May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom.
Interpretation
This quote encourages self-awareness and resilience in the face of challenges.
Elizabeth Lesser's quote emphasizes the importance of inner strength and personal growth, urging individuals to listen to their intuition even in difficult times. It highlights the idea that challenges can lead to deeper understanding and emotional freedom if one is open to experiencing and embracing them.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
If you're interested in opening the doors to the heavens, start with the door to your own secret self. See what happens when you offer to another a glimpse of who you truly are. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Grief is an expression that you loved well.
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.
If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.
Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
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