Stress and Attitude

"It is not so much the stressors in our lives but how we see them ans what we do with them that determines how much we are at their mercy.  If we can change the way we see, we can change the way we respond."  Jon Kabat-Zinn

Stress

"When we look deeply at the stresses we could choose to walk away from, we are forced to ask questions about our personal values."  Elizabeth Lesser

Acceptance

"We can stop struggling with what occurs and see it's true face without calling it the enemy.   Our practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relax as it is.   That is what we are doing when we sit down and meditate.   That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives."  Pema Chodron

Freedom

"There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom."   Chogyam Trungpa

Wholeness

"Most of us are dragged
toward wholeness
We do not understand
the breakdown of what has gone before.
We do not understand.
We cling to the familiar,
refuse to give up our habitual lives,
resist our growth.
We do not understand rebirth
do not accept the initiation rites.
Most of us are dragged toward wholeness."

Courage

"I remember all the times that I have resented the climb, the amount of living needed to gain the precious understanding to know how to live well.   And how important it is in the struggle for freedom from the old ways not to be limited by self-expectation or to worry about what others may think.   To be willing to do the really important things any way you can, even three steps at a time."  Rachel Naomi Remen

Stess

"One of the reasons so many people are suffering from stress is not that they are doing stressful things but that they allow so little time for silence."  John O' Donahue

Stress

"Stress is a perverted relationship to time.   Rather than being a subject of your own time and you become its target and victim.   Time has become routine so that at the end of the day you probably haven't had a true moment to yourself to relax in and just be."   John O' Donahue