When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. The same is true of time. When you touch one moment with true awarenes, you touch all moments. According to the Avatamsaka Sutra, “The one contains the all”. If you live one moment deeply, that moment contains all the past and the future in it
Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly
will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Friedrich Schiller
Just know what is happening in your mind: not happy or sad about it, not attached.
If you suffer – see it, know it, and be empty.
It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
Ajahn Chah
All that we are looking for in life — all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind — is right here in the present moment. Our very own awareness is itself fundamentally pure and good. The only problem is that we get so caught up in the ups and downs of life that we don’t take the time to pause and notice what we already have…Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, pause from time to time and relax your mind. You don’t have to change anything about your experience. You can let thoughts and feelings come and go freely, and leave your senses wide open. Make friends with your experience and see if you can notice the spacious awareness that is with you all the time. Everything you ever wanted is right here in this present moment of awareness.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Letter to students before starting three year wandering retreat.
In silence, we learn to make distinctions. Those who fly silence, fly also from distinctions. [The person]….who loves …silence ..fears the noise that takes the sharp edge off every experience of reality. He avoids the unending movement that blurs all beings together into a crowd of undistinguishable things.
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil.
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