“His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter… — Roger Housden Freedom 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 Chasing 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 Lost 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 Experience Copy Share Image
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation,… — Roger Housden Accounts 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 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
“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
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 Acknowledge 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 Artist 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 Dimensions 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
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
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
The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that… — Roger Housden Dimensions Copy Share Image
Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are… — Roger Housden Degrees 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 Feels 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
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's… — Roger Housden Journey 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 Capacity Copy Share Image
