A time for integration

As we leave the expansiveness of summer and settle into autumn’s rhythms and routines, we may discover a desire or longing to integrate our fresh insights. … All the spiritual traditions of the world acknowledge that wisdom comes from the accrued learnings of our experiences, and this includes those learnings we reap by following someone else’s inspired path for a time. What is at the center of your life at this time? What is your central motivation now? Whenever we have the experience of being ourselves, or of loving what we are doing, we arrive at the center of what is important for us.

Angeles Arrien

Transfiguration

Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.

You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.

Only, who could have the courage to see it.

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Know how to be happy

I like this idea of over-borrowing, always demanding more from the present moment.

If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don’t need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don’t need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff. The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it…..Much of our modern way of life is permeated by mindless over-borrowing. The more we borrow, the more we lose. That’s why it’s critical that we wake up and see we don’t need to do that anymore. What’s already available in the here and now is plenty for us to be nourished, to be happy.

Thich Nhat Hahn

Sunday quote: No preference

Awareness is the silent and choiceless observation of what is.

Jiddu Krisnamurti

Aligned with nature

Pass through this brief life in accordance with nature…

Gladly…like an olive that ripens and falls…

grateful to the tree that it grew on.

Marcus Aurelius Meditations 4,48

Not avoiding

The way through the world

is more difficult to find

than the way beyond it

Wallace Stevens