James Thurber Quotes

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I do try to stay open and stay as present as you can be.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

I was once a fairly angry person.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.