Don’t slide through life.
Savor it.
Slow down.
Be kind.
Pay attention.
Because this isn’t going to happen again.
- Carrie Fisher -
Maar niet ALLES komt goed - en dat is ook GOED ... Dan is het maar zoals het is... We hoeven niet persé ergens aan te komen... ONDERWEG IS OOK ERGENS...
Others may be greedy and selfish, but I will try my best not to add even the smallest amount to all the greed and selfishness in the world.
Others may be cruel and full of hate and anger, but I will try my best not to add even the smallest amount to all the cruelty, hatred and anger in the world.
Others may be heedless and confused, but I will try my best not to add even the smallest amount to all the heedlessness and confusion in the world.
Rather than allowing all the unwholesome things in the world around us to make us feel fearful and depressed, we can use them as an encouragement to goodness.- Ajahn Jayasaro -
The pain that you create now is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment.
On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.
The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.
In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.
Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering - and free of the egoic mind.- Eckhart Tolle -
Our notions about happiness entrap us.
We forget that they are just ideas.
Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy.
We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.- Thich Nhat Hanh -

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