All truth is a paradox.
Grief, friends, time and tears will heal you.
Tears will bathe and baptize and hydrate you and the ground on which you walk. The first thing God says to Moses is, “Take off your shoes.”
We are on holy ground. Hard to believe, but the truest thing I know.
Anne Lamott, 12 Truths I Learnt from Life and Writing
Every time you make sense out of reality,
you bump into something that destroys the sense you made.
Anthony de Mello, s.j.
Our everyday world may have gotten more restricted; This does not necessarily mean less rich.
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life.
The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon:
The mind must be full of light.
Hong Zicheng, Chinese Philosopher, 1572-1620
When effort is needed, effort will appear.
When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself.
You need not push life about.
Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment,
which is the dying now to the now. For living is dying.
Without death life cannot be.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 – 1981, Hindu Non-Dualist teacher
They don’t grieve over the past,
Nor do they yearn for the future
They live only in the present
That’s why their face is serene
Its from yearning for the future
And grieving over the past
This is how fools become withered
Like a fresh reed that’s been hacked down
The Buddha, Collected Discourses, 1.10
The way of mindfulness is, however, always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.
Then suffering isn’t dependent on the world being good or bad, but on how willing we are to use wisdom in this present moment.
The way out of suffering is now, in being able to see things as they are
Ajahn Sumedho, The Way it Is
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