Let It Be What It Is

Life knows that the present moment is fabulous,
it is beautiful, it is perfect. Just let it be what it is
and be in awe that I exist at all and then I'm gone.

Wow! Wasn't that a ride!

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Most Important Relationships

I am a true believer that the most important relationships
we have are the ones that are being carried out inside
of our own head.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Wild Geese

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - 
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Breathe to the Present Moment

Breath is the first thing we do when we're born
and the last thing we do when we die.
It's constant. It's always available for us
to bring our mind to the present moment.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Cogito, Ergo Sum

I think,
therefore I am

Rene Descartes

Our First Job

Our first job as human beings
in the world is to love one another.
Period.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Taste of My Tea

I am not at all interested in immortality,
only in the taste of my tea.

Lao Tzu

Not Losing Yourself

Try to help in such a way that
you can be calm and at peace and
not lose yourself in the act of service.

Thich Nhat Hanh

God is ...

God is what nobody admits to being,
and everybody really is.

Alan Watts

Freeing You

Awakening cannot satisfy you,
it can only free you of the need
to be satisfied.

Matt Kahn

Be Yourself

Within you, there is a stillness and sanctuary
to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse

Out of Your Mind

Going out of your mind at least once a day
is tremendously important, because by going
out of your mind you come to your senses.

Alan Watts

The Actual Vibrations of Life

As poets value the sounds of words 

above their meanings, and images
above arguments, I am trying to
get thinking people to be aware of
the actual vibrations of life as
they would listen to music.

Alan Watts

Stand Without Condition

You are never complete until you stand
where you stand without condition.

Byron Katie

Thoughts are About Nothing

Since the past is unreal
and the future is unreal,
all your thoughts
are about nothing.

Byron Katie

Most Common Form of Despair

The most common form of despair
is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

Meditation is ...

Meditation is the journey
from sound to silence,
from movement to stillness,
from a limited identity
to unlimited space.

Ravi Shankar

Not Live in Vain

If I can stop one heart
from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Comedy's Job

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does.
Comedy's job is to point out that is doesn't make sense,
and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Eric Idle

The Strength We Show

I hope that either all of us, or none of us, are judged
by the action of our weakest moments, but rather
by the strength we show when, and if, we're ever
given a second chance.

Ted Lasso

Never Life

The burden is never life;
it's what you're thinking
and believing about life.

Byron Katie

You No Longer Care

When you want to hurry something,
that means you no longer care about it
and want to get on to other things.

Robert Pirsig

In No Other Way

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns
something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

Time is a Companion

Someone once told me that time is a predator
that stalks us all our lives, but I rather believe
that time is a companion who goes with us
on the journey, reminds us to cherish every

moment, because they'll never come again.

What we leave behind is not as important

as how we lived. After all, Number One,

We're only mortal.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Star Trek: Next Generation"

Already There

Home is where I want to be,
but I guess I'm already there.

Talking Heads

No One's Job But Mine

And one day I understood
that it is no one's job but mine
to take care of myself and 
make myself happy.

Paulo Coelho

A Way the Child Can Learn

If a child cannot learn in the way we teach,
we must teach in a way the child can learn.

Unknown 

Yet Another Depth of Listening

"Who am I?" Answer the question,
then slowly, silently ask yourself, "Is it true?"
as you drop into yet another depth of listening,
of being answered.

Byron Katie

Free to Be As It Is

Let everything be free to be just as it is.
Do not separate yourself from the world
and try to order it around.

Alan Watts

At War with Reality?

You can't empty your mind of thoughts.
You might as well try to empty the ocean of it water.
But, why would you even want to empty your mind,
unless you're at war with reality?

Byron Katie

Like a Drop of Water

The meaning of life is to take the interconnected oneness
and adventure out kind of like a drop of water adventures
away from the ocean for a little bit and then at some point
come home but have a really adventurous time and have
every moment be a suspenseful, fascinating surprise that
when you go back into the ocean you've got so much that
you could never have experience as the ocean.

Chris Niebauer

Stimulate and Be Stimulated

To me, the meaning of life is
to stimulate and be stimulated.

Neurons are living, thriving creatures

and they're like humans. They're social.

They want to be in a social network

where their meaning is to

be stimulated by others and

stimulate others.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Hero's Adventure

The Hero's Adventure is not about
the ego taking a ride and developing.
It's more about the totality of all
of the different brain modules,
getting them all to realize their part,
the role they're playing in the totality
of our human existence.

Chris Niebauer

We Are Maturing

I think we are maturing. We have these
beautiful Eastern philosophies and
the philosophers have used beautiful words
to describe a part of who we are and to them,
that is the real part. To me, that is
the consciousness of the right brain.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Ones Which Open for Us

When one door closes, another one opens,
but we so often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door, that we do not see
the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Never Again

The day you teach the child the name of the bird,
the child will never see that bird again.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Definition of Mindfulness

One of the more popular ones is purposely
being present in this moment without judgment. 
So, there's a couple of interesting elements there.
There's a little bit of effort because you're purposely
paying attention to whatever you're doing
at this moment and you're doing it
in a very non-judgmental way.

Chris Niebauer

So Much More Power

I just believe we have so much more power
over what's going on inside of our heads
than we have thus far been taught.

Jill Bolte Taylor

So Much to be Feared

Nothing is so much
to be feared
as fear.

Henry David Thoreau

The Only Thing We Have to Fear

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that
the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert
retreat into advance.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A Great Many Catastrophes

I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life.
Most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

Only Three Things Going On

At any moment in time, there's really only
three things going on inside of the head.
We're thinking thoughts, we're feeling emotions,
and we're running physiological responses
to what we're thinking and what we're feeling.
It's all cellular circuitry.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Sense Out of Nonsense

The universe has a tendency
to create order out of disorder
and to make sense out of nonsense.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Power in the Human Brain

The power in the human brain is inhibition, not excitation.
Excitation brings you up to a level of threshold,
but inhibition keeps you right below.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Characters in Relation

If there's four of us inside of each one of us,
then there's eight of us inside of every relationship.

Jill Bolte Taylor

We're Wired for It

Every moment is a perfect and beautiful moment
when we allow ourselves to reduce all that
other chatter going on inside of our head.
And we can all attain it all the time because
we're wired for it.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Anything to Do with Anything

Everything that has anything
to do with anything is
our relationship between
the amygdala and the hippocampus.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Inside of Our Heads

Mindfulness if our ability to observe
the neurocircuitry we are running
inside of our heads.

Jill Bolte Taylor

We Are Neurocircuitry

We are neurocircuitry,
and every ability we have
is because we have cells 
that perform that function.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Feeling Creatures Who Think

At the neuroanatomical level,
at the level of brain anatomy,
we are feeling creatures who think,
not thinking creatures who feel.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Your True Nature

Time is carving you, Grasshopper.
Let yourself be shaped according

to your true nature.

Master Po ("Kung-Fu")

That's All

My religion is to stay present,
that's all.

Byron Katie

A New Stage

Aging is not lost youth but
a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Picking Up Speed

Just remember, once you're over the hill
you begin to pick up speed.

Charles Schulz

We Understand

In youth, we learn.
In age, we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A Good Chance

Never miss
a good chance
to shut up.

Will Rogers