Top 12 Quotes by Wes Nisker

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Wes Nisker

Buddhist, Freedom, Meditation Practice

As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.

Wes Nisker

Meditation, Sound, May

I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.

Wes Nisker

Life Is Too Short, Long, Perspective

One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.

Wes Nisker

Running, Intimate Relationships, Names

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Wes Nisker

Giving, Belief, Lifetime

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Wes Nisker

Fall, Breathing, History

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Wes Nisker

Spiritual, Crazy, Expression

Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”