Quotes About Heart

This is our link with all those who have ever loved. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion.

Be fully present. Feel your heart. And engage the next moment without an agenda.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Second there is relative bodhichitta, our ability to keep our hearts and minds open to suffering without shutting down.

instructions, in their simplest form, have three basic steps: Be fully present. Feel your heart. And engage the next moment without an agenda.

But Ponlop Rinpoche added something really important to this statement. He said that without having a direct experience of our emotions, we can never touch the heart of buddha nature. We

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The offcenter, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, openended state of affairs

We have this mistaken idea that either we have regret or we get rid of it. Trungpa Rinpoche talked about holding the sadness of life in our heart while never forgetting the beauty of the world and the goodness of being alive.

Bodhichitta is our heart – our wounded, softened heart. Right down here in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

Tonglen practice has to do with cultivating fearlessness. When you do this practice for some time, you experience your heart as more open.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless.

Florence tenía buen corazón, aunque eso sirve de bien poco cuando de lo que se trata es de sobrevivir.

Did God mind that dreadful singing, he who made the nightingale and the lark? Probably not. Probably it was the soul of Mrs Crabtree he was listening to, the worshipping song of her heart, and that rang true as a bell.

It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could only see the thin surface veneer of things; she couldn't get beneath it to the real heart of anything.

Dac? ar putea s? gândeasc?, inima s-ar opri.

Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.

The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.

The only whole heart is the broken heart. But it must be wholly broken

In some women Elvis saw a replica of his mother. He rushed to them, wanting to be absorbed within their boundaries as completely as with his mother. His courting rituals reenacted his and Gladys's lethal dance of enmeshment. His heart, worn throbbing on his sleeve, still belonged to Mama.

The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between an inarticulate pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life.