Quote of the day archive

Try not to take yourself too seriously.

Mindfulness can help you to overcome temptation, avoid quarrels, and respond compassionately to others' moral failings as well as your own.

You have the capacity to live in a way that the next twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to yourself and others.

When we work wtih attention and joy, genuine satisfaction will be our pay.

Imagine yourself to be as happy as possible. Your ability to imagine this will be proof of this dormant capacity. Within a week, you will start feeling that you are becoming very happy for no reason at all.

Simplicity, patience, compassion are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient wiht both friends and enemies, you are in accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. -- Tao Te Ching

What is most needed is a loving heart.

You only need what will make your life better and happier, not what will weigh it down.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent--Carl Jung

If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment.