The first day of Lent and of Ramadan
Our culture accelerates. Deadlines, notifications, reputational anxiety, comparisons – all creating a sense of tightness. What would it mean to live one day this week unhurried?
There is a way to live that is spacious and unhurried,
a way that allows the heart to breathe
Wayne Muller, How, Then, Shall We Live?
We just have to learn to love our lives so deeply
that we welcome whatever comes.
John Tarrant, Poison and Joy
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved.
You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
And the way to realize it is stillness.
Osho, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
The action of the soul is oftener in that
which is felt and left unsaid,
Than that which is said in any conversation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Surrendering any sense of security and trusting the water itself to hold you.
You have been walking the water’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry.
You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper.
Love flows down.
Rumi, One-Handed Basket Weaving
What we do in meditation
is remove the obstacles
that hide and cover
our native capacity to love
Eknath Easwaren
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