Your thoughts are just your thoughts.
They are not your life. They are your thoughts.
Make a room as big as the sky in your mind.
Your thoughts can be clouds that float through.
Some of your thoughts are clear. Some of your thoughts are muddy.
Belief is just thought.
An open mind isn’t attached to thinking or belief.
Thoughts can be a jail.
Watching them coming and going lets you out to play in the universe.
Please enjoy watching your thoughts come and go
You will learn this sitting quietly.
Give thoughts room, Buddha in Blue Jeans
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“Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.”
― St. Francis de Sales
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
– Sigmund Freud in a letter to C. G. Jung
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“Even our repentance must be peaceful
If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance.”
― St. Francis de Sales
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Every moment is a surprise.
Everything that happens is a surprise.
Every experience is fresh.
Events are not your ideas about them.
Meet the world without expectations.
Enjoy being surprised!
You will learn this sitting quietly.
Buddha in Blue Jeans
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If we recognize our brotherhood with our fellow-men; if we try to deal honestly, truthfully, charitably with them; if, politically and economically, we work for equal rights, equal justice and the abolition of barriers of race and class and creed, then we are in fact giving the lie to the ego-idea and moving toward awareness of the universal, non-individual existence. All such actions and motives belong to what is known as ethical goodness-just as all selfish motives and actions belong to ethical evil. In this sense, and in this sense only, goodness may be said to be more “real”, or more valid, than evil-since evil actions and thoughts involve us more deeply in Maya, while good thoughts and actions lead us beyond Maya, to consciousness of the Reality.
from crest jewel of discrimination