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“It isn’t the things that happen to us
in our lives that cause us to suffer,
it’s how we relate
to the things that happen to us
that causes us to suffer.”
— Pema Chödrön
“And the day came when the risk
to remain in a tight bud was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Deep listening can help relieve
the suffering of another person.
You listen with only one purpose:
to help him or her to empty his heart.
Listening like that, you give
that person a chance to suffer less.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Darkness cannot
drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Instead of seeking success
we should look for fulfillment.
And fulfillment is giving total attention
to the process of living.”
— Satish Kumar
“Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with
a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.”
— Hafiz
“If we can still our minds
and look within we can
find what’s always been there.
Happiness is more of a discovery
than a creation.”
— Chad Foreman
“You were wild once,
don’t let them tame you.”
— Isadora Duncan
“The world is changing because
we are changing it.”
— Carl Safina
“Understanding is the fruit of meditation.
When we practice deep looking
directed toward the heart of reality,
we receive help, we receive understanding,
we receive the wisdom that makes us free.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Let us all bring
our power of imagination and
create a new world.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Should you feel that with this pain
your heart might break, remember that
the heart that breaks open
can hold the whole universe.
Your heart is that large. Trust it.
Keep breathing.”
— Joanna Macy
“The wise walk on,
clinging to nothing.
They are neither elated by happiness
nor cast down by sorrow.”
— The Dhammapada
“Working on ourselves
and becoming more conscious about our
own minds and emotions
may be the only way for us to find solutions
that address the welfare of all beings and
the survival of the earth itself. ”
— Pema Chödrön
“Those wise ones who see that the
consciousness within themselves is the
same consciousness within all conscious
beings, attain eternal peace.”
— The Upanishads
“How do we
change
the world?
Change the story.”
— Charles Eisenstein
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us
what we need to know.”
— Pema Chödrön
“The one shift that now matters most
is the shift of the heart.”
— Otto Scharmer
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth
with your feet.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Practice not-doing,
and everything
will fall into place.”
— Lao-tzu
“Seek freedom not in the
humanmade world but in the depth
of the universe and offer reverence to the
divinity inherent in fire, water and trees,
in everything moving and growing.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Each day we’re given many opportunities
to open up or shut down.
The most precious opportunity
presents itself when we come to the place
where we think we can’t handle
whatever is happening.”
— Pema Chödrön
“The best and most beautiful things
in this world cannot be seen or even heard,
but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.”
— The Dalai Lama
“This sky, this sky
where we live
Is no place
to lose your wings
So love, love, love.”
— Hafiz
“They always say
time changes things,
but you actually have to
change them yourself.”
— Andy Warhol
“Being mindful
of the people around you means
witnessing their experiences,
their emotions, their words…
without becoming reactive.”
— Kathryn Hogan
“Being deeply loved
by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply
gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“The butterfly
counts not months
but moments,
and has time enough.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“There is more to life
than increasing its speed.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Seek to know one another
in those things which are eternal.”
— George Fox
“We don’t set out to save the world;
we set out to wonder how
other people are doing and to reflect on
how our actions affect other
people’s hearts.”
— Pema Chödrön
“Could there, perhaps, be another way
of seeing this?…
Asking this simple question
allows me access to my inner knowing,
and lets it shine into my life.”
— Peter Russel
“Only when we know
our own darkness well can we be present
with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real
when we recognize our shared humanity.”
— Pema Chödrön
“How beautiful can life be?
We hardly dare imagine it.”
— Charles Eisenstein
“Stop asking:
am I good enough?
Ask only:
am I showing up
with love?”
— Julia Fehrenbacher
“Healthy friendships require verbs:
hugging, laughing,
cooking, sweeping, listening.”
— Kristina Cerise
“In the end, just three things matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go.”
— Jack Kornfield
“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen
“If we want there to be peace in the world, we
have to be brave enough to soften
what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot
and stay with it. We have to have that kind
of courage and take that kind of responsibility.
