What shape waits in the seed of you,
to grow and spread its branches against a future sky
David Whyte
Month: July 2016
Alive
You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don’t be without Love,
so you won’t feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.
Rumi
Take it up
It is all around us, free, this wonderful life:
clear jingle of tire chains,
the laughter of ice that breaks under our boots.
Each hour’s a gift to those who take it up.
Ted Kooser, The Wheeling Year: A Poet’s Fieldbook
Being pulled away
In our world we are constantly pulled away from our innermost self
and encouraged to look for answers,
instead of listening to the questions.
Henri Nouwen, Reaching out: the Three movements of the Spiritual Life
Keeping space between
When we watch football, we don’t watch it from the field. We are in the stands watching from a distance.
The players are running around but we are stable; there is a space between us and the game.
Similarly, at a concert, we watch the band from our seats. We do not take the stage. There is a distance between us and the performance. We are merely the watcher.
This is how we should watch our feelings – from a distance.
We should not slip down and cling to them
Ajahn Pramote, To See the Truth
What changes
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty,
it means a change in how those difficulties are met
Marl Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life
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