- “Imagine you’re at a movie, and the person sitting in front of you is so huge and fat you can’t see the screen because he’s completely blocking your view. He’s also talking loudly, so you can’t hear the movie.That person is you. You can’t see the perfection of your life, as it is right now, because you’re in your own way.” ― Barry Graham, Kill Your Self: Life After Ego
- “Sometimes feeling good isn’t about picking up more things to do, but about letting go of things that have nothing to do with you.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “Often it is not the act that hurts you but the story you tell yourself afterwards.” ― Freequill
- “But remember, there’s no greater gift than the present.” ― Dan Santat, Are We There Yet?
- “Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean.Look at the chefs preparing special plates for everyone, according to what they need.Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.Look at those who see the face.Look through Shams’ eyes into the Water that is entirely jewels.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
- “Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.” ― Doug Dillon
- Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment. Chögyam Trungpa
- “Action without compassion is like planting a dead tree. It will never grow. But any action that contains compassion is planting a living tree that grows endlessly and never dies. Or even if the tree dies, it always leaves a seed behind, which will grow into another tree. That organic quality of compassion goes on and on and on.” ― Chögyam Trungpa
- “Not getting what you want. Getting what you do not want. This is the root of all suffering.” ~ Pema Chodron” ― Pema Chödrön
- “Es ist die Resonanz der Stille.” ― Nina Hrusa
- “If you feel depressed for an hour, you’ve produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.” ― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
- “Her beauty is untouchable.” ― Erin Fall Haskell
- “Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.” ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
- “Emotions influence every action we take. So the more we are aware of our feelings, the more we gain conscious control over our lives.” ― Jessica Moore
- “I would like to ofer some exercises that can help us use the Five Precepts to cultivate and strengthen mindfulness. It is best to choose one of these exercises and work with it meticulously for a week. Then examine the results and choose another for a subsequent week. These practices can help us understand and find ways to work with each precept. 1. Refrain from killing: reverence for life. Undertake for one week to purposefully bring no harm in thought, word, or deed to any living creature. Particularly, become aware of any living beings in your world (people, animals, even plants) whom you ignore, and cultivate a sense of care and reverence for them too.2. Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.3. Refraining from sexual misconduct: conscious sexuality. Undertake for one week to observe meticulously how often sexual feelings arise in your consciousness. Each time, note what particular mind states you find associated with them such as love, tension, compulsion, caring, loneliness, desire for communication, greed, pleasure, agression, and so forth.4. Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).5. Refraining from intoxicants to the point of heedlessness. Undertake for one week or one month to refrain from all intoxicants and addictive substances (such as wine, marijuana, even cigarettes and/or caffeine if you wish). Observe the impulses to use these, and become aware of what is going on in the heart and mind at the time of those impulses (88-89).” ― Jack Kornfield, For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life
- “We Break our Relationship. We break our Friendship. We Break our Promises. We Break our Resolutions. Not knowing the difference between “Break” and “Brake”, one makes the life and other one spoils life. The placement of “E” makes the difference. “E” is nothing but “Ego”. If Ego comes first spoils the life and if Ego comes last makes the life.” ― Venu CV
- “If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Reach down deep and draw a line. Continue thinking, walking tall. The problem’s theirs, never mine. The insanity of it all.” ― John Casey, Raw Thoughts
- “The ego is not who we are, it is who we think we are. When we think of our name, our image, our history, and our life experiences as who we are, we become associated with an idea of ourselves, a mental image that is not at all who we are in reality.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
- “The practice of meditation is like a long journey in the beautiful countryside. If you focus on the brakes, the speed dial, the accelerator, the mirror too often – you will take the fun out of the journey” ― Debashis Dey
- “A traveller lost his way and reached in an unknown territory of winding lanes and endless roads. No local person was able to tell how to get out of there. On top of it, his car broke down. He asked for help from a mystic passing by.The mystic gave him a piece of paper. The traveller angrily said, “Keep your preachings to yourself. Give me some practical solution. Tell me how to fix the car.”The mystic serenly said, “You have been driving continuously for hours. Car will start when it cools down. Meanwhile, study the paper I gave you. It’s a map of who you are, where you are and how to go back home.” ― Shunya
- “You said to your mind, “I want everyone to like me. I don’t want anyone to speak badly of me. I want everything I say and do to be acceptable and pleasing to everyone. I don’t want anyone to hurt me. I don’t want anything to happen that I don’t like. And I want everything to happen that I do like.” Then you said, “Now mind, figure out how to make every one of these things a reality, even if you have to think about it day and night.” And of course your mind said, “I’m on the job, I will work on it constantly.” ― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
- “I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe were coming to attention, a Universe of which one is the center, a Universe that is not the same yet not different from oneself: within man as within mountains there are many parts of hydrogen and oxygen, of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and other elements. ‘You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flows in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars…’(Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation)The secret of the mountains is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no ‘meaning,’ they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
- “When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” ― The 14th Dalai Lama
- “Nothing can stop us from reaching our destiny. We have to understand our mind and our soul to realise that there is no problem, only possibilities.” ― Itayi Garande, Broken Families: How to get rid of toxic people and live a purposeful life
- “Obstacles in your life are not in your way, they are the way.” ― John Bruna, The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness
- “Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “When after hearing or reading instructions on how to set the mind on an object of meditation, you initially draw the mind inside and try to put it there, it may be that you will not be able to keep your mind on the object and will be subject to a waterfall of thoughts, one after another. If so, you are on the first level. You may even have so many thoughts that it seems as if trying to meditate makes them increase, but you are just noticing the previously unidentified extent of your own ramblings. Your attempts at mindfulness are causing you to notice what is happening.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, How to See Yourself As You Really Are
- “Meditation is the vitamin for your mind.” ― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
- “Zazen is a great technique to start with because it is so straight- forward and uncomplicated.” ― Benjamin W. Decker, Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You