Though the years are sad,
the days have a way of being jubilant
Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance
Holding both
Month: November 2023
so that it notices…
We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Settling the mind…
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.
When the mind has settled, we are
established in our essential nature, which
is unbounded consciousness.
Our essential nature is usually overshadowed
by the activity of the mind.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, c.400 AD.
Not two
Body and mind are one.
Thus, if you straighten your body, your mind is straight.
Miyazaki Zenji, 1901 – 2008, Zen abbot of Eiheiji Monastery
Sunday Quote: One life
There is only one life you can call your own
and a thousand others you can call by any name you want.
David Whyte
Inner freedom
Life is not accomplishing some special work
but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.
That is my real goal.
It implies “becoming unknown and as nothing”.
Thomas Merton
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