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100,000 Aspirations

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Featured Aspirations

  • I aspire to work hard & have fun in service to all sentient beings & our planet.

    It's a wonderful life, and there's no greater joy for any of us than using whatever our talents are to alleviate suffering.

    As Ginsberg said, "To ease the pain of living / Everything else, drunken dumbshow."

    Waylon Lewis
    Founder, Elephant Journal

  • I would like to live the rest of my life in such a way that it would enhance the lives of others, all others, other animals, trees, even the planet Earth Herself and in doing so catch the attention of Lord Krishna and be able to get to know Him better.

    Sharon Gannon
    Cofounder Jivamukti Yoga

  • May my actions be grounded in love for myself and all beings, and help cultivate peace.

    Sharon Salzberg
    Teacher, NY Times Best Selling Author & Cofounder of Insight Meditation Society

  • I aspire to remain in service to God, this planet, and each other in the name of peace, freedom, equality and love. I aspire to be fearless, shamelessly outspoken, and stay, every day, every moment, in infinite gratitude for the Mystery, the beauty, the humanity, the fragility, the perfect imperfection, of it all.

    Seane Corn
    Yoga Teacher, Activist and Co-Founder: Off the Mat, Into the World®

  • I aspire to read more poetry, to sing it in my sleep, to share it when I can.

    Gregory Maguire
    Author of many best selling books, such as Wicked and most recently Out of Oz

  • I aspire to take responsibility for the energy I bring to any circumstance and I aspire to always lead with love.

    Jill Bolte Taylor
    Neuroanatomist and author of My Stroke of Insight

  • We aspire to live spontaneously, free of wanting things to be different to how they are.

    Ed and Deb Shapiro
    authors of Be The Change

  • I aspire to live in a world where there are more school gardens than McDonalds franchises, where it's easier to feed our kids fruit than froot loops, and where we experience our profound connection to each other and the land through sharing work and sharing food.

    Josh Viertel
    President, Slow Food USA

  • I aspire to take on everything that this world has to offer and give everything it has yet to see, to work my hardest so that when you find my body at rest without its last breath you can bury me in the earth and let the state of the world be my only epitaph.

    Joshua Onysko
    Founder and CEO, Pangea Organics

  • I aspire to neither lead nor follow, but to simply meet whatever comes to me with firm feet, clear eyes and an open heart.

    Cyndi Lee
    Founder, OM yoga

  • May I and all human beings be liberated from narrow views of self, may we fully open our hearts to each other and to this world, and may we live from our deepest nature as love and wisdom. And may humanity learn to honor and protect this beautiful earth as our home, that life may continue to thrive and evolve on this planet.

    John Welwood
    Psychotherapist, teacher, and writer

  • My aspiration is to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime, and to do so by creating the conditions for inner peace, inner happiness and compassion worldwide.

    Chade-Meng Tan (陳一鳴)
    Mindfulness Teacher at Google

  • I wish for the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

    Joanna Macy
    Eco-philosopher

  • My aspiration is a nuclear, drone-free world, that takes care of its denizens and inspires artistic creativity in all directions of space.

    A Stupa wakes the world up to itself. It is an Archive of our psyche, our imagination, an inscription of creativity and humanity. It is a memory bank and also a kind of enlightened "time bomb" that may set off dharma activity in further and future galaxies. Consciousness exists on many levels, and we are reminded of this by an architecture that reflects the wisdom mind. Let's help create a world, a universe, without war and cruelty and torture and greed. Vow to help all sentient beings as well as ourselves. And the non-human ones — all that crawl, breathe and swim. It's a vow to sanity. I hope we can participate in the creation of this next Stupa with expansive poetry and music and scintillating images, a poeisis of our speech, body and mind.

    Anne Waldman
    Co-founder (with Allen Ginsberg) of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University
    Distinguished Professor of Poetics, NU
    Chancellor, The Academy of American Poets

  • my aspirations.......

    that we may all

    realize the inter-connection of all beings through the greatest love
    in our hearts,
    hold no grudges,
    be open to offering our services to others in need,
    be smiling, willing and grateful
    feel joy in this and every moment
    feel sadness
    find our true humility
    share our happiness
    discover our basic goodness

    KiKi SoSo

    Michael Doucet
    Musician

  • I aspire to help all beings recognize their inherent goodness.

    Susan Piver
    Author, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

  • Offering this body, this heart, this mind to the ending of suffering,
    may all beings be free from suffering, from want, from greed, from hunger, from hatred and fear;
    may all beings awaken to who they truly are, seeing that we are not separate from any being or thing;
    may we all come home to our true nature, the natural and boundless heart.

    Roshi Joan Halifax
    Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center

  • I vow daily to further the cause of peace in the world: to look within and unlock my own obstructions to compassion so that in each encounter, whether it is personal or professional, I can be appropriate and skillfully kind.

    Laura Simms
    Storyteller, Recording Artist, Teacher, Writer and Humanitarian
  • Jim Lord
    Author What Kind of World Do You Want?

  • I aspire to soar higher, inspire, retire and expire.

    David Nichtern
    Musician and Composer

Gathering 100,000 of our best intentions and radiating them to the world.

  • I aspire that all sentient beings today (Losar) and every day cultivate the causes of our own happiness so that we can stop living in the false ilusion caused by attachment, aversion and ignorance. May we all soon live in sweet and constant dance with the emptiness of all fenomena, for the benefit of all sentient beings. 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
  • I aspire to help others as well as myself to live in peace and kindness. Yesterday
  • I aspire to help all beings enjoy profound, brilliant glory Yesterday
  • I aspire que todas las personas que renacen, tengan la semilla de la evolución espiritual Yesterday
  • I aspire to continue to practice meditation every day for the benefit of all sentient beings Yesterday
  • I aspire..to love always #100000aspirations 20 Feb from Twitter
  • I aspire to be present, trust Alive and with sensitivity toward others' needs! 20 Feb
  • I aspire that we commit ourselves to live this world better than how we found it in beneffit of all beings. 20 Feb
  • I aspire to attain Buddhahhod in this life and benefit all beings in the universe 20 Feb
  • I aspire to work cheerfully helping others to learn how to be mindfull for the benefit of all sentient beings 20 Feb
  • I aspire to be true 19 Feb
  • I aspire to see what is real 19 Feb
  • I aspire to slow down 19 Feb
  • I aspire that each of my actions come from a place of love. 17 Feb
  • I aspire to have my personal altar done nicely and dedicate the merits for the benefit of all sentient beings 17 Feb
  • I aspire to embrace the inherent brillance of myself and to encourage that same recognition of individual brillance in everyone. 16 Feb
  • I aspire to have patience with myself and love myself 16 Feb
  • I aspire to live in the present and find peace within miself 16 Feb
  • I aspire to work on my mindulness! 16 Feb
  • I aspire to be a warrior and to never give up 16 Feb
  • I aspire to spend a little more time each day relaxing my mind and opening to the possibilities life presents 15 Feb
  • I aspire not to feel powerless 15 Feb
  • I aspire to lead by example. 15 Feb
  • réaliser mon rêve 15 Feb
  • I aspire to give when I know not what to do. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to love endlessly, without bounds. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to transform fear into courage wherever it is. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to keep my heart open to feel hope and fear and offer that experience to the world 14 Feb
  • I aspire to help bring joy to those around me :) 14 Feb
  • I aspire that this world can manifest genuine goodness for the benefit of all. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to explore the depths of love and compassion - to keep following this path as long as I live. 14 Feb
  • I aspire that soon we will all realize and believe that we are one energy, we are in the Divine. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to world peace, wisdom and compassion, attaining enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to wholeheartedly LISTEN. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to be more patient, compassionate & understanding of myself & others. Namaste. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to heal and be of great benefit to the world! 14 Feb
  • I aspire to give children valuable and attainable education no matter where they are from. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to be more peaceful in uncomfortable and unstable times. 14 Feb
  • I too aspire to make my world fuller with daily acts of loving kindness and respect and honor all beings in this universe. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to eradicate suffering 14 Feb
  • I aspire to think about where other people might be coming from before jumping to conclusions. 14 Feb
  • I aspire to be kind to everyone 14 Feb
  • I aspire to fill young minds with the knowledge that they can change the world for the better 13 Feb
  • I aspire To make my world fuller with daily acts of loving kindness and respect and honor all beings in this universe. Namaste 13 Feb
  • I aspire to be of benefit to all beings. 13 Feb
  • I aspire to make everyone I meet smile. 13 Feb
  • I aspire to be aware of suffering and its roots, and to alleviate the suffering of others whenever possible. 13 Feb
  • I aspire to forget self and not to avoid helping others and the planet simply because it is momentarily inconvenient 13 Feb
  • I aspire to speak gently to myself and others 13 Feb
  • I aspire to create workplaces that engage the human spirit 13 Feb
  • I aspire to keep my heart open, at all times, toward all beings. 13 Feb
  • I aspire to help lift the world and bring peace to all walks of life. 13 Feb
  • I aspire to be kind to the partner I love and who has helped me the most, and become a help to him, not a burden. I aspire to be willing to wake up, to trust basic goodness in myself, to have the courage and lungta to want to wake up. 13 Feb
  • I aspire to stop one bad habit, born of fear and anger, as a symbol of changing my habits of fear, anger, and a need to sleep rather than wake up. 13 Feb
  • I aspire peace in this world 12 Feb
  • I aspire to bring peace & joy to homebound seniors in the SF Bay Area. 11 Feb
  • I aspire to help my students to develop their hearts and minds 11 Feb
