“Imagine that every being in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.”
The Buddha
The greatest support we can have is mindfulness, which means being totally present in each moment. If the mind remains centered, it cannot make up stories about the injustice of the world or one’s friends, or about one’s desires or sorrows. All these stories could fill many volumes, but when we are mindful such verbalizations stop. Being mindful means being fully absorbed in the moment, leaving no room for anything else . We are filled with the momentary happening, whatever it is - standing or sitting or lying down, feeling pleasure or pain - and we maintain a nonjudgmental awareness, a “just knowing.”
Ayya Khema.
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“If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back…”
Napoleon Hill
“Those who harm themselves through their thoughts, words, or actions are indeed their own worst enemies. They only bring themselves suffering.”
The Buddha
“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
Anthony de Mello
