Mindfullness
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Dōgen Zenji
The real meditation is how you live your life.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.
THICH NHAT HANH
Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.
TIBETAN SAYING
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
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
To the question of Janaka as to how freedom can be achieved, the answer given by Aştävakra is simple. 'Know the Self as Pure Consciousness, the unaffected witness of the phenomenal world, and you will be free' (I. 3). In reality the Self is always free; freedom is not attained, but simply realized and discovered. The impediment to selfrealization a
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nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as pr... See more