Unless there is a still center in the middle of the storm,
unless individuals in the midst of all their activities
preserve a secret room in the hearts
where they sit alone before God,
unless we do this, we will lose all sense
of direction and be torn to pieces.
anonymous monk in the Egyptian desert
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee, based on the Pierre Berton Interview 1971.
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.
It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim.
Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness
Eckhart Tolle
Climb the mountains and get their glad tidings.
Nature’s peace will flow to you as the sunshine flows into the trees.
The winds blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,
while cares drop away from you
like the leaves of autumn
John Muir
To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday,
otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Krisnamurti
A long weekend in Ireland
The spirituality of work arises from the inside out. It does not depend on the job we have but on the way we do the job we have. Work is holy because we are holy – if we bring our holiness to it.
But so is rest holy.
The Sabbath is not simply a day off; it is a day up – a day to remember who we are beyond what we do.
Joan Chittister, The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
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