Intellect gets you to the door,
but it doesn’t take you into the house.
Shams-i Tabrīzī, 1185–1248, Persian poet
Sunday Quote: listen to the heart
Year: 2021
Often we don’t know
It’s like driving a car at night.
You never see further than your headlights,
but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow, 1931 – 2015, American novelist
What we believe to be true
Who would you be without your story?
Pain-free, happy, and totally available if someone needs you — a listener, a teacher in the house, a Buddha in the house…..
Byron Katie
Wandering
Life is a garden, not a road.
We enter and exit through the same gate.
Wandering,
where we go matters less than what we notice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
…at peace
What a gift when we can finally make peace with ourselves.
It is time to apply some self-acceptance whenever we find ourselves trying to impress others, wondering whether we’re good enough, or trying too hard to say the right thing.
Melody Beattie
A mind no longer seeking…
The mind can be free only when it is completely still. Though it has problems, innumerable urges, conflicts, ambitions, if — through self-knowledge, through watching itself without acceptance or condemnation — the mind is choicelessly aware of its own process, then out of that awareness there comes an astonishing silence, a quietness of the mind in which there is no movement of any kind.
It is only then that the mind is free because it is no longer desiring anything; it is no longer seeking; it is no longer pursuing a goal, an ideal—which are all the projections of a conditioned mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, As one is
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