We are so achievement-oriented that
we often surge right by the true value of relating to what’s before us,
because we think that accomplishing things will complete us,
when it is experiencing life that will.
Mark Nepo
Whats before us
magic
Our time here is magic!
It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in.
Ben Okri
a rainbow
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.
Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language.
But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
– Maya Angelou
Sunday Quote: what you are willing to notice
But listen to me
For one moment quit being sad.
Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you
Rumi
Different time zone
I love the word pause. . . .
Such a time represents a kind of time that is vanishing: a floating time, completely free of usefulness, suspended between wakefulness and sleep.
This is the time zone of wonder,
when we fall out of the habitual, the taken-for-granted, and are startled by what is.
Noelle Oxenhandler.
Fundamental uncertainty
It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught.
Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation.
Our discomfort arises from all of our effort to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness.
Pema Chödrön
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