Green Forest
Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.
Thich Nhat Hahn
(via the-red-lotus-blog)
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.
Mitch Albom (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
As the breath enters, observe,
when it ends the flow inwards, witness,
as it rests inside, rest,
if it stirs again, become aware,
as it turns to leave, be attentive,and as it ends the exhale, notice.
Bam
If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection, you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path. After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you’re there, where you realize you have a choice. You have a choice whether to open or close, whether to hold on or let go, whether to harden or soften, whether to hold your seat or strike out. That choice is presented to you again and again and again.
Pema Chodron, Practicing Peace (via purplebuddhaproject)
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
Sharon Salzberg (via the-red-lotus-blog)
Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman (via justloveyourselfhoney)
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Khalil Gibran (via quietlotus)
the Good Heretic 