“I think hell is something you carry with you. Not somewhere you go.”
Neil Gaiman
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
Richard Bach
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.”
Gautama Buddha
“By three methods we may learn wisdom - first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
“10 principles to Zen:
1. Let go of comparing.
2. Let go of competing.
3. Let go of judgements.
4. Let go of anger.
5. Let go of regrets.
6. Let go of worrying.
7. Let go of blame.
8. Let go of guilt.
9. Let go of fear.
10. Have a proper belly laugh at least once a day - especially if it’s about your inability ot let go of any or all of the above.”
Zen teachings
“The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone.”
from the Bhagavad Gita
“Whatever passes through your mind, don’t focus on it and don’t try to suppress it. Just observe it as it comes and goes.”
Mingyur Rinpoche
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
Alan Watts
“In you calm is your strength.”
German proverb
“The secret of human freedom is to act well, without attachment to the results.”
From the Bhagavad Gita
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the Path.”
Gautama Buddha
“Remember, when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow.”
Anonymous
“The world of peace and joy is at our fingertips. We only need to touch it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Anonymous
“Hell has three gates: Lust, Anger and Greed.”
from the Bhagavad Gita
“Meditation is really a process of nonjudgmental awareness.”
Mingyur Rinpoche
“I’m working on myself, for myself, by myself.”
Anonymous
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“Mistakes have the power to turn you into something stronger than you were before if you’re willing to learn from them and push ahead.”
Anonymous
“If ‘Christ’ were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to other than this: 'I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now.”
Eckhart Tolle
“I have the impression that many of us are afraid of silence. We’re always taking in something - text, music, radio, television, or thoughts - to occupy the space. If quiet and space are so important for our happiness, why don’t we make more room for them in our lives?”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“you may not be able to control every situation and its outcome, but you can control your attitude and how you deal with it.”
Anonymous
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
Buddha
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
“An awake hear is like a sky that pours light.”
Hafiz
“The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Buddha was asked, 'What have you gained from meditation?’ He replied, 'Nothing! However, let me tell you what I have lost: anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, fear of old age and death.’”
Buddha
“Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose”.
Eckhart Tolle
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