Month: October 2019

Sunday Quote: Beauty

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One does not see anything

until one sees its beauty

Oscar Wilde

Life is heaven

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We don’t understand
that life is heaven,
for we have only to understand that
and it will at once be fulfilled
in all its beauty,
we shall embrace each other and weep.

Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Supposed to be happening

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The Buddhist teachings are fabulous at simply working with what’s happening as your path of awakening, rather than treating your life experiences as some kind of deviation from what is supposed to be happening.

Pema Chodron in conversation with Jack Kornfield, The wondrous Path of Difficulties

This life

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There was another life that I might have had,

But I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

 

 

 

Here and Now

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Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

Joseph Campbell

Happy

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Every morning the world is created…

If it is in your nature to be happy..

And if your spirit  carries within it

the thorn that is heavier than lead….

there is still somewhere deep within you

a beast shouting that the earth

is exactly what it wanted –

each pond with its blazing lilies is a prayer heard and answered

lavishly, every morning,

whether or not you have ever dared to be happy,

whether or not you have ever dared to pray.

Mary Oliver, Morning Poem