- “***Not ReligiousOctober 31, 2017I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan Buddhist teachers, a student of Brahmin/Hindu, Taoist, Wiccan, Animist and other traditions, a daily practitioner of sitting and moving meditations, with earlier roots in Judeo-Christian mysticism. I have recently faced enough folks remarking about what a “religious” person I am that it warrants a response. My response is, “Sorry. That’s just not true and pretty close to nonsense.” It is a very understandable mistake, my friends. I appreciate that you mean it as a compliment and I love you for the very kind intention. But who I am has somewhere between very little and nothing at all to do with the standard definitions of “religious.” I very highly recommend that you see the Why Celtic Buddhism Is Not A Religion section on the CB Homepage at celticbuddhism.org for clarification. I don’t disparage anyone who is religious (as long as they don’t use their religion as an excuse to kill, subjugate, demean or otherwise hurt anyone!) but for myself, it is not a label that fits. Be well, amigos. Much love, Ten (Lama Tenzin Roisin Dubh) p.s. Buy and read one or both of the two books at this Fearless Puppy website, or at Amazon. I say this for your benefit, not mine.” ― Doug “Ten” Rose
- Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer
- So very often we do not recognize or realize how the unhealed wounds of childhood motivate our adult behavior. Mental Health is still health and we must take care of it. Iyanla Vanzant
- You will not find great mental health in stagnation. Gal Shapira
- The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices. Augustine of Hippo
- Your mental health is a priority. Your self-care is a priority. Idil Ahmed
- “Sugar is for the body as narcissism is for the soul. Both pleasures kill.” ― Robin Sacredfire
- “from the foreword by Dan Bloom:It[this book] is a call for us gestalt therapists to welcome our patients as fellow beings-in the embodied life-word where we meet in a “primordial contact,” that is, in an “embodied perception” that makes knowing one anotehr, contact one another, possible. Kennedy inevitably takes this a step further. [it is in the trust of this meeting that the healing happens. It is this dialogic contact in their shared world, an embodied meeting, that heals not only the client but the therapist also.” ― Desmond Kennedy, Healing Perception
- “Desire arises when we look to the external world to make our internal world feel better.” ― Ashta-Deb, Life Happens to Us: A True Story
- Be gentle with yourself. Idil Ahmed
- “If your mind is not strong enough to face the challenges that a business may bring, it’s very easy to fall in the clutches of despair and anxiety. Meditation can help you take your mental health into your own hands.” ― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
- “I know humans have been kissing since the history of time, but right now, in this very moment, it feels like kissing is a secret that only Roman and I know about.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche
- “But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.” ― Robert Uttaro, To the Survivors: One Man’s Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
- “Little spice and chillies don’t do any harm. They rather make your dish tastier. When you feel angry or irritated for short term, just think that life is adding some spice and chillies in the dish it’s cooking for you.” ― Shunya
- “Don’t be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light, your beauty, & your strength. Aspire for greatness – reflect who you are; not which deficits you maintain. Showcase the hidden treasures.” ― Tiffany Luard
- “Take a deep breath and read. It’ll calm you.” ― Robert Dunbar
- Self-forgiveness can heal you. Andrew Zaffina
- Start prioritizing your mental health instead of adjusting to toxic spaces. Thema Bryant-Davis
- “The crime against mental health sufferers has to stop & the stigma must be erased. Humanity has to see the real picture of what mental health sufferers truly experience and humans must understand not outcry.” ― Maria Karvouni
- “If your mind is not strong enough to face the challenges that a business may bring, it’s very easy to fall in the clutches of despair and anxiety. Meditation can help you take your mental health into your own hands.” ― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
- “The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.” ― Neil Hayes, A View From A Lake: Buddha, Mind and Future
- “La meditación es una práctica secular, no una práctica religiosa.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “And something strange happened. Energy coursed through his body making it seem lighter. Air flowed into his lungs in a cool, sweet stream.” ― H.W. Fan, Mind Body Control
- “Truth? Sometimes I question every last thing I’m doing. Truth? Right now, those questions swirl every damn day. Is this also true for you?Still, we keep moving forward, you and I. We try new things. We doggedly keep on doing the old things because though they may not have worked in the past it doesn’t feel like crazy to continue, it feels like the space of trusting some wild sort of knowing. We love, good and hard. We show up for life. In the midst of depression, insanely messy houses, and bank accounts sliding closer and closer to that fine red line, and panic attacks, and kids who won’t listen but who damn well know how to question and love. And we make stuff. My god, the way we keep on making stuff. Because we can and we have to. Because it’s the only damn thing that feels right when everything else feels a hundred kinds of wrong. We create. Defiant and determined and true. Weary hearts brought to blazing life if only for those wild moments we dance with the muse.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
- “There is a plurality to our being: We are one heart with many parts. We are one psyche holdingmany minds and many psychologies. This opens doors, and they are doors that urgently needopening… while we are not responsible for the conditioning that’s brought us wherewe are now, we are indeed accountable for what we do with it.” ― Ralph De La Rosa
- Mental illness can happen to anyone. If you or someone you know is struggling please seek professional help. Lifestyle behaviors like sleep and exercise can help. But sometimes you also need therapy or medication. You can get better and thrive. Brad Stulberg
- “Don’t cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.” ― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
- “Just having a place to sit and be thankful each day improves mental health.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “Meditation is massage for the mind.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana