LAMENTING the age of complete license — in the arts as well as in daily life TERENCE DAVIES (1945-2023) told L.A.Weekly in 2012: “The first thing that goes is subtlety. The first thing that goes is any kind of restraint or even wit sometimes. I don’t know how to deal with that in the modern world.
CONTINUE TO BE WHO AND HOW YOU ARE, TO ASTONISH A MEAN WORLD WITH YOUR ACTS OF KINDNESS. CONTINUE TO ALLOW HUMOR TO LIGHTEN THE BURDEN OF YOUR TENDER HEART. MAYA ANGELOU
WE CAN ENDURE much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. don’t deny it, don’t be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there. RABBI HAROLD S, KUSHNER
THERE IS A VOICE THAT DOESSN’T USE WORDS. LISTEN. RUMI
MY SOUL is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame.
VOLTAIRE
THICH NHAT HANH 1926-2022 Father of Mindfulness “No Death, No Fear” “The Miracle of Mindfulness” “Peace is Every Step”.
SMILING IS VERY IMPORTANT. If we are not able to smile then the world will not have peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing & being peace that we can make peace. Thich Nhat Hanh
THANKS TO IMPERMANENCE, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
THE MOMENT you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
YOU DO NOT SUFFER because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
CHOOSE to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing and healing within yourself and around you.
AT ANY MOMENT, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
BREATH is the bridge which connects life to consciousness which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind.
NO ONE IS MORE WORTHY of your kindness and compassion than you are.
LETTING GO gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If in our heart, we still cling to anything — anger, anxiety or possessions — we cannot be free.
THE QUALITY of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
FOR things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
YOU MUST LOVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE PERSON YOU LOVE FEELS FREE.
ANXIETY, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
BE YOURSELF. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just Be.
THE WAY you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
WE ARE HERE TO AWAKEN FROM OUR ILLUSION OF SEPARATENESS.
SOMETIMES your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
PEOPLE usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. all is a miracle.
PEOPLE have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
SOME PEOPLE LIVE as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
BREATHING IN, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
HAPPINESS REVEALS ITSELF WHEN WE ARE AT PEACE WITH OURSELVES.
HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT OUR ENEMY. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people but against the tendency to invade, to dominate and to exploit.
TODAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF OUR LIVES.
MANY people think excitement is happiness . . . But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
THE AMOUNT OF HAPPINESS that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
HAPPINESS IS AVAILABLE. PLEASE HELP YOURSELF TO IT.
ANGER IS LIKE A STORM rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness. You can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You’ll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.
PEOPLE SUFFER because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
FEELINGS COME AND GO like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
IF YOU THINK that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PRACTICE. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
TO abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.