#meditation

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#meditation #relationships #love

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

You cannot control the results, only your actions. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #insight #karma #meditation #mindfulness

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #psychology #art

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspirational #love #meditation #psychology #art

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#meditation #mind #peace #step #beauty

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #art

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #mindfulness #psychology #self-help

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #loneliness #meditation #solitude #love

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #psychology #nature