Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday necessities
of being alive
David Whyte
Sunday quote: Courage
Category: Be fully present
Overthinking
It is imperative to cut off the mind road.
If you do not cut off the mind road, you will be a ghost, clinging to the grass.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai,, 1183–1260, Chinese Chán master
Where you stand
How refreshingly bright is the moon of the Fourfold Wisdom!
Being so, is there anything you lack as the absolute presents itself before you?
The place where you stand is the Land of the Lotus,
And your person — the body of the Buddha.
Hakuin, Japanese Zen poet, 1686 – 1768.
Sufficient meaning
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.
Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears
Jung, Autobiography
Remember today
Much of what you see “out there” is actually manufactured “in here” by your brain
Only a small fraction of the input to your occipital lobes comes from the external world;
the rest comes from internal memory stores and perceptual-processing modules.
Rich Hanson, Buddha’s Brain
Sunday Quote: Power
The most common way people give up their power,
is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
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