"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be
anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 31, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/31/2013
October 30, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/30/2013
"Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there
is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the
only good reason for not staying at home."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 29, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/29/2013
"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves
from a tree."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 28, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/28/2013
"The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart
from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 27, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/27/2013
"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure
- attractively packaged but inferior in content."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 25, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/25/2013
"In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like
water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth
and the ocean."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 24, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/24/2013
"Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change
deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 23, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/23/2013
"Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be
shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear,
or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by
those who have no capacity for living now."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 22, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/22/2013
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of
heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no
capacity for living now."
~Alan Wilson Watts
October 21, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/21/2013
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be
continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in
no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is
to be willing to die over and over again."
~Pema Chödrön
October 20, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/20/2013
"Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We
automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape
-- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't
stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become
addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain."
~Pema Chödrön
October 18, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/18/2013
"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could
acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish
about taking a good look."
~Pema Chödrön
October 17, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/17/2013
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be
continually thrown out of the nest."
~Pema Chödrön
October 16, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/16/2013
"The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give
ourselves."
~Pema Chödrön
October 15, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/15/2013
"People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if
things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are
being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you
continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree
that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot,
how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form
of your life, to give you everything you need to open further."
~Pema Chödrön
October 14, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/14/2013
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the
wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness
well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when
we recognize our shared humanity."
~Pema Chödrön
October 13, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/13/2013
"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental
harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and
the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."
~Pema Chödrön
October 12, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/12/2013
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who
drive us crazy, can be our teacher."
~Pema Chödrön
October 11, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/11/2013
"The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane
enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at
ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's
eyes."
~Pema Chödrön
October 10, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/10/2013
"Understanding means throwing away your knowledge."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
October 09, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/9/2013
"I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is
given me to live."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
October 08, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/8/2013
"If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing
that can justify your desire."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
October 07, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/7/2013
"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in
retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will
try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That
is how conflict escalates."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
October 06, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/6/2013
"When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our
understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with
acceptance, joy, peace and love."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
October 05, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/5/2013
"Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are
excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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