There is great happiness in not wanting,
in not being something,
in not going somewhere.
Jiddu Krisnamurti
Sunday Quote: Content
Change is law
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death.
But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
Socrates
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Making space
When we walk on the earth with reverence,
beauty will decide to trust us
The rushed heart and arrogant mind
lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace.
John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible embrace
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A love of life
If we look at the world with a love of life,
the world will reveal its beauty to us.
Daisaku Ikeda, born 1928, Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator and author.
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Freely given
Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? Or is it possible for the lamp to say, “I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people”? Or can a tree say, “I’ll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad”?
These are images of what love is about
Anthony de Mello, sj., Awareness
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Living our lives
Our suffering survives because we enable and feed it. We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. If we’re feeding our suffering while we’re walking, working, eating, or talking, we are making ourselves victims of the ghosts of the past, of the future, or our worries in the present.
We’re not living our lives.
Thich Nhat Hahn
