Who Knows?

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We don’t know a lot. We don’t know much more than we know.

And it’s a relief to let go of our attachment to views, our attachment to opinions, especially about things we don’t know.

A new mantra began to form in my mind: “Who knows?”

This not-knowing is not a quality of bewilderment; it’s not a quality of confusion. It actually is like a breath of fresh air, an openness of mind.

Not knowing is simply holding an open mind regarding these very interesting questions to which we might not yet have answers.

Joseph Goldstein

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No matter what

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I heard a man say a poem once,

he said,

‘All that lives is holy.’

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Listening

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We have forgotten the age-old fact

that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions

Carl Jung

Monday morning miracles

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The Lord has spread the delicate net of his presence across the world.
See how He gets under your skin, inside your bones.
If you can’t see Him while you’re alive,
don’t expect a special vision once you’re dead.

Lal Ded (Mother Lalla),  1320 – 1392, Kashmiri Hindu poet and mystic

Sunday Quote: Doorways

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When experience is viewed in a certain way,

it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Jon Kabat Zinn

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Believing in Mystery

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Every day we have moments when we get a glimpse into the deep beauty of the world. It may be as simple as a shared conversation, a glass of wine, a walk in nature.  However, sometimes we are so preoccupied that we do not have the time or the space to notice.

You know what the issue is with the world?

Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem

and [yet] everyone refuses to believe in magic

Lewis Carroll,  Alice in Wonderland

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