"I encourage you to make peace with death, to see it as the culminating event of this adventure called life. Death is not an error; it is not a failure. Confucius says, “Those that find the Way in the morning can gladly die in the evening."
Ram Dass #ramdass#mondaythoughts
"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet."
Thich Nhat Hanh #enlightenment#evolution
"You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light."
Rumi #meditation#Mindfulness
"Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sunsets. We just tend to complicate the process."
Ram Dass #FridayThoughts#RamDass
Here are 5 of the most common regrets that a palliative nurse heard from her dying patients and some actions that can be taken to make the most of life while we still can.
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"A clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it."
The Dalai Lama #buddhism#TuesdayThoughts#environment
“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.”
- Eckhart Tolle #meditation#MindfulMonday
@LovellDennis1 Success must be measured by happiness — by your ability to remain in harmony with cosmic laws — rather than by health, prestige, or wealth. - Paramhansa Yogananda
"Your success in life does not depend only upon natural ability; it also depends upon your determination to grasp the opportunity that is presented to you. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance."
Paramhansa Yogananda #yoga#successquotes
“Fear is the membrane between what we know and something new. It tells us we are about to open to something bigger than the world we usually experience.”
Jack Kornfield #Buddhism#Fearless
"Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind."
Thich Nhat Hanh #ThursdayThoughts#Mindfulness#Buddhism
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
The Buddha #TuesdayThoughts#Buddhist
"Success must be measured by happiness, by your ability to remain in harmony with cosmic laws, rather than by health, prestige or wealth."
Paramhansa Yogananda #yoga#SaturdayThoughts
"Around us, life bursts with miracles–a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere."
Thich Nhat Hanh #ThursdayThoughts#Buddhism