The heart [citta] is a sympathetic awareness,
and it takes on the energies of what you give attention to.
Bury yourself in media, and you absorb that buzzy and stimulated energy – to the point that the mind can barely function without stimulation.
On the other hand, if you attend to steady, bright energy in the body, your awareness becomes steady and bright.
This is crucial: meditation allows the heart feel good,without force or stimulation.
Ajahn Sucitto
Be aware of your breathing
Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking
and creates space.
Eckhart Tolle
No yearning for an afterlife, no looking beyond, no belittling of death,
but only longing for what belongs to us
and serving earth, lest we remain unused.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The human mind has absolute freedom as its true nature
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and achieved this realisation.
Do not doubt this possibility because of the simplicity of the method.
If you cannot find the truth where you are, where do you think you will find it?
Dogen
Allow life to unfold without trying to force it into the shape imagined by the mind.
Work at allowing more things to unfold in your life
without forcing them to happen
and without rejecting the ones that don’t fit your idea of
what “should” be happening.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever you go, There you Are
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