Mindfulbalance

I have come to see the profound value of taking in the whole landscape of life and not rejecting or denying what we are given.

I have also learned that our waywardness, difficulties, and ‘crises’ might not be terminal obstacles. They can actually be gateways to wider, richer internal and external landscapes. If we willingly investigate our difficulties, we can fold them into a view of reality that is more courageous, inclusive, emergent, and wise – as have many others who have fallen over the edge.

Joan Halifax

When we see deeply into impermanence, we see into emptiness. Things are empty of any fixed, inherent identity because they are always changing.

This emptiness is not a void but a flowing, dynamic process. It is the very condition for the arising of all experience.

 Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute.

Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees.

The mind might tell you, ‘I don’t have time.’ But that’s the mind talking to you.

Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
 

Eckhart Tolle interview with Oprah Winfrey

When it is time for you to embark upon a journey of transformation, you may feel a call from within. No one else may hear it, but you do, and it thrills you and terrifies you all at once. There will be guides and teachers along the way—other people, books, dreams, unexpected sources of wisdom – but only you can take the steps.

You are the only one who can find your way through the forest. You are the only one who can recognize your missteps and your breakthroughs.

Others can encourage you, but you must walk the path alone. And eventually, you will come to realize that the way you walk the path is the destination.

Elizabeth Lesser Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow.

Do not watch yourself too closely.

Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you.

Simply let it happen.

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet