Constructive Living Maxims
A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.A watched floppy never formats.
All questions are trick questions.
Attending to symptoms, we lose our purpose.
Beware evil spirits, unfelt feelings and other cons of enlightenment.
Constructive Living offers industrial-strength living.
Constructive Living: Acceptance, Action, Appreciation, Attention, Aim
Constructive Living: When the student is ready, the teacher disappears.
Doubt that it's all your parents' fault, and doubt the other myths of therapy.
Express yourself after considering the convenience of others. What do they need to hear?
Feeling good isn't everything.
Feelings - a kaleidoscope shaken by reality.
Feelings can change like the Japanese sky.
Find compassion for others in your own transgressions.
Forgiveness is not the answer!
From the top of your head to the bottom of your heart will never equal "from the tips of your fingers."
Get C.L.E.A.R. - Constructive Living Equals Action And Reciprocity.
Get ready! Get set! Get reality!
Get yourself together after you do what you need to do.
Give and give until you wave goodbye.
Have a look at the apple tree in your yard. Look at it with complete attention. It is truly a miracle. If you notice it, you will take good care of it, and you too are part of its miraculousness.
Human doings produce human beings.
If happiness is the most important thing in your life, it's time to grow up.
If I knew why you do what you do, I could also walk on water.
In Constructive Living we tack down our principles to action - after all, that's all there is.
It doesn't get easier, only different.
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
Joy is a sometimes thing; and so, fortunately, is misery.
Just mail it.
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Listen to reality teaching - the cicadas buzzing.
Listen, you will never hear those words again.
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Mindful is as mindful does.
Misery is required; suffering is optional.
Mom and Dad created your reality.
New Age: When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
No matter what food you are blessed with, if you weren't blessed with an appetite too, you'd be in a bad way, wouldn't you?
Nothing surpasses the ordinary.
People who watch television all day need to be reminded of the reality of death.
Run to the edge of a cliff and stop on a dime.
Schizophrenic moments, not schizophrenic people.
School is always in session, no breaks and no recess.
Shinky Me: How I kept worrying and lived my life.
Some people are living by default.
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself and all the while a Great Wind is bearing me across the sky.
The flowers from yesterday's seed need tending today.
The only time-out in life lasts forever.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The whole of life lies in the verb "seeing".
There would be no satisfaction if there were no desires.
There's nothing you can do about that? No, there's always something you can do about that.
Things don't happen overnight, they only happen now.
Those who do, can.
To Whom It May Concern: Thank You.
Today is for-giving.
Up and down the stair steps to enlightenment.
Usually thinking is rather self-centered. In our everyday life our thinking is ninety-nine percent self-centered: Why do I have suffering? Why do I have trouble?
We get no extra credit for laboring under a hot summer sun on a job that can be done in the shade.
We need lots of love to forgive, but we need much more humility to ask for forgiveness.
We pray for our daily bread; bread gives us the strength to do so.
What I did just now is already past. Whether that moment brought success or failure, the next moment is now arriving. Herein lies existential hope - not as a feeling, but as an integral part of reality.
When the emphasis is on getting my share, I'll always be disappointed. When the emphasis is on realistically recognizing what I am already receiving and on working to repay those around me, this is the only genuine opportunity for fulfillment.
When you're not noticing your grief, where is it?
You don't need to work anything out.