QUOTES

There is one thing that a person has to have:
Either a soul that is cheerful by nature
Or a soul made cheerful by work, love,
Art or knowledge.

                  — Friedrich Nietzsche

Just see what is.  For people who want to live a good, full, unrestricted, adventurous, real kind of life, there is concrete instruction we can follow:  see what is.  When you catch yourself grasping at beliefs or thoughts, just see what is.

                  — Pema Chodron

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it’s a really busy person like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you. 🙂

                  — Anne Lamotte

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

                  — Martin Buber

The whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately.

                  — Seneca

Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook.

                  — William James

In the animal world it’s eat or be eaten.  In the human world it’s define or be defined.

                  — Thomas Szasz

Allow Beauty
to shatter you regularly.
The loveliest people
are the ones who have
been burnt and broken
and torn at the seams,
yet still send their Open Hearts
into the world to mend with love
again, and again, and again.
You must allow yourself
to feel your life while you are in it.

                  — Victoria Erickson

I will believe the truth about myself
no matter how beautiful it is.

                  — Macrina Wiederkehr

The little things? The little moments?  They aren’t little.

                  — Jon Kabat-Zinn

All experience is preceded by mind,

Led by mind,

Made by mind.

Speak or act with a peaceful mind,

And happiness follows,

Like a never-departing shadow.

              — The Buddha, “‘We are what we think.”