Look at love – how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit – how it fuses with earth
giving it new life.
Why are you so busy with this or that, or good or bad –
pay attention to how things blend.
Why talk about all the known and the unknown –
see how the unknown merges into the known
Rumi, Look at Love [extract]
What matters is the good we did
Not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai, 1183 – 1260, Chinese Chan master
Stephen Mitchell translation
The ship is always off course.
Anybody who sails knows that.
Sailing is being off course and correcting.
This gives a sense of what life is about.
Michael Meade, 1944 – American Author
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself.
Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end
Eckhart Tolle
The mind starts to become quiet
when it really sees how untrue its narrative is.
Adyashanti
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