  • I aspire to be in love with myself and to meet a true partner to enjoy a deep shared love that inspires us and nourishes others. 10 Feb
  • I aspire to meet each person I interact with with a respectful open heart. 10 Feb
  • I aspire to experiencing the relaxed joy the world offers deep in my heart more fully. 10 Feb
  • I aspire to let everyone know that they are loved and are not alone through smiles, conversation, and 10 Feb
  • I aspire to let everyone know that they are not alone by connecting through smiles, conversation, and love. 10 Feb
  • I aspire to go to PERU in June 2012 ,, Are you comming ? 10 Feb
  • I aspire to be authentic and love with my whole heart, even though there are no guarantees... 10 Feb
  • I aspire to meet one new person a day. 9 Feb
  • I aspire to benefit every living being I come in contact with-indirectly or directly. 9 Feb
  • I aspire to give people the benefit of the doubt and realize that the doubt is often a projection of my own mind 9 Feb
  • I aspire to not take one day given to me for granted 9 Feb
  • I aspire to make a difference in this world 9 Feb
  • I aspire to make my 88 year old mom to laugh every day! 8 Feb
  • I aspire to live by the philosophy: Let it happen, let it go. 8 Feb
  • I aspire to help homeless cats and kittens. 8 Feb
  • I aspire to do something active, creative, generous, and challenging every day. 8 Feb
  • I aspire to acknowledge the voice inside of me that seeks peace instead of insanity 8 Feb
  • I aspire to let go of past hurtful experiences. 8 Feb
  • I aspire to make my dream come true 8 Feb
  • I aspire to do something new today 8 Feb
  • I aspire to educate children's hearts by teaching peace. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to create peace every moment of every day. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to treat everyone with compassion, patience, and love. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to help the planet heal and to open people's hearts to compassion 7 Feb
  • I aspire through my speech and actions to bring a sense of human decency and upliftedness to my workplace. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to to the balance of ambition and humility in construction/cost/aspiration/hope/vision- not too high not too low 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be reminded constantly, moment to moment, of Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings 7 Feb
  • I aspire to stop denigrating myself 7 Feb
  • I aspire that all people, including myself, relate from a sense of basic human kindness as their default mode. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to remember people's names 7 Feb
  • I aspire to grow deliciously tasty fruits and vegetable and share them with family and friends. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to try to acknowledge other people's hard work 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be more emotionally calm and more open hearted 7 Feb
  • I aspire to attend with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within, rather than relying on old patterns of seeking relief that have become destructive 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be the sound of ice against ice in the frozen river 7 Feb
  • I aspire to find my truth 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be friends with my friend Mike's "bubble-head" wife 7 Feb
  • I aspire to fully appreciate this precious life in each and every moment 7 Feb
  • I aspire to win a pizza eating contest one day. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to leave a legacy of love, compassion and courage 7 Feb
  • I aspire to maintain a bigger view. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to listen more deeply to my heart and trust my intuition 7 Feb
  • I aspire to see every moment of as sacred and important; to always be "on duty" 7 Feb
  • I aspire to appreciate my life 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be less self absorbed, no matter how good the reason- it's all thinking 7 Feb
  • I aspire to keep my heart open always 7 Feb
  • I aspire to positive and gentle with myself and others 7 Feb
  • I aspire to see basic goodness once a day 7 Feb
  • I aspire to not seek the super-normal powers that need not be sought 7 Feb
  • I aspire to create enlightened society 7 Feb
  • I aspire for peace among all people. 7 Feb
  • I aspire for the world to have peace on earth 7 Feb
  • I wish the whole world had/will have rainbows 7 Feb
  • I aspire to eat one piece of candy or less per day. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to put the trash out and bring it in transformed 7 Feb
  • I aspire to do a daily sitting and Qigong practice, even when I don't think I have the time. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to treat myself with loving-kindness and to extend that to others 7 Feb
  • I aspire to taste my own heart 7 Feb
  • I aspire to not be crushed under depression or sadness, and to learn to use it in a way that will help wake myself and others. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to practice putting others first. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be free from fear and guilt and shame and to be loving to myself and others. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to let go of useless, self-poisoning grudges. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to think more of others. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to soften my hard edges. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to fully embrace my depression whole heartedly 7 Feb
  • I aspire to lick the blade of nowness. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to gently encourage others to consider animals as equal sentient beings and not to eat them. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to know and trust the Ashe in my heart. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to continue to love despite great loss. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to be a Buddha 7 Feb
