A wise person is someone who has learned to be at peace within.
They’ve learned that peace is not the absence nor the end of pain, but rather the recognition that we do not need to wage war with ourselves and can choose to receive each moment with a kind inclination of the heart.
~ Matt Young, Melbourne Meditation Centre
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If every single person who has liked you in your lifetime, were to light up on a map, it would create the most glitteringly beautiful network you could imagine. Throw in the strangers you’ve been kind to, the people you’ve made laugh, or inspired along the way, and that star-bright web of you, would be an impressive sight to behold. You’re so much more than you think you are. You have done so much more than you realise. You’re trailing a bright pathway that you don’t even know about. What a thing. What a thing indeed.
~ Donna Ashworth, from Wild Hope
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If you are wondering who your people are, they are the ones who make your heart feel seen and your nervous system feel calm.
~ Yung Pueblo
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Kindness is not just the absence of being mean or hateful. Being kind entails actively resisting actions, ideas, and institutions that rob others of dignity … if we do not continue to choose kindness together, can you imagine how much worse the world will become?
― Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.
~ John O’Donohue
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… it goes against all the conditioning, all the impulses, all the logic which tells us: ‘Get me away from this feeling, this thought, this unpleasant experience.’ It can bring up all our resistance, doubt and anxiety, and we may be tempted to try and fight or deny these too. When we feel the cold, dark night upon us, the last thing we want is to rest in the open. But ultimately we’ve nothing to lose – we’re exposing ourselves only to what’s here anyway. With the light and warmth of awareness, we offer our attitude as fuel for transformation. When we practise this wholeheartedly, courageously, repeatedly, compassionately, over time we may find that even when our frogs don’t turn into princes, we might nevertheless learn to love the frog. Is such a radical shift possible? Yes, according to practitioner reports over thousands of years, and the new data from brain-measuring technology. However, it requires practice, method and courage.
― Ed Halliwell, Mindfulness Made Easy: Learn How to Be Present and Kind – to Yourself and Others
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It’s a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
~Aldous Huxley
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
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Curating Quietude 