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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest
Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?
Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.
Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.
Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience.
Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.
Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.
Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.