Never be so focused on what you’re looking for
that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett, American author
Tag: Stress Reduction
When we get silly thoughts
With the mind, you can apply inwardly the same attention. When your eyes are closed, you can listen to the inner voices that “speak” in the mind. They say “I am this…”I should not be like that”. You can use those voices for bringing you to the space between thoughts. Rather than making a big problem about the obsession and fears that go on in your mind, you can open your attention and see those obsessions and fears as mental conditions that come and go in space. This way, even an negative thought can take you to emptiness.
Ajahn Sumedho, The Mind and the Way
The main problem
Your problem is,
you are … too busy
holding onto your unworthiness
Ram Dass
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In our own hands
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds;
outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable
Matthieu Ricard
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Not holding on to outcomes
A flower falls, even though we love it;
a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
Sunday Quote: Slow down
All this hurrying soon will be over.
Only when we slow down do we touch the holy.
Rainer Maria Rilke, In Praise of Mortality.
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