For to know nothing is nothing,
not to want to know anything likewise,
but to be beyond knowing anything,
to know you are beyond knowing anything,
that is when peace enters in.
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
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.
It’s the little things
Ask the large questions, but seek small answers.
A flower,
or the space between a branch and a rock,
these are enough.
Kent Nerburn
The river of life
In the web of life, you see the tentativeness of physical incarnation in this world. You come to realize the essential, ephemeral, and ungraspable experience. The river of life and its impermanence makes us see vastness. No moment can ever be repeated, and every moment is always new and then quickly replaced. We find our composure when we realize the ‘everlasting truth of everything changes.’ Life is precious and beautiful and unfathomable
Jack Kornfield.
Reframing
You cannot rely on anything. Things change. OK, so this is where your choices begin. We can’t escape life’s essential problems, but we can change our understanding about them. We can practice reframing, generosity, and gratitude. The evanescence of things is the real reason you enjoy your life
Lewis Richmond, Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser
Rest in being
To nourish the soul is to rest in being. Our greatest unhappiness comes from our longing. Our greatest peace comes from our being. But we stay rooted in the easy and convenient. We eliminate as much pain as we can from our lives and end up painted into a corner we call safety. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Stephen Levine
Fast and furious
It is now harder to pay attention to any one thing and there is more to pay attention to. Things come at us fast and furious, relentlessly. And almost all of it is man-made, it has thought behind it, and more often than not, an appeal to either our greed or our fears. These assaults on our nervous system continually stimulate and foster desire and agitation rather than contentedness and calmness. And above all, if we are not careful, they rob us of time, of our moments.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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