Life is not a problem to be solved,
it is a mystery to be lived.
Osho
photo jim clark
Month: August 2014
The way we look at others
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me”
Of course, you do not do so out loud; otherwise
Someone would call the cops
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us
To connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon
In each eye that is always saying,
With that sweet moon language,
What every other eye in this world is dying to hear?
Hafiz
photo andrew choy
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A quiet happiness
I have no power of miracle
other than the attainment of quiet happiness.
I have no tact
except the exercise of gentleness
The Oracle of Sumuyoshi, Shinto Shrine, Osaka, Japan.
Photo Bill Nicholls
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Not needing to go far
I was reminded this morning, when visiting the Cistercian monastery near my house, that today is the feast of St Augustine. Even in his quieter time people preferred distraction to awareness, and sought happiness outside, rather than realizing that its roots are within and in the ordinary.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motions of the stars,
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
St Augustine, Confessions, c 397
photo abxbay
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Ordinary
The sacred is in the ordinary…
it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s own backyard…
travel may be a flight from confronting the scared — this lesson can be easily lost.
To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous
Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist, 1908 – 1970
photo shopping trollies ireland by ardfern
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Seeing life as a gift
Every morning I vow to be grateful for the precious gift of my human birth. It’s a big gift, and it includes a lot of stuff I never particularly wanted for my birthday. Some of the things in the package I wish I could exchange for a different size or color. But I want to find out what it means to be a human being — my curiosity remains intense even as I get older — so I say thanks for the whole thing. It’s all of a piece.
In thirteenth-century Japan, Zen Master Dogen wrote, ‘The Way is basically perfect and all-pervading.’ I’m already in it. We are all in it; we are made of it.
Susan Moon
photo mattbuck
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