Sayings for the soul

“Seek out the places where you get hot.” – OM C. Parkin

“What you love, let it go. If it comes back, it is yours – forever.” – Confucius

“The sum of our lives are the hours in which we loved.” – Wilhelm Busch

“You can only see well with your heart, the essentials are invisible to the eyes.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It must come from the heart to have an effect on the heart.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You only need to love, and everything is joy.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest love you can ever experience is love for yourself.” – Buddha

“Love is the strongest power in the world, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“In love we find the truth about ourselves and about life.” – Osho

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. “ – Wayne W. Dyer

“If you love a flower, you will not pick it. Because if you do, it will die and thus cease to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it grow. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho

“When you get up in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Love is as unproblematic as a vehicle – only the drivers, the passengers and the road are problematic.” – Franz Kafka

“And it has always been the case that love only recognizes its own depth in the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King

“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley

“You yourself, just like everyone else in the whole universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Can you separate love and understanding? No, if you really love, you understand, if you really understand, you love, We have high expectations of people we love. We reproach ourselves when things don’t happen the way we want them to. Compare your love to the growth of a flower and you will see that it not only needs attention every day in the form of water, light and manure, but that you are much more forgiving of the flower when it stops growing one day. Do you reproach it? You check what it lacks, change it and give it energy to grow again. Have the same understanding for the person you love.” – Buddhist wisdom

“When you do something, do it with love or don’t do it at all.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“You can’t have a relationship with love. You can only be love.” – OM C. Parkin in Schmetterlingsflügel und Löwenpranke Butterfly wing and lion’s paw 

“Human love between man and woman must be human, that is, the man means the woman and not a goddess, and the woman means the man and not a god. And this meeting in human love cannot replace divine love in man and woman, but it can awaken it.” – OM C. Parkin in Butterfly wing and lion’s paw 

“There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the way.” – Buddha

“Man suffers because he desires to possess and keep things that are transitory by nature.” – Buddha

“If you have a problem, try to solve it. If you can’t solve it, don’t make a problem out of it.” – Buddha

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own uncontrolled thoughts.” – Buddha

“You will be tomorrow what you think today.” / “What you think, you are. What you are, you radiate. What you radiate, you attract.” – Buddha

“Never in the world does hate end with hate. Hate ends through love.” – Buddha

“If you want to know who you were, look at who you are. If you want to know who you will be, look at what you do.” – Buddha

“Let your mind become still like a pond in the forest. Let it become clear, like water flowing from the mountains. Let turbid water come to rest, then it will become clear, and let your wandering thoughts and desires come to rest.” – Buddha

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, but only through understanding.” – Dalai Lama

“The more we seek external fulfillment, the less we find true contentment.” – Dalai Lama

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“When you are right, you can afford to keep calm; and when you are wrong, you cannot afford to lose it.” – Gandhi

“All our quarrels arise from the fact that one wants to impose his opinion on the other.” – Ghandi

“The Buddha said: When a wise person suffers, he asks himself “What have I done so far to free myself from my suffering? What else can I do to overcome it?” But when a foolish person suffers, he asks: “Who did this to me?” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Peace begins with each of us taking care of our body and mind every day.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“You should practice meditation while walking, standing, lying down, sitting and working, while washing your hands, rinsing, sweeping and drinking tea, while talking to friends and in everything you do. When you wash up, you may think about the tea afterwards and try to get it over with as quickly as possible so that you can sit down and drink tea. But this means that you are not living while you are washing up. When you’re washing up, the washing up must be the most important thing in your life. And if you drink tea, then drinking tea must be the most important thing in the world.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“When we are lost in thoughts about the past, we lose the present.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Being beautiful means being yourself. You don’t have to be accepted by others. You have to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Control your mind or it will control you.” – Buddha

“Thousands of candles can be lit by the light of one candle without its light dimming. Joy does not diminish when it is shared.” – Buddha

“Understanding everything means forgiving everything.” – Buddha

“Being tolerant does not mean weakness, it does not mean giving in to injustice or even giving up. Rather, it means having the strength to respond to hatred and anger with understanding and patience.” – Buddhist wisdom

“Your heart and your mind are like a garden. You decide how you create it, which plants you plant in it. Negative feelings such as envy, hatred, revenge, pride and greed are like weeds that can choke out other plants. So never let your garden run wild, tend to it every day and let in lots of light, which you create through positive energy such as love, forbearance, charity, compassion and generosity. This way, every walk through your garden will bring you joy every day.” – Buddhist wisdom

