Category: Be fully present

“Truth waits for the eye unclouded by longing”

What does it mean to have an eye unclouded by longing. Its the place in your being, in your awareness, which is not totally identified with your desire system.

As long as you want something, you see only the outward container and our desire to keep the game going makes it very hard for us to see what in fact is happening.

And I really feel much more that my life is at play as a mystery. Rather than something where I know how it comes out, I mean, I find “I dont know” is the best response I have to most of the profound questions people ask me. It keeps me open, right at the edge of something I don’t really understand, and yet I dont actually have to.

Ram Das

Wandering,

where we go matters less than what we notice.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

Somebody says something to you that is designed to hurt. Instead of going into unconscious reaction and negativity, such as attack, defense, or personal withdrawal, you let it pass right through you.

Offer no resistance. It is as if there is nobody there to get hurt anymore. In this way, you become invulnerable. You can still tell that person that his or her behavior is unacceptable, if that is what you choose to do. But that person no longer has the power to control your inner state.

You are then in your power – not in someone else’s, nor are you run by your mind. Whether it is a car alarm, a rude person, a flood, an earthquake, or the loss of all your possessions, the resistance mechanism is the same.

Eckhart Tolle

If you only walk on sunny days

you’ll never reach your destination.

Paulo Coelho

You must completely withdraw from the invisible pounding
and weaving of your ingrained ideas.

If you want to be rid of this invisible [turmoil],

you must just sit through it

and let go of everything

Hongzhi Zhengjue 1091–1157, Master in the Caodong school of Chan Buddhism