Category: Be fully present

Happy

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Yesterday, Irish people wished everyone a “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day” or if in the Irish language, “the blessings of Saint Patrick’s Day”. But what do these related terms “Happy” and “Blessed” mean?

By happiness I mean a deep sense of flourishing which comes from an exceptionally heathy mind

This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion or a mood, but an optimal state of being

Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Matthieu Ricard, Happiness

Sunday Quote: the holy tree

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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there

W.B. Yeats, Irish Poet, The Two Trees

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

True wealth

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For in the true nature of things,

if we rightly consider,

every green tree is far more glorious

than if it were made of silver or gold

Martin Luther King

The present moment

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If you view everything as practice,

your suffering will disappear.

Shido Bunan, 1603-1676, Zen Master

Ready

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I do not write every day, I read every day, think every day, work in the garden every day, and recognize in nature the same slow complicity. The same inevitability.

The moment will arrive, always it does, it can be predicted but it cannot be demanded. I do not think of this as inspiration. I think of it as readiness.

Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects

Not two

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In the world ‘as it really is, there is neither self nor other than self.

To come directly into harmony with this reality, just simply say, when doubts arise, “Not two”.

When you enter into this non-separation, all things manifest the One, nothing is separated and nothing is excluded.

Seng-Ts’an, Faith in Mind