20-second meditation shorts

You have to learn to separate yourself from your character

and the best time to do that is when it’s hardest to do.

Anyone can enter the witnessing mode when it’s all blue skies,

the trick is doing it when black clouds are rolling in.

~ Jed McKenna ~

The past gives you an identity and the future

holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.

Both are illusions.

~ Eckhart Tolle ~

The wind invisible sweeps us through the world.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

~ Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi ~

The day was sufficient to itself, and so was the life.

~ Richard Taylor ~

A deep awareness of your non-existence will reveal

what is most important about your existence.

~ Bob Kondek ~

Consider the possibility that you are not reading these words.

~ Jeff Foster ~

If we cling to belief in God,

we cannot likewise have faith,

since faith is not clinging but letting go.

~ Alan Watts ~

Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.

~ Eddington ~

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

~ Ramana Maharshi ~

The trouble with most folks isn’t their ignorance.

It’s knowin’ so many things that ain’t so.

~ Josh Billings ~

Once you know the playbook,

the game becomes quite simple.

~ Gary Crowley ~

Give your attention to the experience of seeing

rather than to the object seen

and you will find yourself everywhere.

~ Rupert Spira ~

The truth of who we are, cannot be defined by what changes.

It can only be defined by what is continuous.

~ Clare Dimond ~

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you

because it is being observed by you.

By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains,

you are left only with what is permanent — the truth of who you are.

~ Enza Vita ~

The greatest discovery in life is to discover

that our essential nature does not share the limits

nor the destiny of the body and mind.

~ Rupert Spira ~

The real voyage of discovery consists not

in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.

~ Marcel Proust ~

It turns out that who we really are

has nothing at all to do with who we think we are.

~ Clare Dimond ~

Nature halts self-absorbtion, makes you less frantic

about all that’s going on in your own small mental or physical world.

~ Margaret Drabble ~

Unless we reconnect to inner peace

there cannot be peace in the world of man and nature.

~ Bob Kondek ~

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

~ Sir Walter Scott ~

I have concluded that what happens on this planet

does not have to have been weighed and calculated in my head first.

~ Fred Davis ~

Nature can bring you to stillness.

That is its gift to you.

~ Eckhart Tolle ~

Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

~ Dennis Mercer ~

Existing is not something we do,

it is what we are.

~ Bob Kondek ~

The best way out is always through.

~ Robert Frost ~

Release attachment to outcomes,

deep inside yourself,

you’ll feel good no matter what.

~ J. Krishnamurti ~

You start to live the moment you stop.

Unknown

Look for what is looking.

~ Sam Harris ~

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they’re still beautiful.

~ Alice Walker ~

Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost,

and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes.

~ H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald ~

All in all is all we are.

~ Kurt Cobain ~

You don’t really wash your hands …

they actually wash each other while you just stand there and watch.

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Real. There’s that word again.

~ Neo, Matrix IV ~

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

~ Claude Monet ~

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

~ Seneca ~

All those teachings are for those who think they are something.
Know you are nothing and carry on.

Anonymous

You realise none of this is

for your personal benefit don’t you?

~ Garrett Kramer ~

There is never anything to be gained,

though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

~ Alan Watts ~

“liberosis:”

… the desire to care less about things; to figure out a way to relax your grip on your life
and hold it loosely and playfully, keeping it in the air like a volleyball,
with quick and fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.

~ The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig ~

The unstoppable resolve of nothing

to fix or hide from.

~ Bob Kondek ~

Instead of planning and “doing” life,

there is letting life unfold.

~ LooK! An illustrated guide to seeing what IS ~