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“The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows”
— D.T. Suzuki
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
— Aristotle
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where”
— Pablo Neruda
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
— Seneca
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
— Haruki Murakami
“In my hut this spring there is nothing there is everything”
— Ryokan
“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
— Socrates
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smooth”
— Pema Chodron
“The fish trap exists because of the fish once you have gotten the fish you can forget the trap”
— Zhuangzi
“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness and care we would give to a good friend”
— Kristin Neff
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”
— Deng Ming-Dao
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
— Carl Jung
“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”
— Spanish Proverb
“Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it”
— Adyashanti
“To bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.”
“To arrive at a certain point you must start from somewhere else”
— Idries Shah
“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier it is the crumbling away of untruth”
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Unknown
“The mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted”
— Takuan Soho
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“The words you speak become the house you live in”
— Hafiz
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
— Rumi
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky conscious breathing is my anchor”
“Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”
— Albert Einstein
“Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively so that you disbelieve in all the rest”
— Ibn Arabi
“I am not sure that I exist actually I am all the writers that I have read all the people that I have met all the women that I have loved”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
— Epictetus
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Stop looking outside for help you are the source and the solution”
— Gangaji
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“Have you eaten your rice porridge then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Not knowing how near the truth is we seek it far away”
— Hakuin
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
— Lao Tzu
“The contentment that comes from within is the only real wealth.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“If you resist change you resist life”
— Sadhguru
“I searched for God among the Christians and on the cross and therein I found him not I went into the ancient temples of idolatry no trace of him anywhere”
— Yunus Emre
“Happiness is our natural state it is the way we were before we began to interfere with it”
— Anthony de Mello
“Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is”
— Tara Brach
“Dont hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise simply realize that our original mind right from the start is beyond thought”
— Bankei
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances”
— Viktor Frankl
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Come come whoever you are wanderer worshipper lover of leaving come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times come yet again come”
— Mevlana
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you dont”
— Steve Maraboli
“Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them”
“Having no destination I am never lost”
— Ikkyu
“Wherever you are that is the entry point”
— Kabir
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”
— Confucius
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“Right now its like this”
— Ajahn Sumedho
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“The real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash all stains with water but the heart must be washed with tears”
— Shams Tabrizi
“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”
— Mooji
“Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
— Virginia Woolf
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Herman Hesse
“Amor fati love your fate which is in fact your life”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude”
— Maya Angelou
“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak”
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
— Plutarch
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”
— Deepak Chopra
“We are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to it”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“Be still and know that you are already free”
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently”
“The essence of practice is simply letting whatever happens happen whatever goes go”
— Mingyur Rinpoche
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“If a problem is fixable if a situation is such that you can do something about it then there is no need to worry”
— Dalai Lama
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”
— Albert Camus
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
— William Shakespeare
“You are the universe experiencing itself”
— Alan Watts
“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
— Octavia Butler
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
— Laozi
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”
— Carl Rogers
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat known suffering known struggle known loss and have found their way out of the depths”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Let go of what has passed let go of what may come let go of what is happening now”
— Tilopa
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
— Blaise Pascal
“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life”
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future”
“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization all other obligations are secondary”
— Anandamayi Ma
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences”
— Sengcan
“When we love we always strive to become better than we are when we strive to become better than we are everything around us becomes better too”
— Paulo Coelho
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”
“In the struggle between yourself and the world back the world”
— Franz Kafka
“To accept the shadow is to accept the whole self”
— Robert Johnson
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity”
— Erich Fromm
“Going to pieces without falling apart is the essence of emotional maturity”
— Mark Epstein
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Life is long if you know how to use it”
“Let the mind be empty let the heart be open let there be no seeking”
— Papaji
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”
— Francis of Assisi
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
— François Rabelais
“The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go you are given natural buoyancy”
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice”
— R.D. Laing
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”
— Euripides
“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past”
— Jack Kornfield
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“Zen mind beginners mind in the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts there are few”
— Suzuki Roshi
“The root of all suffering is the failure to accept what is”
— Tsongkhapa
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“The conversational nature of reality means we cannot simply will everything we want into being”
— David Whyte
“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”
— B. Alan Wallace
“Mindfulness is about being fully present and accepting the moment as it is”
— Gil Fronsdal
“Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings”
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”
“Perfect is the enemy of good”
— Voltaire
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”
“Every wall is a door.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be one”
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem”
— Krishnamurti
“Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go without ever grasping at them”
— Dilgo Khyentse
“Life is too short and too precious to be anything but happy”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today”
“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are not”
“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”
“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations”
— Fritz Perls
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“If you use your mind to study reality you wont understand either your mind or reality”
— Bodhidharma
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”
“In the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we have”
— Wayne Muller
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The bad news is you are falling through the air nothing to hang on to no parachute the good news is there is no ground”
— Chogyam Trungpa
“The soul sees by means of affliction”
— James Hillman
“The word yes is the door to grace”
— David Richo
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“Awareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goes”
— Rupert Spira
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing”
— Chuang Tzu
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it”
— Helen Keller
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“The sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.”
