Quotes About Life

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others—we are at ease with the difficulties of life.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

human freedom must come from practicing a life of inner and outer balance, and he called this discovery the Middle Path.

There is a palpable relief when I teach the perspective of nobility, of training in compassion, of non-religious ways to transform suffering and nurture our sacred connection to life.

You can pick all the flowers but you can't stop the spring. —PABLO NERUDA

If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The

Even Napoleon Bonaparte understood this when, at the end of his life, he stated, "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

There are two kinds of difficulties. Some are clearly problems to solve, situations that call for compassionate action and direct response. Many more are problems we create for ourselves by struggling to make life different than it is or by becoming so caught up in our own point of view that we lose sight of a larger, wiser perspective. Usually

Love says, 'I am everything.' Wisdom says, 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows.

Genuine spiritual practice requires us to learn how to stop the war. This is a first step, but actually it must be practiced over and over until it becomes our way of being. The inner stillness of a person who truly "is peace" brings peace to the whole interconnected web of life, both inner and outer. To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves.

Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. When letting go is called for, if we have not learned to do so, we suffer greatly, and when we get to the end of our life, we may have what is called a crash course. Sooner or later we have to learn to let go and allow the changing mystery of life to move through us without our fearing it, without holding and grasping. I

After the ecstasy comes the laundry.

It is not enough to touch awakening. We must find ways to live its vision fully.

There is a vitality, a life force that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.