The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
Interpretation
Awareness transcends darkness and pain, revealing a deeper strength within.
This quote emphasizes that true awareness is not defined by the suffering or challenges one faces; rather, it serves as a powerful tool that acknowledges and transcends these experiences. It suggests that through awareness, one can connect to a more fundamental essence that is inherently healthy and strong, highlighting the importance of mindfulness in navigating life's difficulties.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
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