 2018
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do or say is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
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June 13 | 2018
My mind guesses. My body feels. My heart knows. As SOUL I soar above it all.
- Tme
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June 6 | 2018
Mindfulness is not about what arises. It is about how we are when something arises — how much presence, balance, compassion are we bringing forth in relation to that anxiety or rage or whatever is causing us pain.
~Sharon Salzberg
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
—Oscar Wilde
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The belief in dis-ease is the only disease. Well-being is always the order of the day.
- Tme
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May 30 | 2018
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
Marshall Rosenberg
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May 29 | 2018
Never doubt yourself; always question yourself. Trust your perfection, yet look to improve.
- Bentinho Massaro
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May 23 | 2018
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
– Gangaji
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May 22 | 2018
You don't need to change your behavior. Question your assumptions and behavior automatically changes.
— Byron Katie
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May 17 | 2018
REMEMBER TO BREATHE. IT IS, AFTER ALL, THE SECRET OF LIFE
~ GREGORY MAGUIRE
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May 16 | 2018
DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHING OTHERS DO OR SAY IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS YOU WON’T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.
~ DON MIGUEL RUIZ
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May 15 | 2018
WHEN YOU COMPLAIN YOU MAKE YOURSELF THE VICTIM. LEAVE THE SITUATION, CHANGE THE SITUATION, OR ACCEPT IT, ALL ELSE IS MADNESS.
~ ECKHART TOLLE
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May 14 | 2018
It’s OK to live an epic life. Just make sure it’s epic for the right reasons. Devote your whole body, mind, spirit... and even your self-care, rest and moments of indulgence, to the benefit of all. Open hearts, blow minds and reveal new realities. Don’t merely consume life; create life. Everything is possible.
- B. Massaro
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May 13 | 2018
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
- Jesus, Gospel of Thomas
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May 10 | 2018
Without the future are you okay?
- Byron Katie
May 7 | 2018
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
May 4 | 2018
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
May 3 | 2018
Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.
- Marshall Rosenberg
May 2 | 2018
At the center of your being you have the answer.
- Lao Tzu
May 1 | 2018
Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.
- Marshall Rosenberg
April 30 | 2018
I don't need other people to have an open mind. The question is "Is my mind open?
— Byron Katie
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April 29 | 2018
The two most important days in life are the day you are born and the day you discover the reason why.
- Mark Twain
April 28 | 2018
Comparison will strip you of power of grace and influence. Each person is unique. How then can you possibly compare unique to unique? You can’t. And when you try, you annihilate your brilliance.
~ Amy Larson
April 27 | 2018
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
April 26 | 2018
Just beyond yourself. It's where you need to be.
~David Whyte
April 25 | 2018
I no longer see my depression and grief, anxiety and anger, as enemies. I try to treat them as messengers sent to caution me: to remind me of the need for self care; to help me reassess and release attachments; to encourage me to reexamine values; to suggest that it’s time to revisit and revise the story of my identity. To come to my rescue.
~Miguel Clark Mallet
April 24 | 2018
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
~ Steve Maraboli
April 23 | 2018
Your body hears everything your mind says.
~ Naomi Judd
April 22 | 2018
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
––Albert Einstein
April 21 | 2018
Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.
—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
April 20 | 2018
The Ultimate addiction is, the mind believing its self.
~Byron Katie
April 19 | 2018
It is developing our own capacity for spaciousness within ourselves to allow others to be as they are — that is love. And that doesn’t mean that we don’t have hopes or wishes that things are changed or shifted, but to come from a place of love is to be in acceptance of what is, even in the face of moving it towards something that is more whole, more just, more spacious for all of us.
~Rev. angel Kyodo williams
April 18 | 2018
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.
- "Widening Circles" from Rainer Maria Rilke
April 17 | 2018
Absorbed in this world you’ve made it your burden. Rise above the world, there is another vision.
~ Rumi
April 16 | 2018
Everything starts to change when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
~ Barbara Marciniak
April 15 | 2018
My heart stops when I discover an orchid. When I hear a bird sing, it goes through me like an electric shock.
~ Michael Longley
April 14 | 2018
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.
- Marshall Rosenberg
April 13 | 2018
All energy is energy and we can alchemize our pain energy into motivation and healing energy for not only ourselves, but others as well.
~ Christina Gutierrez
April 12 | 2018
At the core of our humanity, we all have the same needs.
- Marshall Rosenberg
April 6 | 2018
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903 CE)
April 5 | 2018
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 4 | 2018
Pain travel's through families until someone is ready to feel it.
- Stephi Wagner
April 3 | 2018
It took 13.7 billion years for the atoms to come together to create the portal to the universe which is my physical self. So in that statement is this idea of the fluidity of time and space.
~ Natalie Batalha
April 2 | 2018
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking
April 1 | 2018
Instead of trying to escape discomfort, we let discomfort reveal its deeper secrets. We sit with discomfort and watch all boundaries between ‘me’ and ‘discomfort’ melt away, until it is no longer ‘me sitting with my discomfort’ at all, and never was. We sit with frustration in the place where it has not yet coagulated into ‘I am frustrated’. We sit with fear prior to the resurrection of the image ‘I am the one who is afraid’. We sit with anger before the birth of our identity as ‘the angry one’. We know ourselves as the vast open space, the boundless and identity-less ocean that welcomes all of these waves as its beloved children, returned home at last, home at last.
– Jeff Foster
March 27 | 2018
Faith isn't blind; it's visionary. It's not denying that there's a problem; it's affirming that there's an answer.
~ Marianne Williamson
March 26 | 2018
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
― Corrie ten Boom
March 25 | 2018
There is nothing good or bad that thinking makes it so.
– William Shakespeare
March 24 | 2018
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
– Cheri Huber
March 23 | 2018
**No conclusion, no confusion**
Try for 1 hour straight not coming to any conclusion about ANYTHING. Then for 1 day. Then for 1 week. Then for 1 month. Then... enjoy your permanent freedom from confusion.
- Bentinho Massaro
March 22 | 2018
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
- Jesus
March 21 | 2018
When we can actually be where we are, not trying to find another state of mind, we discover deep internal resources we can make use of. Coming to terms with things as they are is my definition of healing.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
March 20 | 2018
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we are supposed to be and embracing who we actually are.
— Brené Brown
March 12 | 2018
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe,"and for that, I am extremely grateful.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.
- Stephen Hawking
Jan. 8, 1942 - Mar. 12, 2018
March 2 | 2018
Living safely is dangerous.
- Irving D. Yalom
March 1 | 2018
All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer
and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both
memory and the object of memory. The time is at
hand when you will have forgotten everything; and
the time is at hand when all will have forgotten
you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one,
and nowhere.
—Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
February 17 | 2018
As I've gotten older, I have recognized, more and more, that nobody can be summed up by the best or worst thing they’ve ever done.
- Ashley C. Ford
February 6 | 2018
The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth. The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day.
~ Scott Adams
February 5 | 2018
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
~ P.C. Hodgell
February 4 | 2018
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
February 3 | 2018
Spirituality begins where religion ends.
-Hingori
February 2 | 2018
The population suffers from a fear of change. Their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging one’s belief system usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.
~ Peter Joseph
February 1 | 2018
“belief is a wound that knowledge heals.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
January 31 | 2018
We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
~ Adyashanti
January 30 | 2018
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
~ Gandalf ~ J.R.R. Tolkien ( The Hobbit )
January 29 | 2018
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both.
~ Brené Brown
January 28 | 2018
Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process.
- Adyashanti
January 27 | 2018
We are all unique medicine.
~ Angeles Arrien
January 26 | 2018
The enlighten fool is the one who sees the ego trips of society and can still find joy and laughter in its midst. The fool is often the enlightened one, the one with crazy wisdom, with laughter and jokes as their weapon, they cut through mundane conformity and bring to light the latent child-like bliss bubbling just beneath the surface of all seriousness. The fool possesses a wisdom that is out of reach of the conformist. A playful attitude in touch with enormous amounts of creativity.
~ Chad Foreman
January 25 | 2018
People suffer only because they take seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
January 21 | 2018
If you do what needs to be done, you don’t have to pay attention to earning a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
January 20 | 2018
We accept the love we think we deserve.
― Stephen Chbosky
January 19 | 2018
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of the mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body." – Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Master
January 18 | 2018
Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.
― Robert M. Drake
January 17 | 2018
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
― Dejan Stojanovic
January 16 | 2018
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
― Robert M. Drake
January 15 | 2018
The sky is not my limit...I am.
― T.F. Hodge
December 31 | 2017
“I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.”
~ Bob Dylan
December 30 | 2017
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
- Paulo Coelho
December 29 | 2017
"Spend time contemplating death and loss to appreciate all that you currently have.
Regularly spend time imagining how you would feel if you lost a loved one. Or your house. Or your job. Your money. All your possessions. All your opportunities. Your talents. Your health. Your family. Life itself.
For one, such a practice increases preparedness, resilience, and tranquility when shitty things do inevitably happen—because, of course, they do.
Beyond that, though, negative visualization increases joy and appreciation for what you currently have."
— Jordan Bates
December 28 | 2017
Breathing in I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.
~ Thich Nhat Hahn
December 27 | 2017
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
— Charles William Eliot
December 26 | 2017
Enlightenment is bringing a state of meditativeness into the smallest acts of your day to day life in it’s expression of grace, harmony, balance, beauty, each and every movement of the body, each and every act… do it totally perfectly , harmoniously, with your total attention and love and you will see that your deepest center starts connecting to each and every act of yours. This is how you bring the buddha to your life.
~ Osho
December 25 | 2017
Sleep is the best meditation.
~ Dalai Lama
December 24 | 2017
Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; do it as an act of love, deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers a possibility to the end of the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people’s lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love. How endlessly delightful and encouraging.
~ Bob Sharples, Meditation and Relaxation in Plain English
December 23 | 2017
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
— Epictetus
December 22 | 2017
"How do I know that I have what I need? I notice what I have.”
~ Byron Katie
December 21 | 2017
Gratitude is the ultimate performance-enhancing substance.
