When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.
~ Bryant Mcgill
Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.
The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.
We are all just humble students of the world.
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully.
There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.
If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.
The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.
Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.
Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say.
Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.
We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion.
Zen movement is a meditative practice.
Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.
Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.
Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.
Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.
If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.
Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.
Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.
Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.
Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.
This life is like a roller-coaster; once you are strapped-in and the ride has started, you aren't getting off.
Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.
