![]() Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. “The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.”- Jack Kornfield “The way out of life & death is not some special technique essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life & death.”- Bukko “When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”- Byron Katie What you are trying to find is what you already are.”- Ramesh Balsekar “Body and mind dropped off.”- Dogen describing enlightenment True power is within & available to you now.”- Eckhart Tolle “Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. “Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.”- Henepola Gunaratana “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”- Anais Nin “When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.”- Zen Proverb You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.”- Thich Nhat Hanh “Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. “People sleep, and when they die they wake.”- Muhammad “Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived.”- Zen Proverb Let all things take their course.”- Chuang Tzu “Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. “The Buddha talked about saving all beings from delusion, not converting them to a new religion.”- Buddhism Now “Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. If we don’t occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.”- Shen-hui Ten thousand things & I are of one substance.”- Sêng-chao Awakening and Everyday Life “Heaven & earth & I are of the same root. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”- Thích Nhat Hanh Everything is in relation to everything else.”- Buddha “Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves”- Nagarjuna “Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.”- Seng-chao “Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, And when they worked they really worked.”- Dr. “And when they played they really played. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”- Thich Nhat Hanh “The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.”- D.T. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”- Alan Watts “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. “When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”- Shunryu Suzuki “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”- Eckhart Tolle “Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”- Huang Po “Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.”- Eckhart Tolle “When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.”- Eckhart Tolle “I’m here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.”- Pema Chödrön “Wherever you are, be there totally.”- Eckhart Tolle “My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.”- Byron Katie “If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.”- B. “Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.”- Maezumi Roshi ![]() “If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That’s all there ever is.”- Eckhart Tolle “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”- Alan Watts “This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
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