The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favour:
hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out
Hafiz
Image : Flickruser Brent and MariLynn
Year: 2013
Good Friday: Between two notes
My life is not this steeply sloping hour,
in which you see me hurrying.
Much stands behind me: I stand before it like a tree:
But I am only one of many mouths
and at that, the one that will be still the soonest.
I am the rest between two notes,
which are somehow always in discord
because death’s note wants to climb over –
but in the dark interval, reconciled,
They stay here trembling.
And the song goes on, beautiful.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Fragile love
The strongest love
is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
Paul Coelho, Eleven Minutes
A prayer in time of difficulty
O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you. I cannot do it alone.
In me it is dark, but with you there is light.
I am lonely, but you do not desert me.
My courage fails me, but with you there is help.
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience.
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me.
Dietrich Bonhoffer,Lutheran pastor imprisoned and executed by the Nazis.
A full life
A man is rich
in proportion to the number of things
which he can afford to let alone.
Thoreau
Not right nor wrong
See what is. Acknowledge it without judging it as right or wrong. See it clearly without judgment and let it go. Come back to the present moment. From now until the moment of your death, you could do this. As a way of becoming more compassionate, as way of becoming less dogmatic, prejudiced, determined to have your own way, absolutely sure that you’re right and the other person is wrong, as a way to develop a sense of humor, to lighten it up, open it up, you could do this.
Pema Chodron
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