Sunday Quote: Simply

Try to live simply.

A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength

Quaker Faith and Practice, Advices and Queries, 41

Grounding

For today: gather yourself in the heart instead of scattering yourself among your problems.

The heart-mind grounds the body.…

When the heart-mind is settled and our energy (qi) gathers there and is not scattered,

the body’s energies work together harmoniously,

and the body remains free from suffering.

Dong Zhongshu, 179 BC – 104 BC, .Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals

a steady energy

The heart [citta] is a sympathetic awareness,

and it takes on the energies of what you give attention to.

Bury yourself in media, and you absorb that buzzy and stimulated energy – to the point that the mind can barely function without stimulation.

On the other hand, if you attend to steady, bright energy in the body, your awareness becomes steady and bright.

This is crucial: meditation allows the heart feel good,without force or stimulation.

Ajahn Sucitto

Your anchor

Be aware of your breathing

Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking

and creates space.

Eckhart Tolle

Passing through

It’s a sign of wisdom to avoid believing every thought that enters your mind.

It’s a mark of emotional intelligence to avoid internalizing every feeling that enters your heart.
 

Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing what You Dont Know

 

Inhabit this life completely

No yearning for an afterlife, no looking beyond, no belittling of death,
but only longing for what belongs to us
and serving earth, lest we remain unused.


Rainer Maria Rilke