Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive — that you can touch the miracle of being alive — then that is a kind of enlightenment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness
For the discovery of truth there is no path…
~ J. Krishnamurti
(The storage room. Washington, D.C.)
Wonder begins with the element of surprise. The now almost obsolete word ‘wonderstruck’ suggests that wonder breaks into consciousness with a dramatic suddenness that produces amazement or astonishment. Because of the suddenness with which it appears, wonder reduces us momentarily to silence. We associate gaping, breathlessness, bewilderment, and even stupor with wonder, because it jolts us out of the world of common sense in which our language is at home. The language and categories we customarily use to deal with experience are inadequate to the encounter, and hence we are initially immobilized and dumbfounded. We are silent before some new dimension of meaning which being revealed.
~ Sam Keen
A mind that is passionate is inquiring, searching, looking, asking, demanding, not merely trying to find for its discontent some object in which it can fulfill itself and go to sleep. A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting any tradition; it is not a decided mind, not a mind that has arrived, but it is a young mind that is ever arriving.
~ J. Krishnamurti
It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The markets of the world are flowing with goods and services produced by the interplay of sun and earth, air and water, and the inexhaustible imagination and energy of human beings. Whenever you touch an object made or conveyed by humans, you are touched by all the people who have reached their hands to make this possible for you. Daily use is daily communion.
~ Arthur P. Moor
It does not require a large eye to see a large mountain. The reason is that, though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.
~ Meher Baba
(Terraces.)
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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(Wasp on goldenrod.)
No small part of the earth is insignificant. There is nothing in nature that doesn’t have purpose.
~ Gary Thorp
(A hole in the brambles.)
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
~ Hermann Hesse
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