Nothing we see or hear is perfect.
But right there in the imperfection
Is perfect reality.
#ShunryuSuzuki
I have nothing inside, and l seek nothing outside.
#Chaochou
The cloud has no destination which it must reach. It is purposeless. In much the same way, when there is no longer a sense of worry, a concern for what comes next, one can walk without needing to arrive.
#WuHsin
Everyone is tempted by the eloquence of speech, but I am the slave of the master of silence.
#Rumi
I take blindness as my vision, darkness as my hearing ;
I take danger as safety, and prosperity as misfortune.
#ZenrinKushu
Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
#Rumi
At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
"Yoga meditation is the process of cultivating and stabilizing the awareness of one's real nature, through definite spiritual and psychophysical methods and laws by which the narrow ego... is displaced by the consciousness of the soul."
#ParamahansaYogananda
Leonard Cohen: "Meditation is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going over all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is nothing but a complicated script you spend most of your energy on.
After a more thorough examination, you discover your personality disgusts you, and that's because it's not really you. If you feel terrified enough about that personality, you spontaneously allow it to fade away. Then, if you're lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality.
There's so much talk about the mechanics of happiness - psychiatry and pills, positive thinking and ideology
- but I really think the mechanism is there. All you have to do is get quiet for a moment."
#LeonardCohen
Don't try to silence your mind, stay detached, that's the secret. #mooji