Float

We could try this in this new month

We spend so much energy trying to control the small things: This poem invites us to stop bracing and asks: what if you trusted that your own letting go is no different? Maybe the best approach is a lightness of touch. 

Simply trust

Do not the cherry blossom petals gently float down

just like that?

Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828

Change

The problem with life is that it flows and is not graspable.

The beauty of life is that it runs and does not stop.

Joan Chittister, There is a Season

Whats before us

We are so achievement-oriented that

we often surge right by the true value of relating to what’s before us,

because we think that accomplishing things will complete us,

when it is experiencing life that will.

Mark Nepo

magic

Our time here is magic!

It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique.

Ben Okri

a rainbow

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language.

But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

– Maya Angelou

Sunday Quote: what you are willing to notice

But listen to me

For one moment quit being sad.

Hear blessings

dropping their blossoms

around you

Rumi