Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.
When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.
Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.
When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness.
Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip; you will effortlessly flow to safety.
Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.
You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.
Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.
You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.
We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.
Your face expresses a simple majesty, Your look is that of a captive princess, Your lips have a slight smile and This shows your glory of being a woman.
The task may be simple for me, but if I make it look too easy, you won’t appreciate it as much as if I pretend to struggle to help you out.
We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.
If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.
We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.
Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.
Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you’re free.
He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
