Category: Be fully present

finding a way

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When it is time for you to embark upon a journey of transformation, you may feel a call from within. No one else may hear it, but you do, and it thrills you and terrifies you all at once. There will be guides and teachers along the way—other people, books, dreams, unexpected sources of wisdom – but only you can take the steps.

You are the only one who can find your way through the forest. You are the only one who can recognize your missteps and your breakthroughs.

Others can encourage you, but you must walk the path alone. And eventually, you will come to realize that the way you walk the path is the destination.

Elizabeth Lesser Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow.

Sunday quote: not in the future

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One touches the infinite not by striving toward some future moment but by attending to the present

.Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson Letter No. 330

Let Life Happen Before You Name It

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Do not watch yourself too closely.

Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you.

Simply let it happen.

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Already here

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Whenever we are seeking happiness,

it is in fact our innate happiness that is seeking us.

The happiness we seek is the happiness we are.

Rupert Spira

Beyond Restless Seeking

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The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life

because it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,

from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search,

from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out

Letting Things Happen Naturally

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Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key?

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go...

Letting things happen naturally is terribly difficult, almost ridiculously difficult, but it’s the only way. I used to worry too much in the past, it seemed I couldn’t let go of what was destined to be lost – …like holding a kitten too tightly or a flower that wilts if gripped too firmly” .

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude