Shifting the nervous system from fusion to observation.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal.
They are conditions of the human mind.
They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
Come and Go
Sunday Quote: Notice
We usually dont look,
we overlook
Alan Watts
Wounds
In Japan, there is an art to fixing broken pottery called kintsugi. The cracks are mended with a resin painted gold. The idea is that what is broken becomes more beautiful for having been broken.
In this way, the Japanese honor the broken rather than hiding it.
So often, we hide our wounds, our scars, our cracks. But what if they are the very openings through which we grow?
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
To be
Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is ‘try’. Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond the personality, with its addictions and obsessions. Don’t ask how, it cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you succeed.
What matters supremely is sincerity, earnestness; you must really have had surfeit of being the person you are, now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits. This steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success
Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT.
somewhere else
The unsatisfactory nature of life does not mean we are getting it wrong. Our experience is characterized by a constant restless quality :
At its core, dukkha is the tension of resisting life as it is.
Psychologically, it manifests as anxiety, self-judgment, and the relentless pursuit of ‘somewhere else’ to be happy.
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
Slowing down
Follow anything in its act of being – a snowflake falling, ice melting, a loved one waking – and we are ushered into the ongoing moment of the beginning, the quiet instant from which each breath starts.
What makes THIS moment so crucial is that it continually releases the freshness of living. The key to finding this moment and all its freshness, again and again, is slowing down. When we find ourselves stalled in our very serious and ambitious plans, we are often being asked to re-find the beginning of time.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
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