—Dr. Robert A. Emmons
December 20 | 2017
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
December 19 | 2017
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
— Carl Jung
December 18 | 2017
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
― Richard Feynman
December 17 | 2017
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
― Ernest Hemingway
December 16 | 2017
Life is a process of becoming, 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
December 15 | 2017
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little, and as a result they get little.
~ Ben Sweetland
December 14 | 2017
We are all just walking each other home.
~ Ram Dass
December 13 | 2017
My obsession has been — and is still — the feeling of being there. Not of finding out this and analyzing this or performing some virtuous social act or something. Just what's it like to be there.
— Richard Leacock
December 12 | 2017
Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having its own function and character, contributes to the whole.
~ Pythagoras
December 11 | 2017
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.
– Paul G. Thomas
December 10 | 2017
Mooji surmised, “Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not.
- Mooji
December 9 | 2017
In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.
~ Andrea Gibson
December 8 | 2017
If you can watch your thoughts, you are the watcher, not the thoughts.
- Dean Jackson
December 7 | 2017
Don’t believe everything that you think.
~ Unknown
December 6 | 2017
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life, may you proceed with balance and stealth.
~ Patti Smith
December 5 | 2017
The old appeals to racial, sexual, religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
~ Carl Sagan
December 4 | 2017
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
- Victor Hugo
December 3 | 2017
People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.
— Naval Ravikant
December 2 | 2017
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.
― Terence McKenna
December 1 | 2017
The whole universal consciousness created the individual consciousness of each of us, experiencing itself from different perspectives, in which each of us creates the life we experience.
~ Unknown
November 30 | 2017
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
~ Chief Crazy Horse
November 29 | 2017
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
November 28 | 2017
Heaven is this moment. Hell is the burning desire for this moment to be different. It's that simple.
- Jeff Foster
November 27 | 2017
Grieving is a fundamental process of life. We do not choose it. It rather chooses us. It’s not a one-time event. It’s a road we must travel on. It doesn’t follow clock time. It adheres to deeper rhythms. Regrets are common, thoughts of incompletion and unfinished business, struggles unresolved. These are illusory, clingy thoughts, but you can’t wrestle them to the ground and stamp them out. As they emerge, you can see them, and let them go. And do that each time they come back to visit.
November 26 | 2017
Each of us has our light, what makes us loving and loveable. Each of us has our dark places, how we grapple with fear and pain—what can make us unbearable, at times even to ourselves. We have our griminess and our glory. But which are we, really? We are neither. We are not any of our parts. We are all of those parts. So, when you think of the loved one who has passed, embrace the whole person.
- Barry Boyce
November 25 | 2017
This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
November 24 | 2017
Any fool can run toward the light. It takes a master with
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
~ Carl Jung
November 23 | 2017
Any fool can run toward the light. It takes a master with courage to turn and face the darkness and shine his own light there.
- Leslie Fieger
November 22 | 2017
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
November 21 | 2017
Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace is transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.
~ Eckhart Tolle
November 20 | 2017
Your true self is the silent observer behind all experiences.
~ Zensho W. Kopp
November 19 | 2017
A sense of meaningfulness is healthier than happiness. Mere happiness is associated with selfish “taking” behavior, while having a sense of meaning in life is associated with selfless “giving” behavior.
~ Rob Brezsny
November 18 | 2017
..the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
― C.G. Jung
November 17 | 2017
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe.
~ Nicola Tesla
November 16 | 2017
November 15 | 2017
If you follow the crowd, you will likely get no further than the crowd. If you walk alone, you’re likely to end up in places no one has ever been before. Being an achiever is not without its difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt… You have two choices in life. You can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can choose to become an achiever and be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
~ Alan Ashley-Pitt
November 14 | 2017
November 13 | 2017
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
~ Barbara Marciniak
November 12 | 2017
Where thoughts go energy goes. There is nothing else here besides energy. Thoughts create form. Moderate your thoughts because they affect the entire energy field. When we are at a high level of vibration, we naturally attract high level experiences and vice versa. Experiences are a direct reflection of your thoughts.
~ Unknown
November 11 | 2017
I think people who vibrate at the same frequency vibrate toward each other. They call it in science sympathetic vibrations.
~ Erykah Badhu
November 10 | 2017
When you follow the crowd you lose yourself, but when you follow your soul you will lose the crowd. Eventually your soul tribe will appear. But do not fear the process of solitude.
~ Unknown
November 9 | 2017
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- Bruce Lee
November 8 | 2017
These mountains that you’re carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
~ Najwa Zebian
November 7 | 2017
What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue, we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us.
~ Simon Fuller
November 6 | 2017
I don’t know’ is an unparalleled source of power, a declaration of independence from the pressure to have an opinion about every single subject. It’s fun to say. Try it: ‘I don’t know.’ Let go of the drive to have it all figured out: ‘I don’t know.’ Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: ‘I don’t know.’ Empty your mind and lift your heart: ‘I don’t know.’ Use it as a battle cry, a joyous affirmation of your oneness with the Great Mystery: ‘I don’t know.
~ Rob Brezsny
November 5 | 2017
To be modern is to let imagination and invention do a lot of the work once done by tradition and ritual.
~ Adam Gopnik
November 4 | 2017
What do I currently do that adds the most quality and meaning to my life? How can I do more of that (and less of what detracts from that quality)?
— Dr. Jordan Peterson
November 3 | 2017
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
― Mark Twain
November 2 | 2017
You do not believe; you only believe that you believe.
November 1 | 2017
When you are willing to feel it you can heal it.
~ Unknown
October 31 | 2017
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
~ Joseph Joubert
October 30 | 2017
When you complain you make yourself the victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it, all else is madness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
October 29 | 2017
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do or say is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
October 28 | 2017
It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
October 27 | 2017
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
~ Khalil Gibran
October 26 | 2017
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
~ Hermann Hesse
October 25 | 2017
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
~ Carl Jung
October 24 | 2017
Deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and more universal craving in the human makeup. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction — for orientation.
— William Sheldon
October 23 | 2017
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences...
— Dr. Timothy Leary
October 22 | 2017
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
October 21 | 2017
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
~ Carl Jung
October 20 | 2017
Gratitude is the ultimate performance-enhancing substance.
— Dr. Robert A. Emmons
October 19 | 2017
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
~ Byron Katie
October 18 | 2017
Balance cannot be known unless you taste both extremes. You will dabble, struggle, even suffer until you muster up the the extraordinary courage necessary for embracing all of your humanity.
~ Amy Larson
October 17 | 2017
Surrender is not giving up, but a giving over to what is true in this present moment. And the moment I accept what is, something begins to shift within me.
~ Unknown
October 16 | 2017
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
October 15 | 2017
The best day of your life is the one in which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
– Bob Moawad
October 14 | 2017
Hard work is not the path to well-being. Feeling good is the path to well-being. You don’t create through action, you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action fromlightenment.com you.
~ Abraham-Hicks
October 13 | 2017
Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal and necessary.
~ Doreen Virtue
October 12 | 2017
One time won't hurt.
— Your Scumbag Brain
October 11 | 2017
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
October 10 | 2017
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
~ Maya Angelou
October 9 | 2017
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
~ Earl Nightingale
October 8 | 2017
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
~ Khalil Gibran
October 7 | 2017
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.
~ Dan Millman
October 6 | 2017
Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your deepest longings, your fearful thoughts, are not mistakes, and they aren't asking to be HEALED. They are asking to be HELD. Here, now, lightly, in the loving arms of present awareness…
- Jeff Foster
October 5 | 2017
Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it.
~ S.C. Lourie
October 4 | 2017
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
~ Pema Chodron
October 3 | 2017
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
— Kurt Vonnegut
October 2 | 2017
If you can resist the impulse to claim each and every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion: you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear and disappear.
~ Annamalai Swami
October 1 | 2017
You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
- Rumi
September 30 | 2017
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
September 29 | 2017
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” ~ Alejandro Jodorowski
September 28 | 2017
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
~ William Shakespeare
September 27 | 2017
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
― Hermann Hesse
September 26 | 2017
Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
September 25 | 2017
Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.
― Peter Sloterdijk
September 24 | 2017
Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels-the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams and personality.
~ Myles Monroe
September 23 | 2017
A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.
~ Mandy Hale
September 22 | 2017
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
~ Barbara Marciniak
September 21 | 2017
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
~ Zig Ziglar
September 20 | 2017
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
~ Carl Jung
September 19| 2017
Your body hears everything your mind says.
~ Naomi Judd
September 18| 2017
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
~ Steve Maraboli
September 17| 2017
You are not here to assess and diagnose the imperfections of others. You are here to pinpoint your own.
~ Amy Larson
September 16| 2017
There is nothing permanent except change.
-Heraclitus
September 15| 2017
Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued- when they can give and receive without judgment.
~ Brene Brown
September 14| 2017
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say, “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
~ Osho
September 13| 2017
Like they say in Zen, when you attain Satori, nothing is left for you in that moment than to have a good laugh.
~ Alan Watts
September 12| 2017
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
~ Zen Proverb
September 11| 2017
One flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.
– Huineng (惠能)
September 10| 2017
Ego says, ‘once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘find your peace, and everything will fall into place’.
~ Marianne Williamson
September 09| 2017
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~ Pierre Tailhard de Chardin
September 08| 2017
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
~ Carl Sagan
September 07| 2017
...Loud or silent repetition of inspiring words has been found effective in various systems of psychotherapy; the secret lies in stepping up of the mind’s vibratory rate.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
September 06| 2017
We move in eternal regions, yet worry about property here.
~ Rumi
September 05| 2017
Lucky is the one who realizes the secret of being nobody, for no one gets anywhere by being somebody.
- Jami
September 04| 2017
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
~ Barbara Marciniak
September 03| 2017
The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.
~ Abraham Hicks
September 02| 2017
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
- Ram Dass
September 01| 2017
That I feed the hungry, forgive an insult, and love my enemy…. these are great virtues.
But what if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me, and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness; that I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?
