Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside."
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Mindfulness
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."
Mary Morrissey
Author
"Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now"
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations."
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"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach."
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"If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment."
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"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."
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"Only the present moment contains life."
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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"Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it."
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"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals."
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"The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life."
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"Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now."
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"Confine yourself to the present."
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"Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously."
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"Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness."
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"Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment."
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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
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"If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it."
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"Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am."
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"Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is."
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"If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed."
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"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."
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"Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest."
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