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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Persona.
Zen says that if you drop knowledge -
and within knowledge everything is included;
your name, your identity, everything,
because this has been given to you by others -
if you drop all that has been given by others,
you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence.
This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality,
and there will be a resurrection of your innocence.
You will become a child again, reborn.
- Osho
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dwell in stillness.
Observe without reacting and without judging.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves,
we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
Breathe and let be.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
- Osho
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simple child-like attitude would create
a less stressful and happier life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
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