You Are. Quotes
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
What others think about you is none of your business.
If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.
Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.
This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.