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Being Human: empathy, realism, creativity, and resilience

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

 ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose 

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

 All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
― Eckhart Tolle

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Eckhart Tolle

I used to climb to the top of one of the huge chinaberry trees, which guarded our front gate, and look out over the world. The most interesting thing that I saw was the horizon. It grew upon me that I ought to walk out to the horizon and see what the end of the world was like. ZORA NEALE HURSTON

The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson  

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Horace

 When we are fulfilled, we radiate energy toward others. When we are empty, we pull energy from others. Fill yourself up and let it pour over. Cory Muscara

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor

 You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. 

― John C. Maxwell

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.     
― John C. Maxwell 

 

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.
― John C. Maxwell 

 

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
― John C. Maxwell  

 

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. Albert Camus

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver