Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
Read moreChristopher Titmuss
In the Buddha’s teachings, the end and the means must share a similar voice; there has to be constructive engagement from the beginning. Finding ways to engage in direct communication and bring people together is both the process and the resolution.
Read moreFriday Kahlo
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Read moreAdyashanti
The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
Read moreKen McLeod
Train to return to attention whenever you become aware that you are lost. And then just do it. Place attention and rest. Return and rest. Again and again.
Read moreOgyen Trinley Dorje
When our mind is undisturbed by any concept that might arise, the natural joy and clarity of the mind will dawn.
Read moreRam Dass
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
Read moreSoen Nakagawa
Vast solitude
my thinning body
transparent autumn.
Mooji
Your urge to control life controls you.
Read moreChögyam Trungpa
In the practice of meditation, when you sit down and do nothing, the only thing that is moving is the breath, which goes on constantly, obviously. It’s a very simple approach. There’s nothing mystical about it. There is an intangible aspect of breathing that is connected with the mind. At the same time, the ordinary tangible aspect of breath sustains your body. So breath builds a bridge between the mind and the body.
Read moreBrad Warner
In order to learn to be truly content here, you have to practice being truly content here. And that means giving up any notion that there’s something better just around the next bend.
Read moreJudy Lief
For a well-trained mind, when sudden distractions arise, they do not interrupt your practice, but reinforce it.
Read moreSharon Salzberg
The process of forgiveness demands courage and a continual remembering of where our deepest happiness lies.
Read moreThanissaro Bhikkhu
We may be powerless to change the past, but we do have the power to shape the present and the future by what we do, moment to moment, right now.
Will Johnson
Every single moment provides an opportunity to relax the tendency to create tension in the body and unconscious thought patterns in the mind.
Read moreDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Normally we operate under the deluded assumption that everything has some sort of true, substantial reality. But when we look more carefully, we find that the phenomenal world is like a rainbow—vivid and colorful, but without any tangible existence.
Read moreDiane Musho Hamilton
Become still, quiet the mind, sit like the mountain and sky—stable and undivided in the face of everything that comes up. Open to the unpleasant part, the down-in-the-dumps part, the making-mistakes part, the prolonged-aching-in-the-heart part. The not knowing and the bouts of joy. Become one in the same as yourself, or “one with” your life.
Read moreDiane Musho Hamilton
Become still, quiet the mind, sit like the mountain and sky—stable and undivided in the face of everything that comes up. Open to the unpleasant part, the down-in-the-dumps part, the making-mistakes part, the prolonged-aching-in-the-heart part. The not knowing and the bouts of joy. Become one in the same as yourself, or “one with” your life.
Read moreAjahn Brahm
The mind can do wonderful and unexpected things. Meditators who are having a difficult time achieving a peaceful state of mind sometimes start thinking, “Here we go again, another hour of frustration.” But often something strange happens; although they are anticipating failure, they reach a very peaceful meditative state.
Read moreKen McLeod
What is the point of letting go of identity? Freedom from identity is what allows and enables us to be truly human—to be an ongoing response to the challenges, demands, and needs of life.