Being able to bend

The tree is made strong and resilient by its grounded root system. These roots take nourishment from the ground and grow strong. Grounding also allows the tree to be resilient so that it can yield to the winds of change and not be uprooted. Springiness is the facility to ground and ‘unground’ in a rhythmical way. This buoyancy is a dynamic form of grounding.

Peter Levine, Walking the Tiger

All things, including grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life;
dry and brittle in death.

Stiffness is thus a companion of death,
flexibility a companion of life

Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching 76

Slow

Life is so short,

we should all move slowly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Sunday quote: home

When we release that striving

for somewhere else and something else,

we come home.

Karen Maezen Miller

Self care

A long weekend in Ireland

I live by the truth that “No” is a complete sentence.

I rest as a spiritual act.

Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Float

We could try this in this new month

We spend so much energy trying to control the small things: This poem invites us to stop bracing and asks: what if you trusted that your own letting go is no different? Maybe the best approach is a lightness of touch. 

Simply trust

Do not the cherry blossom petals gently float down

just like that?

Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828

Change

The problem with life is that it flows and is not graspable.

The beauty of life is that it runs and does not stop.

Joan Chittister, There is a Season