Category: Be fully present

Be faithful

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The river is famous to the fish…

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse…

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom…

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous [extracts]

Flow

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Let its weight fall back
into the earth;
for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.

The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Rilke, Part I, Sonnet IV

Look up

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We have so many allies in this world,

including just the colour blue in the sky. 

David Whyte

Sunday Quote: Contentment

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I have a room all to myself;

it is nature. 

Henry David Thoreau 

A simple wish

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Lovingkindness is a feeling that blesses others and oneself with the simple wish, “Be happy.”

The Japanese poet Issa [1763–1828] expresses this open-hearted feeling so well:

“In the cherry blossoms’ shade, there’s no such thing as a stranger.”

 Joseph Goldstein, Triumph of the Heart

Trust the magic

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Surrender to the way things want to happen next,

even though this often involves a vast and terrifying loss of control.

Trust the magic that was born into your soul.

Martha Beck