When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“All I know, lying in this bed or not lying here, is that this is the life that was given to me.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
