That Is Life. Quotes
Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.
Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.
If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.
Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.
If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.
When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.
The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.
We are all just humble students of the world.
Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.
If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.
The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.
Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.
If we're going to be smart, we can't be stupid…!
Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.
When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you.
Meditation is to understand that one breath, which connects all beings.
Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.
Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.
The greatest luxury of life is peaceful breathing because it repairs the wounds of the cosmic soul.
The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.
By learning how the mind works, you can dramatically change your experience - regardless of the circumstances of your body.
It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.
...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.
Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...
Life without challenge is life denied any chance for one to achieve.
He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.
Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.
Zen movement is a meditative practice.
Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.
Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.
Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.
If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.
Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.
Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.
Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.