13 Quotes by Karen Maezen Miller

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.

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.

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?

Now is the only cure for then.

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.

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.