Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn,

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Just as children play games in which they pretend to be adults, and thus pave the way for adulthood, so you and I must pretend to be angelic, noble, enlightened spirits just visiting here, in order to actually become them."

~ Marianne Williamson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."

~ Norm Papernick

 

[Milton Platt]

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[Geoff-Allen]

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories."

~ Billy Graham

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

~ Rumi

https://swellvoyage.com/inspiration/quotes/

Enjoy!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person’s? There’s the ego."

~ Buddha

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you succeed in enabling one soul in darkness to find the Light, one troubled, wearied individual to gain strength, if you comfort one mourner, if you heal one sick person, if you prevent exploitation of and cruelty, even to one animal, then indeed your earthly life has been well worth living. This is the greatest of all fights, the eternal war against materialism, selfishness, these deadly diseases that are festering in your world today and lead so many on to foolish paths where they perish in the darkness without a realisation of the purpose for which they were born into the world."

~ Silver Birch,

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Comes from this page -

Life is a School of the Spirit - by Peter Shepherd

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”

~ Dan Millman

https://trans4mind.com/quotes/Words_of_Wisdom.pdf

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.”

Gary Zukav

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.”

~ Gary Zukav

 

[Geoff-Allen]

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's a part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance--and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

~ Fred Rogers

more quotes and quotations on acceptance

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Become aware of the dragons and fears inside you. Nonjudgmentally observing feelings gives us the opportunity to understand ourselves better and allows the feelings themselves to heal and transform. If you fearfully resist feelings, labeling them bad/wrong/ugly, they'll stick to your mind and grow. Acknowledge all of your feelings. You don't need to act on them; just see that they are within you. Invite your dragons into the light of your attention and respect. Then, accept them. Feelings aren't right or wrong; they just are. A gentle climate of love and acceptance fosters the possibility of change and growth in feelings that only worsen if kept hidden."

~ Sue Patton Thoele

 

[Unveiled Artist]

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Being grateful all the time isn’t easy. But it’s when you least feel thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: perspective. Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive. It’s the quickest, easiest most powerful way to effect change in your life — this I know for sure."

Comes from this site -

The key that unlocks the door to INSTANT happiness and success: Gratitude. Find Out Why.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

 

[Geoff-Allen]

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.”

~ Wayne Dyer

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Therapists want to help us throw out what is unwanted and keep only
what is wanted. But what is left may not be very much. If we
try to throw away what we don’t want, we may throw away
most of ourselves.

Instead of acting as if we can dispose of parts of ourselves, we should
learn the art of transformation. We can transform our anger, for example,
into something more wholesome, like understanding. We do not need surgery to
remove our anger. If we become angry at our anger, we will have two angers
at the same time. We only have to observe it with love and attention.
If we take care of our anger this way, without trying to run away from it,
it will transform itself. This is peacemaking. If we are peaceful in ourselves,
we can make peace with our anger. We can deal with depression, anxiety,
fear, or any unpleasant feeling in the same way.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh