onlyloveisreal

“Mindfulness is so closely linked with equanimity because it directly teaches you to take the middle path — to not resist or cling to things, and to not just let things happen to you willy-nilly. You quite literally train yourself to notice and reflect before responding, and as a result, your behaviours become reasoned, conscious responses.”

“True love does not just choose one person. When true love is there, you shine like a lamp. You don’t just shine on one person in the room. That light you emit is for everyone in the room. If you really have love in you, everyone around you will profit—not only humans, but animals, plants, and minerals. Love, true love, is that. True love is equanimity.”

“When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.”

“Dhamma is simple. Live with love and be aware. It is only the mind that complicates this teaching and says that it is not enough.”

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”

“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”

“When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.”

“If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.”

“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”

“Liking and disliking can happen so quickly that we may feel we have no control over them. Somebody says something pleasant and we like them. Another person says something hurtful and we dislike them. It might be true that we can’t stop liking and disliking arising, but if we slow down a little we might notice that in fact we do have a choice; whether or not to follow the liking or disliking, whether or not to make a ‘me’ out of them. When awareness is well established, liking and disliking can be seen as movement taking place in a larger reality.”

“Where there is anger, there is pain underneath.”

“Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.”