When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes yo...
What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they no...
Fear is an illusionary place we travel to in our minds when we allow ourselves to move away from the heart.
Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the th...
The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.
With the strength of God, we shall overcome every struggle.
It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.
Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.
Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.
Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.
When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.
When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic self and connectedness to everything and everyone.
Sure, I've had times it was hard to meditate....But even then I still end up being more calmly agitated.
If you meditate in perfect peace and then flash someone an irritable look because they make noise or their child cries, you are entirely missing the point.
Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.
That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else.
To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.
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