Roger Housden famous quotes

I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.
-- Roger Housden

#Fall #Breathing #Hands

When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being.
-- Roger Housden

#Fall #Rivers #Expectations

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Energy #India #Example

We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.
-- Roger Housden

#Acceptance #Quality #Moments

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.
-- Roger Housden

#Heart #Moments #Harvest

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.
-- Roger Housden

#Meaningful #Willing

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.
-- Roger Housden

#Meaningful #Moments #Feels

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Jobs #Perfect #House

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.
-- Roger Housden

#Tiny #Specks #Floats

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Life Is #Keep The Faith #Existence

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Heart #Years #Sight

The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.
-- Roger Housden

#Thinking #Self #Giving

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.
-- Roger Housden

#Light #World Love #Degrees

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in.
-- Roger Housden

#Heart #World #Forget

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.
-- Roger Housden

#Angel #Pleasure #Dies

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Years #Purpose #Found

I had a classic case of what people call "seeker's disease." That was part of my journey, but now, meaning is like a secret that's revealing itself moment by moment, day by day.
-- Roger Housden

#Journey #People #Secret

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Humble #Humility #Long

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.
-- Roger Housden

#Journey #Together #Knowledge And Wisdom

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.
-- Roger Housden

#Lying #Thinking #May

There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.
-- Roger Housden

#Moving #Essence #Silence

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?
-- Roger Housden

#One Thing

Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.
-- Roger Housden

#Dimensions #Moments #Timeless

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.
-- Roger Housden

#World