Mindfulbalance

All I can experience and work with

is what my life is right now.

That’s all I can do.

The rest is the dream of ego.

Charlotte Joko Beck

The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face.

When we feel resentment that the room is too hot, we could meet the heat and feel its fieriness and heaviness.
When we feel resentment that the room is too cold, we could meet the cold and feel its iciness and bite.
When we want to complain about the rain, we could feel its wetness instead
When we worry because the wind is shaking the windows, we could meet the wind and hear the sound.

Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves.

There is no cure for hot and cold. They will go on for ever.

Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”

– En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.

We ask for long life,

but it is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works and Days

Time flows in many streams.

Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, 1968 Nobel Prize winner, Beauty and Sadness