Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist
Sunday Quote: our fears
Author: Karl Duffy
This is a Mindfulness Practice Blog written in Laois, Ireland, containing reflections on meditation practice, psychological growth, spirituality and wellness which hopefully may encourage and benefit others as they reflect on their lives and seek to develop a more balanced, mindful and conscious approach to it.
The final Freedom
We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting.
Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is ‘essential’ and that nothing at all is ‘important.’
Helen M. Luke, 1904- 1995, Jungian therapist and writer
One purpose
In the Sufi Master Rumi’s “Table Talk”, there is this fierce and pointed passage:
“The master said there is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but were not to forget this, there would be no cause to worry, while if you remembered, performed and attended to everything else, but forgot that one thing, you would in fact have done nothing whatsoever.
It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have performed nothing at all.
So each person has come into the world for a particular task, and that is their purpose. If they don’t perform it, they will have done nothing.
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,
Everyday
Life does not get in the way
It is the way
Rebecca Li, Chan meditation teacher
with nothing
The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials are what do not exist.
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Rumi
Stop fighting
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past.
To come into the present is to stop the war.
Jack Kornfield
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