Roger Housden Quotes

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we’ve called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?

There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn’t move, that doesn’t go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you’re in – not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment – then that is inherently meaningful.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world. It may not look spectacular, but nobody else has the precise life that you do. It’s a gift no one else can offer.

I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.

In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

It’s the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part – perhaps the greatest part – of our life’s journey.

Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.