Mindfulbalance

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

“Truth waits for the eye unclouded by longing”

What does it mean to have an eye unclouded by longing. Its the place in your being, in your awareness, which is not totally identified with your desire system.

As long as you want something, you see only the outward container and our desire to keep the game going makes it very hard for us to see what in fact is happening.

And I really feel much more that my life is at play as a mystery. Rather than something where I know how it comes out, I mean, I find “I dont know” is the best response I have to most of the profound questions people ask me. It keeps me open, right at the edge of something I don’t really understand, and yet I dont actually have to.

Ram Das

Wandering,

where we go matters less than what we notice.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle