When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless.… — Roger Housden Abandon 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… — Roger Housden Difficult Copy Share Image
People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things. — Roger Housden Change 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… — Roger Housden Alive 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… — Roger Housden Age 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… — Roger Housden Arise 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 Feels 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 Achieve 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… — Roger Housden California Copy Share Image
When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in. — Roger Housden Forget Copy Share Image
We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet… — Roger Housden Every day Copy Share Image
Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need… — Roger Housden Adversity 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 Feels Copy Share Image
When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that… — Roger Housden Forget Copy Share Image
“You who were bewildered by a meaning, whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed—Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving. Then say goodbye to Alexandra… — Roger Housden Programming 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 Easy Copy Share Image
Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have. — Roger Housden Meaningful 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 Existence Copy Share Image
“But it happens, and I am thankful enough for that, for those fleeting, wakeful moments of beauty and truth. They are the… — Roger Housden Beauty Copy Share Image
“The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will… — Roger Housden Faith 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose. — Roger Housden Life Copy Share Image
The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but… — Roger Housden American culture Copy Share Image