Top 28 Karen Maezen Miller Quotes
#1. Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.
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#2. When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!
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#3. The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.
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#4. At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. - Dogen Zenji, Mountains and Waters Sutra
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#5. What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you are looking for because you already are everything you are looking for?
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#7. You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.
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#8. True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude - the vehicle for absolute grace.
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#11. Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over.
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#12. You're putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister.
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#15. Love is what we are, when we drop all the things that stand in the way.
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#16. When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.
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#17. The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
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#18. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.
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#19. It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.
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#20. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.
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#22. This mind is an amazing thing. It can conjure love from the scent of orange blossoms, peace from a dry breeze, and joy from a patch of grass on a summer day.
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#23. We can handle anything when we exchange our worries and fears for alertness and spontaneity, when we focus solely on what is in front of us, and when we leap into the sheer wonder of the unplanned life.
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#24. Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.
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#25. When we liberate ourselves from the idea of parenting success, we liberate our children from failure, all without accomplishing a single thing.
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#26. On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper.
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#27. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
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#28. Nothing is solid. Everything disappears. In a million, billion ways the world will fail you. How can you bear it?
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