May you live all the days of your…

May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift

Living Each Day Fully

Waking up this morning, I smile,
Twenty four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh
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It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca
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One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining. John Muir
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument. Rumi
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,–determine to make a day of it. Henry David Thoreau
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Starting Each Day Anew
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.” Henry David Thoreau

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Try dying every day to your old self . . . So that you emerge renewed and young again as the tired mind sheds its load . . . Kristin Zambucka

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Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha
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…There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life
Than by continually beginning again… Saint Francis de Sales

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Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can,
tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely,
with too high a spirit to be cumbered
with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. American Proverb
Savoring Every Moment
The passing moment is all that we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it… W. Somerset Maugham
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Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor
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Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? …If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, “What was that all about?” Stephen Levine
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As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life. Buddha
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The way to live in the present is to remember that “This too shall pass.” When you experience joy, remembering that “This too shall pass” helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that “This too shall pass” reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary. Joey Green

Inviting Gratefulness into Our Daily Lives
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Melody Beattie

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If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. Rabbi Harold Kushner

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. Henry David Thoreau
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Be content with what you have;
Rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing
lacking,
The whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu

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There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have….But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss. Anthony de Mello

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Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz. “It’s that if ever I go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard,” she tells Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. “Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that it?”
“That’s all it is,” confirms Glinda. Joey Green, quoting from Wizard of Oz

Acknowledging the Influence of Our Daily Thoughts
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you. Bishop Steere

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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. James Allen

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Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts. Buddha
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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things. The Bible

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James

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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives. Eknath Easwaran

Acknowledging the Influence of Our Daily Actions
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. Rollo May

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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Henry David Thoreau

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. James Allen

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How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. Anne Dillard

If we are made in the image of…

If we are made in the image of God we must be made in the image of the Manifestation of God

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! Rabbi Harold Kushner

Discovering God
God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love. Henry Sloane Coffin

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  [Whilst] everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God….And is this power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love. He is the supreme Good. Mahatma Gandi

That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein
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Instead of an intellectual search, there was suddenly a very deep gut feeling that something was different…seeing that Sun…set in the background of the very deep black and velvety cosmos, seeing – rather, knowing for sure – that there was a purposefulness of flow, of energy, of time, of space in the cosmos – that it was beyond man’s rational ability to understand, that suddenly there was a nonrational way of understanding that had been beyond my previous experience…On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. Edgar Mitchell
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Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Emmanuel

Seeing Opportunities for Spiritual Growth
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. Elias A. Ford
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it. If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth. Peace Pilgrim
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation. Jack Kornfield
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion. Buddha
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Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves by doing spiritual practices. As the Buddha said, Come and see. Joanna Macy

Developing Love and Compassion
Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. Matthew Fox
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any persons or things. Anthony de Mello
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always hopes, always perseveres. The Bible
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Compassion…is an understanding of the unity of all things. It is an awareness that I is not separate from thou, that whatever is happening to the planet, or to another person, is happening to me. Compassion is total empathy, an absolute sense of connection. Paul Rezendes
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…everywhere I look I see myself. There I go: that bald man, this angry child, that fearful cat, that cool stone, that bubbling brook, that worm struggling for its life, that bird desperate to feed her hungry babies, that one trapped in his rage, this one anxious but fearful of finding out why. Hardly strangers! Empathy is the life of the soul, I think, because the soul that allows us to see the one in the other is the soul that finds joy. Claudia Michele
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? Buddha

Finding Inner Peace
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. Herman Hesse
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales
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Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. Gerald Jampolsky
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Mahatma Gandhi
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Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities. Peace Pilgrim
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If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace. Gerald Jampolsky
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Every time we experience a single day of inner stillness and joy, we are empowered to expand it into a second and a third day. A space opens in our hearts, and when two hearts recognize and acknowledge each other, a connection happens. It happens again and again as other hearts are joined in this stillness. LaUna Huffines

Embracing Silence and Solitude
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence. Meister Eckhart
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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy. Mother Teresa
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere–in the closing of a door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals. Mother Teresa

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. Henri Nouwen
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon Him in yourself. Saint Theresa
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars….One might think the atmosphere was made transparent…to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exploring Prayer
Prayer is…Love’s tender dialogue
Between the soul and God. John Richard Moreland
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Prayer is the recovery of the souls breathing. Gerald Heard
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Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation–and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies. Frank C. Laubach
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Philip James Bailey
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. George Meredith
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Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate….It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives. Alexis Carrel
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They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear. Richard Monckton Milnes
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…whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Jesus
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Lord Alfred Tennyson

