My motto for this week
Stop giving your precious energy
to things that make you feel bad.
Louise Hay
Life is too short
Sunday quote: Not accepting
After another week in which we were told to fear one another, where bullying masquerades as a virtue, and common decency in relationships is treated as a weakness…
Why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society?
If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it
Krisnamurti, Commentaries on Living [Commonly rendered as It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society]
Stop interpreting
We gain peace of mind when we recognize that, in this moment, nothing is actually missing. The sacred is not elsewhere;
Rice in the bowl
Water in the bucket
Zen koan response by Yumen when asked what is fully awakened awareness
When you feel stuck
Ishi no ue ni mo sannen (石の上にも三年) Well known Japanese Proverb
Literal meaning: “Three years on a stone.”
Its wisdom is deceptively simple: patience transforms even the toughest challenges. Sit on a cold stone long enough, and eventually it will grow warm. Similarly, sometimes the breakthrough occurs not through intensity but through continuity.
thinking shifts
We cannot always control events, but we author the meaning assigned to them
I do not fix problems
I fix my thinking.
Then problems fix themselves.
Louise Hay
The real cause of problems is not life itself.
Its the commotion the mind makes about life that really cause problems
Michael A.Singer, The Untethered Soul
Trust
You know that the flower bends
when the wind wants it to,
and you must become like that –
that is, filled with deep trust
Rilke, Early Journals
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