“Violence is the fear of the ideals of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“An eye for an eye and the world will be blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There are two kinds of power: one is gained through fear of punishment and the other through acts of love. Power based on love is more effective and long-lasting than that based on fear of punishment.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, say and do is in harmony with each other.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is sufficient for man’s needs, but not for his greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Do not chain yourselves like slaves to beauty. But don’t chain yourselves to suffering either. Everything is in flux, both pass away.” – Buddha

“This world is constantly changing. Growth and decay are its true nature. Things appear and dissolve again. Happy is he who simply contemplates it peacefully.” – Buddha

“Impermanence is the characteristic of every circumstance, every situation you will encounter. Everything will change, it will disappear or it will no longer satisfy you.” – Buddha

“It is easy to stand in a crowd, but it takes courage to stand alone.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“In anger, man loses his intelligence.” – Dalai Lama

“The awareness of impermanence makes us realize that we must make the most of every precious moment.” – Dalai Lama

“If we do not love ourselves, we cannot appreciate other people.” – Dalai Lama

“In what time can you meet yourself? And how long will it take?” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“What if I was just happy now, just like that?” – OM C. Parkin in Butterfly wing and lion’s paw

“If I asked you to list everything you love, how long would it take you to name yourself?” – Unknown

“Do they have a sense of humor when they are alone?” – Max Frisch

“Trust has no conditions. Trust simply says: ‘I have the quality that trusts. It is not important what happens to my trust – whether it is respected or not, whether it is betrayed or not. That’s not the point at all.’ Trust has nothing to do with the object of your trust, it has to do with your inner quality: can you trust?” – Osho

“There is only one important point to keep in mind and let it be your guiding star. No matter what people call you, you are exactly who you are. Stick to that truth. You have to ask yourself how you want to live your life. We live and die, that’s the truth we can only face. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So think carefully about what is preventing you from living the way you want to live your life?” – Dalai Lama

“If you can’t enjoy your own company, who else will be able to enjoy it?” – Osho

“Can you imagine NOTHING?” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“Safety or life?” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“If they casually imagine that they were not born: does this idea worry them?” – Max Frisch

“Suppose you believe in God: do you know of any sign that he has a sense of humor?” – Max Frisch

“Attachment, no matter what, means suffering. Freedom is letting go.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“It is the paradox of the human drama that we are afraid of being truly happy. We are afraid of infinity, of this infinite expanse that opens up when we give up the limitations of the thinker.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“You and the experience of this moment are one. The assumption that there is an ‘I’ to whom something happens is misleading.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“Our relationships are like the sticky threads of a spider’s web that we cling to in order not to fall – into the depths of aloneness.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“Who are you? Are you ready to experience just being for a moment? Without effort. Without holding on, without letting go. To be who you are without knowing how?” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“Nothing is more relaxing than accepting what comes.” – Dalai Lama

“Since transience is synonymous with pain for us, we cling desperately to things, even though they are constantly changing. We are afraid to let go, we are afraid to really live, because learning to live means learning to let go. There is a tragic comedy in our clinging: Not only is it futile, but it brings us the very pain we wanted to avoid at all costs.” – Sogyal Rinpoche

“Letting go of things doesn’t mean getting rid of them. Letting them go means letting them be.” – Jack Kornfield

“Only those who take on every effort of the path experience perfect effortlessness.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“In its complexity, the ego gains significance. In the simplicity of the moment it becomes meaningless.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“At the beginning of the inner path is a simple question: What is it that you really want? This question must be repeated and deepened until the true will is uncovered.” – OM C. Parkin in Thunderclap and temple silence

“Both harm themselves: the one who promises too much and the one who expects too much.”- Lessing

“Our greatest glory is not to never fall, but to get up every time.” – Nelson Mandela

“Between ability and action lies an ocean and at its bottom often lies failed willpower.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“There is a saying in Tibetan: Tragedy should be used as a source of strength. No matter what kind of difficulty, or how painful the experience, if we lose our hope, that is our true disaster.” – Dalai Lama

“Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them, we can also recognize the futility of anger. Instead of becoming angry, we nurture a deep care and respect for troublemakers, for by creating such difficult circumstances they offer us invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.” – Dalai Lama

“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways in which something does not work.” – Thomas A. Edison