Sonia

Educator awakening into a higher state of consciousness

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

"Objects alone don’t make the sacred. People do, and careful attention. The Buddha did not first taste enlightenment while meditating in a temple. He was sitting on a pile of straw outside, touching the earth, and seeing the morning star." –Katy Butler

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

True openness implies space—your consciousness embracing some kind of wide totality. This experience of embracing totality itself becomes the solution, or antidote, to the narrow, fanatical, conceptualizing dualistic mind.

—Lama Yeshe

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

“The most treacherous aspect of the I/not-I duality is that it is mistaken for actuality.”

~ Wu Hsin

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

The goodness of every day
is determined not by what happens
Or by whom you meet, but by your own mind.

Shunmyo Masuno

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”

― Henry David Thoreau

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

― Carl Jung

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

Stillness isn’t about disappearing into the void or leaving life behind.
It’s about coming back to yourself — fully, clearly, honestly.

In stillness:
•You hear your own voice again
•You remember what matters
•You feel your emotions instead of outrunning them

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

"In awakened awareness there’s no grasping. It’s a simple, immanent act of being here, being patient. It takes trust, especially trust in yourself. No one can make you do it or magically do it for you. Trusting this moment is therefore very important." —Ajahn Sumedho

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

"The word guardian derives from the Middle English word garden. I find this fitting; my instinctive need for protection leads me to nature—to plant life—and almost always to trees. When I’m in their presence, I can sense their watchfulness. I feel their embrace." —Lauren Krauze

[Sonia @Sonia_Educator]

"Be neither glad nor regretful when sadness and gloom appear within the heart. Look on them as mental conditions that must be investigated, as things that arise, cease, and come out from the heart. They depend on the heart for their birth and then latch on to it." —Ajaan Mahā