Meditation is not something apart from life. When you are driving a car or sitting in a bus, when you are chatting aimlessly, when you are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a butterfly being carried by the wind – that is the moment when meditation can take place, if you are aware, if you are attentive, if your mind is not occupied with endless chatter.
J. Krishnamurti
The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it’s sweet, and sometimes it’s bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy.
From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of your basic experience.
Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape
We do not search for love because it is absent
it seems to be absent because we search for it
Rupert Spira, Transparent Body, Luminous World.
Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead.
Mary Oliver, The Book of Time
When the mind is calm and spacious, we see things more clearly. Instead of being caught in habitual reactions, we have the freedom to pause, to breathe, and to choose how we respond. That space between stimulus and response is where wisdom arises. It’s where we remember that we don’t have to be ruled by every passing thought or emotion. In that spaciousness, kindness and clarity can emerge, and we can meet life with greater ease.
Sylvia Boorstein
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.
Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,
and they’re still beautiful
Alice Walker
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