A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music...
A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me— Wait… that’s not how this post starts. Damn earworm. Anyway, a long long time ago, mindfulness and meditation was my everything. Somewhere along the way, I got a bit lost. Lately, I’ve reached out to a local cultural center and plan to sign up for a meditation classes. I’m also looking into Tai Chi again and Chi Kung/Qigong. I think my Reiki training last year reopened that spiritual part of me and the happiness of having my work published set me back on the right track. After that, things in my life seemed to open up. I’m liking this positive energy. I’m enjoying reconnecting with teaching, community, and mindfulness. I’d forgotten its importance. I found this blog today with some mindfulness quotes that I’d like to share. If you have a favorite, feel free to let me know. Mine is: “Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.” ~ Tilopa
[Source: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/06/top-20-mindful-life-quotes%5D
“A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.” ~ Thomas Merton
“Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.” ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
“It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire’s tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.” ~ Lama Yeshe
“Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” ~ Pema Chodron
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~ T.S. Eliot
“God’s first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.” ~ Thomas Keating
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley
“If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.” ~ Achaan Chah
“Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.” ~ Tilopa
“Big Mind is something to express, not something to figure out.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
“The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.” ~ Reggie Ray
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.” ~ Mark Twain
“I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.” ~ Saraha
“Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet.” ~ Ken Wilber
“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.” ~ Meister Eckhart
“Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.” ~ Alan Watts
