Mindfullness
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
... See moreSo I suggest that spirituality and religion start not from a system of belief that offers comfort and meaning, but from a first-hand glimpse of a different way of relating to the vicissitudes of life. And this shows up not as a thought, a wish or an interpretation, but as a direct experience. It is seen and felt, not construed or imagined. It is
... See moreDr Jonathan Rowson • Science and Spirituality: 'Effing the Ineffable'
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Dōgen Zenji
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
Defined this way, not only is spirituality an acceptable and desirable realm to have in our lives, it is vital in order for humans to grow, thrive, and take fullest advantage of their brain power.
Tim Urban • How Religion Got in the Way — Wait But Why
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Chuang-Tzu
The real meditation is how you live your life.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been through hell.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.
TIBETAN SAYING