“Noise” in this image can stand for all the hassles which we encounter this day
For the mind that is silent, noise is as direct a spoke into the hub of silence as are birdsong, wind, and waves.
It requires nothing more than to meet noise with stillness and not commentary.
Martin Laird, A Sunlit Absence
Water, when it flows downstream, does not have a model of what it’s doing. Its just being water, and water flows downstream, because that’s how water works.
The thing that is extraordinarily hard for any of us to truly realize and have sufficient faith to accept, is that if you stop having views, having models, planning, desiring, organizing and structuring….
it’s all right.
Ram Dass
If you assume that purpose is something big, you might think its something that you’ll feel at some point down the road, after you’ve achieved something significant. You’re pushing purpose off into the future instead of creating it day-to-day. This mindset prevents you from identifying all the small ways you can contribute to the world right now.
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
I hate endings.….The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap.
Why not be more honest with the moment?
The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.
Sam Shepard, 1943 – 2017, American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Rainer Maria Rilke, I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time.
But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be.
‘To be what’? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving.
And that is what the world needs most
Thich Nhat Hanh
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