As the Arab proverb says,
“The nature of rain is the same,
but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens”
Anthony de Mello, Awareness.
photo kyle flood
Month: December 2014
Real freedom
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am.
Who am I then?
The one who sees that.
Eckhart Tolle
Openness
To feel open-minded and open-hearted is beautiful;
to be free from the burden of anxiety, mistrust and planning the future; to be simply present.
In that willingness to be here with no preoccupations, defence or alternatives,
we can rest in a world which suddenly, surprisingly, feels like home.
Ajahn Sucitto, Original Openness
photo of the Wicklow mountains by kain
Let it be
One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person – comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color.” I don’t do that. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
Carl Rogers
…in its own time
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly.
For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself,
“There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
Let life come…
Try not to resist the changes that come your way.
Instead let life live through you.
And do not worry that your life is turning upside down.
How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
Rumi
photo schiwago
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