Leaning forward

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself.

Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end

Eckhart Tolle

Very true

The mind starts to become quiet

when it really sees how untrue its narrative is.


Adyashanti

Don’t waste it

Since there is nothing but just this moment

The time-being

is all the time there is.

Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist priest and writer, founder of the Soto school of Zen, Shōbōgenzō

Are you listening?

The next message that you need

is always right where you are

Ram Dass

Sunday Quote: Luminous

This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view,

but inside the angel,

is perhaps my real task.

Rilke, in a Letter, 1915

Difficulty is a school

Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into it and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route of becoming.

All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size of houses and princesses beautiful as the day and talking birds and part-time serpents are distractions from the tough core of most of the stories, the struggle to survive against adversaries, to find your place in your world, and to come into your own.

Difficulty is always a school, though learning is optional.

Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby