Words of Wisdom 19 (Jan 19 - Jun 19)

[winston]

More blessings come from giving than from receiving.

Acts 20:35

Source: Life Changing Words

[winston]

More blessings come from giving than from receiving.

Acts 20:35

Source: Life Changing Words

[winston]

Normally we operate under the deluded assumption that everything has some sort of true, substantial reality.

But when we look more carefully, we find that the phenomenal world is like a rainbow—vivid and colorful, but without any tangible existence.

—Dilgo Khyentse, “Teachings on the Nature of Mind and Practice”

[winston]

Controlling your temper is better than being a hero who captures a city.

Proverbs 16:32

Source: Life Changing Words

[winston]

When we numb out from our suffering, we numb out from our experience of joy.

That’s why we train our mind in meditation: to help ourselves and others see that we are alive in each moment.

We are complete and perfect, just as we are, in the midst of our suffering.

—Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, “Turn Into the Skid”

[winston]

Generosity takes many forms—we may give our time, our energy, our material possessions, our love.

All are expressions of caring, of compassion, of connection, and of renunciation—the ability to let go.

The beauty of generosity is that it not only brings us happiness in the moment—we feel good when we give—but it is also the cause for happiness to arise in the future.

—Joseph Goldstein, “The Evolution of Happiness”

[winston]

The Now does not come and go, but includes everything all at once.

When we’re aware of being in the Now, present moments come and go, like ripples and waves in the ocean of awake awareness.

—Loch Kelly, “When Am I?”

[winston]

You have permission to surrender to what is, right here and right now.

It is more than OK to surrender to the body’s true condition and its needs: the need for rest, sleep, and self-care. It is a practice.

—Alex Tzelnic, “How to Practice with the Common Cold”

[winston]

Become still, quiet the mind, sit like the mountain and sky—stable and undivided in the face of everything that comes up.

Open to the unpleasant part, the down-in-the-dumps part, the making-mistakes part, the prolonged-aching-in-the-heart part.

The not knowing and the bouts of joy. Become one in the same as yourself, or “one with” your life.

—Diane Musho Hamilton, “Practice Is the Way”

[winston]

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

- THEODORE ROOSEVELT