When you rest in God, you just go home to yourself like the wave on the water. If the wave continues to search, she will never find the water. The only way to find the water is to go home to herself. When she realizes that she is water, she has peace. She practices resting in God in the here and the now. Although she continues to rise and fall, she is peaceful. We can practice Love as the ground of our being: Home.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine;
you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
Philip Moffit
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhard Tolle
Treat every moment as your last.
It is not a preparation for something else.
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Our attitude is frequently one of wanting to get it done, wanting to have it finished in order to be peaceful, to relax, or to enjoy ourselves….
We want to be a feeling.
Rushing along to be something in the next moment,
we fail to open and appreciate this moment
Ajahn Sucitto, Turning the wheel of Truth
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We all have well-established habits of thought, emotion, reaction and judgement,
and without the keen awareness of practice, we’re just acting out these patterns.
When they arise, we’re not aware they’ve arisen.
We get lost in them, identify with them, act on them
— so much of our life is just acting out patterns.
Joseph Goldstein
