Wherever You Go There You Are Quotes
If we are not careful, those clouded moments can stretch out and become most of our lives.
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is.
In the fog-dispelling clarity, which on occasion precedes the moment of death, to wake up and realize that what we had thought all those years about how life was to be lived, and what was important were at best unexamined half truths based on fear or ignorance.
From the Buddhist perspective, our ordinary, waking state of consciousness is seen as being severely limited and limiting.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment “practice.”
Don’t just do something, sit there.
The stopping actually makes the going more vivid, richer, more textured.
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
This is it.
Acceptance doesn’t tell you what to do. What happens next, what you choose to do, that has to come out of your understanding of this moment.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.
It’s not so easy to stay with the breath, even if you want to.
The spirit of mindfulness is to practice for its own sake, and just to take each moment as it comes.
Meditate without advertising it.
Thinking you are unable to meditate is like thinking you are unable to breathe, or to concentrate or relax. Under the right circumstances, pretty much anybody can concentrate, anybody can relax.
When people say they can’t meditate, what they really mean is that they won’t make time for it.
It is very important not to think that this non-doing is synonymous with doing nothing.
Non-doing is a cornerstone of mastery in any realm of activity.
The doing mode is usually so strong in us that the cultivating of non-doing ironically takes considerable effort.
The seasons cannot be hurried.
Patience is an ever present alternative.
It is possible, even to hurry, patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.
The feeling state of trust is important to cultivate in mindfulness practice.
Mindless giving is never healthy or generous.
Direct your attention where you fear most to look.
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
You can only look deeply into something if you can sustain your looking without being constantly thrown off by distractions.
If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot?
Awareness is not the same as thought.
If we decide to think positively, that may be useful, but it is not meditation. It is just more thinking.
Dwelling inwardly for extended periods, we come to know something of the poverty of always looking outside ourselves for happiness, understanding, and wisdom.
You might say the posture itself is the meditation.
You can only get there if you are truly here.
Would getting our way solve anything at all?
Borrow these wonderful archetypal qualities of mountains and use them to bolster our intentionality and resolve to hold the moment.
Literally having no place to go makes it easier to be where you are.
If you miss the here, you are likely also to miss the there.
Standing meditation is best to learned from trees.
It’s the whole body that breathes.
Forgetting or neglecting to be mindful can teach you a lot more than just being mindful all the time.
Life gives us scant time for being nowadays, unless we see it on purpose.
We all carry around ideas and images of reality… Instead of seeing what is right in front of us or inside of us.
There is no running away from anything.
Too often, our lives ceased working because we cease working at life.
No matter how good the teacher, ultimately, you have to live the inner work yourself, and that work always comes from the cloth of your own life.
There is no successful escaping from yourself in the long run, only transformation.
Rarely do we question and then contemplate with determination what our hearts are calling us to do and to be.
There are outer mountains and inner mountains.
Ultimately, it is the climate itself, which is the adventure, not just standing at the top.
Nothing comes from nothing.
Without a daily embodiment practice, lofty ideals, tend to succumb to self-interest
Overall, when we speak of a person‘s karma, it means the sum total of the person’s direction in life and the tenor of the things that occur around that person.
Without Mindfulness, we are all too easily stuck in the momentum, coming out of the past.
Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us.
Inquiry is a way to make sure you are staying in touch with the basic mystery of life itself, and our presence here.
It means asking without expecting answers.
You are only you in relationship to all other forces and events in the world.
The list of situations in which your equanimity and clarity will be so sorely challenged and he will find yourself “losing it” is endless.
I meditate early in the morning because there is no other time.
It’s when you get attached to your experience that the practice arrests, and your development along with it.
Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.