A Wisdom Archive on Worry

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Worry causes fear, anxiety, tension and stress. These emotions deplete energy and weaken the immune system. Worriers become sick and this is manifested in poor health, because of all the problems that are eating into their vitals.
 
And worry is certainly not the same as constructive thinking; if it were, we would have found solutions to most of our problems.

 
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Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
 
- Mitzi Chandler

 
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.
 
- John Jay Chapman

 
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You must have a pure mind if you want to realise the Self. Unless the mind is set free and casts away all desires, cravings, worries, delusion, pride, lust, attachment, likes and dislikes, it cannot enter into the domain of Supreme Peace and unalloyed felicity of the Immortal Abode.
 
From "Easy Steps to Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda.
 

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Buddhist Quotes: f I Had Supernatural Power
 
If I had supernatural power, I could take you up to the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha for a visit, or to the Kingdom of God if you are a Christian. I am sure that everything would be nice and clean there, with beautiful scenery. But once you were there, how would your footsteps be? Can you be sure that your footprints on the Pure Land would not show traces of worries and sorrows you carried from this samsaric, worldly life?
 
 If you take your worries and sorrows along with you and set them on the Pure Land, you would defile the Pure Land and make it much less pure! To deserve the Pure Land, you must be able to take peaceful and anxiety-free steps right here on this samsaric ground.
 
- Thich Nhat Hanh, "Guide to Walking Meditation"

 
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