“When you come to see that you can do nothing, that the play of thought or feeling just goes on by itself as a happening, then you are in a state which we will call meditation. And slowly without being pushed, your thoughts will come to silence. That is to say, all the verbal symbolic chatter going on in the skull — don’t try and get rid of it because that will again produce the illusion that there’s a controller. It just goes on and goes on and goes on and finally gets tired of itself, gets bored and stops. And so then there’s a silence. And this is a deeper level of meditation. And in that silence you suddenly begin to see the world as it is.” — Alan Watts
“What the ego habitually tries to avoid, presence can welcome without reaction. In surrender we find that suddenly there is no need to be anywhere but where we are. In ego there is the habitual drive toward something other than what is. When we are not opposing our experience by wanting it to be different in some way, each moment is an infinite field of possibility, intelligence, and profound support.” — Richard Moss
“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.” — Yasmin Mogahed (via hellanne)
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“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via 13neighbors)
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“Nothing is, everything is becoming.” — Heraclitus of Ephesus, (c.535 – c.475 BCE)
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“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” — St. Augustine
“When you understand, you cannot help but love.” — Thich Nhat Hanh (via meditationsinwonderland)
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“A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivated by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.” — Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
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“Listen closely,
the eternal hush of Silence
goes on and on throughout all this,
and has been going on, and will go on and on.”
— Jack Kerouac
“Have you ever worried whether there would be enough air to breathe? How often do you ponder what you would do if the laws of gravity ceased to operate? For some reason, you never worry about the very essential elements you need to stay alive. You just trust they will be there, and they are. Why not extend that trust to every area of your life?” — Iyanla Vanzant