i went out for a walk

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.  
- John Muir

Mindfulness focus

Let your mindfulness focus for today be maintaining a little smile regardless of circumstance. Breathe and enjoy.


Practice everywhere (Cheri Huber)

Can each experience simply happen and that be all right?

Can we let go and be happy when we're happy, be sad when we're sad, be upset when we're upset, be lonely when we're lonely, be frightened when we're frightened? Can we simply be whatever it is without needing to be someone who is having that experience? Can each experience simply happen and that be all right?
- Cheri Huber

You make a difference

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
- Jane Goodall

spirit of wonderment

We access our greatest intelligence through engaging our life with the spirit of wonderment, not through seeking absolute conclusions.
- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyal

Fear

Nothing can happen to you that is worse than living in fear that something could happen to you.
- Cheri Huber

grief

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.  
- Rumi

insoluble problems

What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.
- John Gardner

the tree

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
- Pablo Casals

Serenity

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.
- Pam Brown

"You are the light of the world"

Jesus says, "You are the light of the world."  I like even more what Jesus doesn't say.  He does not say, "One day, if you are more perfect and try really hard, you'll be light."  He doesn't say "If you play by the rules, cross your T's and dot your I's, then maybe you'll become light."  No.  He says, straight out, "You are the light."  It is the truth of who you are, waiting only for you to discover it. So, for God's sake, don't move.  No need to contort yourself to be anything other than who you are.
- Father Gregory Boyle

go forth

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. - Helen Keller

practise 5 things

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven
constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity,
earnestness, and kindness.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

alone- 2 sides

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

this world...

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves" the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
- Alan Watts

Live

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.
- Hafiz

love the questions

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
- Rainer Rilke

different

The moment that I cease trying to be anything other than what I am, I am absolutely, utterly different from anything I have ever been.
- Cheri Huber

do not worry about love

I have learned not to worry about love;
but to honor its coming
with all my heart.
- Alice Walker

This is it

This is It
and I am It
and You are It
and so is That
and He is It
and She is It
and It is It
and That is That
- James Broughton