The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Death is a state of mind - many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth - sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting...

We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defense system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have...

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Look for daily beauty. Let the splendor of life fill your senses.

Sometimes humans just don't listen, they 'take' to fill a space that's missin'!

The beginning is always NOW.

Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to.

You can change your life, one day at a time.

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Sometimes problems don't require a solution to solve them

She wanted us to see that life could be good, if we looked around at the world instead of within ourselves.

Explore the rugged edge of thought. Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

Don't be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something - "I really want to be a writer" - then that little voice comes along, "but I might not make enough money as a writer." "Oh,...

You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

Most people I’ve spoken to have no idea that they are capable of controlling every single thought that comes into their minds: every second, every minute, and every day. They are convinced that...

Only when we deeply and emotionally realize that life is short and that our time is limited, can we truly live fully and completely surrender to the present. If you had only one year left to live, I...

vigorous walking in natural surroundings

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

Every day is the prime of your life.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body, Margaret Fuller

even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.

The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking...