Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

Nice quotes - plus a few links down bottom of this page! -

http://www.livinglifefully.com/life2.html

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[Geoff-Allen]

"Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute by precious minute, you are better able to savor each experience. Also, being closely attentive gives you the opportunity to change unwise or painful feelings and responses quickly. In fact, being truly present in a mindful way is an excellent stress reducer and, because of that, can be seen as consciousness conditioning, a strengthening workout for body, mind, heart, and spirit."

~ Sue Patton Thoele

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place of friendly detachment toward myself, so I can look out at the world and see all those other things with respect. Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. So I keep trying gently to bring my mind back to what is really there to be seen, maybe to be seen and noted with a kind of reverence."

~ Anne Lamott

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Mindfulness makes our eyes, our heart, our non-toothache, the moon, and the trees deep and beautiful. And when we touch our suffering with mindfulness, we begin to transform it. Mindfulness is like a mother holding her baby in her arms and caring for her baby’s pain. When our pain is held by mindfulness it loses some of its strength."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Kindness is one of the gentle expressions of love. We grow in grace when we become aware that one of God's gifts to us can be that we may share our loving kindness with all of creation. People all over the world are seeking peace of mind, solutions to everyday problems, better relationships with other people, and a more meaningful way of life. Surely we are aware of the room for improvement within ourselves and in our life. A healthy serving of loving kindness - both giving and receiving - could make a difference!"

~ John Marks Templeton

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Been awhile ... problems with my home computer ...

"True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open."


Sue Patton Thoele

Enjoy your day!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you have trouble loving yourself, imagine that everyone in the world is a hungry soul whose life has been imperfect. Like you, they had imperfect parents. Like you, tragedies and difficulties befell them. If you could hear each person's story, you would probably be moved to tears and want to reach out and embrace that person. You would want to tell them that in spite of everything they've gone through, they have great value."

Daphne Rose Kingma

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only
about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history
and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants
and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the
bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but
about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then,
if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom."

~ Gerald Brenan

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Everybody really knows what to do to have his or her life filled with joy. What is it?
Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them.
Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself
and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what
you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words:
"If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

Norman Vincent Peale

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

~Rita Mae Brown

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."

~ Morris L. West

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"To love means being 100 percent responsible for your experience of living, to not be a victim or a martyr, and to be 100 percent accountable for the quality of your life, which includes the amount of love, joy, and growth you create in your relationships each day. To love is the ability to remain strong, stable, and committed through difficult times, changes, and challenges. It means being gentle, kind, and supportive of your potential, goals, and aspirations."

~ Harold Bloomfield

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody else is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from being."

For more of Eckhart, try this site -

http://www.zengardner.com/27-life-changing-lessons-learn-eckhart-tolle/

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring
peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a
person can control his or her mind, he or she can find the way to
Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him or her."

~ The Buddha

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent,
tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her
proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all people, charity."

John Balfour

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If I want to feel younger and look younger, then it's only natural that part of my daily routine is to laugh more. Laughing gives the muscles of my face, chest, and abdomen a workout. A hearty laugh stimulates my heart rate, causes me to breathe deeply, and releases happiness hormones, my endorphins. Laughter is one of the ways I express my gratitude to God. As I laugh, I release the gladness of my soul into the environment - creating something that's good for me and good for all those around me."

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Have a good one!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without
thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness
lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness
is maimed and limps along the spiritual road."

~ John Henry Jowett

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race. One has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is a great advance for a person to be profoundly loving, even in his or her imagination."

~ Arthur Helps

 

[Milton Platt]

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

~ John Milton

Please feel perfectly free 2 add your own!

On a tombstone, "I told you I was sick!"