Task: to be where I am.
Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd
role: I am still the place
where creation works on itself.
Tomas Tranströmer, 1931 – 2015, Swedish poet and psychologist, Guard Duty [extract]
Where I am
Month: May 2024
Sunday Quote: Always setting out
Having no destination, I am never lost.
Ikkyuu, 1394-1481, Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Let it flow
Can’t just “let it go”?
That’s because emotions are not like rocks we can drop and throw.
They are more like drops of water that need to run through us.
So don’t let it go
Let it flow
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
Every moment
Wear gratitude like a cloak
and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
A sense of one another
But how shall we educate men to goodness,
to a sense of one another,
to a love of the truth?
And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
Dan Berrigan, born on this day 1921. Died 2016, Jesuit priest and anti-war activist. His words, addressed during the Vietnam War, are even more relevant today
An area to redeem
As Martin Buber saw it …. the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise association with God that redeems both us and our speck of the world.
God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, “the world in which you live, just as it is and not otherwise.”
Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
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