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In meditation, as the sense of self is investigated, it is seen as transitory and continuously constructed moment to moment. It is to be held lightly. It is not a thing, but an ongoing process.
Bill Morgan • The Meditator's Dilemma: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Obstacles and Revitalizing Your Practice
The third and final truth: If you learn to enjoy the scent of a thousand flowers you will not cling to one or suffer when you cannot get it. If you have a thousand favorite dishes, the loss of one will go unnoticed and leave your happiness unimpaired. But it is precisely your attachments that prevent you from developing a wider and more varied tast
... See moreAnthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
could choose to stop making myself unhappy by waiting for something that would never happen. I could declare a truce with my own neediness and simply walk away from it. I could end my argument with reality and accept life as it is. This heart/mind insight comforted me.
Mary Pipher • A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
But you have food—and it is your greatest teacher. If you are willing to engage with yourself rather than run from yourself, and if you are willing to be steadfast and not get seduced by the newest greatest diet, you already have what people go to India to get. Right there on your plate, right smack in the middle of your day-today life, you have yo
... See moreGeneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
A lot of meditation is just showing up for what we have, and there is joy in that. It’s diferent from the kind of happi- ness that comes from getting what you wanted. It’s a joy that doesn’t have a good reason. It’s a joy that allows you to be sad or upset, because you’re alive in the midst of it.
John Tarrant • John Tarrant : Articles
We have to kill off any notion we have that there is something to attain, something to hold on to, something special we can become once and for all. Enlightenment is not a “thing” we “get” from practice. Anything we think we’ve gotten—even if it’s made of gold—can only get in the way. Only when there is nothing and nobody left to obstruct it will t
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
On a deeper level, I’m always practicing being done, in every sense—because birth, death, love, and life’s turning points arrive unannounced, their timing held close in the hands of the universe. One of my meditation teachers likens us to ships sailing out to sea, destined to sink; we just don’t know when. Another advises, “Stop making stuff.” He m
... See moreI have come to a point in my life where I must stop wanting. I must learn to stand alone, to inhabit the space given to me and not reach greedily for more.