Roger Housden Quotes
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When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.
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This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards oneself. It may be dark, it may be light, it may be joyous, it may be sorrowful, but it's your experience, and therefore, your life. As we have that kind of loving response towards our own life, then life itself in terms of the outside world, begins to feel different.
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I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.
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The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.
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I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged in time. And yet, how can I in that moment of driving my car, be aware of that which is not going anywhere?
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I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.
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Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.
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The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.
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It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.
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Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.
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The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.
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If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear driving us beyond the natural wish to improve. It's really the refusal to acknowledge that life - including ourselves - is simply not perfect.
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We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.
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To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.
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Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.
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In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.
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The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.
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Everything constantly changes.
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I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.
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Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.
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I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose.
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When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in.
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Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.
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When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.
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A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.
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If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world. It may not look spectacular, but nobody else has the precise life that you do. It's a gift no one else can offer.
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Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.
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The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.
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We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?
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The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.
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