Inspirations

Despite some initial skepticism about what our colleagues and patients might say if we suggested we were considering meditation as a preventive approach to depression, we decided to take a closer look. We soon discovered that the combination of Western cognitive science and Eastern practices was just what is needed to break the cycle of recurrent depression, in which we tend to go over and over what went wrong or how things are not the way we want them to be. Prof Mark Williams

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself. Eckhart Tolle

Caring for yourself is a full time vocation. Jeshua

The memory is eating at you. You wish you could let go of it. But it’s not your business to let go of it, only to question your thoughts about it. If you question them deeply enough, they let go of you. Byron Katie

“…we aren’t responsibility for creating all the bad things that happen to us. But we can claim responsibility for the bad things that happen and learn a lot about ourselves by doing so. It all depends on whether you think of responsibility as something you are or as something you do. For us, the onlyuseful way of thinking about responsibility is as something we do. We use an operational definition of responsibility, not a theoretical one: Responsibility is an action you take, not a quality that can be assigned. A judge and jury can assign responsibility to a criminal for an act, but that criminal’s life will not begin to change until he or she makes a conscious choice to take responsibility…” The key point is this: There is tremendous healing power in taking responsibility for something right now in the present, but no healing value in looking back to the past to blame yourself or anyone else. Gay and Katie Hendricks PhD

If your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion. ~Thich Nhat Nanh

I have seen a lots of lives change, including my own, when people drop their addiction to worry. And yes, worry is definitely an addiction. Gay Hendricks

Be patient with yourself and the barriers to truth will come down. Jeshua

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. Eckhart Tolle

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. Byron Katie