“It is unearned love–the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”
― Anne Lamott

“My son, everything works out in the end. If it didn’t, it’s because it hasn’t come to an end yet.”

Fernando Sabino, Brazilian writer quoting his father’s words to him.  

 “Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.”

– Meryl Streep

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

Ernest Hemingway

WEEK 4-“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”

― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Nobody makes the mess we do—so start there. Don't blame a cluttered mind on anyone but the one in the mirror.” 

Jay Shetty

WEEK 3- “Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”

― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

 "Making other people wrong, rather than criticizing their actions, creates an enemy in one's mind and strengthens unconsciousness." - Eckart Tolle

“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”- Week 2

― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Don’t be overheard complaining…Not even to yourself.”  

— Marcus Aurelius, 8.9

“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”

― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Discipline Equals Freedom”

Jocko Willink

"The way you do one thing is the way you do all things."

Zen proverb

“There are no Miracles, only Discipline.”

Unknown

Nothing is Permanent — Learn to Perform Without Motivation. 

-David Goggins

“The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.”  

-Bruce Lee

"It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not."

Thick Nhat Hanh

“There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

"All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering."

-Budda

“People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.”

Pema  Chödrön

“To be calm is the greatest achievement of the self.”

Zen proverb

“Today I choose calm over chaos, serenity over stress, peace over perfection, grace over grit, faith over fear.”

Mary Davis Author