Another Atlantic storm passed over the country overnight, with strong winds and heavy rain. After the winds the stirring becomes quiet.
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me, like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
Then what is afraid of me comes
and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves it.
It sings, and I hear its song.
Wendell Berry
We either make ourselves happy or miserable.
The amount of work is the same
Carlos Castaneda
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more.
Your desire can never be satisfied.
But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself “Oh Yes, I already have everything I need”
The Dalai Lama
Let our meditation be like the earth,
for then satisfying and unsatisfying contacts with the world through the senses
will not invade the mind.
The Buddha
You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his.
You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone.
The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.
[Non de tuo largiris pauperi sed de suo reddis. Quod enim commune est in omnium usum datum, tu solus usurpas. Omnium est terra, non divitum.]
Saint Ambrose, c. 339 – 397, De Nabuthae 12, 53
Our minds are like crows.
They pick up everything that glitters,
no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them
Thomas Merton
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