When you are able

When you are able to contain both the light and dark together, that is a very enlightening state. It means that you no longer have to choose one experience over another. You do not have to choose love OR hate, blame OR forgiveness, sadness OR joy, anger OR openheartedness. You are no longer polarized; no particular feeling boxes you in and keeps you from the light of true self. You then have access to the full range of human experiences you came into this life to embrace.

~Martia Nelson

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But I'll tell you

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

~Alan Watts

Only words

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

~Alan Watts

Only in quiet waters

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

-- Hans Margolius

The greatest support

"The greatest support we can have is mindfulness, which means being totally present in each moment. If the mind remains centered, it cannot make up stories about the injustice of the world or one's friends, or about one's desires or sorrows. All these stories could fill many volumes, but when we are mindful such verbalizations stop. Being mindful means being fully absorbed in the moment, leaving no room for anything else. We are filled with the momentary happening, whatever it is--standing or sitting or lying down, feeling pleasure or pain--and we maintain a nonjudgmental awareness, a "just knowing."

~Ayya Khema, "Be an Island"

Serene

Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea:
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate,
For, Lo! my own shall come to me.

~Burroughs

The secret

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

~The Buddha

Often we do not know

Often we do not know what is really going on. Our perspective can barely accommodate another person’s point of view, no less the forward march of evolution or the eternal mind of God. Better to admit not knowing and to relax in the mystery of life than to try to force our minds where they can’t go.

~Elizabeth Lesser

Don't just listen

Don't just listen to what someone is saying, listen to why they are saying it.

~Anonymous

The heavy

The heavy is the root of the light,
The still is the Lord of the restless.

~unknown

When we tell our mind

When we tell our mind to do something;
it will immediately do something else.

~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu

Enlightenment is

Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.

~Dr Frederick Lenz

What we see

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

~Sir John Lubbock

It's not foresight

It’s not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.

~Real Live Preacher, Weblog, April 22, 2003

Sometimes the mind

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

~Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993

As long as I am

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

~Meister Eckhart

Only when the cold

Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines and cypresses turning green.

~Chinese Saying

Be mindful

Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.

~Sophia Bedford-Pierce

All of us are watchers

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

~Peter M. Leschak

The key is

The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are.

~Takahisa Kora