#mind

It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#lovingkindness #mindfulness #art

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ↗

— V. Vale

#body #confidence #creation #creative #emotion

True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#education #mind-body-spirit #teachers #art

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#economics #economists #expertise #intellect #mind

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brain #cognition #content #contentment #creativity

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #mindfulness #self-help #art

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#death #dying #life #relationship #state-of-mind

A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe.  Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go. An awful thing sometime later befell me when the horse was removed from my toe.  Alone and with naught to secure me, I found I was forced to go. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#mindset #perspective #richelle #richelle-goodrich #viewpoint

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #life #make-a-change #open-mindedness #rules