“If you are bored, you are not paying attention.” IfsAttentionPay AttentionBored Author:Frederick Salomon Perls
“Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.” WorldWisdomFacesLyingSpiritualityAbilityHealingAttitudePowerCrossesMiracleEndureHealDaily LifeRise Above Author:Daya Mata
“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.” SelfStatesNationsPeaceFreedomHeroCitizensRespectIndependentGuaranteesInternalsCitizenshipAutonomousWorld CitizenInternal Peace Author:Vaclav Havel
“There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness. We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.” NeedsMayBookFormUnderstandingNumbersPovertyLearningToo MuchAwarenessLetting GoCaring Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris
“So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted them. We do not see without our biases, our habits of life and thought.” LifeMindBookCareHabitLazyDistracted Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris
“A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the wax diminish. It melts away - a symbol for life. [...] Candles have long been central to worship. By lighting them we announce that we are entering into a different sense of time. Not the usual ticktock time of daily living, but sacred time, a timeless time.” LifeLongBookDifferentLightTimeWatchesWorshipSacredSymbolsUsualCandleTimelessEnteringDiminishLightingDaily LivingFlickering Light Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris
“meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.” MindStatesMeditationAwarenessParticularSupposed To BeCultivationFabricationReinforcement Author:Thrangu Rinpoche
“Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.” ProcessBornFreedomPerceptionDistanceAriseThought Process Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“All thoughts are just junk. Essentially, they are coming from the limited experience of past. These thoughts are useful for your survival process. You've picked up some amount of information; you want to survive in the world; this information is useful. If you're looking at life itself, these thoughts are meaningless.” IfsWorldWantLifePastProcessInformationAmountSurvivalExperienceMeaninglessJunk Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you” IfsKnowsWantLifeNeedsHigherConstantDimensionsWithin YouPeacefulnessJoyfulness Author:Jaggi Vasudev
