Conscious Living Archives - Energy Therapy

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

William James

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.

Lao Tzu

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

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Knowing others is intelligence; Knowing the self is enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu

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The mind is the source of all suffering, and it is also the source of all happiness.

Pema Chodron

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It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering.

Pema Chodron

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The Buddha called impermanence one of the three distinguishing marks of our existence, an incontrovertible fact of life. But it’s something we seem to resist pretty strongly. ~ Pema Chodron

The Buddha called impermanence one of the three distinguishing marks of our existence, but it's something we seem to resist pretty strongly.

Pema Chodron

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As human beings we share a tendency to scramble for certainty whenever we realize that everything around us is in flux. In difficult times the stress of trying to find solid ground—something predictable and safe to stand on—seems to intensify. But in truth, the very nature of our existence is forever in flux. Everything keeps changing, whether we’re aware of it or not.

Pema Chodron

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We’re part of a universe that is a work in progress... we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

Gregg Braden

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Man did not weave the web of life—he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Gregg Braden

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Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives.

Gregg Braden

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In the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism, it’s believed that reality can exist only where our mind creates a focus.

Gregg Braden

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We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.

Gregg Braden