You do not need to have any special experiences to be free.
You just need to relate 100 percent fully with whatever you’re experiencing – the good the bad and the ugly
Andrew Holecek
Nothing special
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.
To return
That we go numb along the way is to be expected. Even the bravest among us, who give their lives to care for others, go numb with fatigue, when the heart can take in no more, when we need time to digest all we meet. Overloaded and overwhelmed, we start to pull back from the world, so we can internalize what the world keeps giving us. Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to return: to open our hearts once they’ve closed, to open our souls once they’ve shied away, to soften our minds once they’ve been hardened by the storms of our day.
Mark Nepo, Hearing the Cries of the World
Not our fault
It’s a relief to know that pain comes with life
so that we can stop judging ourselves when it arises
Vidyamala Burch
Sunday Quote: speed
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
autumn lessons – trust
Nature does not hurry
yet everything is accomplished
Lao Tzu
autumn lessons – what falls away
Ripeness is
what falls away with ease.
Not only the heavy apple,
the pear,
but also the dried brown strands
of autumn iris from their core.
To let your body
love this world
that gave itself to your care
in all of its ripeness,
with ease,
and will take itself from you
in equal ripeness and ease,
is also harvest.
And however sharply
you are tested –
this sorrow, that great love –
it too will leave on that clean knife.
Jane Hirshfield, Ripeness
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