Mindfullness

So 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

Dr Jonathan Rowson • Science and Spirituality: 'Effing the Ineffable'

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

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

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

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.

THICH NHAT HANH

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.

Zhuangzi

“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

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Chuang-Tzu