Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness Quotes

“Don’t be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks—then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“If you dance, you’ll feel more joyful. Just thinking isn’t going to make you feel better. Think about how joyful you’ll feel as you dance. Don’t repeat the foolishness of putting off dancing as you debate whether dance will really bring you joy. We feel joy as soon as we dance. Everything is like that.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Knowing that you have a soul bright and clear like the sun, perceiving and feeling that soul, you will realize that it is very precious and beautiful. When
you consider yourself important and precious, you will begin to feel the same way toward other forms of life and toward the world.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Who am I? is not a question about your job or bank balance. Don’t be satisfied with rational or formal answers. Ask yourself seriously and honestly, again and again, and, sooner or later, you’ll hear the voice of your soul. The true answer will come to you, breaking through the thick curtain of your ego, which is made up of your name, job, personality, and similar things.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don’t let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“The enlightened worry more about the problems of the world than about their own problems, and their longing for the well-being of all life grows deeper,
making the suffering of all people, all creatures, and all things their own. This is a gift brought by enlightenment, which, at the same time, brings deep anguish.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“What appear to be depravity, injury, or extinction are merely traces of memory and experience obscuring the soul. These are merely shadows of the soul, never its substance. The soul itself is always pure and whole.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Find your own rhythm, and confidently go with that rhythm. When you become one with the rhythm and flow of your own life, you will encounter the rhythm of the universe that bestows harmony and order upon all things: the pulse of the cosmos, Yullyeo.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Truly blessed are those who have their own solitary time and space. They are not easily shaken by the praise or criticism of the world. When they are weakened and worn down by things that are not true, they can always regain strength by entering that time and space of solitude.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Though you live but a day, but an hour, you should live for the dreams, values, and spirit you have chosen.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“If you live your life habitually, just letting day after day flow on by, then you cannot say that you have genuinely lived your life.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“When I am conscious that I am the master of my brain, I can actively process emotion and information. I develop the insight to see my situation clearly, like when a light bulb is turned on
in a dark room.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Let your smile, each word you speak, each motion of your body be a blessing for yourself and the world. Let the world be a more beautiful place because you exist.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“If our minds are like a garden, then emotions are like the different flowers that bloom and wither in it all year round, according to the season. Emotions sometimes bring dynamism and significant change to our lives, but we must never be led around by them.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“When you awaken to true nothingness and all the empty fictions you once thought of as “Me” disappear, then self-existent life without beginning and without end finally touches your heart.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Try smiling quietly when you open your eyes in the morning. Or try saying out loud, “I’m happy.” In that moment, the energy of happiness will gather around you. Remember that feeling and express it whenever you get the chance.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“True peace of mind comes from an attitude of acceptance.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Truly give your all to passionately walking the path of life your soul and conscience have chosen, and boldly embrace all worries coming to you on that path.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Then we feel the divine nature dwelling in everything, and encounter the One in everything.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Through intense self-examination and ceaseless selfchallenge, create change, and adjust your track toward growth and completion.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Only if you go forward do your environment, space, and the people you meet change; only then do you gain a new fascination for life, learning, and inspiration.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“A purpose in life acts like a directional signal for the brain.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Consciousness and the brain have a relationship like that of a driver and car. Just as we need a driver if we are to move a car, consciousness must be awake if it is to make good use of the brain.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Thoughts you feel as you act are living thoughts. Thoughts you think while you don’t act are dead thoughts.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness

“Don’t move after you’re done thinking; think as you move.”
― Ilchi Lee, Calligraphic Meditation for Everyday Happiness