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“You can play with awareness itself, and with a lens of the heart you can start to see the beauty in everybody.” — Jack Kornfield : #awareness #beauty #heart "Listening properly becomes a kind of harmonizing of parts of our being — our intellectual center, our emotional center, and our moving center." — Philip Glass : #listening #harmony #centeredness #presence Gratitude
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward : #gratitude #giving #sharing "Our [religious] traditions share a common message of love and compassion, patience and tolerance. If we also remember the advice about forgiveness, there'll be no basis for conflict." — Dalai Lama XIV : #love #compassion #patience #tolerance #forgiveness "If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation, and loneliness." — Sharon Salzberg : #heart #meditation #lovingkindess “Generosity entails relinquishing some aspects of one’s self-interest, and thus is a giving of one’s self.” — Gil Fronsdal | #generosity #kindness #buddhism "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." — Rabindranath Tagore : #joy #service #life "The Buddha is found in other people – even the ones we do not like very much." ― Francis Harold Cook : #buddha #goodness #acceptance #buddhanature "We think that if we have health and wealth they're enough to be happy, but actually happiness depends on the state of our minds." — Dalai Lama XIV : #happiness #mind #health #wealth “It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an "Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly." — Eckhart Tolle : #acceptance #willingness "Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall." — Sheng-yen : #softness #gentleness "Mindfulness shifts us out of fantasy into seeing clearly. Without mindfulness, the deluded mind habitually reacts, unconsciously grasping pleasant experiences and rejecting unpleasant ones." — Jack Kornfield : #clarity #mind #mindfulness Giving Purifies Intention
“The act of giving purifies intention, the quality of mind with which any action is undertaken. For a brief moment, the giver’s self-absorption is lifted, attachment to the gift is relinquished, and kindness towards the recipient is developed.” — Andrew Olendzki | #giving #intention "Optimism leads to success; pessimism leads to defeat. One person can be the source of inspiration for many others." — Dalai Lama XIV : #optimism #inspiration "I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile." — Elie Wiesel : #gratitude #heart #smile #humanity "When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless." — Byron Katie : #simplicity #kindness #fearlessness "Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future." — Thich Nhat Hanh : #presence #powerofnow #joy #wisdom "We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be... and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are." — Pema Chödrön : #compassion #goodness #humor "There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it." — Fred Rogers : #parenting #family