“Being able to appreciate who we are and what we have in the now is an easy way to journey through this life.” ― Raphael Zernoff
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“…peace in your heart”
“As soon as your object of concern changes from yourself to someone else, your heart is released from the bondage of the self-cherishing thought. As soon as you change the object of your cherishing, there is peace in your heart.” ― Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
“… of stillness”
“Think of a wave: it washes onto the shore, and then it rolls back. Likewise, each of your activities has a [side] of stillness. To be with people, you must be alone. To listen, you need silence. To exercise, you need rest.. surrender to …these essential actions.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
“… more important”
“You carry on knowing that there’s something so much more important than yourself to deliver… to all” ― Zacky Vengeance
“Thoughts…”
“Thoughts: as long as they inhabit my mind, they are alive. Yet too often they climb down on paper…” ― Gabriela Marie Milton
“Of our thinking…”
“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.” ― Thomas Carlyle
“…out of the corner of an eye”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy’, observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, ‘and you cease to be so.’ At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.” ― Oliver Burkeman
“…People are rivers”
“…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.” ― Kathleen Winter
“…the need to be finished”
“Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop… Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.” ― Wayne Muller
“Tea?”
“What kind of tea do you want?”“There’s more than one kind of tea?…What do you have?”“Let’s see… Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment andContinue reading ““Tea?””
