"...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Spiritual Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.”
“Choose who you are in any given moment.”
“Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.”
“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press
“It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.”
“Writing good jokes requires effort. Think I'll just start dressing funnier.”
“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
“It takes time to save time.”

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