Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.
Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.
We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.
The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.