Praying
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart. John Bunyan
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He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them. Saint John Climacus
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One of the most powerful ways to pray, and a method used throughout the world, is the repetition of the name God. Krishan Chopra
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Using an inspirational passage…helps to slow down the furious, fragmented activity of the mind so that we can gain control over it…Whatever we drive deep into consciousness, that we become…I usually recommend the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi:
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. Eknath Easwaran

Exploring Meditation
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on – in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day…children die of hunger…. Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot. Thich Nhat Hanh
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To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart. Buddha
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When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise. Nyogen Senzaki
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Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. Buddha
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Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. J. Krishnamurti
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People seek out retreats for themselves in the country, at the seaside, on the mountains…but nowhere can a person find a retreat more full of peace than one’s own soul. Make use then of this retirement continually and regenerate thyself. Marcus Aurelius
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Half an hour’s meditation is essential except when you are very busy. Then a full hour is needed. Saint Francis de Sales

Meditating
Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed. J. Krishnamurti
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Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon.
That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart.
So let them go, just let them fall into the water. Rumi
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Pay no attention [to your thoughts]. Don’t fight them. Just do nothing about them, let them be, whatever they are. Your very fighting them gives them life. Just disregard. Look through. You need not stop thinking. Just cease being interested. Stop your routine of acquisitiveness, your habit of looking for results and the freedom of the universe is yours. Nisargadatta
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Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind rest at peace.
The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. Lao Tzu
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka
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…Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that. Meister Eckhart

Relating to God Directly
We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength. Mahatma Gandhi
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By love He may be gotten and holden, but by thought and understanding, never. Cloud of Unknowing
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Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate. Huang Po
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The more you know the less you understand. Lao Tzu
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Don’t keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. Master Sengstan
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I want to know God’s thoughts…the rest are details. Albert Einstein
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I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. Jesus
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The best way to know God is to love many things. Vincent van Gogh

Connecting with God Through Nature
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. Morihei Ueshiba

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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

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All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God’s light. John Muir
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In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child. . . .Standing on the bare ground, – my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, – all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The deeper we look into nature, the more we realize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. . . . From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the Universe. Albert Schweitzer

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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir

Nourishing Our Souls
Without nourishing our own souls, we can’t nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received. Marianne Williamson
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You must have a room or a certain hour of the day…a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are, and what you might be…At first you may find nothing’s happening…But if you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen. Joseph Campbell
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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. Maya Angelou
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. John Muir
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Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. Rumi
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. Eric Hoffer
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world. Buddha

Cultivating a “Wakeful Presence”
…the first step in a spiritual practice is the cultivation of a “wakeful presence.” Thich Nhat Hanh

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When we pay attention, whatever we are doing…is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path. Rick Fields

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In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. Peter Matthiessen

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Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement. Buddha
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller

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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? Henry David Thoreau

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To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart. Buddha

Experiencing Ourselves as Spiritual Beings
We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human. Jacquelyn Small

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home… William Wordsworth

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Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life. Maya Angelou

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide….the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We’re fields of energy in an infinite energy field. e.e. cummings

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Our original nature is…void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy – and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself. Huang Po

Sensing God’s Omnipresence
And I have felt…a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. William Wordsworth

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…there were no boundaries or borders. It was as if my mind had once long ago made up a story about separate objects with boundaries but the story wasn’t true. The true story is that there is a luminous, spacious energy that flows through everything all the time. It’s within matter, within things as well as within space, and you can tune in to it at any time, just like changing the frequency on the radio. There is no distance between this essence and ourselves. It is not otherworldly. it is right here, closer than our own flesh. Vijali Hamilton
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Atoms are composed of vibrating energy packets [quantum] that have no solidity at all, no mass or size, nothing for the senses to see or touch….At the quantum level nothing of the material world is left intact….Even at the atomic level all objects are revealed as 99.9999 percent empty space. On its own scale, the distance between a whirling electron and the nucleus it revolves around is wider than the distance between the earth and the sun. But you could never capture that electron anyway, since it too breaks down into energy vibrations that wink in and out of existence millions of times per second. Therefore the whole universe is a quantum mirage, winking in and out of existence millions of times per second. Deepak Chopra

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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

Seeing God’s Miracles All Around Us
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
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As to me I know of nothing else but miracles… Walt Whitman
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Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God. Jakob Böhme
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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller
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The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries. Lao Tzu
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha
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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour. William Blake
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The whole of life lies in the verb seeing. Teilhard de Chardin
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Open yourself to the miracle of life going on around you. Sense your intimate part in the great scheme of it… Kristen Zambucka

The whole of life lies in the verb…

The whole of life lies in the verb “seeing”. ~Teilhard de Chardin

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”~Rachel Carson