Maggie and I are doing our best. Our parents did their best. Everyone is doing their best.
What if we assumed that about each other?
What a gentle world it would be.
Elizabeth Lesser, Marrow: A Love Story
A gentle world
Sunday quote: self-talk
Talk to yourself like someone you love
Brene Brown
No movement
When the mind is utterly still,
without any movement of desire or comparison, there is joy
– not the joy of achievement, but joy without cause
Krisnamurti, The Book of Life: Daily Meditations
Don’t give away your power
The unhappy person is one who has his ideal,
the content of his life, the fullness of his consciousness,
the essence of his being,
in some manner outside of himself.
Kierkegaard, Either/Or
A solid place
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
Kabir says this:
just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.
Kabir, 1398 – 1518, I said to the wanting-creature inside me
Release from suffering
Suffering arises when we say ‘this is me, this is mine.’
Release comes when we see: there is no owner, only the flow of experience.
Andrew Olendzki, The Roots of Mindfulness
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