Category: Life

  • Single Flower

    Single Flower
    Single Flower

     

    If we could see the miracle of
    a single flower clearly, our
    whole life would change.

    ~ Buddha

  • Life’s Challenges

    Life's Challenges quote Tara Brach
    Life’s Challenges
    Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
    ~ Tara Brach
  • Great Joy

    Great Joy Quote
    Great Joy

    The kind of spirituality I value
    is one in which you get great joy
    out of contributing to life, not
    just sitting and meditating,
    although meditation is certainly
    valuable. But from the meditation,
    from the resulting consciousness,
    I would like to see people in
    action creating the world that they
    want to live in.

    ~ Marshall Rosenberg

  • Loving-kindness and Compassion

    Loving-kindness and Compassion Sharon Salzberg
    Loving-kindness and Compassion
    Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference – in our own lives and those of others.
    ~ Sharon Salzberg
  • Problems

    Problems
    Problems

    The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:
    Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.”

    ― Bo Lozoff

  • Life Is Without Meaning

    Life Is Without Meaning
    Life Is Without Meaning

     

    Life is without meaning.
    You bring the meaning to it.
    The meaning of life is whatever
    you ascribe it to be. Being
    alive is the meaning.

    ~ Joseph Campbell

  • Love after love

    By Derek Walcott

    The time will come
    when, with elation,
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror,

    and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
    and say, sit here. Eat.
    You will love again the stranger who was your self.
    Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
    to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

    all your life, whom you ignored
    for another, who knows you by heart.
    Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

    the photographs, the desperate notes,
    peel your own image from the mirror.
    Sit. Feast on your life.

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