I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there.
And there’s a whole life in that,
in knowing that the sun is there.
Dostoyevsky
Do not lose hope
Year: 2021
Moment by moment
Sorcerers maintain that talking about ourselves makes us accessible and weak, while learning how to be quiet fills us with power. A principle of the path of knowledge is to turn your own life into something so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.
Armando Torres, Encounters with the nagual: Conversations with Carlos Castaneda
Start again
On holidays. Travel allows us see life with new eyes.
I was so proud not to feel my heart.
Waking means being angry.
This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.
Eliza Griswold, 1973 – , American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and poet, Ruins
Sunday Quote: Remind yourself
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself,
and all the while,
a great wind carries me across the sky
Ojibwe Tribe saying.
Hello to here
It has taken years to continue to live into the truth that if I believe we are from God and for God, then we are from Goodness and for Goodness. To greet sorrow today does not mean that sorrow will be there tomorrow. Happiness comes too, and grief, and tiredness, disappointment, surprise and energy. Chaos and fulfilment will be named as well as delight and despair. This is the truth of being here, wherever here is today. It may not be permanent but it is here. I will probably leave here, and I will probably return. To deny here is to harrow the heart. Hello to here.
Pádraig Ó Tuama, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
Doing and non-doing
One of the most important lessons in balance which we have to learn, and one of the central teachings in the Bhagavad Gita: the way of Inaction-in-Action.
You can’t catch the wild horse by running,
but nobody who is not running will catch the wild horse.
Sufi Proverb
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