~ Carl Jung
August 31| 2017
Where thoughts go energy goes. There is nothing else here besides energy. Thoughts create form. Moderate your thoughts because they affect the entire energy field. When we are at a high level of vibration, we naturally attract high level experiences and vice versa. Experiences are a direct reflection of your thoughts.
~ Unknown
August 30| 2017
In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete.
– Louise L. Hay
August 29| 2017
It's strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.
—John O'Donohue
August 28| 2017
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
August 27| 2017
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
August 26| 2017
Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
August 25| 2017
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
August 24| 2017
The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.
~ Barry H. Gillespi
August 23| 2017
Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest and by doing so come to a deeper place of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence, not an emptiness but a repletion, a filling up.
~ Anne Leclair
August 22| 2017
What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Posted August 21| 2017
The mantra becomes one’s staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Posted August 20| 2017
We don’t mature through age; we mature in awareness.
- Katie
Posted August 19| 2017
There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”
— Alain de Botton
August 16| 2017
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~ Carl Jung
August 16| 2017
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
~ Tony SchwartzPosted
August 15| 2017
When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.
- Tal Ben-Shahar
Posted August 8| 2017
Meaning is food for the ego. Learn to enjoy your own beingness without giving things meaning.
-
Bentinho Massaro
Posted August 7| 2017
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu
Posted August 6| 2017
When we feel jealous, we tell ourselves a story. Jealousy makes us all amateur novelists...
Posted August 4| 2017
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
~ Bob Marley
Posted August 3| 2017
The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
Posted August 2| 2017
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
~ Margaret Atwood
Posted August 1| 2017
There's something about unlocking the idea of solitude now that feels more important than ever before.
—Trent Gilliss
Posted July 31| 2017
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
— Carl Jung
Posted July 30| 2017
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
~ Tom Robbins
Posted July 29| 2017
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
— Jason Silva
Posted July 28 | 2017
Because water is never afraid of fire.
~ Rumi
Posted July 27 | 2017
For every individual, the whole complex business of living, this whole fascinating, agonizing, thrilling, boring, reassuring and frightening business, with all its moments of simple peace and complex turmoil, will someday, inescapably, end.
— Ernest Becker
Posted July 26 | 2017
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny
– Paul G. Thomas
Posted July 9 | 2017
You cant stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Posted July 8| 2017
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it's own wings.
-Unknown
Posted July 7| 2017
Posted July 6| 2017
The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves – that is the day you will find your way out.
~ Michael Singer
Posted July 5| 2017
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
- Richard Feynman
Posted July 4| 2017
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
~ Tony Schwartz
Posted July 3| 2017
I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
~ Criss Jami
Posted July 2| 2017
Uncertainty is such a difficult, dangerous thing, that evolution has created a brain that tries to avoid it altogether.
- Beau Lotto
Posted July 1| 2017
Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted June 30| 2017
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
~ Khalil Gibran
Posted June 29| 2017
When you are truly genuine, there will invariably be people who do not accept you. And in that case, you must be your own badass self, without apology.
~ Katie Goodman
Posted June 28| 2017
The sacred can’t be separated from the rest of life.
- Jack Kornfield
Posted June 27| 2017
We are all just walking each other home.
~ Ram Dass
Posted June 26| 2017
Practice any art . . . no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Posted June 25| 2017
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power going out into the world and doing something different.
~ Tom Morris
Posted June 24| 2017
In almost every bad situation, there is the possibility of a transformation by which the undesirable may be changed into the desirable.
~ Nyanaponika Thera
Posted June 23| 2017
The voice within is what I'm married to.
All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage.
My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from.
That's my true partner.
It's always there.
And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner."~Byron Katie
Posted June 22| 2017
The thing that is really hard and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
~ Anna Quindlen
Posted June 21| 2017
Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.
— Marcus Aurelius
Posted June 20| 2017
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
- Stanley Kubrick
Posted June 19| 2017
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Mark Twain
Posted June 18| 2017
Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.
- Will Smith
Posted June 17| 2017
When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept.
[…]
We cannot help living to a very large extent in terms of concepts. We have to do so, because immediate experience is so chaotic and so immensely rich that in mere self-preservation we have to use the machinery of language to sort out what is of utility for us, what in any given context is of importance, and at the same time to try to understand — because it is only in terms of language that we can understand what is happening. We make generalizations and we go into higher and higher degrees of abstraction, which permit us to comprehend what we are up to, which we certainly would not if we did not have language. And in this way language is an immense boon, which we could not possibly do without.
But language has its limitations and its traps.
— Aldous Huxley
Posted June 16| 2017
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am Experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I, or can exist.
~ Bruce Lee
Posted June 15| 2017
Like a caterpillar we weave a cocoon of thoughts, doubts and fantasies, slowly suffocating ourselves.
- Shams Tabrizi
Posted June 14| 2017
The maxim “Nothing but perfection” may be spelled “Paralysis”
– Winston Churchill
Posted June 13| 2017
What we have to learn in both meditation and in life is to be free of attachment to the good experiences and free of aversion to the negative ones.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Posted June 12| 2017
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
Posted June 11| 2017
Stop looking for the answers from strangers. The answers to your life are within you. Only you know what makes your heart feel at home. Only you can hear your inner voice. The key is in asking the right questions.
~ C. Nordyke
Posted June 10| 2017
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
― Andrew Weil
Posted June 9| 2017
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
— Leo Tolstoy
Posted June 8| 2017
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Posted June 7 | 2017
Becoming an observer of your thoughts and worries helps you overcome their power over you."
— Sam Harris
Posted June 6 | 2017
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Posted June 5 | 2017
To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it.
– Jonathan Lear
Posted June 4 | 2017
"Dying is just like living. It has its own way, and you can’t control it. People think, “I want to be conscious when I die.” That’s hopeless. Even wanting to be conscious ten minutes from now is hopeless. You can only be conscious now. Everything you want is here in this moment.
I like to tell a story about a friend of mine who was waiting for a revelation just before he died, saving his energy, trying to be completely conscious. Finally his eyes widened, he gasped, and he said, “Katie, we are larvae.” Profound awareness on his deathbed. I said, “Sweetheart, is that true?” And the laughter simply poured out of him. The revelation was that there was no revelation. Things are fine just as they are; only a concept can take that away from us. A few days later he died, with a smile on his face."
- Katie
Posted June 3 | 2017
Remember to proceed with self-love and self-acceptance at all times, as this is the only path to real and lasting change.
– Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
Posted June 2 | 2017
Life is a very nice place to be, I woke up here. I'm a lover of this. You're always going to get what you need, not what you think you need. Then you come to see that what you need is what you want. Then you come to want only what is. That way you always win, no matter what.
- Byron Katie
Posted June 1 | 2017
Everything amazing about the universe is inside of you, and the two are inseparable.
— Carl Sagan
Posted May 31 | 2017
Regret is REWIND, the longing to change the past. Fear is FAST FORWARD, the desire to control the future. Peace is PLAY, a thrilling free-fall into the aliveness of Now…”
- Jeff Foster
Posted May 30 | 2017
The mind must be utterly silent. Not asking, not hoping for experience. It must be completely still. Only then is there a possibility of that light which will dispel our darkness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Posted May 29 | 2017
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- Socrates
Posted May 28 | 2017
Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued- when they can give and receive without judgement.
~ Brene Brown
Posted May 27 | 2017
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.
- Andrea Dykstra
Posted May 26 | 2017
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Posted May 25 | 2017
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention.
— Pico Iyer
Posted May 24 | 2017
We inhabit the world more fully by mindfully vacating its mayhem.
- Maria Popova
Posted May 23 | 2017
Stop thinking all the time that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.
― Paulo Coelho
Posted May 22 | 2017
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
Posted May 21 | 2017
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
Posted May 20 | 2017
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do or say is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Posted May 19 | 2017
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
~ Tony Schwartz
Posted May 18 | 2017
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.”
~ Ajahn Chah
Posted May 17 | 2017
Words are sacred, they deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
~ Tom Stoppard
Posted May 16 | 2017
Engaging in the full range of experience — living and dying, love and loss — is what we get to do. Being human doesn't happen despite suffering — it happens within it.
-Lucy Kalanithi
Posted May 15 | 2017
When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing.
~ Sioux Proverb
Posted May 14 | 2017
Life is either a great adventure, or nothing.
~ Helen Keller
Posted May 13 | 2017
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
— Terence McKenna
Posted May 12 | 2017
Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.
— Alain de Botton
Posted May 11 | 2017
The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves – that is the day you will find your way out.
~ Michael Singer
Posted May 10 | 2017
What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted May 9 | 2017
When we can actually be where we are, not trying to find another state of mind, we discover deep internal resources we can make use of. Coming to terms with things as they are is my definition of healing.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Posted May 8 | 2017
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
~ Albert Camus
Posted May 7 | 2017
Thanks to impermanence everything is possible.
–Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted May 6 | 2017
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what this world needs are people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman
Posted May 5 | 2017
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.
~ Joseph Campbell
Posted May 4 | 2017
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who does not understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
— Unknown
Posted May 3 | 2017
You create your own reality. Your life is your creation and you are fully responsible for how that life unfolds. It is in your control. You are not a victim to fate, you are the captain of your life.
~The Teachings of Joshua
Posted May 2 | 2017
The Paradoxical Theory of Change: Briefly stated, it is this: that change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. Change does not take place through a coercive attempt by the individual or by another person to change him, but it does take place if one takes the time and effort to be what he is — to be fully invested in his current positions. By rejecting the role of change agent, we make meaningful and orderly change possible.
-Dr. Arnold Beisser, M.D. (date of quote is 1970)
Posted May 1 | 2017
Turning our attention to the moment-by-moment experience of the life of body can accomplish something much greater. It can help free us from an obsessive identification with a small, embattled self. It can be the key to living a much bigger life—a good life in the deepest sense. For real.
—Tracy Cochran
Posted April 30 | 2017
To feel less lonely in your stress, two things help. The first is to increase your awareness of other people’s suffering. The second is to be more open about yours.
—Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal
Posted April 28 | 2017
You must change in order to find your truest self. And keep changing. The false idol is any form that hangs around too long and gets fossilized. It’s worth considering that if your ideas of God don’t change, then your ideas are dead. God is not dead. He simply went elsewhere because you were too boring.
~ Bradford Keeney
Posted April 27 | 2017
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Posted April 26 | 2017
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs
Posted April 25 | 2017
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
— Henry David Thoreau
Posted April 24 | 2017
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown
Posted April 23 | 2017
It is in compassion that we feel most at home and feel most whole. We feel that we are where we should be.
—Ingrid Mattson
Posted April 22 | 2017
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
~ Franz Kafka
Posted April 21 | 2017
You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
~ Bruce Lee
Posted April 20 | 2017
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~ Pierre Tailhard de Chardin
Posted April 19 | 2017
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.
- Viktor Frankl
Posted April 18 | 2017
Stop looking for the answers from strangers. The answers to your life are within you. Only you know what makes your heart feel at home. Only you can hear your inner voice. The key is in asking the right questions.
~ C. Nordyke
Posted April 17 | 2017
Do not believe anything
because it is said by an authority,
or if it is said to come from angels,
or from gods,
or from an inspired source.
Believe it only if you have explored it
in your own heart
and mind and body
and found it to be true.
Work out your own path,
through diligence.
~ Gautama Buddha
Posted April 16 | 2017
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted April 15 | 2017
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
- khalil gibran
Posted April 14 | 2017
When we experience the pain of another person, we instinctively want to take away that pain. But by taking away the other person’s pain, we also take away his or her opportunity to grow. To be truly compassionate, we must be able to share another person’s suffering and pain — knowing there is nothing we can do to relieve it and that we are not responsible for it, and yet knowing and understanding what that pain feels like.
~ John Gray
Posted April 13 | 2017
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
Posted April 12 | 2017
We're all just walking each other home.
~ Ram Dass
Posted April 11 | 2017
I don’t let go of my thoughts, I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
– Bryon Katie
Posted April 10 | 2017
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
― Oprah Winfrey
Posted April 9 | 2017
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive… And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
– J.K. Rowling
Posted April 8 | 2017
Faith is trust. Faith is a deep sense of connectedness with Being.
– Eckhart Tolle
Posted April 7 | 2017
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~ Sophia Loren
Posted April 6 | 2017
Success, as I've experienced and observed it, is about showing up, being useful, and connecting authentically with people. The rest follows.
— Courtney E. Martin
Posted April 5 | 2017
Both research and common sense corroborate that fear of losing a sense of our own identity can drive bias into prejudice and antipathy. This dynamic is at work in everything from geopolitical conflict to minor spats with friends, partners, and loved ones.
- Sharon Salzberg
Posted April 4 | 2017
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
~ Rumi
Posted April 3 | 2017
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein
Posted April 2 | 2017
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
―Viktor E. Frankl
Posted April 1 | 2017
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted March 31 | 2017
You can ask your head and rationalize anything. But I say don't ask the question to your head. Ask the question of your heart. Your heart is the monitor of the vibration. Your heart will give you an answer more accurate about anything in your world than your rational thinking will.
~ Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D
Posted March 30 | 2017
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Teddy Roosevelt
Posted March 29 | 2017
One of the worst lies that polite culture (usually the white, Protestant, upper-class kind) teaches is that “good relationships” are nice — prizing peace over truth and the appearance of easy contentment over the experience of hard-earned understanding.
- Courtney E. Martin
Posted March 28 | 2017
What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue, we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us.
~ Simon Fuller
Posted March 27 | 2017
Hope does not consist of the expectation that things will come out exactly right, but the expectation that they will make sense regardless of how they come out.
-Vaklav Havel
Posted March 26 | 2017
The capacity for solitude is one of the greatest markers of mental health.
- Scott Barry Kaufman
Posted March 25 | 2017
You are that which you know you are!
~Michael Pearlman, M.D.
Posted March 24 | 2017
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
– Thomas Edison
Posted March 23 | 2017
We are never promised pure bliss, or perfectly smooth sailing. A mature spiritual life consists of being able to navigate the storms.
- Omid Safi
Posted March 22 | 2017
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
- Thich Nhat Hahn
Posted March 21 | 2017
The wound is where the Light enters you.
~ Rumi
Posted March 20 | 2017
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
~ Adyashanti
Posted March 19 | 2017
Your fears, your critics, your heroes, your villains: They are fictions you perceive as reality. Choose to see through them. Choose to let them go.
- Isaac Lidsky
Posted March 18 | 2017
When you are in harmony with yourself everything unfolds with grace and ease.
-Panache Desai
Posted March 17 | 2017
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
-Zen Proverb
Posted March 16 | 2017
There is a loneliness more precious than life.
There is a freedom more precious than the world.
Infinitely more precious than life and the world
is that moment when one is alone with God.
-Jalaluddin Maulana Rumi
Posted March 15 | 2017
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Posted March 14 | 2017
Bringing joy to one heart with love is better than one thousand repititve prayer reciting.
- Sufi Proverb
Posted March 13 | 2017
I have estimated the influence of reason upon love and found that it is like that of a raindrop upon the ocean.
- Hafiz
Posted March 12 | 2017
There is a light that shines beyond the world, beyond everything. Beyond all, beyond the highest heaven..This is the light that shines within your heart.
-Chandogya Upanishad
Posted March 11 | 2017
Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want, instead of what your past imposes on you.
-Deepak Chopra
Posted March 10 | 2017
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
- Jack Kerouac
Posted March 9 | 2017
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
- V. Frankl
Posted March 8 | 2017
Choose your love; love your choice.
- Thomas Monson
Posted March 7 | 2017
Begin with the end clearly in mind.
-Stephen Covey
Posted March 6 | 2017
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.
- Professor Harold Hill
Posted March 5 | 2017
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Posted March 4 | 2017
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.
-Albus Dumbledore
Posted March 3 | 2017
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Posted March 2 | 2017
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
— Tim Ferriss
Posted March 1 | 2017
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
-Simone Weill
Posted February 28 | 2017
Have I done any good in the world today? Have I helped anyone in need?Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad? If not, I have failed indeed. Has anyone’s burden been lighter today, because I was willing to share? Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way? When they needed my help was I there?
— Will L. Thompson
Posted February 27 | 2017
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
- Gandhi
Posted February 26 | 2017
Despair is what happens when you fight sadness. Compassion is what happens when you don’t.
- Susan Piver
Posted February 25 | 2017
The most beautiful thing about life and reality is that it all seems so real. The most challenging thing about life and reality is that it all seems so real.
- TME
Posted February 24 | 2017
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
- Thomas Monson
Posted February 23 | 2017
No more yes. It’s either HELL YEAH! or no.
— Derek Sivers
Posted February 22 | 2017
A ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ is irrelevant if it is the wrong opportunity.
- Jim Collins
Posted February 21 | 2017
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted February 20 | 2017
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
–Harriet Beecher Stowe
Posted February 19 | 2017
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
— Greg McKeown
Posted February 18 | 2017
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
— Jim Rohn
Posted February 17 | 2017
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
- Napolean Hill
Posted February 16 | 2017
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
- Zeno of Citium
Posted February 15 | 2017
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer.
— Proverbs 11:24
Posted February 14 | 2017
Be everything to everybody and you’ll be nothing for yourself.
— John Rushton
Posted February 13 | 2017
If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.
— Jim Collins
Posted February 12 | 2017
When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.
- Tim Grover
Posted February 11 | 2017
Gratitude is the cure-all for all the world’s problems. It has been called, “the mother of all virtues,”
by the Roman philosopher Cicero
Posted February 10 | 2017
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
~ Terence McKenna
Posted February 9 | 2017
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted February 8 | 2017
Are we ready for vulnerability? Do we feel willing to see our flaws come up as we become vulnerable around others, and experience them do the same? Are we willing to be open to the idea that others can see our vulnerability, just as we see theirs?
- Sharon Salzberg
Posted February 7 | 2017
Beware of the person of one book.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Posted February 6 | 2017
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Goethe
Posted February 5 | 2017
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
~Ramana Maharshi
Posted February 4 | 2017
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
-Confucius
Posted February 3 | 2017
Life is bad enough, without being bloody miserable!
- Dorothy Parker
Posted February 2 | 2017
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
- Charles F. Kettering
Posted February 1 | 2017
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
— Jan Glidewell
Posted January 30 | 2017
Children play. Nobody has to tell them to make time for it.But as adults, we can forget what play is, how vital it is, and how fun it is! It's also essential for reminding you of all the things that naturally nourish you and can point you along the path of your greatest gifts.
—Elisha Goldstein
Posted January 29 | 2017
When we can actually be where we are, not trying to find another state of mind, we discover deep internal resources we can make use of. Coming to terms with things as they are is my definition of healing.
— Jon Kabat-Zin
Posted January 27 | 2017
Life is too short to write long things.
— Stanislaw J. Lec
Posted January 26 | 2017
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
— Viktor Frankl
Posted January 25 | 2017
It takes less courage to be the only one to find fault than to be the only one to find favor.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Posted January 24 | 2017
How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted them to the same person?
- François VI, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Posted January 23 | 2017
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
-Aristotle
Posted January 22 | 2017
Become as passersby.
- James McConkey Robinson
Posted January 21 | 2017
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
-Henry David Thoreau
Posted January 20 | 2017
It’s literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
~ Napoleon Hill
Posted January 19 | 2017
How would our lives and society change if education began with going inward?
~Angie Thurston
Posted January 18 | 2017
There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.
– Lao Tzu
Posted January 17 | 2017
Your ego is a mask that your inner child wears. Underneath it all, your inner child is a costume of innocence decorating the highest self of all. This is the play of existence. The purpose is not to escape the play, but to learn how to play at full capacity for the well-being of all. This is the heart of realization.
~ Matt Kahn
Posted January 16 | 2017
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
-Danielle Laporte
Posted January 15 | 2017
Anger is a sign that something needs to change.
