If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.
Interpretation
Enlightenment is about accepting reality as it is, without resistance.
Wayne Dyer's quote emphasizes that enlightenment involves a deep understanding and acceptance of the present moment and circumstances. It suggests that true wisdom comes from letting go of the struggle against life's realities and embracing what exists, leading to a sense of peace and clarity.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, to emphasize the importance of acceptance, I quoted Wayne Dyer: 'If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.
I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
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