  • I aspire to make the world a happy place and get a good job in the future and have a happy life. and save starving children 7 Feb
  • I aspire to have a positive outlook on life everyday. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to think positively 7 Feb
  • I aspire to lucidly dream 7 Feb
  • I aspire to let joy fill every moment of every day. 7 Feb
  • I aspire to bring down the Medical/Insurance /Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex that is driving up the cost of health care and enriching the few at the expense of the many and leading people to prematurely end their precious human rebirth. 7 Feb
  • I aspire BE THE BEST LOVER I CAN BE. 7 Feb
  • I aspire that all beings be peaceful and wise 6 Feb
  • I aspire to like a stupa; connected to the earth, reaching toward the sky and filled with loving aspirations. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to completely disarm... 6 Feb
  • I aspire to live without shame in my heart. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to feel and spread joy and equanimity- soon. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to 'think' less and 'be' more. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to manifest masculinity with wisdom and creativity. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to be a fearless warrior with an open heart, full of compassion and love for all beings. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to find daily compassionate patience so I can facilitate change in others who are different from me. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to say "no" more often to people who take advantage. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to pour more from the empty into the void. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to fall in love again and be in a committed relationship. 6 Feb
  • My aspiration is to not have aspirations. Instead I will be in the moment and not dream of the future. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to practice abstract thought. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to inspire the Shambhala community to fully embrace the end of animal suffering and embrace a vegetarian diet. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to speak fearlessly from my heart, always. 6 Feb
  • I aspire to speak fearlessly from my heart, always. #100000aspirations 6 Feb from Twitter
  • I aspire to reach deep inside myself to find that place of highest potential and peace and to help others achieve the same - FREEDIVE 6 Feb
  • I aspire to get back to Tanzania to continue practicing homeopathy for ppl with HIV/AIDS free of charge 6 Feb
  • I aspire to make everyone smile everyday! :D 6 Feb
  • I aspire to help others live healthier, happier, more enlightened lives. 5 Feb
  • I aspire to cultivate love. 5 Feb
  • I aspire that dharma may flow like a beautiful river and that all sentient beings become enlightened. 5 Feb
  • I aspired ,to help more abandonned ,sick,and hungry dogs 5 Feb
  • I aspire to be a warm and friendly presence to all I meet today. 5 Feb
  • I aspire help a person to suffer less 5 Feb
  • I aspire to cultivate love of self and others. 5 Feb
  • I aspire never to be as hateful as atheist are toward christians and their trying to remove every aspect of God from our lives, country, culture and constitution. If you do not love God go to a muslim country, they hate christians too. I also aspire never to be as racist as these people that are in the Democratic party now, so called representing us today, and their followers. Stop destroying our country. 4 Feb
  • I aspire to be the catalyst for 100 million people to experience Divinity and share Awakening! 4 Feb
  • I aspire to shut my mouth and open my mind, focusing clearly on bodhicitta each day, never forgetting that there is not one sentient being in all of samsara who has not been my precious mother, father and only child thousands of times in the past and I aspire to work non-stop to repay their kindness until samsara is empty. 4 Feb
  • I aspire for the concience of all human being 4 Feb
  • I aspire to help students who doubt their abilities to graduate from high school. 4 Feb
  • I aspire to accept where I am at 3 Feb
  • I aspire for SMC TO THRIVE!! 3 Feb
  • I aspire for myself: no more loser guys and stay clean and happy. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for mindful calm without speed for all sentient beings. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for the world: happiness and bliss! 3 Feb
  • Onegaeshimasu! 3 Feb
  • May all sentient beings be happy. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for others to be more appreciative of their family members. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for my Grandmother and Grandfather to be ok. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for someone else to live the rest of your life to the fullest. Don't let people patronize you. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for all of the oil and coal on the Earth to get shipped to the moon, and we can't get it until we can get ourselves to the moon with some other, less harmful form of energy. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for everyone to think before doing more often. 3 Feb
  • I aspire to be more pleasant. 3 Feb
  • I aspire to gather the courage to love who I want. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for others to see the basic goodness in me. 3 Feb
  • I aspire to trust myself no matter how intense the situation is. 3 Feb
  • I aspire to see the basic goodness in everyone, even my enemies. 3 Feb
  • I aspire to learn more about myself and to continue to contemplate the habits and patterns of humans. 3 Feb
  • I aspire for world peace some day! 3 Feb
  • I aspire to be in improved physical/emotional health so I can be of better service to my fellow sentient beings 3 Feb