– Mark Epstein
Posted January 14 | 2017
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Posted January 13 | 2017
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
-Joseph Campbell
Posted January 12 | 2017
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
~ Pema Chodron
Posted January 11 | 2017
How people treat other people is a direct reflection how they feel about themselves
– Paulo Coelho
Posted January 10 | 2017
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to thinker what he thinks into it
– Ernest Holmes
Posted January 09 | 2017
The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.
~ Barry H. Gillespie
Posted January 08 | 2017
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Mark Twain
Posted January 07 | 2017
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Jason Jordan
Posted January 06 | 2017
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~ Carl Jung
Posted January 05 | 2017
To be a change-maker, you must first and foremost make positive and lasting changes in yourself.
- Dylan Charles
Posted January 04 | 2017
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
– Henry David Thoreau
Posted January 03 | 2017
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell
Posted January 02 | 2017
What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue, we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us
~ Simon Fuller
Posted January 01 | 2017
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha
Posted December 31 | 2016
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
— Mary Oliver
Posted December 30 | 2016
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
- Alain de Botton
Posted December 29 | 2016
Whenever we give ourselves to whatever presents itself instead of grasping and holding it, we flow with it. We do not arrest the flow of reality, we do not try to possess, we do not try to hold back, but we let go, and everything is alive as long as we let it go.
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Posted December 28 | 2016
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- Earl Nightingale
Posted December 27 | 2016
There is no greater illusion than fear
- Tao Te Ching
Posted December 26 | 2016
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Unknown
Posted December 25 | 2016
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
– Alan Alda
Posted December 24 | 2016
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
– Alex Ebert
Posted December 23 | 2016
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
– Maimonides
Posted December 22 | 2016
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
– Nora Roberts
Posted December 21 | 2016
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
- David Lynch
Posted December 20 | 2016
There are no wrong feelings.
— Alan Watts
Posted December 19 | 2016
What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue, we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us.
- Simon Peter Fuller
Posted December 17 | 2016
When you complain you make yourself the victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it, all else is madness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Posted December 11| 2016
Empathy does not require agreement. It just requires understanding.
- Van Jones
Posted December 9 | 2016
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
Posted December 8 | 2016
Ego says, 'Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.' Spirit says, 'Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.'
– Marianne Williamson
Posted November 30 | 2016
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we are supposed to be and embracing who we actually are.
— Brené Brown
Posted November 29 | 2016
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
~ Herman Hesse
osted November 27 | 2016
Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are. Let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.
~ C. Asaad
Posted November 24 | 2016
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
~ Dale Carnegie
Posted November 23 | 2016
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
- Haruki Murakami
Posted November 22 | 2016
Life is not about being perfect, it’s about being real.
– Unknown
Posted November 21 | 2016
I have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
You return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
You accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.
— Lao Tzu
Posted November 20 | 2016
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
~ Franz Kafka
Posted November 19 | 2016
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
~ Khalil Gibran
Posted November 18 | 2016
In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.
~ Andrea Gibson
Posted November 17 | 2016
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~ Agnes Repplier
Posted November 16 | 2016
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted November 15 | 2016
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.
- Victor Frankel
Posted November 14 | 2016
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.
~ C. JoyBell C.
Posted November 13 | 2016
Doing good for others does not mean sacrificing our own happiness; the result is just the opposite.
-Matthieu Ricard
Posted November 12 | 2016
We are not here to save the world. We are here to save ourselves, but in doing so, we save the world.
~Joseph Campbell
Posted November 11 | 2016
We don't have any limitations, we're just addicted to them.
- kyle cease
Posted November 10 | 2016
The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves – that is the day you will find your way out.
- Michael Singer
Posted November 9 | 2016
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted November 8 | 2016
Ego says, ‘once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘find your peace, and everything will fall into place’.
~ Marianne Williamson
Posted November 7 | 2016
In a world of tension and breakdown, it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness.
~ Thomas Merton
Posted November 6 | 2016
Words can inspire, and words can destroy. Choose yours well.
–Robin Sharma
Posted November 5 | 2016
Progress always involves risk; you can’t progress to second base and also keep your foot on first.
~ Christie Mason
Posted November 4 | 2016
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
~ Maxx Ehrmann
Posted November 3 | 2016
Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.
~ Krishna
{Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita}
Posted November 2 | 2016
Comparison will strip you of power of grace and influence. Each person is unique. How then can you possibly compare unique to unique? You can’t. And when you try, you annihilate your brilliance.
~ Amy Larson
Posted November 1 | 2016
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
~ Abraham Maslow
Posted October 31 | 2016
The whole mission of therapy is to give people access to feeling alive.
- Esther Perel
Posted October 30 | 2016
We arrive into this world as energy, same as stars, wildlife, wind and ocean. Messy, raw and continuously perfect in our chaos. Release the need to control and instead surrender to your own natural rhythm, as expansive, accepting and open to new circumstances and situations as air itself. That is how you’ll thrive.
~ Victoria Erickson
Posted October 29 | 2016
The only thing to fear is oneself, and if you can control that, then volition and action may at last coincide.
~ Robert Rowland Smith
Posted October 28 | 2016
The world was made to be free in: this we know in our bones, and this definitive and fearful knowledge is what both supports us and requires us to turn away from our secure but less-than-joyful lives.
~ Bill Plotkin
Posted October 27 | 2016
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
—T. S. Eliot
Posted October 26 | 2016
...life’s great equalizer: Even if you’re rich, you still get old.
- Drake Baer
Posted October 25 | 2016
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
― Simone Weil
Posted October 24 | 2016
Enough with your doubts! Enough with your sorrows! Let them all go, and I will show you the way.
~ Rumi
Posted October 23 | 2016
The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.
~ Abraham Hicks
Posted October 22 | 2016
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Posted October 21 | 2016
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~ Socrates
Posted October 20 | 2016
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished… that will be the beginning.
~ Louis L’amour
Posted October 19 | 2016
Growth happens effortlessly once the willingness to face the self directly has become greater than the attachment to the comfort of avoiding.
~Bentinho Massaro
Posted October 18 | 2016
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
- Bruce Lee
Posted October 17 | 2016
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted October 16 | 2016
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Posted October 15 | 2016
I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. 'I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again,' he explained. Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.
~ Joe Vitale
Posted October 14 | 2016
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
Posted October 13 | 2016
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Posted October 12 | 2016
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
~ Blaise Pascal
Posted October 11 | 2016
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick
Posted October 10 | 2016
Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
~ Haruki Murakami
Posted October 9 | 2016
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
~ Wayne Dyer
Posted October 8 | 2016
I don’t say God is love, I say love is God. To me God is only a symbol and love is a reality. God is only a myth — love is the experience of millions of people. God is only a word, but love can become a dance in your heart.
- Osho
Posted October 7 | 2016
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
~ Morpheus
Posted October 6 | 2016
We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.
~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Posted October 5| 2016
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted October 4| 2016
In the hierarchy of sentiments, compassion is supreme...
- Milan Kundera
Posted October 3| 2016
The four cardinal virtues are a road map to the simple truth of the universe. To revere all of life, to live with natural sincerity, to practice gentleness, and to be in service to others is to replicate the energy field from which you originated.
- Dr Wayne Dyer
Posted October 2| 2016
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
- Carl Jung
Posted October 1| 2016
But meditation comes naturally, with extraordinary ease, when you walk on the sand or look out of your window or see those marvelous hills burnt by last summer’s sun.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Posted September 30| 2016
The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased it can only be accepted.
~ Unknown
Posted September 29| 2016
I believe that the mind has the power to affect groups of atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior, and that even the course of the world is not predetermined by physical law, but may be altered by the uncaused volition of human beings.
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington,
English mathematician and AstroPhysicist
Posted September 28| 2016
Bodies are as innocent as trees or flowers or breath.
- Byron Katie
Posted September 27| 2016
Comparison will strip you of power of grace and influence. Each person is unique. How then can you possibly compare unique to unique? You can’t. And when you try, you annihilate your brilliance.
~ Amy Larson
Posted September 26| 2016
...understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding...
-Terence McKenna
Posted September 25| 2016
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
- Galileo Galilei
Posted September 24| 2016
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Posted September 23| 2016
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I paint my own reality.
- Frieda Kahlo
Posted September 22 | 2016
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
- Frieda Kahlo
Posted September 21 | 2016
All profound things and emotions of things are preceeded and attended by silence.
- Herman Melville
Posted September 20 | 2016
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
~ Melody Beattie
Posted: September 19 | 2016
Sleep is the best meditation.
~ Dalai Lama
Posted: September 18 | 2016
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Posted: September 17 | 2016
Sadness is poetic, you're lucky to live sad moments.
Posted: September 16 | 2016
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
~ Joyce Brothers
Posted: September 15 | 2016
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon or too late. You don’t have to like it, it’s just easier if you do.
~ Byron Katie
Posted: September 14 | 2016
If you believe it will work out you will see opportunities, if you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.
~ Wayne Dyer
Posted: September 13 | 2016
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
- John Holmes
Posted: September 12 | 2016
If your value depends on productivity, you will never be able to feel value.
~ Teal Swan
Posted: September 11 | 2016
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
~ Richard Feynman
Posted: September 10 | 2016
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part yourself. What isn’t part ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
~ Hermann Hesse
Posted: September 9 | 2016
Our wound can become our wisdom.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
Posted: September 8 | 2016
There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path.
– Dan Millman
Posted: September 7 | 2016
The beautiful thing about fear is when you run to it, it runs away.
- Robin Sharma
Posted: September 6 | 2016
We are all just walking each other home.
~ Ram Dass
Posted: September 5 | 2016
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Posted: September 4 | 2016
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
- Loretta Young
Posted: September 3 | 2016
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Posted: September 2 | 2016
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
~ Maya Angelou
Posted: September 1 | 2016
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
- Abraham Maslow
Posted: August 31 | 2016
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
~ George Orwell
Posted: August 30 | 2016
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
~ Brené Brown
Posted: August 29 | 2016
Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life.
~ Pema Chodron
Posted: August 28 | 2016
If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.
