Awareness is not the same as thinking.
Awareness is the vast, spacious soul place that doesn’t think.
It watches the thinking. So don’t take your thinking seriously.
Richard Rohr, Franciscan Mysticism
That spacious place
Just one way
There are lots of ways of being miserable,’
says a character in a short story by Edith Wharton,
‘but there’s only one way of being comfortable,
and that is to stop running around after happiness.‘
Oliver Burkeman,The Antidote: Happiness for People who cannot stand Positive thinking
in every moment
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.
It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
Alan Watts
an endless quest
The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us
but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us.
Joan Chittister
Sunday Quote: the Choice
You will either step forward into growth,
or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
A Quiet Mind
An untrained mind turns difficulty into suffering twice: once in life, and again endlessly in imagination.
When your thoughts are racing and repetitive, remember: no one can harm you as much as your untamed mind.
When you are struggling or in pain remember: no one can help you as much as a quiet, clear, composed mind.
Jack Kornfield
