Meditation Wisdom, Part Two
While listening to this chakra meditation, the following sayings really resonated with me. I chose sayings from any source that resonated with me. The sources come from Islam, New Age, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism and just beings that had something important to say. Some sayings were from deities, others from humans. Just because I sponsor what someone said, does not mean I necessarily agree with everything that being or person has said or done, it just means what they said really resonated with me.
Jesus as Pure Existence (since June 2022) is over all good deities and spiritual practices and has stated in the past that he is cool with New Agers and that when they pray to the “Source” they are praying to Him and don’t know it. LOL Jesus no longer has a need for people to worship Him, but just wants us all to be happy and healthy. He is above being a deity right now and is the UNIVERSE ITSELF, like his father (God the Father). In June 2022, Jesus became fully equal to his dad.
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for when I am closed, I am false. –Rainier Maria Rilke
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. –Carl R. Rogers
If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself. –Cheryl Richardson
Glimmers, instances when you are stuck by the beauty of the moment and can fully appreciate its magic. The more glimmers we notice, the happier we become, and the happier we are, the more glimmers we experience. It’s a continuous circle.
Oubaitori–an ancient Japanese idiom that conveys the idea that people, much like cherry blossoms, bloom at their own pace and in their own unique way. It’s a reminder that we should focus on our growth, and not compare ourselves to others.
You are the sky–everything else, it’s just the weather. –Pema Chodron
Make deep connections, not deep attachments. –Yung Pueblo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. –Robert Breault
3 Steps to Release Shame, are you tired of feeling the weight of guilt on your shoulders? It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are 3 transformative steps to help you release guilt and find the freedom you deserve: 1) Embrace Vulnerability, allow yourself to be vulnerable, open up to the truth of your feelings and experiences, without fear or judgment, 2) Rewrite Your Narrative, challenge the stories you tell yourself about guilt, rewrite your narrative with compassion and understanding, focusing on growth and resilience, 3) Cultivate Forgiveness, practice forgiveness, starting with yourself. Let go of resentment and self-blame and choose compassion and acceptance instead. By embracing vulnerability, rewriting your narrative and cultivating forgiveness, you can release the grip of guilt and embrace a life of freedom and self-acceptance. –Ipek Williamson
The forces of the Universe support those who work at healing themselves. –Yung Pueblo
Here are some examples of negative self-talk and how you can re-frame them into a more positive way. Instead of saying “I always mess things up.” You can change this to, “I am capable of learning from my mistakes and improving with each experience.” Instead of saying “I’ll never be able to do this.” You can re-frame this to “I am resilient and capable of overcoming obstacles.” Or Instead of saying, “I’m such a failure.” Re-frame this to say “I have the courage to try new things and setbacks are opportunities for growth.” When you reshape your thought patterns, you’ll be better able to handle everyday stress in a more constructive way as well as cultivate greater confidence and empowerment within you. –Dr. Barb Woegerer
Take responsibility of your own happiness. Never put it in other people’s hands. –Roy T. Bennett
Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect. –Aryn Kyle
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. –Dalai Lama XIV
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. –Rainer Maria Rilke
The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. –Mark Nepo
Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. –Rumi
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. –Marcel Proust
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The world is won by those who let it go. –Lao Tzu
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. –Amit Ray
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long as your values don’t change. –Jane Goodall
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. –Agnes Repplier
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. –William Shakespeare
Mindfulness is the ability to see what’s happening in your mind and in the world without being entangled by it. –Dan Harris
Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. –Rumi
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. –Virginia Woolf
An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. –Mary Renault
Don’t count the days, make the days count. –Plutarch
What is one small action you can take today that will take you closer to your goal?
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside yourself, that is greater than any obstacle. –Christian D. Larson
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. –David Frost
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. –Oprah Winfrey
Get clarity on your values and priorities: Think of one desire or dream you have for yourself. What values are at the heart of this dream?
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. –Pierre Corneille
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. –Rumi
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. –Mahatma Gandhi
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. –Laozi
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. –Albert Schweitzer
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. –Jean Shinoda Bolen
Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you. –Katie Reed
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. –Plutarch
Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that created them. –Carolyn Myss
The soul is here for its own joy. –Rumi
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. –Nathaniel Branden
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. –Tara Brach
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others. –Bryant McGill
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information, but of unlearning old limits. –Alan Cohen
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. –Lao Tzu
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
Courage doesn’t alway roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’. –Mary Anne Radmacher
Excuses are fabricated illusions we create to rationalize our behaviors when we’re too afraid to go after what we really want. –Rumi
We don’t see things are they are, we see them as we are. –Anais NIn
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. –Charles R. Swindoll
The greatest thing in the world is to learn how to belong to oneself. –Michel de Montaigne
True happiness. . . is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. –Seneca
There is a huge ripple effect in our lives, when we have the courage to be who we are.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. –Leo Buscaglia
The obstacle is the path. –Zen Proverb
What we know matters, but who we are matters more. –Brene Brown
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. –Chinese Proverb
You are not the work you do, but the person you are. –Toni Morrison
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. –Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. –Albert Camus
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye. –Roy T. Bennett
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. –Rainer Maria Wilke
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream preceds the goal. –Rabindranath Tagore
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, not on what you don’t want. –Napoleon Hill
Your duty is to Be, not to be this or that. –Ramana Maharshi
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. –Louis L’Amour
Your heart often knows things before your mind does. –Polly Adler
We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will. –Mark Nepo
If we are able to look deeply into our suffering and embrace it tenderly, great compassion can be born. –Thich Nhat Hanh
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. –Herman Hesse
You have to be where you are, to get where you need to go. –Amy Poehler
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. –Joseph Campbell
It is often uncomfortable when you have to say no, but it’s even more uncomfortable when you say ‘yes’ when you mean ‘no’. Choose accordingly. –Yasmine Cheyenne
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. –Chinese Proverb
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life’s life. Don’t control it. Allow it.
Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering. –Dalai Lama
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. –Rumi
If we do not keep our minds peaceful, how can the world be peaceful? The conflicts in the world are a manifestation of the human mind. –Sadhguru
What you get by achieving your goals is not as imporant as who you become by achieving your goals. –Zig Ziglar
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak. –Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens. –Mandy Hale
Learning how to be still, to be really still and let life happen–that stillness becomes a radiance. –Morgan Freeman
When someone tells me ‘no’, it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. –Karen E. Quinones Miller
When practicing meditation be kind to yourself. Some days will be easier than others.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. –Kurt Cobain
Nature does not hurry. Yet everything is accomplished. –Lao Tzu
Self-care is also not arguing with people who are committed to misunderstanding you. –Ayishat Akanbi
Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. –George Bernard Shaw
Altogether the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being. –Chogyam Trungpa
Mindfulness does not mean concern for outcome, but openness to the reality of what is actually happening. –Robert Bellah
At any given moment you have the power to say, this is not how the story is going to end.
The man who moves a mountain, begins by carrying away small stones. –Confucius
If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore. –Michele Ruiz
Self-care is not selfish. You can’t serve from an empty vessel. –Eleanor Brown
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. –Thich Nhat Hanh
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. –Epicurus
You need to align yourself with people who fit your destiny, not your history. –T.D. Jakes
You have the answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. –Pat Obuchowski
We can go further by periodically stopping and resting. –Sharon Salzberg
Your past is not holding you back. You are holding onto your past. –Amanda Ray
If your identity is centered around being loved and appreciated by others, you will never really come to know yourself.
Practice being there while getting there. –Lama Surya Das
The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you will be criticized any way. –Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see clearly. –Taoist Proverb
When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to act as if it were.
The most precious thing you can offer to your beloved one, is your true presence. –Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much and go where your heart takes you.
We repeat what we don’t repair.
Stop trying to make the wrong people love you the right way.
The days you are most uncomfortable are the days you learn the most about yourself.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. –Stephen R. Covey
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. –Martin Luther King
When it’s obvious the goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. –Confucius
Be grateful for whatever comes. –Rumi
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. –Og Mandino
Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we are captivated by purpose.
Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself. –Yasmin Mogahed
You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be. –Vironika Tugaleva
To get through the hardest journey, we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. –Chinese Proverb
Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. –Susan Gale
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. –Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t do something permanently foolish, because you are temporarily upset.
The trouble is, you think you have time. –Buddha
The key to happiness is doing something you like every single day. –Victor Pride
Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not. –Corrie Ten Boom
The bird who dares to fall, is the bird who learns to fly.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. –Chinese Proverb
There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi
Go as far as you can see. When you get there, you’ll be able to see better. –Thomas Carlyle
In true love there is no room for pride. –Thich Nhat Nanh
Wisdom waits for you to be silent enough to hear. –B.D. Schiers
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows. It empties today of its strengths. –Corrie Ten Boom
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. –John Lennon
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along. –Rumi
Miracles start to happen when you give as much attention to your dreams as you do to your fears.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. –Nelson Mandela
The best fighter is never angry. –Lao Tzu
Great love and great achievements involve great risk. –Dalai Lama
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. –Thich Nhat Hanh
There are two ways to have enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
When you don’t seek external approval, you’re at your most powerful. –Caroline Myss
If you’re not excited about it, it’s not the right path. –Abraham Hicks
How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours. –Wayne Dyer
Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.
You can be still and still moving. –Ram Doss (like a still boat on the waves)
Never let your fear decide your fate.
Get quiet and figure out what you really want.
Sometimes your circle decreases in size but increases in value.
He who angers you conquers you. –Elizabeth Kenny
When I stop struggling, I float.
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed. –Japanese Proverb
Only a fool knows everything.
The best thing one can do when it’s raining, is to let it rain. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
The master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried.
Be selective in your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.
Purity and impurity depend on oneself. No one can purify another. –Buddha
They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. –Mexican Proverb
No pressure, no diamonds.
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.
If you miss the present moment. You miss your appointment with life. That is very serious! –Thich Nhat Hanh