Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.
The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.
When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
To inspire others Is to be immediately rich In the inner world.
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
I stopped in the full force of a patch of sunlight in the lobby window and let my skin soak up the energy. I hadn’t realized I needed it until it reached inside and stilled me in a way that only David’s touch had been able to achieve. “Why does that feel so good?” I asked. “And don’t tell me it’s because we’ve been shut in a room for days. ” “Like calls to like,” he said. “You’re made of fire now. ” “So I’m going to feel like this every time I pass an open flame? Great. Firegasm.
Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.