Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite.
It actually takes guts.
Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us,
we enter the warrior’s world.
Pema Chodron
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.
Sunday Quote: Remember
Every Moment is a Moment of Practice
Sylvia Boorstein
Always new
Not a single drop of water passes over the same rock twice, and the murmur of water rushing over a rock is constantly changing. Sameness is but an illusion of the human ears, eyes, mind. Water that has once flowed along a riverbed can never retrace its course. Human life is no different. It is only our mundane eyes and minds that we see yesterday as being the same as today.
Enlightened eyes and minds should recognize that each moment has a form different from that of any other moment
Shundo Aoyama, Zen Seeds
Widen the heart
Get yourself out of the way,
and let joy have more space.
Rumi
It’s all already here
Not till your thoughts cease all
their branching here and there,
Not till you abandon all thoughts
of seeking for something,
Not till your mind is motionless
as wood or stone, will you be
on the right road to the Gate.
Huang Po, died 850, influential Chinese Chan master
Life on your own terms
Give yourself permission not to be not good at something.
Quietly and softly carve out a life on your own terms. Stop apologizing.
Forgive that sometimes things take a while.
Forgive the low-level, near-constant fear.
Celebrate the small successes.
Perhaps joy is its own body of water, wade out into it.
From the blog of Meg Fee, Author of Places I stopped on the Way Home
(Photo from Bray Head, Valentia Island with Skellig Island on the horizon)
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