When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.
How can you love if you are not there?
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Category: Be fully present
Competely in the moment
If you can pour a cup of tea right,
you can do anything
Gurdjieff
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Familiar stories
We can have a lot of stories about how our lives are heading, or what our strengths and weaknesses are, or why things are not going as the should go…
One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually true, and whether the opinions we go over every day have any foundation or are things we repeat to ourselves simply so that we will continue to play the game. It can be quite disorientating to find that a story we have relied on is not only not true – it never was true…In fact, the continued retelling of it simply imprisons us. We are used to the prison, however, we have indeed fitted cushions and armchairs and made it comfortable and have locked the door from the inside.
David Whyte, Letter from the House, Winter 2012
We never really arrive
Some people want it pure white
but sweep as you may,
you can’t empty the mind
Keizan Jokin, 1268 – 1325, second founder of Soto Zen
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Just this moment
The god of dirt
came up to me many times and said
so many wise and delectable things, I lay
on the grass listening
to his dog voice,
crow voice,
frog voice; now,
he said, and now...
Mary Oliver, One or Two things
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Just the way it is
Something we need to hold in mind at all times...
If you are invested in security and certainty
you are on the wrong planet
Pema Chodron
