Voice With No Words

There is a voice that
doesn't use words.
Listen.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi

This Trip Is Theirs

You can't heal the people you love.
You can't make choices for them.
You can't rescue them.
You can promise that
they won't journey alone.
You can loan them your map.
But this trip is theirs.

Laura Jean Truman

Paradoxical Compassion

The deepest feeling of a compassion
that does not seek to alter anything,
paradoxically, alters everything.

Adyashanti

Contentment

Contentment is just being complete in the moment.
In the moment, there is just presence. There's no future
or past. I am just here, happy to be here in the moment.

Ram Dass

One and the Same

All insides have outsides. You, as you feel yourself,
are the inside, the animate being inside the skin.
But the inside of the skin goes with the outside

of the skin. And the outside of the skin is

the whole darn cosmos. The two are one

and the same identity, one and the same Self.

Alan Watts

Always Imagined

The duality between the inside self
and the outside object, world, or
other is never actually experienced.
It is always imagined.

Rupert Spira

The Past Has No Power

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you
from being present now, and if the past can't prevent you
from being present now, what power does it have?

Eckhart Tolle

Wish Them Healing

Never wish them pain.
That's not who you are.
If they caused you pain,
they must have pain inside.
Wish them healing.

Najwa Zebian

No Difference

There is no difference between
spirituality and psychotherapy.

Dan Siegel

Where All Battles Should Be Fought

The only devils in this world
are those running around
inside our own hearts,
and that is where
all our battles should be fought.

Mahatma Gandhi

Shed Our Past

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must
shed our past over and over again.

Buddha

Still and Still Moving

We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union
In my end is my beginning.

T.S. Eliot

Time to be Slow

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wife brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

John O'Donohue

Education Par Excellence

The education of attention would be
an education par excellence.

William James

Infinite Expansiveness

The equivalent of uncertainty
is infinite expansiveness.

Dan Siegel

Medication to Meditation

Remove the "c"
and add a "t."

Dan Siegel

In Our Response

Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor Frankl

Completely Newborn

Imagine that the present moment is completely fresh
and new and unrelated to any past experience, as if
it just popped out of nowhere. Feel the freshness of
the current moment when it is not being filtered
through the past. It is a completely newborn moment.

Adyashanti