Box Set Quotes

“The idea that I am a bad person or exhibiting poor character traits by my disdain for someone can be irrelevant and false. If I meet someone I immediately dislike, for what ever reason, but I am polite and courteous, helpful and pleasant then I have been polite, courteous, helpful and pleasant. This is not at all the same as then finding someone else to gossip with and verbalize my disdain for that person. It is certainly not the same as being outright rude to that person. What I have thought is of no consequence here. My actions show who I am, not my thoughts.   The same can be said of the basic premise of being spiritual itself. If I seek to be spiritual and yet find no time in my life for reflection on what this should and does mean to me am I being spiritual at all? The actions we relate to as being spiritual are the natural outcome of such reflection in our lives. When we are true to our own sense of integrity we naturally find compassion for others.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“We are in essence not who we want to be, claim to be, or desire to be. We are what we do each day and in each moment. We are not an ideal or a persona. We are not intellectual, intelligent, passionate, artistic. We are really what it is we do with our lives and how we live it day by day, hour by hour. This is who we really are. We are not our ideal of spirituality, we are the person we live with every minute of the day. We are not spiritual by desire but by action, in what we do with our lives with each minute and moment of that life. We are not who we THINK we are, we are what we DO.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“We are not really who we project as a persona. We are simply our selves living our lives to the best of our abilities. We fill our heads with ideas of who we are and attempt to live up to those ideals.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“We know thinner is not better, more is never enough and success is really an artificial construct to support capitalism and corporations.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“For spirituality is not believing in any one thing in particular, spirituality is being true to our innate sense of truth and of what that actual truth is.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Our ego is stroked and cultivated to the point we don’t even notice that we are being manipulated by advertising departments and huge corporations. Our friends and family support the system with their participation and we accept it all as part of the great social experiment called democracy and capitalism.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“We are not who we THINK we are, we are what we DO.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“When we are able to focus on what we are doing in this moment, right now, we are able to let go of all the pretense we usually find ourselves talking to ourselves about, namely our selves.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“We can either fill our minds and chatter to ourselves about issues and people while we are gardening, or we can simply enjoy cutting the flowers, watering the plants and doing the gardening.   It is for lack of a simpler term referred to as simply being in the moment, being connected with what you are doing at the moment.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It is also the state of being whole or complete. Personal integrity is our sense of being honest, moral and whole.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“When we allow our minds to be clouded by thoughts of what others may think or say about us, or others, we immediately lose grasp of integrity we yearn to nourish. The truth is what others think is not real. It only becomes real or of value when we allow it to affect us emotionally. In the same way that our thoughts do not define who we are the thoughts of others do not define who we are.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The single most important thing we can do for our own sense of integrity and spirituality is simply allow ourselves to take such time as needed each day to reflect upon our lives.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“With practice the inner voice recognizes the calm as more nourishing than the chatter and a change starts to unfold naturally.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The universe is obviously here. You are here. Asking why to either point seems rather pointless and unnecessary.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Either we can be present in our own lives, in what we are doing here and now, focused and attentive to our immediate situation, or we can allow our mind to take us far away to irrelevant and frivolous concerns.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“It is in this state of not thinking that we learn to accept our place within the world without wanting anything from it in return.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“It is the human beings ability to perceive himself as distinct from everything around him that creates his separateness from everything and everyone else. When we remove this separateness we open our hearts and minds to compassion and understanding that we are all the same. It is through meditation that this type of insight is cultivated and finds a place within the core beliefs and personal integrity of those who practice Zen.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“When you are able to sit quietly and allow all the world to go about it’s business without your interaction, comment or opinion, you acknowledge that everything is fine, just the way it is.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Zen is the practice of being still, while doing what we do in our lives, so that we are focused and connected with what we are doing.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“If you truly desire a spiritual base to your life you must make the effort every day to commit to such.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The greatest lesson Zen can give those who seek spirituality is simply to accept that we are part of all that is within the cosmos. There is no distinction between YOU and I and WE. We are all in this together, as the same, as one. We are each other.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The Buddha encouraged his followers to never accept what was put to them as truth by anyone else without scrutiny or skepticism. He also suggested enlightenment is within each of us. We just have to accept that we are, as we are, every one of us a Buddha.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Buddhism is a non-theistic belief suggesting a path of spiritual development can offer the individual insight into the true nature of reality.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)