Some people awaken spiritually without coming into contact with any teaching. They awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Month: April 2015
Matthieu Ricard
“It is the mind that translates good and bad circumstances into happiness or misery. So happiness comes with the purging of negative thinking.” ~ Matthieu Ricard
Joan D. Chittister
We have made wealth our god and called it the good life. ~ Joan D. Chittister
Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that’s right and different for each of us.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Simone Weil
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” ~ Simone Weil
Cognitive emotion
Kahlil Gibran
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself” ~ Kahlil Gibran
Bhante Gunaratana
“The process of becoming who you will be begins with the acceptance of who you are.” ~ Bhante Gunaratana
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity whose aim is simply to realize where we already are.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Rabindranath Tagore
It is very simple to be happy, but very difficult to be simple.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore