Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion.
This is it.
Jon Kabat Zinn
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Category: Be fully present
Grounded
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick:
every time a stick is thrown, you run after it.
Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.
One only throws a stick at a lion once
Milarepa, Tibetan Buddhism, 1052 – 1135
photo calips
Focus on the now
We are endlessly offered into life: all time is ours.
And what any one of us might be worth,
death alone knows – and does not tell.
Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 24
Not fixing
Often, intimacy arises not from any attempt to take the pain away, but from a living through together; not from a working out, but from a being with. Trust and closeness deepen from holding and being held. I am learning, pain by pain and tension by tension, that after all my strategies fail, the strength of love waits in receiving and negotiating; in accepting each other and not problem solving each other; in listening and affirming each other, not trying to fix those we love.
Mark Nepo
Totally there, no division
When you forget about the good and the non-good, the worldly life and the spiritual life, and all other ideas from teachings, and permit no thoughts relating to them to arise, and you abandon body and mind — then there is complete freedom. When the mind is like wood or stone, there is nothing to be discriminated.
Pai-chang Huai-hai, Chinese Zen Master 720 – 814
photo pieter lanser
Trusting where we are
To be nobody-but-yourself
— in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else —
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings, A Poet’s Advice
photo rennett stowe