~ L. Tzu
Posted: August 27 | 2016
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
- Oliver Sacks
Posted August 26 | 2016
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
- Adyashanti
Posted: August 25 | 2016
I made a rule for myself that I wouldn’t do anything for money that I wasn’t willing to do for free, and that kept me focused really entirely on the hardcore world-changing stuff. And when I could get paid for it, I got paid for it; and when I couldn’t get paid for it, I didn’t.
— Vinay Gupta
Posted: August 24 | 2016
Judgments, judgments of value, concerning life, for it or against it, can, in the end, never be true: they have value only as symptoms, they are worthy of consideration only as symptoms; in themselves such judgments are stupidities. One must by all means stretch out one’s fingers and make the attempt to grasp this amazing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.
— Nietzsche
Posted: August 23 | 2016
Where attention goes energy flows.
— James Redfield
Posted: August 22 | 2016
The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.
- Seamus Heaney
Posted: August 21 | 2016
When we learned to speak to, and listen to, rather than to strike or be struck by, our fellow human beings, we found something worth keeping alive, worth processing, for the rest of time.
- Eudora Welty
Posted: August 20 | 2016
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rilke
Posted: August 19| 2016
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted: August 18| 2016
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill
Posted: August 17| 2016
Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.
-Rhonda Byrne
Posted: August 16| 2016
Don’t for the love of heaven let anybody rush you into anything.
- Julia Child
Posted: August 15| 2016
The Privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Posted: August 14| 2016
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
- William James
Posted: August 13| 2016
The original desire is that entities seek and become one.
-- Ra, a humble messenger of the Law of One
Posted: August 12| 2016
All man’s miseries, derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Blaise Pascal
Posted: August 11| 2016
I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
- Edith Wharton
Posted: August 10| 2016
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
- Audre Lorde
Posted: August 9| 2016
The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.
- Pablo Casals
Posted: August 8| 2016
There is a meaningful difference between default positivity and conscious positivity. Default positivity is when we turn to positivity as a mechanism, a bypass..., a defense against owning or feeling the shadow. Often birthed in challenging life experiences, this pseudo bliss trip can keep us alive during tumultuous times, but it can also become an embedded way of being that detaches us from our truth. Conscious positivity is birthed in authenticity and awareness. We don't default to positive in an effort to avoid the pain-body- we choose to be positive because it feels organic and true in the moment. Smiling from the core outward...
- Jeff Brown
Posted: August 7| 2016
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Posted: August 6 2016
The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.
- Grace Paley
Posted: August 5| 2016
Heaven is this moment. Hell is longing for this moment to be different. It's that simple.
- Jeff Foster
Posted: August 4| 2016
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world’s ordinary miracles.
- Diane Ackerman
Posted: August 3 | 2016
Truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are.
- Neil Gaiman
Posted: August 2 | 2016
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
Posted: August 1 | 2016
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
-Bruce Lee
Posted: July 31 | 2016
If perfection means anything, it’s being comfortable in your skin. The satisfaction of taking care of yourself is healthier in the long run than being plagued by a few percentage points.
- Derek Beres
Posted: July 30 | 2016
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: Don’t take your thoughts too seriously.
- Eckhart Tolle
Posted: July 29 | 2016
You have to listen carefully. The unconscious mind is crafty.
- Sigmund Freud
Posted: July 28 | 2016
People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction.
- Stanley Kubrick
Posted: July 27 | 2016
There is always a possibility of radical change.
- Sharon Salzberg
Posted: July 26 | 2016
Awareness, will, practice, tolerance of fear and of new experience, they are all necessary if transformation of the individual is to succeed.
- Erich Fromm
Posted: July 25 | 2016
Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.
- Robert Graves
Posted: July 24 | 2016
If we all got real, basically we would all fall in love with each other. I have seen that time and time again.
— Vinny Ferraro
Posted: July 23 | 2016
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Posted: July 22 | 2016
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
- Janis Joplin
Posted: July 21 | 2016
The emotions have … their own sense of scale. In the emotional world a small thing can touch the heart and the imagination every bit as much as something impressively gigantic.
-Henry Beston
Posted: July 20 | 2016
Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and bloodless. Success does not always come from thinking more rigorously or striving harder.
- Edward Slingerland
Posted: July 19 | 2016
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted: July 18 | 2016
You live in a dream. You are waiting to begin to live….
- Simone Weil
Posted: July 17 | 2016
A teacher is one who can show you the way to yourself.
-Erwin Chargaff
Posted: July 12 | 2016
Every cell has a life like a human. We are cells in the larger part of humanity!
- Bruce H. Lipton
Posted: July 10 | 2016
Life is not a straight line. Life is a zig-zag.
- Maira Kalman
Posted: July 7 | 2016
When we relax our usually tense attention on thoughts for a few seconds, we start to notice a space, a field of sorts…a Presence. We see that even without thoughts we still exist, and we come to realize how this Existence is the very presence of Life itself.
- Bento Massaro
Posted: July 6 | 2016
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…
- Georgia O'Keeffe's
Posted: July 5 | 2016
Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
A: Living in fear.
- David Bowie
Posted: July 3 | 2016
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Posted: July 1 | 2016
Look for the sliver of light in people’s journey. Usually it’s wider, more promising than you think.
- Courtney Martin
Posted: June 30 | 2016
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
- Brené Brown
Posted: June 25 | 2016
Posted: June 24 | 2016
Happily, the benefits of training in meditation arrive long before mastery does.
– Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Posted: June 23 | 2016
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
— Maya Angelou
Posted: June 22 | 2016
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Posted: June 21 | 2016
If you’re happy with yourself now, you should never regret anything in the past, because everything in the past has led up to who you are now.
- The Unknown
Posted: June 17 | 2016
If you're brave enough to say goodbye life will reward you with a new hello.
Posted: June 11 | 2016
There are tremendous benefits that arise from mindfulness practice, but it works precisely because we don’t try to attain benefit. Instead, we befriend ourselves as we are. We learn how to drop in on ourselves, visit, and hang out in awareness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Posted: June 10 | 2016
It can hurt to go through life with your heart open, but not as much as it does to go through life with your heart closed.
- Jim Doty, clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University
Posted: June 7 | 2016
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing.
- Sarah Manguso
Posted: June 6 | 2016
The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.
- Patti Smith
Posted: June 5 | 2016The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust
Posted: June 4 | 2016
Let yourself be silently pulled by what you love.
- Yahia Lababidi
Posted: June 3 | 2016
Don't say maybe if you want to say no.
- Paul Coehlo
Posted: June 2 | 2016
Whatever old fights we have kept alive in our minds, our bodies carry them — and our bodies can help us let them go.
- Sarah Smarsh
http://www.onbeing.org/blog/sarah-smarsh-the-danger-of-rumination-without-release/8689
Posted: May 27 | 2016
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
Posted: May 26 | 2016
I am so busy thinking what you are thinking that I have lost my mind.
~ Byron Katie
Posted: May 24 | 2016
Balance is not a static state.
- Sharon Salzberg
Posted: May 23 | 2016
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
- E. B. White
Posted: May 17 | 2016
Your B.S. is the only tool you have to solve the problems of your life!
~ Michael Pearlman
Posted: May 16 | 2016
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
~ Alan Watts
Posted: May 15 | 2016
The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’”
~ Grace Hopper
Posted: May 14 | 2016
The cosmos is within us, we are made of stardust. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
- Carl Sagan
Posted: May 13 | 2016
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. There’s nothing separate out there. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
~ Byron Katie
Posted: May 12 | 2016
Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are.
- Adam Phillips
Posted: May 11 | 2016
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carrol
Posted: May 10 | 2016
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Posted: May 9 | 2016
Every credit is a debit, a transfer from somewhere. Nature does her bookkeeping by double entry.
- Perls, Hefferlein, and Goodman
Posted: May 8 | 2016
Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.
- ends
Posted: May 7 | 2016
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
- Ayn Rand
Posted: May 6 | 2016
One of the great values of meditation really, is to punctuate our life with pauses and gaps and periods of openness, where we’re not trying to fill up the mental space, but we're just seeing what happens next.
— Barry Boyce on the importance of creating room for silence.
Posted: May 5 | 2016
CompassionHave compassion for everyone you meet even if they don't want it. What seems like conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
- Miller Williams
Posted: May 4 | 2016
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
- Martha Nussbaum
Posted: May 3 | 2016
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
- Jack Kerouac
Posted: May 2 | 2016
Happiness is being happy with whatever you're doing without ever reaching boredom. "Fatigue doesn't happen until you suddenly go, 'I'm bored.'"
- Michael Caine
Posted: May 1 | 2016
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
- Alain de Botton
Posted: April 30 | 2016
Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through.
- Parker Palmer
Posted: April 29 | 2016
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-Salvador Dali
Posted: April 28 | 2016
Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.
~ Navajo
Posted: April 27 | 2016
Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the ultimate source of success in life.
~ Dalai Lama
Posted: April 26 | 2016
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius
Posted: April 25 | 2016
Loneliness is the absence of the other. Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
~ Osho
Posted: April 24 | 2016
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness — mine, yours, ours — need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.
- Parker Palmer
Posted: April 23 | 2016
Whatever we can’t embrace with love imprisons us.
—Tara Brach
Posted: April 22 | 2016
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so the world will be at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it.
- Harold Kushner
Posted: April 21 | 2016
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.
-David Bohm
Posted: April 20 | 2016
He who laughs most, learns best.
-John Cleese
Posted: April 19 | 2016
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
– Alan Watts
Posted: April 18 | 2016
Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.
- Joseph Brodsky
Posted: April 17 | 2016
The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.
- Seamus Heaney
Posted: April 16 | 2016
Mindfulness: the awareness that arises by paying attention on purpose in the present moment non-judgmentally.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
Posted: April 15 | 2016
Yesterdaterday has gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa
Posted: April 14 | 2016
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
- Keanu Reeves
Posted: April 13 | 2016
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
~ Alexandra K.Trenfor
Posted: April 12 | 2016
True wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
–Henry David Thoreau
Posted: April 11 | 2016
Balance cannot be known unless you taste both extremes. You will dabble, struggle, even suffer until you muster up the extraordinary courage necessary for embracing all of your humanity.
