Every day holds the possibility of a miracle. ~ Elizabeth David
One small crack does not mean that you are broken,
it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.
~ Linda Poindexter
Stroking & petting your cat reminds them of when their mom use to groom
them….It also helps “mingle” our scents. Source: Catgreetings
Be truthful, gentle and fearless. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
True love is a sacred flame
That burns eternally,
And none can dim its special glow
Or change its destiny.
True love speaks in tender tones
And hears with gentle ear,
True love gives with open heart
And true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands
It neither rules nor binds,
And true love holds with gentle hands
The hearts that it entwines.
~Unknown Author
by Ajahn Chah
Just as animal life can be classified into two groups, creatures of the land and creatures of the sea, subjects of meditation can be divided into two categories, concentration and insight. Concentration meditations are those that are used to make the mind calm and one pointed. Insight, on the one hand, is the growing perception of impermanence, suffering, and emptiness of self and, on the other, our bridge over those waters.
No matter how we may feel about our existence, our business is not to try to change it in any way. Rather, we just have to see it and let it be. Where suffering is, there too is the way out of suffering. Seeing that which is born and dies and is subject to suffering, Buddha knew there must also be something beyond birth and death, free of suffering.
Methods of meditation all have value in helping to develop mindfulness. The point is to use mindfulness to see the underlying truth. With this mindfulness, we watch all desires, likes and dislikes, pleasures and pains that arise in the mind. Realizing they are impermanent, suffering, and empty of self, we let go of them. In this way, wisdom replaces ignorance, knowledge replaces doubt.
As for singling out one object of meditation, you yourself must discover what fits your character. Wherever you choose to be mindful, it will bring wisdom to the mind. Mindfulness is knowing what is here, noticing, being aware. Clear comprehension knows the context in which the present is occurring. When mindfulness and clear comprehension act together, their companion, wisdom, always appears to help them complete any task.
Watch the mind, watch the process of experience arising and ceasing. At first the movement is constant as soon as one thing passes, another arises, and we seem to see more arising than ceasing. As time goes by we see more clearly, understanding how things arise so fast, until we reach the point where they arise, cease, and do not arise again.
With mindfulness you can see the real owner of things. Do you think this is your world, your body? It is the world’s world, the body’s body. If you tell it, Don’t get old, does the body listen? Does your stomach ask permission to get sick? We only rent this house; why not find out who really owns it?
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy…is to set our own
conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances
instead of being conditioned by them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you’ll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood — any given mood — then that mental mood itself will follow. ~Kenneth Goode
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount
of work is the same. ~Carlos Castaneda
Like fine dust thrown against the wind, evil falls back upon that fool who
offends an inoffensive, pure and guiltless man. ~Buddha, The Dhammapada
A good relationship is like Taj Mahal. Everybody simply wonders
how Beautiful it is; But nobody understands how difficult it was to build.
~Santabanta sms
When fear knocks on your door, send faith to answer.
Just because something isn’t happening for you right now,
doesn’t mean that it will never happen. ~Santabanta sms
