Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

Even on my most angry song, I'm also still saying, 'Thank you for helping me to learn.' I've always wanted to give voice to that complexity in our experience.

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I think I was always joyous, but I don't think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.