Quotes March 30, 2021

The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight or freeze response.
Tara Brach
 
 
 
 
Until we define happiness for ourselves, clearly seeing the difference between excitement and joy, for example, our habits will likely not change. We will keep returning to the fruits of our desires
Judson Brewer
 
 
 
 
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
 
 
 
 
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Rossiter W. Raymond
 
 
 
 
Everything we see and touch consists of matter rearranged by information and energy. Everything is in connections and bonds. Life, mind, and love, our human nature, have been created in partnership with the rules that run the world.
Paul R. Fleischman
 
 
 
 
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
Leila Janah
 
 
 
 
What will those who come after us think of us? Will they envy us that we saw butterflies and mockingbirds, penguins and little brown bats?
Derrick Jensen
 
 
 
 
This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material – that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.
James Turrell
 
 
 
 
In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. …understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.
Carl Safina
 
 
 
 
Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable.
Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
If you want to succeed, focus on changing yourself, not others.
Unknown