- Lao Tzu
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
– Mary Oliver
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Our way of being, is as important as what we do.
– Sister True Dedication
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
– Jon Kabat-Zin
“Is your glass half empty or half full?” asked the mole.
“I think I’m grateful to have a glass,” said the boy.”
– Charlie Mackesy
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
– Rumi
“Nothing beats kindness,’ said the horse. ‘It sits quietly beyond all things.”
– Charlie Mackesy
The Ordinary is Extraordinary
– Grateful Living
True gratefulness is courage to give thanks for a gift before unwrapping it.
– David Steindl-Rast
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea.
– Pat Schneider
Search your heart
And see
The way to do
Is to be.
– Lao Tzu
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
– Anais Nin
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
“When the dark clouds come…
…keep going”
– Charlie Mackesy
No mud, no lotus.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Who turns the present into the past?
Who turns the now into the not-now?
– Karen Miller
These few words are enough.
If not these words,
this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
– David Whyte
“What’s your best discovery?” asked the mole.
“That I’m enough as I am,” said the boy.”
– Charlie Mackesy