From the great Suzuki Roshi. A lot to ponder here but I do like the idea of seeing all that happens as an unfolding of big mind:
Because we enjoy all aspects of life as an unfolding of big mind,
we do not care for any excessive joy.
So we have imperturbable composure.
Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind,
At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is.
Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. …
This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.
John Welwood
We waste a lot of time seeking someone to tell us what life will be like once we live it. We drain ourselves of inner fortitude by asking others to map our way.
At the end of all this stalling, though, we each have to venture out and simply see what happens.
The instructions are in the living,
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows ‘what he wants,’ while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The fool, with all his other faults, has this one also,
he is always getting ready to live.
Seneca
The beginning is always today
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797 English writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights
Mindfulbalance 