Seemingly Meaningless

If you are confronted with unavoidable suffering,
what can you learn from the situation? How do
we respond to apparently meaningless suffering?
What will we do with that now, for we cannot
change it? What meaning can we squeeze out
of this seemingly meaningless situation?

Viktor Frankl

As He Can Be

If you take a man as he is, you make him worse.
If you take a man as he can be, you help him
become who he can be, the best version of who he is.

Viktor Frankl

Meaning to Live For

Ever more people have the means to live,
but no meaning to live for.

Viktor Frankl

Challenged

When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

Golden Rule, Revised

Do onto your self as you
would have others do onto you.

Dan Metevier

A Permanent Part of Me

The question in all of our relationships should be:
How can I provide a sense of belonging to this person?
What would I say or do differently if I considered them
to be a permanent part of me?

Teal Swan

Your Teacher

Anything that is troubling you,
anything that is irritating you,
THAT is your teacher.

Ajahn Chah

Deer Symbolism

Use gentleness to
nudge those around you
in the right direction.

Deer

Entirely Attentiveness

This is the first, the wildest, and the wisest thing
I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely
out of attentiveness.

Mary Oliver

The Best Answer

Silence is sometimes
the best answer.

Dalai Lama

Let There Be Spaces

Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of you bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strong of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Kahlil Gibran

The Way Out

The way out of our negative emotions is
into our negative emotions.
The way out of our illusions is
into our illusions.
The way out of our suffering is
into our suffering.

Teal Swan

Opportunity to Know Love

Take that opportunity to know love whenever it presents itself. Open yourself and let this world penetrate you to your core. Let it do it's worst. Because the worst it can do does not compare to the pain of staying closed and building walls between you and the world.

Teal Swan

Loving Relationships

If we want loving relationships with ourselves,
we have to resolve the shame that we feel.
If we want loving relationships with other people,
we have to help them resolve their shame instead
of adding to it.

Teal Swan

A Door Into the Temple

Today I'm flying low and I'm
not saying a word.
I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.

But I'm taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I'm traveling
a terrific distance.

Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.

Mary Oliver

Also the Soul

The artist must train not only his eye
but also his soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

Less About You

Start to see the things people say and do to you as less about you and more of a perfect reflection of the tragic relationship that they have with themselves.

Teal Swan

As a Part of Yourself

Most people think that love is to feel intensely positive
towards something or someone. This is not the case.
That is the byproduct of love. To love something is to
take it as a part of yourself.

Teal Swan

Reverse the Process

We came to earth to experience the illusion of separation
so that by seeing it we could reverse the process.
Not so we could propagate it.

Teal Swan

To Become One

Our divinity and humanity must
merge to become one.

Teal Swan

Conscious and Aware

Many people think that being spiritual means
being positive, but being spiritual means being
conscious and aware. To become conscious is
a much different thing than to become positive.

Teal Swan

Finding Happiness

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier