#buddhism

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspiration #meditation #inspirational

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#humanism #life

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead. ↗

— Ajahn Chah

#life

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #life-truths #truth #truth-of-life #life

There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It was profound to me, amazing, the ramifications, the implications, the far-reaching impact that one’s beliefs could have on the world. It was actually mind-blowing for me. Figuratively speaking. Like, it was just, holy shit. Look at that. And nobody, hardly anybody sees it. They’re just ideas. Ideas. And yet, I’d believed them for so long, and still, was still shirking free of them. How was it that we believed in them, so readily, so easily? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-truths #spirituality #truth

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#buddhism #ethics #morals #life

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#healing #new-beginnings #spirituality #unknown #life

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #love

Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #fear #love #psychology #spirituality

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#insight #love #mindfulness #psychology #art