Some Favourite Quotes

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The River Lee, Cork at sunrise

Hello All

Something I’ve been doing the last few weeks is going back through old journals, books and photos and taking whatever useful bits of information, insight, or just old memories from them.

I ended up coming across a lot of quotes that I’d saved - I keep a note on my phone full of quotes - and thought I’d share a few that stood out for me along with a few photos I came across.

Some of the quotes are to do with mindfulness and meditation and some are just about life in general.

There are probably as many interpretations of these as there are people who read them so instead of giving my understanding of them I thought I’d just list them and let you make of them what you will.

One suggestion though, is to begin by just reading and instead of immediately jumping to trying to make sense of the words, taking note of what you experience as you read.

The intellectual side of the mind is already pretty good at figuring out the logical meaning of things. We can also, however, get a felt sense of what we experience.

Pay attention to:

• Physical sensations

• Impulses

• Thoughts

• Emotions

We can always come back later and dig deeper into the meaning of the words.

Quotes

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand” Proverb

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training” Archilochus

Clouds over Cork City

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor” Alexis Carrel

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in” Greek Proverb

One of the early bees out this Spring

“Calm is contagious” Pavel Tsatsouline

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable” Mary Oliver

A stag in Killarney from about 2 years ago

“My life is full of terrible misfortunes, most of which have never happened” Michel de Montaigne

“If we are learning anything from our meditation practice, then it reveals itself in our relationships with other people” Buddhadasa

Heron standing on a weir in the River Lee

“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak” Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Looking after oneself, one looks after others. Looking after others, one looks after oneself” Shantideva

Heron coming in to land

Did any of these quotes stand out for you?

If so, what was the experience like?

What are your favourite quotes?

Feel free to share in the comments.

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