We are locked inside our brains, cut off from the present moment, always centered on something beyond our reach. We are imagining this mirage of happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment which will magically appear once this and this and this happens. But what’s happening right now is “it” and it’s the only “it” we have. The rest is just fabrication.
Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake
Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
Pema Chodron
As we learn to tap into the interior of our body and inhabit it, we can sense a subtle current of aliveness that runs vertically through the core. It feels like a clear, luminous line of energy that runs upward close to the spine. It seems to well up from the ground like a pure spring and feels as if it radiates high above our head. If you imagine that your body is suspended in midair by a fine line located at the top of your head, you may get a sense of it.
I call it the current of life because it contains an essential aliveness and intelligence. The fewer filters we have – limiting beliefs, emotional reactions, and somatic contractions- the easier it is to sense this core animating luminosity.
Adyashanti
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind
Gather your attention on the inhale;
drop into the body on the exhale.
Reflect on these phrases:
I am aware of the preciousness of human life.
I am aware that death is inevitable
I am aware that whatever I do has a result.
I am aware that if I focus on self-importance, I will experience suffering.
Then, rest in openness.
Roshi Joan Halifax
If you only walk on sunny days,
you’ll never reach your destination
Paulo Coelho
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