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
Stop interpreting
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
no matter how dark
No matter how dire the circumstances, we can have confidence in life’s flow and in our own deep seated goodness.
No matter how dark,
the hand always knows the way to the mouth.
Saying of the Idoma ethnic group, Nigeria.
Come and Go
Shifting the nervous system from fusion to observation.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal.
They are conditions of the human mind.
They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
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