Nurture your soul with positive thoughts and internal happiness will blossom before your eyes. — Melanie Koulouris
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them. – Tara Brach
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t). – James Baraz
Living 24 hours with mindfulness is more worthwhile than living 100 years without it. – The Buddha
Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life. – Henepola Gunaratana
Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it. – The Buddha
Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes. – The Buddha
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. – Sylvia Boorstein Continue reading
No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. — Wolfgang Riebe
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. — Zig Ziglar
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. — Dr. Seuss
You always pass failure on the way to success. — Mickey Rooney
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. — Bonnie Blair Continue reading
We all know the old adage: Patience is a virtue. But it’s true! Patience can help us achieve our goals, maintain a more positive outlook on life, and make us less reactive, which in turn will make us less prone to bad decisions. Stress, regret, and anger don’t help anything. So when you’re facing an uncertain future, a negative event, or something scary, take a minute. Don’t do anything. Just sit a spell. — Country Living
Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, we’ll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not. — Unknown
Jendhamuni shoveling the snow on December 5, 2020
Jendhamuni shoveling the snow on December 5, 2020
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. – John Lubbock
The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush. – T.H. White
Every day we’re given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place. — Elizabeth Lesser
Do not fail
to learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Jendhamuni at the summit of Mt. Wachusett on a rainy and foggy day on November 26, 2020.
If you realized just how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
— Anonymous
