Spring and all its flowers now
joyously break their vow of silence.
It is time for
celebration, not for
lying low.
Hafiz
Sunday Quote: a good day
Month: February 2025
The ordinary
We don’t have to have any qualifications to watch our breath. We do not even need to be particularly intelligent — all we have to do is to be content with, and aware of, one inhalation and exhalation.
Wisdom does not come from studying great theories and philosophies, but from observing the ordinary.
Ajahn Sumedho
for another person
All you can do for another person is be an environment
in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
Only one person
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, ‘Have faith and take your troubles to God.’
Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help – only yourself.
Martin Buber, philosopher, 1978 – 1965
as we go along
It is really easy to be kind to others
when I remember that none of us came into this world
with a manual about how to get it all right.
Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroscientist and author
Complete in itself
Our essential being is perfect, like boundless space,
which is complete in itself with nothing lacking.
It is our rejection of what is present
or our seeking of what is not present
that determines whether or not we feel the peace and happiness that are our very nature.
Seng-ts’an, the Third Ch’an Patriarch, Hsin Hsin Ming [Rupert Spira’s translation ]
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