Month: April 2025

“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry

“You are not what you’ve done. You are what you keep doing.” – Jack Butcher 

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.” – Golda Meir

“May I be peaceful, happy, and light in body and spirit. May I be safe and free from injury. May I be free from anger, afflictions, fear, and anxiety.” – No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh

“Waking up this morning I smile. I have twenty-four hours to live. I vow to live them deeply and learn to look at the beings around me with the eyes of compassion.” – No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you want to experience what the end of suffering will feel like, it is in the here and the now with this breath. If you want nirvana, it’s right here. Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I smile.” – No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh

“We can condition our bodies and minds to happiness with the five practices of letting go, inviting positive seeds, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus

The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths are: there is suffering; there is a course of action that generates suffering; suffering ceases (i.e., there is happiness); and there is a course of action leading to the cessation of suffering (the arising of happiness). – Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus

“Genuinely feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from the things you desire and allow them to flow to you, and just as important, through you.” – Wayne Dyer, The Power of Intention

“You should know that true detachment is nothing else but a mind that stands unmoved by all accidents of joy or sorrow, honor, shame, or disgrace, as a mountain of lead stands unmoved by a breath of wind. This immovable detachment brings a man into the greatest likeness to God. For the reason why God is God is because of His immovable detachment, and from this detachment He has His purity, His simplicity, and His immutability. Therefore, if a man is to be like God, as far as a creature can have likeness with God, this must come from detachment.” – Meister Eckhart