When practicing mindfulness, even directed toward something as ordinary as breathing, we enhance the part of the mind that is aware of the way things are, while diminishing the part that is stressed because things are not the way we want them to be.
Andrew Olendzki, What’s in a Word? Sati
Even on the calmest, most uneventful day we get many opportunities to see the clash between what we want and the way it really is.
Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen
Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation
Shannon L. Alder
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro, 1830 – 1903, Danish-French Impressionist/ Neo-Impressionist painter
Happy are those who know
behind all words, the Unsayable stands,
and from that source, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness, and us.
Free of those bridges we raise
with constructed distinctions;
so that always, in each separate joy,
we gaze at the single, wholly mutual core.
Rilke, Happy are those who know, translated by Jane Hirshfield
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things
Henry Ward Beecher, 1813 – 1887, American social reformer.
