“Usually when we hear or read something new,
we just compare it to our own ideas.
If it is the same,
we accept it and say that it is correct.
If it is not, we say it is incorrect.
In either case, we learn nothing.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“People generally see what they look for,
and hear what they listen for.”
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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“Meditation practice isn’t about
trying to throw ourselves away and
become something better.
It’s about befriending
who we are already.”
~ Pema Chödrön
“Meditation brings wisdom;
lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
Know what leads you forward
and what holds you back
and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
~ The Buddha (Dhammapada, verse 282)
“The thing about meditation is:
you become more and more you.”
~ David Lynch
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“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~ Mark Twain
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
~ Og Mandino
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“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world.
By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased.
this is a law eternal.”
~ Buddha
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom,
I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind,
I’d still be in prison.”
“Adopt the pace of nature;
her secret is patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me,
and without pain.”
~ Rumi
“Do you have patience to wait until your mud settles,
and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arrives by itself?
~ Lao Tzu (Toa Te Ching)
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“Feel the feeling but don’t become the emotion.
Witness it.
Allow it.
Release it.”
~ Crystal Andrus
“You’re so hard on yourself.
Take a moment. Sit back.
Marvel at your life:
at the grief that softened you,
at the hearache that wisened you,
at the suffering that strengthened you.
Despite everything, you still grow.
Be proud of this.”
Picnic with Ants 