Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
T. Scott McLeodTags: buddhism zen spirituality meditation enlightening enlightenment awakening the-power-of-now spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey
If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.
T. Scott McLeodTags: truth love acceptance freedom self-acceptance peace enlightenment awakening the-meaning-of-life acceptance-of-others life-s-truths
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
James AllenTags: self-empowerment weakness self-help self-awareness self-improvement self-realization quotes awakening quotes-to-define-my-life self-preservation self-power quotes-that-make-sense quotes-i-love help-self strength-of-mind quotes-on-life
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.
Tayeb SalihTags: epiphany baptism awakening immersion-experience
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
Knut HamsunTags: passion spring desire awakening young-love
If peace comes from seeing the whole,
then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we are reminded of our poor little toe.
Our vigilance becomes: Which defines our day—the pinch we feel in walking on a bruised toe, or the miracle still happening?
It is the giving over to smallness that opens us to misery. In truth, we begin taking nothing for granted, grateful that we have enough to eat, that we are well enough to eat. But somehow, through the living of our days, our focus narrows like a camera that shutters down, cropping out the horizon, and one day we’re miffed at a diner because the eggs are runny or the hash isn’t seasoned just the way we like.
When we narrow our focus, the problem seems everything. We forget when we were lonely, dreaming of a partner. We forget first beholding the beauty of another. We forget the comfort of first being seen and held and heard. When our view shuts down, we’re up in the night annoyed by the way our lover pulls the covers or leaves the dishes in the sink without soaking them first.
In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts. When feeling a splinter, we must, while trying to remove it, remember there is a body that is not splinter, and a spirit that is not splinter, and a world that is not splinter.
Tags: happiness perspective joy misery enlightenment awakening mark-nepo
So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
Jack KerouacTags: life love adventure travel awakening
A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
Annie DillardTags: history childhood memory awakening
The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.
Jed McKennaTags: enemies awake enlightenment battles awakening
From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.
Beth JohnsonTags: happiness energy soul self ego awakening sacredness
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