"Prayer is not something you do; it’s finally something you are whenever you collapse back into the very Ground of your being. Unfortunately, we flee into our minds instead—to create and defend our separateness and our specialness. The mind concocts an identity for itself based on our race, our country, our shape, our color, our religion, etc.—the very things which are passing and accidental and not essential. These are the very things that are going to die when we die; you might say we fight wars precisely because we don’t pray."
- Richard Rohr (via wordslessspoken)
"Prayer is not something you do; it’s finally something you are whenever you collapse back into the very Ground of your being. Unfortunately, we flee into our minds instead—to create and defend our separateness and our specialness. The mind concocts an identity for itself based on our race, our country, our shape, our color, our religion, etc.—the very things which are passing and accidental and not essential. These are the very things that are going to die when we die; you might say we fight wars precisely because we don’t pray."
- Richard Rohr (via wordslessspoken)
"The best way to look at suffering is with gratitude, that it is happening in order to teach us some very important lesson. It is useless to want suffering to go away. It is impermanent, it will go away anyway, but if we don’t learn the lesson that it is trying to teach us, it will come back in exactly the same manner."
- Ayya Khema (via lucifelle)
(Source: ombuddha, via wordslessspoken)
"Gratitude is the wine for the soul.
Go on. Get drunk."
- Rumi (via shaktilover)
(via wordslessspoken)
"The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire."
- Ferdinand Foch (via tripsygypsy)
(Source: carmencarroquino, via wordslessspoken)
"I don’t understand the physics of this, but it is said that the reason a bird sitting on a hot wire does not get electrocuted is quite simply because it does not touch the ground to give the electricity a pathway. That is what the welcoming prayer is doing, and that is what I am asking you to do. Stay like a bird, sitting on the hot wire, holding the creative tension, but do not ground it in a bad way by thinking of it, by critiquing it, by analyzing it."
- Richard Rohr (via wordslessspoken)
"Presence has no measurable product except positive feelings, feelings of support, intimacy, and happiness. When we stop being busy and productive and switch to just being still and aware, we ourselves will also feel support, intimacy, and happiness, even if no one else is around."
- Jan Chozen Bays (via Tricycle Daily)
(Source: wordslessspoken)
