Quotes About Resilience

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Do not be afraid to face your difficulty. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

The poet Hafiz writes, Don't surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.

It's not about you. It's about us. Life is difficult for everyone.

If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful.

True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

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

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

The place where we can most directly open to the mystery of life is in what we don't do well, in the places of our struggles and vulnerability. These places always require surrender and letting go: When we let ourselves become vulnerable, new things can be born in us. In risking the unknown we gain a sense of life itself. And most remarkably, that which we have sought is often just here, buried under the problem and the weakness itself.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

As Albert Camus wrote, "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and others.

Being an artist means ripening like a tree which . . . stands confidently in the storm of winter not afraid that summer may not come. It always comes.

Gandhi, who exemplified inherent virtue for modern times, stated, "Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: 'I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Be rigorously mindful of the awareness of touch. We should be rigorously, ardently, intensively mindful. Do not rest when tired, scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped. We should keep our bodies and minds absolutely still and strive till the end. The uncomfortable truly is the norm; the comfortable will set us adrift on the current of illusion.

We've done this as human beings before. We're survivors. We have generations of ancestors behind us cheering us on, and saying, 'Yep, we've lived through some tough stuff too.

Do not scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped, nor pause when tired.

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life. A

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My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes — most of which never happened. Mark Twain

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