Mind Full to Mindful Quotes

“For if I’m doing anything in my life out of choice, there’s no reason to complain and if I don’t have a choice then there’s no sense in complaining.”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

“This constant play of nature – one season comes, then goes, another one comes, then goes – is what life is all about. It’s not about some grand goal. Zen does not believe in that. Zen says, nirvana or moksha is simply a matter of perspective. If you can eat when you are eating, if you can sleep when you are sleeping, you are jivan-mukta, a liberated soul. You are enlightened.”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

“if I’m doing anything in my life out of choice, there’s no reason to complain and if I don’t have a choice then there’s no sense in complaining.”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

“My life is like a flower. I was sowed at some point in time; I became a bud, was born, and bloomed like a flower. It doesn’t matter how much I protect myself, how fragrant I am, how alive I may be – one day, I am going to wither away.”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

“deal with at least one adversity, whether that is mental, physical, emotional, psychical, psychological or spiritual. This is very much a part of life. But in all this, to be able to flow is Zen.”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

“Those who love you never need an explanation and those who don’t are not going to believe one, anyway”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

“Therefore, Zen says, let me simply focus on my mind. Because if I keep my mind in a state of bloom, the world is automatically beautiful.”
― Om Swami, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl