“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
“Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won t be ready for anything if you aren t ready to be you.”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
“Don t stop yourself from greatness before you ve begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.”
“When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.”
“It s easy to get lost in our own heads. It s easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way that we lose sight of all that s around us in any given moment. It s difficult to allow those thoughts and problems to take a back seat in our lives in order to be completely aware of what s right here, right now. Perhaps there s a person who really could use you to take a couple of moments to pay attention to him or her; perhaps there s a cool autumn breeze that s going to calm your spirit with its amazing touch--but only if you actually notice it.”
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.”
“Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature, accept the gift as if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed prayers, oil the hooves well, caress the small ears with praise. Have the new halter of woven silver embedded with jewels. Spare no expense, pay what is asked, when a gift arrives from the sea. Treat it as you yourself would be treated, brought speechless and naked into the court of a king. And when the request finally comes, do not hesitate even an instant---- stroke the white throat, the heavy trembling dewlaps you d come to believe were yours, and plunge in the knife. Not once did you enter the pasture without pause, without yourself trembling, that you came to love it, that was the gift. Let the envious gods take back what they can.”
“When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.”
“That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything. Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.”
“Judgement is poverty.”
“Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.”
“According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, gene activity can change on a daily basis. If the perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of your body, and if your nervous system reads and interprets the environment and then controls the blood’s chemistry, then you can literally change the fate of your cells by altering your thoughts. In fact, Dr. Lipton’s research illustrates that by changing your perception, your mind can alter the activity of your genes and create over thirty thousand variations of products from each gene. He gives more detail by saying that the gene programs are contained within the nucleus of the cell, and you can rewrite those genetic programs through changing your blood chemistry.”
“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”
“Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.”
“Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.”
“...mindfulness - it isn t a trick or a gimmick. It s being present in the moment. When I m with you, I m with you. Right now. That s all. No more and no less.”