Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! ……
We must become that moment….…
forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
Paul Cézanne
Fleeting
Contentment
Much of our dissatisfaction comes from mentally living in the future or the past rather than inhabiting the present. Here, two Jungian therapists suggest that contentment comes from bringing one’s full presence to the task or the experience immediately before one.
St. Benedict, an Italian monk of the early sixth century and founder of the Benedictine order, had a powerful approach to staying in the present.
The word novice comes from medieval Latin, and it means to be a beginner, a person who is new to an activity.
St. Benedict instructed novices to take a special vow – a vow of fidelity to the moment.
Robert A. Johnson and Jerry M. Ruhl, Contentment: A Way to True Happiness.
Sunday Quote: words
Nothing has ever been said about God
that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Thomas Merton
not clear
Mystery is the place where meaning hasn’t settled yet.
And that’s not a bad place to be
Pádraig O’Tuama, Poetry Unhindered newsletter
Looking Without Looking For
A lot of people don’t look very hard.
David Hockney, English painter, died June 11
Stand on the earth, not on your ideas
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.
Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching, 13
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