If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair,
but ask me what I am living for, in detail,
ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
Thomas Merton
Year: 2013
Not getting discouraged
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
The Talmud
Taking time
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between us
Open
Clay is molded into vessels, and because of the space where there is nothing, you can carry water. Space is carved out from a wall, and because of the place where there is nothing, you can receive light. Be empty and you will remain full.
Lao Tzu
All that glitters
Our minds are like crows.
They pick up everything that glitters,
no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them
Thomas Merton
Sunday Quote: Being distracted
Normally we do not so much look at things
as overlook them
Alan Watts
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