Ashley 黄

“America was a great deceptor. Land of Opportunity. Golden Mountain. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. But inside those pretty words, between the pretty coasts, was this: Miles and miles of narrow-minded know-nothings who wanted no more out of life than an excuse to cock their AK-47s and take arms against a sea of troubles.”
― Jade Chang, The Wangs vs. the World

“From this wide-angle perspective, the negative bits are small pieces of a rich, diverse picture. Your irritation is still there, but it no longer fills your screen. Other sensations that are soothing or benign are pulled into your awareness, balancing your perception of the experience. Bear in mind that taking the wide-angle view of the situation is not about denying or repressing your negative feelings. It’s just about having a more complete and thus more accurate view of reality.”
― Holly B. Rogers, The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else

“Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past or we are pulled forward into the future or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not truly alive; we are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

“A Buddhist monk once told me: “All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.” What he meant, of course, was this: I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment