Pema Chodron

If we learn to open our hearts,
anyone, including the people who drive us crazy,
can be our teacher.

James M. Barrie

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Pema Chodron

When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are - heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.

Senecca

The Fates lead those who will; those who won't, they drag.

Pema Chodron

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Buddha

One who acts on truth is happy, in this world and beyond.

Pema Chodron

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Thich Nhat Hanh

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."

This is the way of peace

"Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love." - Peace Pilgrim

Thich Nhat Hanh

"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."

John Lilly

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true, or becomes true.

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life."

Old Inuit Saying

I think over again my small adventures.

My fears, those small ones that seemed so big.

For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.

And yet there is only one great thing.

The only thing.

To live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."