~ Amy Larson
Posted: April 10 | 2016
My heart is at ease knowing that what is meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
~ Imam ash Shafi’i
Posted: April 9 | 2016
It’s one of the paradoxes of mindfulness training that spending time in what looks like doing nothing is actually one of the most radical and transformative choices we can make.
- Ed Halliwell
Posted: April 8 | 2016
Posted: April 7 | 2016
...Loud or silent repetition of inspiring words has been found effective in various systems of psychotherapy; the secret lies in stepping up of the mind’s vibratory rate.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Posted: April 6 | 2016
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
- Leonard Cohen
Posted: April 5 | 2016
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
~Buddha
Posted: April 4 | 2016
You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.
― Upanishads
Posted: April 3 | 2016
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
—Oscar Wilde
Posted: April 2 | 2016
When I am stuck … I just search for excitement, but not too hard. It is when I find myself playing more than trying that I find my way out of a block.
-Aris Moore
Posted: April 1 | 2016
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
~Jean Vanier
Posted: March 31 | 2016
Claim your experience, but don't let it claim you.
- Debra Jarvis
TEDtalk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n8qT0vQbWk
Posted: March 30 | 2016
Look for the answer inside your question.
~ Rumi
Posted: March 29 | 2016
To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
—Arthur Ashe
Posted: March 28 | 2016
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we are talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
-Adyashanti
Posted: March 27| 2016
Any fool can run toward the light. It takes a master with courage to turn and face the darkness and shine his own light there.
- Leslie Fieger
Posted: March 26 | 2016
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
–Jack London
Posted: March 25 | 2016
Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.
~ Chief Red Eagle
Posted: March 24| 2016
I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
- J.K. Rowling
Posted: March 23 | 2016
I dream for a living.
- Steven Speilberg
Posted: March 22 | 2016
You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.
- Philip Arnold
Posted: March 21 | 2016
Happiness is a birthright to everyone.
- Pharrel Williams
Posted: March 20 | 2016
Happiness is Unwavering Being
- TME
Posted: March 19 | 2016
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
― Lao Tzu
Posted: March 18 | 2016
Get enough sleep! Sleep is the best (and easiest) creative aphrodisiac.
- Debbie Millman
Posted: March 17 | 2016
Attention without feeling … is only a report.
- Mary Oliver
Posted: March 16 | 2016
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Posted: March 15 | 2016
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
- Gloria Steinem
Psted: March 14 | 2016
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
~ Pema Chodron
Posted: March 13 | 2016
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
– Winnie The Pooh
Posted: March 12 | 2016
Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.
– Dau Voire
Posted: March 11 | 2016
Your body hears everything your mind says.
~ Naomi Judd
Posted: March 10 | 2016
In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.
- Fear of Life, by Dr. Alexander Lowen
Posted: March 09 | 2016
The issue isn’t having expectations, but where the expectations are coming from.
–Sharon Salzberg
Posted: March 08 | 2016
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but smetimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted: March 07 | 201
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
~Richard Wagner
Posted: March 06 | 201
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
~ Ram Dass
Posted: March 05 | 2016
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Posted: March 04 | 2016
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state…Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
―James Allen
Posted: March 03 | 2016
Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.
–Marshall Rosenberg
Posted: March 02 | 2016
'I’M BORED’ IS A USELESS THING TO SAY. I MEAN, YOU LIVE IN A GREAT, BIG, VAST WORLD THAT YOU’VE SEEN NONE PERCENT OF. EVEN THE INSIDE OF YOUR OWN MIND IS ENDLESS; IT GOES ON FOREVER, INWARDLY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND? THE FACT THAT YOU’RE ALIVE IS AMAZING, SO YOU DON’T GET TO SAY ‘I’M BORED'.
- Louis C. K.
Posted: March 01 | 2016
Keep on giving ...don’t worry about it or expect anything in return...just keep on giving; unless you’re a neurotic-compulsive ‘giver’, in that case - Stop It!
- TME
Posted: February 29| 2016
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
~ Carl Jung
Posted: February 28| 2016
Wonder doesn't require a passport, it only requires your attention.
~ Kate Gross
Posted: February 27| 2016
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of us.
~ David Richo
Posted: February 26| 2016
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated.
- Ted Hughes
Posted: February 25| 2016
Great Teachers can lead you to the doors of understanding, but it is up to you to enter.
-Lao Tzu
Posted: February 24| 2016
To be fully human, we must embrace all of it.
–Parker J. Palmer
Posted: February 23| 2016
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
- Thich Nhat
Posted: February 22 | 2016
...remember when you are experiencing rejection to return to LOVE. Love for yourself and those you are experiencing rejection from. Love them because they are telling you no so that you can say YES to something bigger and greater.
- Jhon LeBaron
Posted: February 21 | 2016
Why are the divine states of "I know nothing" and "I know All" so frustratingly similar and close, and at the same time feel, paradoxically, far apart?
- TME
Posted: February 20 | 2016
When "I" is replaced with "we" even illness becomes wellness.
- Malcolm X
Posted: February 19 | 2016
Again and again we need to trust the process, be patient, and trust that we are being called to offer something very special to those around us.
-Taite Adams
Posted: February 18 | 2016
Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
- Osho
Posted: February 17 | 2016
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
– Alan Watts
Posted: February 16 | 2016
Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso
Posted: February 15 | 2016
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
- Mandy Hale
Posted: February 14 | 2016
There may not be a magic pill to let go of your past or whatever it is you’re clinging to; however, you can begin simply by loosening your grip.
- Nicole Alexander
Posted: February 13 | 2016
You do not believe; you only believe that you believe.
- Samuel Coleridge
Posted: February 12 | 2016
The broken heart requires no lectures. Only a loving presence in which it can gently break.
- Jeff Foster
Posted: February 11 | 2016
1. Never believe totally in anybody else’s BS.
2. Never believe totally in your own BS.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Posted: February 10 | 2016
To the being fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present as a halo. It consists of possibilities that are felt as a possession of what is now and here. In life that is truly life, everything overlaps and merges.
- John Dewey
Posted: February 9 | 2016
Ask yourself if you are loving yourself as much as possible. Then ask "How can I love myself just a little bit more?
- TME
Posted: February 8 | 2016
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
– George Burns
Posted: February 7 | 2016
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
— Bob Dylan
Posted: February 6 | 2016
Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth.
- Tully Laffa
Posted: February 5 | 2016
Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!
- Vincent Van Gogh
Posted: February 4 | 2016
When you have gained a certain amount of experience, you find that a desire to help all people arises in you.
- Mikhail Prokhorov
Posted: February 3 | 2016
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
- Karl Barth
Posted: February 2 | 2016
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted: February 1 | 2016
Let death be what takes us, not a lack of imagination.
- Dr. BJ Miller
Posted: January 31 | 2016
Brevity is the soul of wit.
~Shakespeare
Posted: January 30 | 2016
The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.
- Samael Aun Weor
Posted: January 29 | 2016
Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
- Benjamin Franklin
Posted: January 28 | 2016
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Posted: January 27 | 2016
But lovingkindness--maitri [metta]--toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to change ourselves. Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become someone better. It's about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's the ground, that's what we study, that's what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
- Pema Chodron
Posted: January 26 | 2016
We know that we live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it.
- Albert Camus
Posted: January 25 | 2016
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
- Bill Watterson
Posted: January 24 | 2016
In This Moment
We are not broken - we are human
We do not need fixing - we are human
We do not self-sabotage - we are loving our self the best we can
We do not resist - we are loving our self the best we can
We are neurotic - in our being human
We are wise - as we humanly can be
We are all these things - and more - in this moment.
This moment will pass
We, as humans, will pass.
In this I find compassion and understanding - in this moment
And more kindness
In This Moment.
- TME
Posted: January 23 | 2016
The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.
- Grace Paley
Posted: January 22 | 2016
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love that somehow contains the whole universe….
— Rumi
Posted: January 21 | 2016
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
- Nikola Tesla
Posted: January 20 | 2016
SOUND PIECE VI
Summer
Tape the sound of your baby son crying.
Let him listen to the tape when he is
going through pain as a grown man.
- Yoko Ono
Posted: January 19 | 2016
The strong give up and move on. The weak give up and stay.
- The Eagles
Posted: January 18 | 2016
Nothing is weaker than water,
But when it attacks something hard
Or resistant, then nothing withstands it,
And nothing will alter its way.
- from the Tao Te Ching
Posted: January 17 | 2016
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Knowledge and love are both indefinitely extensible; therefore, however good a life may be, a better life can be imagined. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.
- Bertrand Russell
Posted: January 16 | 2016
In my personal endeavors, I have found that the work I am most happy doing is when I allow myself to remain unconcerned with (or perhaps, deep enough within the actual work to not even consider) what other people will think of it. If we can stop ourselves from asking “Is the work good?” and instead focus on what we’re learning from it, then we can dramatically alter the reasons why we choose to be creative in the first place: not for the nods of approval or widespread understanding but for our own personal breakthroughs.
- Helen Williams
Posted: January 15 | 2016
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted: January 14 | 2016
Because of our lifestyle and our culture we are more disconnected from the felt presence of being alive than any people ever.
- Reggie Ray
Posted: January 13 | 2016
Within each of us there is a silence
—a silence as vast as a universe.
We are afraid of it…and we long for it.-Gunilla Norris
Posted: January 12 | 2016
Remembering the alien
Who will i be without you?
Who do i want to be?
How do i want to be?
i will remember your smile
And delight
i will be me/you, you/me
i will find delight often, everywhere
your smile, delight, I will be
In delight we live forever, stars eternal
your smile, delight, I will be
In delight we live forever, stars eternal
- TME
Posted: January 11 | 2016
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
- David Bowie
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
- David Bowie
Posted: January 10 | 2016
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
- William James
Posted: January 9 | 2016
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Posted: January 8 | 2016
Nobody who ever gave their best effort regretted it.
