100 Inspiring Quotes 51-60 cont…

Changing ones perspective can be a very difficult task. When we find ourselves feeling stuck, overwhelmed, hopeless, (afraid)…we can get so completely caught up in the emotions and the feelings invoked by our state of affairs, by our state of mind that we are unable to see the truth. The wonderful thing is we are not truly stuck, merely having a bout with repetitious negative thinking. The way to release yourself from this cycle is to become aware, mindful, examine what appears to be causing you to feel and or emotionally respond to a particular thought. Do you think that it is the thought or the sensation of the emotion that appears to be causing the feelings of being out of control? Really take a look at it, Really feel how your body appears to be feeling, With me I find Fear. what do you find? I realize I am a part of fear, I am fear…It has no power…

51. “Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones. Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.” Ayya Khema, ‘Be an Island’

52. “Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.” Buddha

53. “Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear.It is only a matter of which occurs first.”Goenka

54. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius

55. “Do away with your old habits and start fresh. Wash away your old opinions, And new ideas come in.” Xue Xuan

56. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer

57. “Consider, in good time, that you have something more divine in you than the mechanism of passion, than the strings and tackle of a puppet.” Marcus Aurelius

58. “Set your heart upon your work but never upon its reward. Do not work for reward, but never cease to work…Do your work in the peace of yoga and free from self-centered desire’s, do not be moved by success or failure. Yoga is evenness of mind, a peace that s ever the same.” Bhagavad Gita

59. “If you find a thing difficult, consider whether it would be possible for any person to do it. Because anything that is humanly possible, that falls within human capabilities- you too can accomplish.” Marcus Aurelius

60. “When you call yourself and Indian, or a Muslim, or a Christian, or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.” Jiddu Krishnamurti