190 quotes found
“Balance is the key to a long and happy life.”
“Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.”
“Your thoughts are based on your perceptions and those thoughts are capable to refine your perceptions again.”
“Dwell positive thoughts!”
“He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glit...”
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
“There are high places that dont invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to takeIm giddy with thinking wh...”
“Everything will be okay as soon as youare okay with everything. And thats theonly time everything will be okay.”
“Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened persons life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.”
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a mi...”
“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard gre...”
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness...”
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that...”
“As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get mor...”
“Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)”
“Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out oninformation that ...”
“Stop, breathe, look aroundand embrace the miracle of each day,the miracle of life.”
“...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)”
“The next time you feel a sense of dissatisfaction, of something being missing or not quite right, turn inward as an experiment. See if you can capture the energy of that very moment. Instead of pic...”
