Your pain will find you.

Instead of trying to say,

‘Excuse me a second, I am going to do some practices to make you go away.’

 Instead, say,

‘Oh here you are! What is this about?

Can I really open to what this feels like?

– Ram Dev -

I frequently say "I trust you" to my daughter

 in moments where I am not sure

 she will make the right choice.

 

Because my goal isn't for her to make perfect choices,

 it is to teach her how to make her own choices,

 listen to her intuition, 

and learn to trust herself

 

-Tory Eletto -

It's dark because you are trying too hard.

 Lightly child, lightly... 

Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them...

throw away your baggage and go forward. 

There are quicksands all about you...

trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. 

That's why you must walk so lightly...

on tiptoes and no luggage...

completely unencumbered.

-  Aldous Huxley -

NITCH

 

Nothing can bring you peace 

 

but yourself.

 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Focus,

 

 not on the rudenesses of others,

 

 not on what they've done or left undone, 

 

but on what you have and haven't done yourself.

 

❖ The Dhammapada❖

 

 

The objects of our desire are constantly changing. And our desires for the objects we consume also change from one moment to the next. We are always running after something new. We may be infatuated with what we’ve bought for a while, but soon we take it for granted, we get bored, throw it away, and then buy something else.

As you grow in mindfulness, you reclaim your life. You begin to see how much time we lose in empty, meaningless consumption. Looking deeply, we see that empty consumption brings us no lasting happiness, only suffering.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Painting: © Shoko Okumura

The moment you accept responsibility

 

 for everything in your life

 

 is the moment you gain the power

 

 to change anything in your life.

- Hal Elrod -

ALIVENESS

Nothing to get.
Nothing to discard.
Nothing right; nothing wrong.
Nothing missing; already complete.
Just whatever’s arising.
Life/aliveness/this.
Innocent wonder.

Some people aren’t wrong 

– they’re just different. 

You will never always be motivated, 

so you must learn 

to be disciplined. 

You can not fix it for them

 

 your only value to anyone else,

 

 is to understand your alignment 

 

and live it the best you can. 

 

And teach through the clarity of your example. 

 

- Abraham Hicks -