Mindfullness
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.
THICH NHAT HANH
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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
The real meditation is how you live your life.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Meditation is the practice of breaking one’s identification with thought and allowing experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to simply be as it is.
So meditation is not something you’re doing, really. It’s something you’re ceasing to do. You are ceasing to be distracted by thought.
Therefore real meditation is not a form of inwardness. It’s a fo
... See more“When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state. But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher states down into fear, guilt, grief, and shame. These negative emotions and energies rule our lives and cause our su
... See moreSilence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been through hell.