Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds. We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false conceptions of separation.
Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Wayne Dyer
We measure ourselves against others and imagine that the measurement defines the self.
Enkyo Pat O’Hara
The current of life requires us to stand up, again and again, and we are not defeated when we are worn down, just exposed anew at a deeper level. We are meant to live in between the two. In this way, life keeps getting more and more precious. It is a natural law like gravity or osmosis: Stand up to be worn bare. It is how everything in the way is thinned, so that we can feel just how thoroughly alive we are.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Life goes on.
No mountain peak actually impales the sun.
If you come to a gap in your path, jump across.
Han Shan, Chinese Chan (Zen) poet, 9th Century.
We have been raised to fear the yes in ourselves
Audre Lorde, 1934 – 1992, American writer and civil rights activist
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