“I carry a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other with these things I am going to set fire to heaven and put out the flames of hell”
— Rabia al-Adawiyya
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“Tear up the books and you will be free burn the holy text and be at peace”
— Bulleh Shah
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome”
— Brene Brown
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”
— Al-Ghazali
“The door to your heart opens inward”
— Ajahn Brahm
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies”
— Nelson Mandela
“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerable”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”
— Walt Whitman
“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”
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything.”
— André Gide
“Only the educated are free”
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”
— John of the Cross
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
— Abraham Maslow
“If the problem can be solved why worry if the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good”
— Shantideva
“The flower doesnt dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comes”
— Mark Nepo
“Care of the soul requires a special kind of attention that we dont usually give it”
— Thomas Moore
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way its about feeling the way you feel”
— Bhante Gunaratana
“The act of self-understanding is therapeutic”
— Irvin Yalom
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn then the door is there and the key is in your hand”
“Experience life in all possible ways good-bad bitter-sweet dark-light summer-winter experience all the dualities”
— Osho
“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”
— Sun Tzu
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already here”
— Italo Calvino
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference”
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
— Mary Oliver
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us”
— Joseph Campbell
“If you have ever been called defiant incorrigible forward cunning wild troublesome or dangerous you are on the right track do not budge”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“If you judge people you have no time to love them”
— Mother Teresa
“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns”
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
“He who is contented is rich.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid”
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours”
— Wayne Dyer
“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”
— Ramakrishna
“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance”
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it”
— Byron Katie
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
— Edvard Munch
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it”
— Toni Morrison
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us we sink beneath it it pins us to the ground but the heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of lifes most intense fulfillment”
— Milan Kundera
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Do not regret what you have done”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“My religion is to live and die without regret”
— Milarepa
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”
— Alice Walker
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”
“Go sweep out the chamber of your heart make it ready to be the dwelling place of the beloved”
— Attar
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Where attention goes neural firing flows and neural connection grows”
— Daniel Siegel
“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand they are moments when we touch one another”
“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“When you argue with reality you lose but only 100 percent of the time”
“As is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what matters”
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Happiness is a skill it requires effort and time”
— Matthieu Ricard
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”
— Gabor Mate
“Wherever you go there you are”
“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”
— Dogen
“When you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”
“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace if you let go completely you will have complete peace”
— Ajahn Chah
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”
— Meister Eckhart
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equals”
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
— Wendell Berry
“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.”
— James Merrick
“People neglect the root and seek the branches”
— Huang Po
“You know quite well deep within you that there is only a single magic a single power a single salvation and that is called loving”
— Hermann Hesse
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“What we know matters but who we are matters more”
“I dwell in possibility”
— Emily Dickinson
“Let go or be dragged”
— Zen Proverb
“Awareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like clouds”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Khalil Gibran
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image”
— Thomas Merton
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrow”
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“I am a lover of what is not because I am a spiritual person but because it hurts when I argue with reality”
— Swami Satchidananda
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts”
— Bertrand Russell
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
— Alexander Pope
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Basho
“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear stopping the incessant blather and listening”
— Marion Woodman
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you”
“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world”
— Ramana Maharshi
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.”
— François Fénelon
“Be a lotus flower be in the water and do not let the water touch you”
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”
“Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us and regarding what we see with an open kind and loving heart is what I call radical acceptance”
“You have to grow from the inside out none can teach you none can make you spiritual there is no other teacher but your own soul”
— Vivekananda
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts mind there are few”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
“The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.”
— Vyasa
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“We need four hugs a day for survival eight for maintenance twelve for growth”
— Virginia Satir
“Accept everything just the way it is”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together”
“Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought”
— Patrul Rinpoche
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful”
“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now and instead of calling it work realize it is play”
“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them”
“True meditation is not about controlling or changing anything it is about falling in love with what is”
— Jeff Foster
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