Quotes on Mindfulness

[Daniel E.]

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.”

― Pema Ch?dr?n, When Things Fall Apart

 

[Daniel E.]

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Daniel E.]

The page-not-found error message at a website (retreat.guru):

This page,
like this moment,
cannot be found anywhere.

 

[Daniel E.]

“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.”

“When you have known someone your whole life you don’t need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play has been done years ago, and so the battle sits in your memory like stove gas awaiting the match. A wrong word, a careless allusion, and the old fire is suddenly raging.”

― Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha

 

[Daniel E.]

It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

~ Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape

 

[Daniel E.]

“Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them.”

~ Obi-Wan Kenobi

 

[Daniel E.]

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”

― Pema Ch?dr?n, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

 

[Daniel E.]

Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.

– Tilopa

 

[Daniel E.]

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."

~ Joseph Campbell

 

[Daniel E.]

"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for."

"We're in a freefall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes."

~ Joseph Campbell

 

[amazingmouse]

I find very calming the following sentence : "Love never dies, and spirit know no loss."

 

[Daniel E.]

We are very critical of ourselves, to the point where we are even our own enemies. Meditation is a way of making up that quarrel, of accepting ourselves, making friends with ourselves. We find that we are not as bad as we have been told we are. ~ Trungpa Rinpoche

Meditation is about learning to recognize our basic goodness in the immediacy of the present moment, and then nurturing this recognition until it seeps into the very core of our being. ~ Mingyur Rinpoche

 

[Daniel E.]

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

~ Lenny Bruce

 

[Daniel E.]

?Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.?

― Thich Nhat Hanh, Stepping into Freedom

 

[making_art]

“Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

 

[making_art]

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama

 

[making_art]

“The only true thing is what’s in front of you right now.” – Ramona Ausube

 

[Daniel E.]

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

― Stephen Levine

 

[making_art]

?Many people are alive but don?t touch the miracle of being alive.? ? Th?ch Nhất Hạnh

 

[Daniel E.]

We are all wounded people dealing with messy emotions in a confusing, uncertain, sometimes scary world. That doesn’t give anyone the right to be mean, thoughtless, or disrespectful. But remembering this makes it a little easier to think, ‘I hope you heal from your pain’ instead of ‘I hope you hurt like you hurt me.’

~ Lori Deschene