Am I In Love? Quotes
Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.
The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.
So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.
By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.
The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.
When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can’t control, we maintain our energy for the quest.
When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.
The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.
Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.
To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.
It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.
Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.
We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.
if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.
Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.
Causing harm is never just a one-way street.
When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.
You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.
The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.
I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.
Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.
Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.
Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.
If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?
Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.
It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.
To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.
The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.
Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.
The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.
We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.
Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.
We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.
Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear.
No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.
To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.
They blinked in the dusk of the setting sun, a reminder that light was a recurring state.
If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.
Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then leave some reminders for the people that follow behind us.
I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers,
Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the hour of light.
I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window
Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect
You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.
Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?