Words
of spiritual teachers
If
your mind assumes a defensive posture, you thereby make your attacker.
(Hugh
Prather)
Waiting
is intentional intent of expectancy; patience is being. In a state of being you
are without pressure, you are without demand and you are allowed to create.
(Ramtha)
The
surest way to become tense, awkward, and confused is to develop a mind that
tries too hard – one that thinks too much. While the clear mind listens to a
bird singing, the overstuffed – full – of – knowledge mind wonders what kind of
bird is singing! (Benjamine
Hoff)
In
spite of great distances, there is nowhere to go, in spite of everywhere else
in the universe, the answer is here. There are no destinations, only the journey
reached where ever we are.
(Tao)
When
you find yourself in a battle with life, lose. There is no triumph over truth.
(Hugh
Prather)
I
am satisfied there is nothing to be done but to make the best of what cannot be
helped, to act with reason oneself and with a good conscience. And that will
not give all the joys some people wish for, yet it will make one very quiet.
(Lao
Tzu)
The
wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do.
(Benjamine
Hoff)
In
terms of having, life is experienced as a horizontal expanse precipitating
towards ever receding horizons; in terms of being, life is felt in vertical
depths as awesome, foreboding and silently mysterious.
(Stephen
Batchelor)
Life
is most skillfully lived when one sails a boat, rather than rowing it.
(Ramtha)
It
is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. When the mind is still
– it is only then that it perceives the truth.
(J.
Krishnamurti)
The
substance of a thought is the peace it brings.
(Hugh
Prather)
Water
is humble, it always seeks the low level, which men abhor. But yet, water
finally overcomes everything and wears away the hardest rocks.
(Lao
Tzu)
To
hide anything is to keep it. And tight is the grip of guilt.
(Hugh
Prather)
We
cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it
is, we may find that gentleness, decency, and bravery are available – not only
to us, but to all human beings.
(Chaoyang
Trungpa)
If
it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier
to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
(Anthony
de Mello)
Don’t
fight a fact, deal with it.
(Hugh
Prather)
Just
as searching creates looking that prevents seeing, needing creates seeking that
prevents finding. Finding is the opening that recognizes!
(Tao)
It
is only through radical acceptance of what we are and the adoption of a path
that takes into account the unfolding of our totality, that anxiety can be
transcended and finally overcome.
(Stephen
Batchelor)
Reverence
is a way of being, but the path to reverence is through your heart, and only an
awareness of your feelings can open your heart.
(Gary
Zukav)
Become
an ear that gives heed to every single thing the universe is saying. The moment
you hear something you yourself are saying, stop.
(Anthony
de Mello)
To
experience peace, it is only necessary to practice the condition that will
allow peace to come to your awareness. Peace is a given.
(Hugh
Prather)
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