Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have. Roger Housden More Quotes by Roger Housden More Quotes From Roger Housden 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. Roger Housden embraceoneselfworld 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. Roger Housden lightdarklove-is When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond. Roger Housden world 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 qualitymomentsacceptance 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 timelessdimensionsmoments The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment. Roger Housden bodymomentsdoorways What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind. Roger Housden momentsmindthinking Wisdom and knowledge are two different things. Roger Housden knowledge-and-wisdomdifferenttwo Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful. Roger Housden powerful Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing. Roger Housden natural-giftstenniswriting 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 knowledge-and-wisdomjourneytogether Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again. Roger Housden remembrancemomentspractice People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things. Roger Housden circumstancesstrugglepeople Everything constantly changes. Roger Housden Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but we can have that reaction in areas of our life where it's not successful. Areas that concern existential issues or qualities of life - like meaning or purpose or love. These things actually come to us more as we let go of struggling to achieve them. Roger Housden fightingstruggleletting-go 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 maylyingthinking 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 humilityhumblelong Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has. Roger Housden patternsuniquespecial When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way. Roger Housden specialselfovercoming 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 selfgivingthinking
