Working gets in the way of living.
There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.
No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.
Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.
The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.
How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.
Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.
Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.
The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.
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