I would like to live
Like a river flows.
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
John O Donohue, Irish poet and author, Fluent
Sunday Quote: Flows
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.
Doing and non-doing
Might try this for a while…
Let life live you for a while
instead of trying to make yourself live life
Alan Watts
happening in you
Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is here now, this very moment — in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart – whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it.
Osho
products of the imagination
The concept of beginning and ending is time, produced by thought.
Can we see, right now, that beginning and end, getting somewhere, being somebody, wanting to get the something I lack, are all products of the imagination.
As long as this isn’t clear, this bodymind remains tied up in knots. Can we see that a thought is always away from this present moment, where time does not exist?
Toni Parker, The Wonder of Presence.
Harmless
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.
Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring.
A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
Byron Katie
who are you
There’s always the intention of questioning,
which is – you say to each moment “who are you?”
And I find that a really helpful way to go through my minutes and hours and days as a human being:
not to have my first instinct be to assert something, but to have my first instinct be – to ask something.
Jane Hirschfeld
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