When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.
The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything
Shunryu Suzuki roshi, Zen Mind, Beginniers Mind
Sunday Quote: Inner work
Tag: Awareness
What are we nurturing?
The environment we create
will determine what prevails.
In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins
Jane Goodall, 1934 – English primatologist and anthropologist.
Unhurried
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work.
Søren Kierkegaard, 1813– 1855), philosopher.
The voice of the mind
There is nothing more important to true growth
than realizing you are not the voice of the mind –
You are the one who hears it
Michael Singer
What causes our agitation
There is a Noble truth about the arising of suffering:
It arises with a thirst for more, that is …always running here and there.
That is, a thirst for sense-input, a thirst to be something, a thirst to not be something.
The Buddha, The Turning of the Wheel Sutta
Sunday Quote: Underneath all the noise
Water is free from the birth
and death of a wave.
Thich Nhat Hahn
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