“To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. ”
“Life is bigger than the circumstances I find myself in right now. I don’t need to be defined by what is happening in my life right now. There’s so much else, so much possibility, suddenly the door swings open and we can breathe ”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself ”
“As long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God ”
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“There isn’t anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty four hours a day”
“When Buddhism talks about emptiness, it’s not talking about a type of nonexistence whatsoever. Rather, the teachings on emptiness point to the notion of possibility, that anything can happen ”
“May you build a ladder
to the stars and climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young.”
“Mindfulness practice isn’t meant to eliminate thinking but aims rather to help us know what we’re thinking when we’re thinking it, just as we want to know what we’re feeling when we’re feeling it.”
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise”
“Only silence communicates the truth as it is.”
“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms ”
“As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself ”
“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it.
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“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is
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“The function of one generation is to make change possible for the next. The real function of each generation is to sow the seeds that will make a better world possible in the future”
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves
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“Mindfulness is an invitation to the heart to say, “Yes, this is the way it is. Here we are with loving awareness.”
“The quality of presence determines the quality of life.”
“Let my soul smile through my heart, and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts”