Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”

Pema Chödrön

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home. Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

Thomas Merton

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”

~ Thomas Merton

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The practice of compassion begins at home. We have our parents, our children, and our brothers and sisters, who perhaps irritate us the most, and we begin our practice of loving-kindness and compassion with them. Then gradually we extend our compassion out into our greater community, our country, neighbouring countries, the world, and finally to all sentient beings equally without exception. Extending compassion in this way makes it evident that it is not very easy to instantly have compassion for "all sentient beings." Theoretically it may be comfortable to have compassion for "all sentient beings," but through our practice we realize that "all sentient beings" is a collection of individuals. When we actually try to generate compassion for each and every individual, it becomes much more challenging. But if we cannot work with one individual, then how can we work with all sentient beings? Therefore it is important for us to reflect more practically, to work with compassion for individuals and then extend that compassion further."

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

More quotes about compassion can be found here -

Quotations on: Compassion, Loving-kindness

Enjoy your day!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.”

~ Gangaji

That comes from a HUGE site with more quotes than you can poke a stick at! -

Quotes | Universoul Awakening

Cheers!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart."

~ Gangaji

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Love is a knowing, a pure understanding. It knows that all things are whole, regardless of their appearance or delusion, and it gives itself wholly, without judgement, without recognizing the difference between this relationship or that. It understands that there is only one real relationship and it is the one we all share, the Self that is beyond the thought or the idea of Love, the holy encounter of life with life. The secret of unconditional love is that we are all the same, holy beyond imagination. This is what the release of fear reveals. This is what you are all looking for. And this is what you will find when you open your heart to every element of creation."

~ from "Emissary of Light" by James Twyman

 

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[Geoff-Allen]

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity."

~ W. H. Auden

 

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[Jedster]

"identity is just an illusion for the unenlightened mind" Olivia in iZombie(3/3)

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing."

~ Margaret Chittenden

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[Geoff-Allen]

“I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you’re doing.”

Jim Gaffigan, actor and comedian

Read more at 40 Best Parenting Quotes of All Time

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

Samuel Butler

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."

Eric Schmidt Quotes

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about ...That always worries me!"

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