Month: June 2024

Keep on trying

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At the time you’re living it, you can sometimes think your life is nothing much. It’s ordinary and everyday and should be and could be in this or that way better. It is without the perspective by which any meaning can be derived because it’s too sensual and urgent and immediate, which is the way life is to be lived. We’re all, all the time, striving, and though that means there’s a more-or-less constant supply of failure, it’s not such a terrible thing if you think that we keep on trying. There’s something to consider for that.

Niall Williams, 1958 – Irish writer, This Is Happiness

They come and they go

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When energies inside start to move, you do not have to go there. For instance, when your thoughts start, you do not have to go with them.

Let’s say you’re outside taking a walk and a car drives by. Your thoughts say, ‘Boy, I wish I had that car.’ You could just keep on walking, but instead you start getting upset. You want a car like that, but your salary isn’t high enough. So you begin thinking about how you can get a raise or a different job. You didn’t have to do all that. It could have just been – here comes the car and there it goes, and here comes the thought and there it goes.

They’re both gone together because you didn’t go with them.

Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul

Sunday Quote: Flow with whatever

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Do not force things…. Can you afford to be careless?

So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. 

David H. Rosen, The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity

Complaining

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Complaining and reactivity are the favourite mind patterns through which the ego strengthens itself. For many people, a large part of their mental-emotional activity consists of complaining and reacting against this or that.  By doing this, you make others or a situation “wrong” and yourself “right.” Through being “right,” you feel superior, and through feeling superior, you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

Pouring into you

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Let your mind and heart release all that disturbs you.
Let your body be still, and all the frettings of your body, and all that surrounds it.

Let the earth and sea and air be still, and heaven itself;
and then think of spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing, and shining
into you, through you, and out from you in all directions while you sit quiet.
 

Eric Buttermore’s paraphrase of Plotinus, In the Flow of Life