Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well
Jack Kornfield, The Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
Year: 2013
The art of living
The art of living…is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past….on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as being utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and fully receptive
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
In the present
Our way is to practice one step at a time,
one breath at a time,
with no gaining idea.
Shunryu Suzuki
Acceptance
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative.
Osho
Grounded
To be rooted
is perhaps the most important and least recognized need
of the human soul.
Simone Weil, French Philosopher, 1909 – 1943
Some dissatisfaction is good
Contrary to most professional opinion, a gnawing dissatisfaction with life is not a sign of “mental illness,” nor an indication of poor social adjustment, nor a character disorder. For concealed within this basic unhappiness with life and existence is the embryo of a growing intelligence, a special intelligence usually buried under the immense weight of social shams. A person who is beginning to sense the suffering of life is, at the same time, beginning to awaken to deeper realities, truer realities. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal fictions about reality and forces us to become alive in a special sense – to see carefully, to feel deeply, to touch ourselves and our worlds in ways we have heretofore avoided.
Ken Wilbur, No Boundary
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