That’s the true practice of peace.“
— Pema Chödrön
“Ultimately, work on self is inseparable
from work in the world.
Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle
for the other. When we change ourselves,
our values and actions change as well.”
— Charles Eisenstein
Don’t turn away.
Keep your gaze on the bandaged place.
That’s where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
“You can’t be an activist and a pessimist,
as a pessimist gives up.
A true spiritual activist is an optimist.
The world is sustained and saved by love.
There is no other way to save the world.”
— Satish Kumar
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words.
Listen.“
— Rumi
“When we protect ourselves
so we won’t feel pain, that protection
becomes like armor,
like armor that imprisons
the softness of the heart.”
— Pema Chödrön
“I believe that your tragedies, your losses,
your sorrows, your hurt happened for you,
not to you. And I bless the thing
that broke you down and cracked you open
because the world needs you open.”
— Rebecca Campbell
“What I want in my life is compassion,
a flow between myself and others based on
a mutual giving from the heart.”
— Marshall Rosenberg
“Joy is being willing
for things to be as they are.”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“When we answer the call of our own heart,
we help awaken the heart of the world.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness
of the world. All things break.
And all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly,
unconditionally. The broken world waits
in darkness for the light that is you.“
— L.R. Knost
“I have become my own version
of an optimist. If I can’t make it through
one door, I’ll go through another door — or
I’ll make a door. Something terrific
will come no matter how dark the present.”
— Satish Kumar
“Only when we know
our own darkness well can we be present
with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real
when we recognize our shared humanity.”
— Pema Chödrön
“Our humanity is bound up in one another,
and any tear in the fabric of connection
between us must be repaired
for us all to be made whole.
This interconnectedness is the very root
of who we are.”
— Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
“In the end, she became
more than what she expected.
She became the journey, and
like all journeys, she did not end,
she just simply changed directions
and kept going.”
— R.M. Drake
“Chanting is a way of getting in touch with
yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and
letting go of the mind and thoughts. It
deepens the channel of grace, and
it’s a way of being present in the moment.“
— Krishna Das
“The best hope for an
endangered humanity is a
grassroots revolution of love-in-action…
nothing less will galvanize
the devastated heart of humanity.”
— Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox
“Our world needs
nothing less than an inner revolution.
We need to question everything:
our personal assumptions, social and political
institutions, ways of relating to one another
and the earth, spiritual beliefs, healing
modalities, the way we think and more.”
— Beth Green
“It is time for the spiritual people
to get active and the activist people
to get spiritual so that we can have a total
revolution of the human spirit.”
— Pancho Ramos-Stierle
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk
curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any
experience that reveals the human spirit.”
— e.e. cummings
“In forgiving ourselves,
we open the door to forgiving others,
and in forgiveness, we create the possibility
for widespread social change.
The very idea of forgiveness always implies
that change is possible.“
— Jeremy Adam Smith
“We aren’t as alone as we think we are —
each of us locked away in some
soul-walnut. I believe that consciousness is
only occasionally restricted
to one person’s mind. Most of the time,
it lies somewhere between us.”
— George Boeree
“Be still. The quieter you become,
the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“Forgiveness opens the door to peace
between people and opens the space for
peace within each person.”
— Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
“The most important aspect of love
is not in giving or the receiving:
it’s in the being.”
— Ram Dass
“What matters most
is how well you walk through the fire.”
— Charles Bukowski
“In every community,
there is work to be done.
In every nation, there are wounds to heal.
In every heart,
there is the power to do it.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Stress is basically a disconnection
from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
It believes that everything is an emergency.
Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
— Natalie Goldberg
“Without momentum,
we wouldn’t know about the sacred healing
that lives within a pause.”
— danielle doby
“And we need to take care
what we’re exposing ourselves to because
too much exposure to the opposite
of love makes us into
very hostile and angry people.”
— Alain De Botton
“In one sheet of paper,
we see everything else, the cloud,
the forest, the logger.
I am, therefore you are.
