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I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and...

Alan Watts

DEC 15, 2024

When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and...

Alan Watts

FEB 27, 2025

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time...

Bessel van der Kolk

JUL 26, 2022

As I often tell my students; the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are...

Khaled Hosseini

JUN 16, 2024

Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down...

Morgan Day Cecil

DEC 1, 2022

PETITION FOR PRESENCE Just be here with me. Signed: The moon. The stars. Your still-hot-cup-of-coffee. Your...

Tara Brach

AUG 30, 2024

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can...

Elizabeth Lesser

JUN 9, 2024

Many of us feel uncomfortable revealing to others - and even to ourselves - what lies beneath...

Hsing Yun

DEC 8, 2022

Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of...

Hermann Hesse

MAR 4, 2023

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they...

Alan Watts

NOV 22, 2023

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as...

Jeff Foster

MAR 31, 2023

THE GURU The one who makes you laugh until your stomach hurts and you snort like a pig is your guru. The one who...

Dr. Jaime Zuckerman

NOV 11, 2023

Difficult Truth: A lot of people are practicing emotional avoidance and...

Mary Oliver

JAN 15, 2024

It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning...

Eugene Gendlin

JAN 14, 2024

What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes...

Arthur Schopenhauer

NOV 3, 2023

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible...

Genny Rumancik

OCT 10, 2023

The more you resist where you currently are, or how you currently feel, the longer you'll stay there...

Sarah Blondin

OCT 20, 2023

For one moment try, to not get to a place. To not busy your mind and self...

Erica Layne

DEC 11, 2022

Rest is not idle, is not wasteful. Sometimes rest is the most productive...

Marcel Proust

JUN 7, 2022

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes...

Nikki Banas

DEC 30, 2022

WAVES When tough times come your way, you really only have two options. You can either...

Pema Chödrön

JAN 7, 2023

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual...

Aletheia Luna

MAY 7, 2022

To many people, spirituality becomes a sort of crutch used as a way of standing back up again in...

Sydney J. Harris

MAY 30, 2022

The time to relax is when you don't...