“Cosmic Ordering is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.”
“People who seek psychotherapy for psychological, behavioral or relationship problems tend to experience a wide range of bodily complaints...The body can express emotional issues a person may have difficulty processing consciously...I believe that the vast majority of people don t recognize what their bodies are really telling them. The way I see it, our emotions are music and our bodies are instruments that play the discordant tunes. But if we don t know how to read music, we just think the instrument is defective.”
“Too many walls in every direction, with cryptic boxes stacked too high to see. I cannot climb out and cannot push through to wherever I’ve left my empathy.”
“We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.”
“Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis woke me with an urgent voice. “Bill, Bill,” she said, “when I woke up I saw this huge boulder beside me, but it wasn’t there last night. Look! Look!” she said and pointed next to her. It was the huge buffalo bull! He had come back during the night and lay down beside us to sleep. I was awestruck. I felt so honored, so grateful, so loved. I loved that buffalo with all my heart and soul. I felt like he knew it, and that was why he had come back to sleep with us. But maybe there’s a different reason. Judith Niles, a wise spiritual friend of mine recently told me that the spontaneous melody is “the voice of the soul.” The minute she said it I knew she was right. Now I feel sure that the creatures responded to “the voice of the soul” amplified through my body. When we human beings finally get it together the natural world is going to respond to us in more wonderful ways than we can ever begin to imagine.”
“There s a reason why books are shaped like doors; you open them up, they take you somewhere else. The mind is a strange place and what s inside yours might also be inside someone else s, or may overlap into another place entirely. The only way to know is to read, imagine, and follow the secrets that unfold in Anna Tizard s Deeply Weird fiction. Dip a toe. Dive in. Don’t look back.”
“The Mind is chained to the material existence. The Heart goes beyond.”
“Not getting what you want. Getting what you do not want. This is the root of all suffering. ~ Pema Chodron”
“When a fool react on you and you then respond, then you are be the fooled. Always keep your pace between them and mind your business.”
“Our assignment, I believe, is to reach our specific potential.”
“To be in a state of pure consciousness or no-mind does not entail the rejection of or complete detachment from ordinary mental or sensory experience. On the contrary, in a unified state of consciousness, awareness remains established in unbounded silence while simultaneously engaged in the boundaries of everyday activity.”
“Happenchance sparks with no matter who, waiting for love to arrive. To anyone, here I am, longing, as long as I am alive.”
“It is the present now and at noon yesterday, it was the present then. When noon tomorrow arrives, it will also be the present. The present is all there is.”
“If you cannot do regular meditation, at least practice Sacred Pauses (Mini-Meditations)”
“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”
“Lasting change happens on a subconscious level before it can fully manifest on the surface level. The triumvirate of body — mind — spirit must work in balance in order to create your best results and strongest self.”
“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life s goal is much more than achieving desire or pleasure. We must choose not to be controlled by either!”