WHEN WE ALIGN ourselves with that higher will, we allow ourselves to become an instrument of that will. SWAMI RAMANANDA
THE ONLY way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
CHUCK PALAHNUK
ONE of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter. JAMES EARL JONES
FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU REMAIN ANGRY, YOU GIVE UP SIXTY SECONDS OF PEACE OF MIND. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
SIGMUND FREUD 1856-1939—–“The Interpretation of Dreams”.
IN THE SMALL MATTERS TRUST THE MIND, IN THE LARGE ONES THE HEART.
UNEXPRESSED emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
ONE DAY, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
WE CHOOSE not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
THE OLDER THE FIDDLE THE SWEETER THE TUNE. IRISH PROVERB
BHAKTI YOGA is the easiest practice because we begin with love. chanting doesn’t require a quiet place or a particular kind of dress or a particular type of life. SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ALBERT CAMUS
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER 1788-1860. “The Art of Being Right” “On Women”.
IN THE WHOLE WORLD there is no study so beneficial & so elevating as that of Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
MARK NEPO 1951—- “The Book of Awakening” “Surviving Storms”.
TO LISTEN is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
NO BIRD can fly without opening its wings & no one can love without exposing their hearts.
WHEN THE SWEET ACHE of being alive, lodged between who you are & who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
THE KEY TO KNOWING JOY IS BEING EASILY PLEASED.
WE THINK that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is expressing life that will.
I THINK that through suffering human beings are eroded to our beauty.
THE HINDU UPANISHADS offer the image of how a caterpillar bunches up before moving forward as a symbol of this kind of growth. Similarly, a nurse, who prompted me to get up and walk immediately after surgery, announced, “Two steps forward, one step back!” This is the rhythm of life we are asked to accept in order to live. Falling down and getting up explores these timeless rhythms & the essential skills needed to fully live our lives.
LIKE ROOTS FINDING WATER, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
WE ARE BORN WITH ONLY ONE OBLIGATION — TO BE COMPLETELY WHO WE ARE.
I’VE LEARNED that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world — our own self worth.
THE BROKEN DOOR lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.
THROUGH the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.
WHEN WE HEAL OURSELVES, WE HEAL THE WORLD.
. . . there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.