Quotes by Speakers - Page 106

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.
Gary Hopkins
Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.
Anne Lamott
First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.
Anne Lamott
You are beautiful and magical and perfect, especially because of your flaws. Those cracks are what let the light in, baby.
Dawn Gluskin
You don't need to find the light, you ARE the light; and when you let your personality shine you can light up the world.
Sally Hogshead
People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.
Steve Goodier
Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light.
Ken Poirot
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Love is the highest form of meditation.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.
Gary Hopkins
No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are considering your children, when you educate them to become soldiers, to kill, to be nationalized, worshipping the flag, educating them to enter into this trap of the modern world; watching all that, realizing your part in it, all that is part of meditation. And when you so meditate you will find in it an extraordinary beauty; you will act rightly at every moment; and if you do not act rightly at a given moment it does not matter, you will pick it up again - you will not waste time in regret. Meditation is part of life, not something different from life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.
Steve Goodier
Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.
Gary Hopkins
Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see someone cry.Open your eyes, and let everyone be free. Free to be you and free to be me. Take comfort in knowing we are all leaves on the same big, beautiful tree.
Jennifer Sodini
Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!
Bryant McGill
When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.
Bryant McGill
Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.
Bryant McGill
Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external.
Bryant McGill
Success comes from finding your center and self.
Bryant McGill
Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.
Bryant McGill
You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.
Bryant McGill
It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.
Bryant McGill
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.
Bryant McGill
Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.
Bryant McGill
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.
Bryant McGill
Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.
Bryant McGill
Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.
Bryant McGill
This life is like a roller-coaster; once you are strapped-in and the ride has started, you aren't getting off.
Bryant McGill
Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.
Bryant McGill
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.
Bryant McGill
Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
Bryant McGill
When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.
Bryant McGill
Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.
Bryant McGill
Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.
Bryant McGill
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.
Bryant McGill
Zen movement is a meditative practice.
Bryant McGill
Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
Bryant McGill
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.
Bryant McGill
Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.
Bryant McGill
Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.
Bryant McGill
Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.
Bryant McGill
If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Bryant McGill
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
Bryant McGill
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
Bryant McGill
You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.
Bryant McGill
The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
Bryant McGill
Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible
Bryant McGill
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. Silence put together by thought is stagnation, is dead, but the silence that comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, understood how all thought is never free but always old - this silence is meditation in which the meditator is entirely absent, for the mind has emptied itself of the past.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier