Month: January 2025

Sunday Quote: just be aware

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Thinking is difficult,

that’s why most people judge.

Jung

What kind of light

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There are many kinds of light. There’s the light that allows people lost in the dark to find their way home. There’s the light of compassion that comforts everything it touches. There’s the light of truth-telling about ourselves that allows us to see what we are doing — or allowing — that has helped bring this darkness upon us. There’s the light that shows us the way forward toward a better world. There’s the light of courage to walk that path no matter who says “Stop!“

No one of us can provide all of the light we need. But every one of us can shed some kind of light.

Every day we can ask ourselves, “What kind of light can I provide today?”

Parker Palmer, The Light for Another

Magic things ahead

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The world is full of magic things

patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W. B. Yeats

We don’t realise

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us

and we see nothing but sand;

The angels come to visit us,

and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot, Janet’s Repentance, 

I flow

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Move back and forth into the change…
In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent Earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I Am.

Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29.

achieving contentment this year

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So, how can we achieve inner contentment?

There are two methods. One method is to obtain everything that we want and desire – all the money, houses, and cars; the perfect mate; and the perfect body. The Dalai Lama has already pointed out the disadvantage of this approach; if our wants and desires remain unchecked, sooner or later we will run up against something that we want but can’t have. 

The second, and more reliable, method is not to have what we want but rather to want and appreciate what we have.

        The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living