“To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away. ”
― The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path
― The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path
“The deep joy of awakening is a happiness not of merriment or exuberance, but a love that reveals itself precisely when sadness or other difficult emotions are allowed to unfold just as they are. It is a joy of relinquishing, allowing, setting down the burden. The spiritual search, then, is really the cessation of searching. No more manipulating experience in order to feel better (what will it be this time?), no more lurching out of the mind for satisfaction. But letting go, letting be, and giving up.”
― The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path
― The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
― False Memory
― False Memory
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
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“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
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