We are already one.
But we imagine that we are not.
And what we have to recover is our original unity.
What we have to be is what we are.
Thomas Merton
Month: April 2014
The way of not pushing
Most people want to have pure clarity,
but sweep as you will,
you cannot empty the mind.
Keizan Jokin, Zen master, 1268–1325
Getting real
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry
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Loveliness
For lack of attention
a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill
No gap
At the moment of going there, just go there.
At the moment of coming here, just come here.
There is no gap
Dogen, Guidelines for Studying the Way
Right in front of us
We cannot become truly good in a better, more marvellous, and yet easier way
than by the simple use of the means offered us by God:
The acceptance of all that comes to us at each moment of our lives.
Jean Pierre de Caussade, French Jesuit priest, 1675 – 1751, author of The Sacrament of the Present Moment
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