Bet On It! Food For Thought - 44 - Mindfulness Is Radical Self-Acceptance

Perhaps The Biggest Mistake I Made In The Past Was That I Believed Love Was About Finding The Right Person. In Reality, Love Is About Becoming The Right Person. Don’t Look For The Person You Want To Spend Your Life With. Become The Person You Want To Spend Your Life With - Neil Strauss

Harmonizing Opposites By Going Back To Their Source Is The Distinctive Quality Of The Zen Attitude, The Middle Way: Embracing Contradictions, Making A Synthesis Of Them, Achieving Balance - Taisen Deshimaru

In Each Of Us, Two Natures Are At War - The Good & The Evil. All Our Lives The Fight Goes On Between Them, & One Of Them Must Conquer. But In Our Own Hands Lies The Power To Choose -- What We Want Most To Be We Are - Robert Louis Stevenson

The First Step In This Process Of Mindfulness Is Radical Self-Acceptance - Stephen Batchelor

Life Is Growth. If We Stop Growing, Technically & Spiritually, We Are As Good As Dead - Morihei Ueshiba

It's Funny ... They Got Money For Wars But They Can't Feed The Poor - Tupac Shakur

All Good Things Are Wild & Free! Once In A While Someone Amazing Comes Along & Here I Am. Fueled By Caffeine & Dreams.

Real Martial Arts Is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation In Action - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I Don't Want To Believe I Want To Know - Carl Sagan

The Mind Once Enlightened Cannot Again Become Dark - Thomas Paine

Creativity Isn’t A Luxury. It’s The Essence Of Life - Danny Gregory

We All Have Someone We Have Lost Our Mind For. You're All Fucking Beautiful!

The Mind I Love Must Have Wild Places - Katherine Mansfield

It Is Not In The Stars To Hold Our Destiny But In Ourselves - William Shakespeare

What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth - Joseph Campbell

There Is In All Visible Things - A Hidden Wholeness - Thomas Merton

I Can Calculate The Motion Of Heavenly Bodies But Not The Madness Of People - Isaac Newton

An Acquaintance Merely Enjoys Your Company, A Fair-Weather Companion Flatters When All Is Well, A True Friend Has Your Best Interests At Heart & The Pluck To Tell You What You Need To Hear - E.A. Bucchianeri

One Thing You Learn When You've Lived As Long As I Have-People Aren't All Good, & People Aren't All Bad. We Move In & Out Of Darkness & Light All Of Our Lives. Right Now, I'm Pleased To Be In The Light - Neal Shusterman

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago - Edgar Allan Poe

Being Self-Aware Is Not The Absence Of Mistakes, But The Ability To Learn & Correct Them - Daniel Chidiac

Detachment Does Not Mean You Should Own Nothing. It Means Nothing Should Own You.

Life’s Adventures Are Only Possible Because Of Life’s Challenges - Mike Dooley

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body & spirit - Yehudi Menuhin

In all tests of character, when 2 viewpoints are pitted against 1 another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish .... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective - Mike Dooley

Never Doubt That A Small Group Of Thoughtful, Committed, Citizens Can Change The World. Indeed, it Is The Only Thing That Ever Has - Margaret Mead Get Shit Done!

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds & one with the sun & the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say & more true than you can hear - Shunryu Suzuki

Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now & what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life & the lives of others - Sylvia Boorstein

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind & spirit - B.K.S. Iyengar

The Universe Is Made Up Of Protons, Electrons, Neutrons & Morons!

The secret of health for both mind & body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely & earnestly- Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

Legality & morality are opposites. Legality is based on the arbitrary choices of politicians & lawyers. Law is not a suggestion or recommendation. It is a mandate or edict backed by threat of punishment. It forces itself onto reality. When law is dictated by an elite minority with sovereign immunity the results historically ... can be genocidal