Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;
And from that source alone, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness,
and us — free of our bridges,
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Mysteriously, wonderfully,
I bid farewell to what goes
I greet what comes;
for what comes cannot be denied
and what goes cannot be detained
Chuang Tzu
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
(But where are the snows of yesteryear?)
French saying
photo of last fridays Spring weather in Kildare
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. ‘Right,’ ‘wrong,’ ‘success,’ ‘failure, ‘ lucky’, ‘unlucky’ may be as limiting a way of seeing things as ‘diabetic’, ‘epileptic’, ‘manic-depressive’ ….. Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.. Belief traps or frees us. Labels may become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Rachel Naomi Remen
photo rinina25
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid.
You’re able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias and aggression.
You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.
Pema Chodron
Things don’t change.
You change your way of looking, that’s all
Carlos Castanada
photo roberto strauss
