“Love is what we are, when we drop all the things that stand in the way.” — Karen Maezen Miller Love Copy Share Image
“Can you give yourself totally to the reality of your life and its unknowable outcome?” — Karen Maezen Miller Life Copy Share Image
“Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.” — Karen Maezen Miller Attentive Copy Share Image
Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over. — Karen Maezen Miller Life Copy Share Image
“Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.” — Karen Maezen Miller Freedom Copy Share Image
“Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It’s faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.” — Karen Maezen Miller Faith Copy Share Image
“It’s not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It’s not so bad.” — Karen Maezen Miller Life Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia seems like a harmless pastime until it renders you blind.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you… — Karen Maezen Miller Craziness Copy Share Image
“On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack… — Karen Maezen Miller Nap time Copy Share Image
“This mind is an amazing thing. It can conjure love from the scent of orange blossoms, peace from a dry breeze, and… — Karen Maezen Miller Blossoms Copy Share Image
“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is… — Karen Maezen Miller Birth Copy Share Image
“To pass the barrier, you have to drop your ambivalence and cynicism. Your clever self-deceptions, excuses, and ulterior motives. You have to… — Karen Maezen Miller Barrier Copy Share Image
“Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you’re not… — Karen Maezen Miller Birth and death Copy Share Image
“You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere… — Karen Maezen Miller Happiness Copy Share Image
“...Quite the narration in your head, even for a moment, and see for yourself that life is life, and not one minute… — Karen Maezen Miller Foretelling Copy Share Image
“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life… — Karen Maezen Miller Life Copy Share Image
“May you be tired and afraid overwhelmed and ready to quit. Quit! Start over, over ten thousand times over roll out, get… — Karen Maezen Miller Quit Copy Share Image
“What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. .… — Karen Maezen Miller Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“I am talking about something more than just the gauzy circle of life. Sure, you're older now and one day you're going… — Karen Maezen Miller Children Copy Share Image
“Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own… — Karen Maezen Miller Anxiety and fear Copy Share Image
“All practice is the practice of making a turn in a different direction. Toward one thing and away from another; the particulars… — Karen Maezen Miller Every moment Copy Share Image
“Nothing is solid. Everything disappears. In a million, billion ways the world will fail you. How can you bear it?” — Karen Maezen Miller Fail Copy Share Image
“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” — Karen Maezen Miller Blossoms Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.” — Karen Maezen Miller Homemaker Copy Share Image
“Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers… — Karen Maezen Miller Attention Copy Share Image
“You’re putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!” — Karen Maezen Miller Compassion Copy Share Image
