Month: June 2024

Sunday Quote: It’s in our hands

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Lovely days don’t come to you

You should walk to them

Rumi

Let things pass through

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Just like a bead of water sits lightly on a lotus leaf,

or water on a red lily,

a wise person does not cling to

what is seen, heard or felt,

as they do not add on to the seen, the heard, or the felt.

The Buddha, Jara Sutta, 4.6

Opposites and contraries

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From what I gather in reading ancient texts, right up to the present, human beings have always been confronted by the same kinds of problems. I think that this world is not a realm that admits to a solution. That isn’t what this world is about. It’s a different kind of activity that we have here. We have to deal with good and evil continually. With joy and despair, with all the antinomies, all the opposites and contraries. That’s what our life is about. We can’t abdicate that.

Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters

Unreal expectations

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If you set up feeling good

as what you have to be feeling,

then you are creating another thing

you are failing at.

Mark Epstein

Another 24 hours

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unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

e.e. cummings

Getting old

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No one grows old by living

– only by losing interest in living

Marie Beynon Rey