Category: Be fully present

Sunday Quote: At home

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The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin

Parker Palmer

Just be yourself

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When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

Shunryū Suzuki, 1904 – 1971, Shikantaza: Living Fully In Each Moment

Simple treasures

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The little things? The little moments?

They aren’t little.  

Jon Kabat Zinn

Oh Soul,

You worry too much

Your arms are filled with treasures of all kinds

Rumi

Sightless among wonders

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A prayer, this time from the Hebrew tradition, encouraging us to embrace each moment and the “ordinary blessings” of this day:

Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. Lord, fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever we gaze, that the bush burns, unconsumed. And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness and exclaim in wonder, “How filled with awe is this place and we did not know it.”

Jewish Sabbath Prayer

The small things contain all

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From the Zen Buddhist tradition…

The whole moon and the entire sky

are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Dōgen Zenji, 1200 – 1253

Monday morning instructions for the week

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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

What we need is to love without getting tired. 

Be faithful in small things

because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Theresa