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
Category: Be fully present
Simple treasures
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
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
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
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
Sunday Quote: Just stay in the moment
Things arise – just let them come;
Things disappear – just let them go.
Create but do not possess
Act but don’t expect.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
