It’s OK – in one sense – simply because it is here now, not because it is necessarily nice or what we wanted.
Accept – then act.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform .your whole life
Eckhart Tolle
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash – at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.
..The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds, and join in the general dance.
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for
regular excursions into enchantment.
It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought.
Thomas Moore
Decisions,
not conditions,
determine what a person is
Viktor Frankl
The hardest thing I’ve learned,
and still struggle with,
is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
From the great Bodhidharma, Chan Buddhism, 5th or 6th century CE. Delusion is one of the challenges of the mind in Buddhism. Its opposite is wisdom, which sees reality as it actually is: subject to change in ways that we can never quite anticipate.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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