If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
Interpretation
Taking a moment to pause can alleviate negative emotions and restore positivity.
This quote highlights the importance of taking a break to manage one's emotions. By allowing oneself time to sit quietly, one can overcome feelings of impatience, frustration, and negativity, ultimately regaining a sense of humor and perspective on life.
In practice
This quote could be used during a mindfulness seminar to emphasize the benefits of pausing.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
Tell others about the truth that sets you free.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
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