Mindfulbalance

A wise person sees:

Feelings arise and vanish instantly, like bubbles.

Thoughts seem strong, but there’s nothing substantial inside,

just like a hollow banana tree.

The Buddha, Sutta of 46 Chapters

Paradise is not a place. It is a condition of the heart.

Some travel to all the world’s wondrous places and never truly arrive, for they go with a clenched heart that blinds them to the shallowed muting of their unusual life.

Others stay home yet arrive over and again to the most enchanting places and discoveries. For they live with a wide open heart that journeys ever beyond the body as a spirit in love with life.

Open your phenomenal heart. Travel beautifully.

Jaiya John, Fragrance After Rain

Live in each season as it passes;

breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit,

and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A long weekend. To waste time well is a recovery of our humanity from the tyranny of constant productivity

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon

in a perfectly useless manner,

you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976, quoted in Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life worth Living

If we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word “opportunity”, we see hidden beauty shining from below, which is the Roman god Portunus, patron of harbours.

Seen in this light

every new circumstance is like sailing into a strange and distant port,

which may offer a haven, if we choose to take refuge.

 Phil Cousineau, The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and their Origins