Practice love and kindness whether you believe in religion or not. Through this practice you will come to realize the value of compassion and kindness for your own peace of mind.
You want more and more and more. This, in a sense, is real poverty-always hungry, hungry, hungry with no time to be satisfied. Others might not be rich, but contentment provides them with fewer worries, fewer enemies, fewer problems, and very good sleep.
Be calm, even when the external environment is confused or complicated; it will have little effect if your mind is at peace. On the other hand, if your mind gives way to anger, then even when the world is peaceful and comfortable, peace of mind will elude you.
All things are impermanent; our life breath especially is just like a bubble on a swift-moving stream. The time of our death is uncertain, and we depart alone from this world.
When we learn to let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now.
We don’t perceive the truth of how things actually are directly, without distortion or illusion. Instead, we insist on seeing things as we would like them to be. We tell ourselves stories, and we live in our fantasies. By living in a fantasy we lose control of our life. It’s time to wake up and seek your true self.
The good and the bad. The shadow and the light. The dark days of February and the sunny days of May. I think of it as dancing with life, not just trying to control it or figure it out.
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. -Max Ehrmann
No person, thing, or experience can fill the void of our self-rejection, and none of it will be satisfying until we believe that, just as we are, we are worthy of enjoying it.
We look to all of these other things outside ourselves to feel beautiful and to feel accepted when the whole Tim the only person who can truly allow us to feel these things is staring back at us in the mirror every day.
