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"At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but they do not seem to make a "problem" of it. Their lives seem to have so few complications. They eat when they are hungry and sleep when they are tired, and instinct rather than anxiety seems to govern their few preparations for the future. As far as we can judge, every animal is so busy with what he is doing at the moment that it never enters his head to ask whether life has a meaning or a future. For the animal, happiness consists in enjoying life in the immediate present-not in the assurance that there is a whole future of joys ahead of him." -Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

#alan watts #animals #suffering #instinct #present moment #presence #anxiety #serenity

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Your mind is like a river.

Trying to stop your mind from thinking is like trying to stop a river from flowing with your bare hands…it’s exhausting and almost impossible to accomplish! When you learn how to meditate, you learn to step out of the river, and let your thoughts flow past you effortlessly. When you learn to do this, you will find that your river of thoughts slows down all by itself. No effort is required.

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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface; and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.“

Sri Aurobindo (via stardust-seedling)

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Ward Beecher (via mysimplereminders)

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"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." -Zeno of Citium

#nature #oneness

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Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence.

Osho (via oceanandwave)

#surrender

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Watts (via mysimplereminders)

#just be

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#spirituality

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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

Adyashanti (via abiding-in-peace)

#nonresistance

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It is because of pain and suffering that we first want to practice. And its because of pain and suffering that we attain enlightenment. Regard suffering as a teacher, and an inspiration.

Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Easy Middle” (via panatmansam)

#purpose

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And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia  (via wordsnquotes)

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“Going to the woods is going home.” ~John Muir

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"The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind." -Rumi

#Rumi #trees

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Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in — or don’t, as the case may be. It makes no difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy that you emanate and which then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs our world — the energy that created the existing social, political, and economic structures of our civilization, and which also continuously perpetuates itself through our educational systems and the media. Through surrender, spiritual energy comes into this world. It creates no suffering for yourself, for other humans, or any other life form on the planet. Unlike mind energy, it does not pollute the earth, and it is not subject to the law of polarities, which dictates that nothing can exist without its opposite, that there can be no good without bad. Those who run on mind energy, which is still the vast majority of the Earth’s population, remain unaware of the existence of spiritual energy. It belongs to a different order of reality and will create a different world when a sufficient number of humans enter the surrendered state and so become totally free of negativity. If the Earth is to survive, this will be the energy of those who inhabit it.

Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)

#surrender

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Beech Trees by (ronnybryant)