What we think of ourselves gets in the way of us being ourselves.- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To study Buddhism is to study the self.To study the self is to forget the self.To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between oneself and others. —Zen Master Dogen[1200-1253]
The sound of a brook flowing over hard rocks, is the sound of your soul leaving the ego behind.-Mary K.
Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. Your worth is established by God. As long as you dispute this everything you do will be fearful, particularly any situation that lends itself to believe in superiority and inferiority…nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.” A Course in Miracles, ch 4 The Illusions of the Ego, p. 54
Once you become aware that you are under stress you basically have three choices: avoid escalation, limit the duration, or remove the impact. The key to becoming sensitive to your body’s stress response comes from learning to trust yourself. -The Carbohydrate Addicts Lifespan Program, p 147
By not wanting, there is calm, and the world will straighten itself. When there is silence, one
finds the anchor of the universe within oneself. -Lao tzu, Tao Te Ching, Living the Wisdom of the Tao
It is through selfless action that I experience my own fulfillment. – Dr. Wayne Dyer, Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations
The escape from darkness involves two stages: First, the recognition that darkness cannot hide. This step usually entails fear. Second, the recognition that there is nothing you want to hide even if you could. This step brings escape from fear. When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy.- A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.- Dr. Wayne Dyer, 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
Choice begins the moment you dis-identify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present. -Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Feeling sorry for yourself and telling others your story will keep you stuck in suffering.” Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, p222
Would you rather be right or free?- Byron Katie, from Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.- Karl Jung
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.- Buddha
All that arises passes away. I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus I have found peace.-Eckhart Tolle
No one who is at one with himself can even conceive of conflict. Conflict ceases when there is no longer any clash between the demands and expectations of your mind and what is.- A Course in Miracles
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.-Eckhart Tolle
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.-Eckhart Tolle
You only lose what you cling to.-Buddha