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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

~ William W. Purkey
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become."

~ Sue Patton Thoele
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it. or because it is traditional, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

~ Buddha
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief."

~ John K. Lavater
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"It does not always help to analyze and think about problems with your rational mind. Sometimes it is far more effective to turn to your inner self, to ask the universe for help. Simply sit quietly. Take a few deep breaths and focus your awareness within. Ask your wise inner self, either silently or aloud, for guidance or help in understanding the message. As you get a sense of what feels right, act on this feeling."

~ Shakti Gawain
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Truth is simple. Very simple - so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it."

~ Osho.
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."

~ Buddha
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves."

~ Pema Chodron

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world. One should cultivate an unbounded mind, above and below and across, without obstruction, without enmity, without rivalry. Standing, or going, or seated, or lying down, as long as one is free from drowsiness, one should practice this mindfulness. "

~ Buddha
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love."

~ Jennifer Edwards
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"At the moment of waking up,
before getting out of bed,
get in touch with your breath,
feel the various sensations in your body,
note any thoughts and feeling that maybe present,
let mindfulness touch this moment,
Can you feel your breath?
Can you perceive the dawning of each in breath?
Can you enjoy the feeling of the breath freely
entering your body in this moment?
“Breathe in I smile,
breathe out I calm my body,
dwelling in the present moment,
it is a wonderful moment.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Religion is not just some dry intellectual idea but rather your basic philosophy of life: you hear a teaching that makes sense to you, find through experience that it relates positively with your psychological makeup, get a real taste of it through practice, and adopt it as your spiritual path. That's the right way to enter the spiritual path.”

~ Lama Yeshe
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."

~ Henri Nouwen

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"The Buddha insisted that he would present or discuss only ideas that would help people attain happiness and awakening; anything else was simply not worth our breath or our thought."

~ from "The Lost Art of Compassion" by Lorne Ladner
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt.”

~ Dorothy Day
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Experience is not what happens to you - it’s how you interpret what happens to you.”

~ Aldous Huxley
 
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