Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts

Contrary to popular belief this is not a quote from Buddha, but from Haruki Murakami in a book about running. It does fall in line with Buddhist teachings and mindfulness teachings and I believe it so strongly I may get it tattooed on myself one day.

Life will give us pain, emotional hardship, loss and grief, physical pain...and most of the time we will have no control. How can we, then, overcome these painful barriers and progress in life? The secret is in our minds.

Though mindfullness, which is the careful and judgmentless observation of the present moment, we learn that suffering is a byproduct of pain but it is not pain itself.

Suffering is what happens when we convense ourselves that we cannot bear the pain and try to tun away.

By facing the pain, accepting it, allowing it to be as it is, we decrease the power of suffering, we moved through the pain instead of pulling against it. We acknowlege it and wait to see when it will choose to pass on its own.

With practice we learn to find peace even in the presesence of pain.

We learn how to stop suffering.

Pain in inevitable.

But suffering is optional.

"Life is like the ocean, it can be calm or still , and rough or rigid, but in the end it's always beautiful"

'Wrists are for bracelets. Not for cutting'

This too shall pass

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is;

Never let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,

talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of

God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people

permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others."

Reach for the moon, if you miss, you'll land among the stars