"Behold the noble savage."
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Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on...
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Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.
—Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
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We need to start treating ourselves how we deserve to be treated, even if you feel that no one else does. Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don’t, at least one person in the world is treating you well: You.
—Carrie Hope Fletcher
All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully
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We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
—Chogyam Trungpa
The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three
“Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.”—
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
“Awakening doesn’t mean ‘you’ awaken. It means that there is only awakening. There is no ‘you’ who is awake; there is only awakeness. As long as you identify with a 'you’ who is either awake or not awake, you are still dreaming. Awakening is awakening from the dream of a separate you into simply being awakeness.”— Adyashanti
“When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.”—
Byron Katie
“Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.”—
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
“To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.”—
Byron Katie
“Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we’re too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we’re so afraid of the dark we don’t dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration.”—
Brené Brown
“Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn’t want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.”—
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
“Rather than asking if you can ever be free, because ‘ever’ is a huge amount of future time, ask if you can be free at this moment. The only place where you can or need to be free is this moment. Not the rest of your life. Just Now.”— Eckhart Tolle
“When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.”— Ram Dass
“In an absolute sense, everything happens quite spontaneously. You don’t need to think about it. When you’re in a deep state of realisation, the reason life seems to flow for you is because you’re not resisting it.”— Adyashanti
“All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.”— Mooji
