We humans have a long and wonderful history of transcending our beliefs about what’s possible.
If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can. As.
No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy.
Many of you are gripped by the loony idea that your intentions are different from the results you create. It simplifies life enormously the moment you accept that the results you create are your unconscious intentions made visibly manifest.
Your capacity expands in small increments each time you consciously let yourself enjoy the money you have, the love you feel, and the creativity you are expressing in the world. As that capacity for enjoyment expands, so does your financial abundance, the love you feel, and the creativity you express. Take.
Second, when you say, “I don’t have time to do that right now,” you’re telling a polite lie to avoid saying, “I don’t want to do that right now.
This won’t last forever, but it’s wonderful while it’s happening.
A breach of integrity stops the flow of energy, just as a pebble jammed in a garden hose stops the flow of water.
The temptation is strong to remain in the Zone of Excellence; it’s where your own addiction to comfort wants you to stay. It’s also where your family, friends, and organization want you to stay. You’re reliable there, and you provide a steady supply of all the things that family, friends, and organizations thrive on. The problem is that a deep, sacred part of you will wither and die if you stay inside your Zone of Excellence.
Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.
For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. – BUDDHA.
Usually when I feel like there’s no time, it really means I haven’t made time for myself.
With a strong commitment to inquiring into yourself, the universe does not have to use catastrophes to wake you up.
At times like this, I am grateful I somehow learned to value self-discovery over blind obedience to authority. The Buddha himself said we shouldn’t believe his words without question – we must discover the truth for ourselves. “Be a lamp unto yourself,” he counseled his disciples. “Find your own way to liberation.
The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you,” Rinpoche was staring right at me, “you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?
May answers come to me by easeful attraction rather than stressful pursuit, and may all beings benefit from these inquiries.
May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.
The joy of the journey itself is not only a key goal, it is the goal. The outcomes of the journey, whatever they are, will always be in the zone of the unknown. While you’re getting to where you’re going, though, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the greatest show on earth, the moment-by-moment process of consciousness itself.
When any problem occurs, you have two choices: you can get upset about it, or you can simply figure out what needs to be done. Getting upset has a seductive quality to it; there is rich drama to be had there. The cost is that there is no happiness to be had. Happiness opens up when you drop the drama and start looking for what needs to be done. Any relationship improves when both people shift from complaints to statements of what they want.