When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Virtues are virtues because they give joy once they are practiced. If a virtue does not give joy, it is not a virtue.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Aart Van Der Leeuw
Life is short and no one knows what the next moment will bring. Open your mind while you have the opportunity, thereby gaining the treasures of wisdom, which in turn you can share abundantly with others, bringing them happiness.
Dogen
Concentration is the secret of strength.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.
Bhagavad Gita
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.
John Powell
In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
M. Scott Peck
A lifetime without Love is of no account
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Love is the Water of Life
Drink it down with heart and soul!
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama
I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana Maharshi
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Pema Chodron
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother Teresa
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
Sharon Salzberg
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
Eckhart Tolle
At the still point of the
T.S. Eloit, Burnt Norton
turning world...
Neither from nor towards;
at the still point,
there the dance is....
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
When you feel yourself in the grip of an emotion such as jealousy or anger or sorrow, detach yourself from it. Take a step back. When you do that, you can allow the emotion to run through you without causing negative thoughts or actions.
Gary Zukav
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho
Fear not that your life shall come to an end. But rather fear that it never has a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love.
Annamalai Swami
The broadminded only see the goodness in people and in things; the narrowminded only perceive the evil.
Chinese parable
There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried.
Peace Pilgrim
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet
Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
Epictetus
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
Shantideva
Say to yourself at daybreak: I shall come across the busybody, the thankless, the overbearing, the treacherous, the envious, the unneighborly. All this has befallen them because they know not good from evil.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down and do nothing.
J. B. Priestley
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
Alan Watts
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously.
G. Gurdjieff
The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and 'doing' cannot be the result of things which happen.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha
The problem is...basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal forces tend to pull one off center; how to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel.
Ann Morrow-Lindbergh
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be.
Charles DuBois
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
Think of your thoughts as a kind of worship, and every time you think of something, you are paying a kind of homage to that thing. So what are you worshipping that you don't mean to be?
Holiday Mathis
There are so many hungry children in the world for whom the face of God appears as a loaf of bread.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
You have not lived a perfect day unless you've done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
Buddha
©2014 Tom Barrett