You are, therefore I am.
That is the meaning of the word ‘interbeing.’
We interare.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“What we speak
becomes the house we live in.”
— Hafiz
“If you go deeper and deeper
into your own heart, you’ll be living
in a world with
less fear, isolation and loneliness.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The most important decision we make is
whether we believe
we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”
— Albert Einstein
“Compassion is based on a keen awareness
of the interdependence of all
these living beings, which are all
part of one another,
and all involved in one another.”
— Thomas Merton
“Intellect is the power tool
of our separateness.
The intuitive, compassionate heart
is the doorway to our unity.”
— Ram Dass
“Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen.”
— Rumi
“Friendship is the only glue to hold
humanity together.
Through the philosophy of friendship
we deeply realise that we are all connected,
we are all related,
we are all interdependent.”
— Satish Kumar
“There is strength in your softness.
Divine beauty in your humanness.
A gentle intensity to your fire. Do not shrink
your voice. Do not dim down your light.
Quit apologizing and pushing aside your power.
Your tender heart-force is our future.”
— Danielle Doby
“Listen to the inner light; it will guide you.
Listen to inner peace; it will feed you.
Listen to inner love; it will transform you…”
— Sri Chinmoy
“Love
is the total acceptance of the other
as the other is”.
— Satish Kumar
“How did the rose
ever open its heart and give to this world
all its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
against its being, otherwise, we all remain
too frightened.”
— Hafiz
“Don’t cry because it’s over,
smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss
“When you begin to understand,
you begin to see that all things
are exactly as they are.
And even when you do NOT understand —
things are STILL exactly as they are.”
— Ajahn Chah
“When you talk,
you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen,
you may learn something new.”
— The Dalai Lama
“I believe that to cherish
what remains of the earth and
to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope for survival.”
— Wendell Berry
“My favourite thing about you
is your smell.
You smell like earth, herbs, gardens,
a little more human
than the rest of us.”
— Rupi Kaur
“Transformation begins with heart.
Messy, soft, broken open heart.”
— Danielle Doby
“I can’t understand
why people are frightened
of new ideas.
I’m frightened of the old ones.”
— John Cage
“People are just as wonderful as
sunsets if you let them be.
When I look at a sunset,
I don’t find myself saying,
‘Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.’
I don’t try to control a sunset.
I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
— Carl R. Rogers
“A ship is safe in harbor,
but that’s not what ships are for.”
— John Augustus Shedd
“A purpose of human life,
no matter who is controlling it, is to love
whoever is around to be loved.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
— Stephen Hawking
“You need to let the little things
that would ordinarily bore you,
suddenly thrill you.”
— Andy Warhol
“When love breathes life
through dry branches,
new leaves begin to grow.”
— Rumi
“Accessing wisdom requires little more than
the confidence in knowing that when
you quiet your mind, it isn’t turned off.
Just like a back burner slowly cooking a pot
of delicious home-made soup,
your mind often works best when it’s not
operating at high speed.”
— Richard Carlson
“Moments of suffering are merely the spaces in
between moments of happiness.”
— Ajahn Brahm
“You are beautiful because
you let yourself feel,
and that is a brave thing indeed.”
— Shinji Moon
“An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
— Hafiz
“Every one of us is losing
something precious to us.
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities,
feelings we can never get back again.
That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
— Haruki Murakami
“If you love someone,
the greatest gift you can give them
is your presence.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Keep some room in your heart
for the unimaginable.”
— Mary Oliver
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so
much in being able to remake the world as in
being able to remake ourselves.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely or in darkness,
the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience,
can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Do not try to use
what you learn from Buddhism
to be a Buddhist;
use it to be a better
whatever-you-already-are.”
— The Dalai Lama
“In today’s rush, we all think too much —
seek too much — want too much
— and forget about the joy of just being.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The best way to restore a broken system
is not to fight against it,
but to embody an alternative vision.”
— Laura Ward
“There is nothing in a caterpillar
that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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