February 2012
50 posts
The sage has no mind of his own.
He is aware of the needs of others.
I am...
– Lao Tsu (via refractive-mind)
You cannot receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow.
– Eckhart Tolle (via lucifelle)
Growth and ultimate freedom lay outside the comfort zone, removed from all that...
– ~Michaela
How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible....
– Eckhart Tolle (via hip-)
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the...
– Rainer Maria Rilke
(via anakedgenesis)
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
– Kenji Miyazawa (via heartmindspirit)
The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: totally fascinated by the...
– Lao Tzu (via nirvikalpa)
The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
– Fred Alan Wolf (via missfolly)
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s...
– C.S. Lewis (via nirvikalpa)
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my...
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via elige)
You do not say, “I love the whole world,” but when you know how to love one, you...
– Krishnamurti on Love (via elige)
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
– Joseph Campbell (via elige)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
– Mother Teresa (via observedintoexistence)
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...
– Sigmund Freud
(via slychedelic)
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave...
– Dalai Lama (via nirvikalpa)
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object...
– Eberhard Arnold (via misswallflower)
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
– Carl Jung (via shaktilover)
One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always...
– Mother Meera (via observedintoexistence)
There is nothing that is permanent. There is nothing that stays. Everything...
– Neale Donald Walsch (via sweetspin)
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
– Rumi (via thelittlesea)
Four Reminders →
thelittlesea:
Here are four reminders about the way things are, may they bring you peace!
Everything will change, every idea you have about yourself will die in time. All attainments are imaginary.
What will happen will happen, your only choice is to relax. Peace is natural, suffering requires thinking.
You cannot escape experience, who wants to escape? Who has the arrogance to demand more...
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
– Haruki Murakami (via thelittlesea)
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via lucifelle)
I will gain the most knowledge from those people I intensely love and intensely...
– Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets (via nirvikalpa)
In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the...
– David Richo, When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships (via dreamsinthyme)
If you wish to abide in Tao,
do not dislike the world you now experience....
– Seng Ts’an, Hsin Hsin Ming (via nirvikalpasamadhi)
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives...
– Brene Brown (via internal-acceptance-movement)
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that...
– Alice Walker (via arae-of-sunshine)
If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not...
– Alan Watts (via juiceboxes)
There’s no life
that couldn’t be immortal
if only for a moment.
– Wislawa Szymborska, “On Death, without Exaggeration”
1923-2012
(via annadevries)
well a moment is all we really have … moments of happiness, moments of sadness, moments of elation, etc …
(via sessyargc)