If you’re determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience,
know only that you have chosen to do so,
and that the opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, The Joy of Living
We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
The trees that are broken
And start again, drawing up on great roots;
Like mad poets captured by the Moors,
Men who live out
A second life.
Robert Bly, A Home in the Dark Grass
Letting go means just what it says. It’s an invitation to cease clinging to anything — whether it be an idea, a thing, an event, a particular time, or view, or desire.
It is a conscious decision to release with full acceptance into the stream of present moments as they are unfolding.
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome –
which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them,
in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking
Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever you go, There you are.
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God is a hidden treasure wanting to be known
Meister Eckhart
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Roahl Dahl
Awareness is not the same as thought.
It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring its value and its power.
Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever You go, There you are
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