Sunday, May 13, 2007

Quotes Part III - Way of the Peaceful Warrior



Morocco


Quotes Part III
From The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Stay in the present, stay where you are – there you are safe. The demons are in the past. The door is the future – Beware

Cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

Insight and discipline to choose the simple way.

The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The time is now, the place is here.

Changes to show up on the inside

Body exists in the here and now. Mind lives only in the past or future – its power over you is to draw attention out of the present.

Stay in the present moment. There you are safe. Keep your attention in the present moment. This is freedom from suffering, from fear, from mind.

I am a warrior so my way is action.

Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.

A warrior can rely on the power of love, of kindness, of service – and the power of happiness

Happiness attains you – but only after you surrender everything

Your path will guide you; you cannot lose your way.

Better never begin; once begun, better finish

Life is the only teacher

The call – life’s longing for itself

Calls – do something, be something, change something. Calls towards whatever we’ve dared and double-dared ourselves to do for as long as we can remember.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

We can’t help but approach the prospect of following our deepest callings with both exhilaration and terror.

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