Letting there be room for not knowing
is the most important thing of all.
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart
Category: Be fully present
Putting down the burden
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of the personal center of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature.
Unique experiences
To the attentive eye,
each moment of the year
has its own beauty,
and in the same field,
it beholds,
every hour,
a picture which was never seen before,
and which shall never be seen again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being filled by each moment
You don’t run down the present, pursue it with baited hooks and nets.
You wait for it, empty-handed, and you are filled.
You’ll have fish left over…
It is by definition, Christmas, the incarnation.
This old rock planet gets the present for a present on its birthday every day.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Sunday Quote: Within
Find a place inside where there’s joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Saturday: Choiceless patience
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea
Ann Morrow Lindberg, Gift from the Sea
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