–George Halas
Posted: January 7 | 2016
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
- Proverbs 27:17
Posted: January 6 | 2016
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
- Pema Chodron
Posted: January 5 | 2016
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-Picasso
Posted: January 4 | 2016
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
- Immanuel Kant
Posted: January 3 | 2016
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
- Buddha
Posted: January 2 | 2016
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
—Atticus Finch
Posted: January 1 | 2016
May we allow all the Gifts and Presents {even those seemingly unwanted} of 2015, to enhance our Gift of Presence in 2016 // A Year of Well-Being to All
– TME
Posted: December 31 | 2015
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can offer the world.
- Ramana Maharshi
Posted: December 30 | 2015
Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Posted: December 29 | 2015
Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.
- Sigmund Freud
Posted: December 28 | 2015
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions.
When did you stop dancing?
When did you stop singing?
When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?
- Gabrielle Roth
Posted: December 27 | 2015
Meditation becomes a spiritual practice only when the aspirant contemplates the following questions one-pointedly and sincerely: Who am I? Where have I come from? What is the purpose of being here on Earth? Where will I go after I leave this platform? Whose footsteps am I walking in? What kind of footprints am I leaving behind? How much have I contributed to God’s creation? Am I wiser than I was when I was younger? Is there anything I must do so I will not regret leaving it undone with the last breath of my life? Have I done anything more than eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, and growing older? Through my asana, yoga, pranayama, and meditation practice, in the study of spiritual principles and the lives of the masters, how much inner contentment have I gathered?
-PANDIT RAJMANI TIGUNAIT
Posted: December 26 | 2015
Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
- Unknown
Posted: December 25 | 2015
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
- The Talmud
Posted: December 24 | 2015
Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself,
- Parker Palmer
Posted: December 23| 2015
What are we in relation to our own minds and bodies — or, seeing that there is not a single word, let us use it in a hyphenated form — our own mind-bodies? What are we in relation to this total organism in which we live?
- Aldo Huxley (1955)
Posted: December 22 | 2015
Our minds say that so long as the design works well, the work’s appearance does not necessarily matter. And yet, our hearts say otherwise. No matter how rational our thinking, we hear a voice whisper that beauty has an important role to play.
—Frank Chimero, “The Shape of Design”
Posted: December 21 | 2015
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa
Posted: December 20 | 2015
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
– Carl Jung
Posted: December 19 | 2015
No one wants to grow old. They don't want to die young either.
- Keith Richards
Posted: December 18 | 2015
An important thing for me to remain aware of today is: no matter what happens, whatever I think do or say, or whatever someone else says or does, I have significant power of choice in my response. I am responsible for the response I choose.
- TME
Posted: December 17 | 2015
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is—infinite.
- William Blake
Posted: December 16| 2015
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Posted: December 15 | 2015
May i
May i be with you?
May i look at you, with the hope of seeing you more clearly?
May i listen to you, in the the hope of hearing you more fully?
May i touch you in a way that helps you feel loved?
May i know your scent and flavour in ways that reveal what longs to be revealed?
May i be with you?
-TME
Posted: December 13 | 2015
A thought. It will pass, it will end.
A feeling. It will pass, it will end.
A life. It will pass, it will end.
What do I do while they pass, before they end?
Be-with the thought, feeling, life. Sing, dance, create and laugh.
What if I cannot be-with, sing, dance, create or laugh?
Then love.
You can always love; someone, something, sometime, somewhere.
You can always love.
- TME
Posted: December 11 | 2015
SUCCESS is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
- Tony Robbins
Posted: December 5 | 2015
Silence and Stillness, old friends
With them I wait, within them I look | and eventually see
With them I wait, within them I listen | and eventually hear
With them I wait, within them I contemplate | and eventually understand
Waiting, my new friend
- TME
Posted: December 4 | 2015
The wound is where the light enters you.
- Rumi
Posted: December 3 | 2015
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.
- Lauren Oliver
Posted: December 2 | 2015
Why do we fall Master Bruce? So we can get back up again.
- Alfred Pennyworth
Posted: November 27 | 2015
A deep, smooth, and even breath—without noise, without jerks, and without pauses—nurtures the mind and enhances its ability to concentrate. In other words, the breath is the key to concentration. Losing this key results in a mind that is disturbed, distracted, stupefied, and confused. Such a mind is useful neither in spiritual endeavors nor in worldly pursuits.
- Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Posted: November 19 | 2015
It's better to be looked over than be overlooked.
Mae West
Posted: November 18 | 2015
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.
- Lauren Oliver
Posted: November 17 | 2015
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
— C. G. Jung,
"Memories, Dreams, Reflections"
Posted: November 16 | 2015
We are stardust. We are golden. We are billion year old carbon. And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
– Joni Mitchell
Posted: November 15 | 2015
Happy Birthday Georgia O'keeffe
What an exquisite way to capture the idea that happiness is found in being intensely present with one’s experience.
I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happyness.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Posted: November 14 | 2015
A mindful stance fosters the experience of being firmly lodged in the present moment.
-David Walling, Ph.D.
Posted: November 13 | 2015
Whatever you do, make sure it makes you happy.
- Paul Coelho
Posted: November 12 | 2015
Free yourself whenever you can. In times of rest abandon thought, abandon thinking. In times of meditation and/or prayer abandon thought, abandon thinking. In times when it’s not needed abandon thought, abandon thinking. Free yourself whenever you can.
- TME
Posted: November 11 | 2015
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
- Unknown
Posted: November 10 | 2015
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Posted: November 9 | 2015
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the Truth. Have Holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
– Albert Einstein
Posted: November 8 | 2015
There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done."
- Robert Greene, Mastery
Posted: November 7 | 2015
Often, we get crushes on others not because we truly love and understand them, but to distract ourselves from our suffering. When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted: November 3 | 2015
To be brave is to be present.
- Sakyong Mipham
Posted: November 2 | 2015
Be effortlessly, curiously attentive. Be open. A shift in consciousness / change in perspective can happen when you least expect it.
- TME
Posted: October 29 | 2015
Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.
- Debbie Millman
Posted: October 27 | 2015
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.
- Simone Weil
Posted: October 26 | 2015
One powerful effect of gratitude is that it can boost serotonin. Trying to think of things you are grateful for forces you to focus on the positive aspects of your life. This simple act increases serotonin production in the anterior cingulate cortex.
—Dr. Korb
Posted: October 23 | 2015
Speak truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man.
- Sioux
Posted: October 21 | 2015
Please keep in mind that your perceptions, beliefs and interpretations are malleable. They are not carved in stone - even though they may often feel like it.
-TME
Posted: October 20 | 2015
People who are broken, they don't want you to be professional, they just want you to be real.
- Rae Earl
{My Mad Fat Diary | S2E7}
Posted: October 19 | 2015
If we walk the victim, we’re perceived as the victim. And if we enter … glowing and receptive … if we maintain our radiance and enter a situation with radiance, often radiance will come our way.
-Patti Smith
Posted: October 18 | 2015
Action expresses priorities.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Posted: October 17 | 2015
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.
— David Abram
"Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology"
Posted: October 15 | 2015
A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being... It is here... you may touch him, and see a profound change.
- Alexander Luria
(psychologist)
Posted: October 14 | 2015
The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself… That is the moment you might be starting to get it right.
- Neil Gaiman
Posted: October 13 | 2015
Rules are for fools to follow and to guide the wise..
- Someone Clever
Posted: October 12 | 2015
When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love. Of course, first you have to have trust, respect, and confidence in yourself. Trust that you have a good and compassionate nature. You are part of the universe; you are made of stars. When you look at your loved one, you see that he is also made of stars and carries eternity inside. Looking in this way, we naturally feel reverence. True love cannot be without trust and respect for oneself and for the other person.
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- Thich Naht Hanh
Posted: October 10 | 2015
This morning I experience miracles. I awake, I breathe, I am here, the sky is blue, the grass is green.
-TME
Posted: October 9 | 2015
So it turns out that the "blemish" is actually essential to the beauty. The "deviation" is at the core of the strength. The "wrong turn" was crucial to you getting you back on the path with heart.
- Rob Brezny
Posted: October 6 | 2015
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.
- Sri Ravi Shankar
Posted: October 4 | 2015
The antidote to stress is relaxation. To relax is to rest deeply. This rest is different from sleep. Deep states of sleep include periods of dreaming which increase muscular tension, as well as other physiological signs of tension. Relaxation is a state in which there is no movement, no effort, and the brain is quiet.
—Judith Lasater
Posted: October 2 | 2015
Sit quietly and listen with only one purpose: to allow the other person to express himself and find relief from his suffering.
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
Posted: September 29 | 2015
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.
-David Bohm | physicist |on how our beliefs shape what we call reality
Posted: September 26 | 2015
If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.
-Alan Cohen, "Wisdom of The Heart"
Posted: September 24 |2015
Without exception, begin every day of your life with gratitude. As you look in the mirror, say, "Thank you, God, for life, for my body, for my family and loved ones, for this day, and for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
Posted: September 22 | 2015
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
Posted: September 20 | 2015
The most intense moments the universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds.
-Terence McKenna
Posted: September 17 | 2015
As a human being I acknowledge that my well-being depends on others and caring for others' well-being is a moral responsibility I take seriously. It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved on the basis of prayer or good wishes alone; what we need is to take action. Therefore, my first commitment is to contribute to human happiness as best I can.
- Dalai Lama
Posted: September 15 | 2015
That makes no sense, and so do I.
- Daffy Duck
Posted: September 12 | 2015
Eckhart reads a profound passage from Emerson, in which the presence of a rose teaches him how to live. There is a connectedness to the source of all life in nature that can show us how to reconnect with being.
Posted: September 10 | 2015
The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality—the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. It is part of the kaleidoscope of life that these feelings are not only happy, beautiful, or good but can reflect the entire range of human experience, including envy, jealousy, rage, disgust, greed, despair, and grief. But this freedom cannot be achieved if its childhood roots are cut off. Our access to the true self is possible only when we no longer have to be afraid of the intense emotional world of early childhood. Once we have experienced and become familiar with this world, it is no longer strange and threatening.
- Alice Miller
Posted: September 8 | 2015
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.
— Chuck Palahniuk