thought for today

You are Unique

“Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!” ― Kamand Kojouri

“Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Be kind to yourself

“Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.” – Tsoknyi Rinpoche As the month of June comes to an end we bring our discussion of awakening to a close. Continue reading “Be kind to yourself”

What is enlightenment?

“What is Enlightenment? Enlightenment is to be vigilant when everyone is sleeping; it is to see when everyone is blind; to hear when everyone is deaf!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

Life gives us many gifts

“Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil that a self-indulgent ego perpetuates we perceive what heretofore eluded us.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls Yes, this is for real. You may read more about Kilroy J. Oldster and the Dead ToadContinue reading “Life gives us many gifts”

Simplicity is the key to everything

“People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.” ― Gary Hopkins

Your purpose

“You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. “ —Morihei Ueshiba

How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?

“It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.Continue reading “How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?”

You can never go back

“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger holdContinue reading “You can never go back”