Not frozen solid

By weaving our opinions, prejudices, strategies and emotions into a solid reality, we try to make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, out of our problems. But things are not as solid, predictable or seamless as they seem.

We habitually string our thoughts together into a story that tricks us into believing that our identity, our happiness, our pain and our problems are all solid and separate entities. In fact, like our thoughts all these constructs are constantly changing.

Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty

Whatever is on the path

Very cold mornings here, with frost on the grass and ice on the roads, making walking and driving quite treacherous.

The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Start over

The very presence of your breath and of your body is one of the most astonishing things in the universe, and it offers the continual opportunity to start over. This awareness allows us to start the entire project of our life over, to reinitiate all the threads of our thought, grounding it all in the immediate experience of our body. What an incredible relief it is to understand that the ultimate place of pilgrimage is right in the center of our very own heart

Richard Freeman

Whatever wave comes along

Life is going to unfold however it does: pleasant or unpleasant, disappointing or thrilling, expected or unexpected, all of the above! What a relief it would be to know that whatever wave comes along, we can ride it out with grace. What Right Aspiration translates to in terms of daily action is the resolve to behave in a way that stretches the limits of conditioned response. Every situation is an opportunity to practice.

Sylvia Boorstein

Sunday Quote: Journey

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

Paolo Coehlo

Going deeper

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life

Jung