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INNER ALCHEMIST

Peace comes from within - Do not seek it without

"You must understand the whole of life. Not just one little part of it.

That is why you must read. That is why you must look at the skies. That is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand,

For all that is life.

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- Krishnamurti

(Source: beautifulurself, via wordslessspoken)

"We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living."
- Taitetsu Unno, “Number One Fool”

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"Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves."
- Ulysses, James Joyce

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"I can’t go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."
- Lewis Carroll

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"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."
- Eckhart Tolle

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"Every one of us is getting older, which is a natural process. Time is constantly moving on, second by second. Nothing can stop it, but what we can do is use our time properly; that is in our hands. Whether we believe in a spiritual tradition or not, we need to use our time meaningfully. If over days, weeks, months and years, we have used our time in a meaningful way – when our last day comes, we’ll be happy, we’ll have no regrets."
- Dalai Lama (via josephpedersen)

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Meditation, mindfulness, and executive control: results from a new EEG study

"Suzuki Roshi used to say that what was needed most in the monastery were people who were good at cleaning out the corners. The most perverting ideas are the ones that lie for years and years in the dark corners of our mind. Like spiders, they creep out while we are sleeping and spin their webs of illusion. Only when the mind is clean, in order, and uncluttered can the present moment be fully realized. If we hang onto past memories, trophies of our good-old-days, in time our mind and our home will be a museum instead of a place to encounter the present reality. The relationship between house cleaning, garden cleaning, and mental caretaking is not just symbolic. It is very direct."
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Marian Mountain, The Zen Environment

(h/t Joan Halifax)

(Source: beingblog)