Coffee & Meditation

Nothing is either good or bad. It’s thinking that makes it so.

Most of us were not raised to understand that we are participating in something that is already happening. Rather, we were given tasks to accomplish individually and completely. This placed the entire burden on the single isolated person. That’s not participation. That’s perfectionism.

To will the Good for the sake of the reward is, as it were, a symbol of double-mindedness. And a double-minded man is unsteady in all his ways.“

It is observing things for a long time that gives you greater maturity and a deeper understanding.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.

When we fight a block it grows stronger. When we acknowledge, experience, and accept it, it begins to melt.

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

We seek not rest but transformation.

If you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a difference with what you have, what you have expands.

Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another.

Some run swiftly; some crawl painfully; all who keep on will reach the goal.

In every human being … there is a germinating force, just as there is in a grain of corn. And so natural life is germination. What the germinating force is to the grain, love is to us.