But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,
and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds
with the wooden spoon, I remembered,
this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety
or of fruitfulness?
Marie Howe, American Poet, From Nowhere
When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. The same is true of time. When you touch one moment with true awarenes, you touch all moments. According to the Avatamsaka Sutra, “The one contains the all”. If you live one moment deeply, that moment contains all the past and the future in it
Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home
Waking up to who you are requires letting go
of who you imagine yourself to be.
Alan Watts
Regret is an emotion, and it is also a punishment that we administer to ourselves. The emotional state has been well described by two Dutch psychologists, who noted that regret is ‘accompanied by feelings that one should have known better, by a sinking feeling, by thoughts about the mistake one has made and the opportunities lost, by a tendency to kick oneself and to correct one’s mistake, and by wanting to undo the event and to get a second chance’. Intense regret is what you experience when you can most easily imagine yourself doing something other than what you did. Regret is one of the counterfactual emotions that are triggered by the availability of alternatives to reality.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
photo karunakar raykar, two roads in the Himalayas
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly
will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Friedrich Schiller
In a higher world it is otherwise;
but here below to live is to change,
and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
photo ksmini
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