If you give up, then you can never win again. Giving up is not an option. You cannot give up on anything.
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears. It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
One is the goals of 911 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.