We don’t have to have any qualifications to watch our breath. We do not even need to be particularly intelligent — all we have to do is to be content with, and aware of, one inhalation and exhalation.
Wisdom does not come from studying great theories and philosophies, but from observing the ordinary.
Ajahn Sumedho
All you can do for another person is be an environment
in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, ‘Have faith and take your troubles to God.’
Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help – only yourself.
Martin Buber, philosopher, 1978 – 1965
It is really easy to be kind to others
when I remember that none of us came into this world
with a manual about how to get it all right.
Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroscientist and author
Many of us have been running all our lives. We have the feeling that we need to run – into the future, away from the past, out from wherever we are.
In truth, we don’t need to go anywhere.
We just need to sit down and look deeply to discover that the whole cosmos is right here within us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I would like to live
Like a river flows.
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
John O Donohue, Irish poet and author, Fluent
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