Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called “trying to relax.” Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of “trying” or “making.

Healing is when you intentionally decrease the tension you carry in your mind.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Relax. Just be. And be just.

It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything — not about winning or losing — but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

You are settling into simply being in the present, letting go of the past and not fearing or planning the future. Nothing to fix, no other place to go, no one you have to be. Rest and relax as a whole body breathing.

Relax. You’ll live longer and perform better.

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time — that is the basic message.

liberation is not revolution. It is not going out of one's way to disturb the social order by casting doubt upon the conventional ideas by which people hold together. [...]
To disabuse oneself of accepted mythologies without becoming the victim of other people's anxiety requires considerable tact.

I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.

Don’t think you can relax your way to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing. 691 Don’t dismiss a good idea simply because you don’t like the source. 692