Category: Be fully present

Masks

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Everyone has a life that is different from the ‘I’ of daily consciousness, a life that is trying to live through the ‘I’ who is its vessel. This is what the poet knows and what every wisdom tradition teaches; there is a great gulf between the way my ego wants to identify me, with its protective masks and self-serving fictions, and my true self. The soul is like a wild animal; tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient, and yet exceedingly shy. The soul speaks its truth only under quiet, inviting, and trustworthy conditions.

Parker Palmer, Let your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

There must be time

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As concerns the art of living, the material is your own life.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There must be time.

Give your best and always be kind.

Epictetus, AD 55 – 135, Greek Stoic philosopher

Sunday Quote: Where we are

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Our humble way… is to root ourselves –  

beneath the thousand dreams and excuses

that keep us from the ground we walk.

Mark Nepo.

Beneath all the effort

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What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go?

There “is” no place to go.

The whole foundation is already here in each one of us.

It is the same in all of us.

There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.

Toni Packer, The Wonder of Presence: And the Way of Meditative Inquiry

 

The wisest choice

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Yesterday’s clarity is today’s stupidity
The universe has dark and light,  

Entrust oneself to change.

Ikkyu, 1394 -1481, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest

Why awareness is good

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Watching the show, without getting swept up in it, leads to greater peace of mind

Life does not consist mainly  – or even largely – of facts and happenings.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.

Mark Twain