Our way is to practice one step at a time,
one breath at a time,
with no gaining idea.
Shunryu Suzuki
Category: Be fully present
Acceptance
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative.
Osho
Grounded
To be rooted
is perhaps the most important and least recognized need
of the human soul.
Simone Weil, French Philosopher, 1909 – 1943
More awake
Every day of your life, every morning of your life, you could ask yourself, “As I go into this day, what is the most important thing? What is the best use of this day?” At my age, it’s kind of scary when I go to bed at night and I look back at the day, and it seems like it passed in the snap of a finger. That was a whole day? What did I do with it? Did I move any closer to being more compassionate, loving, and caring — to being fully awake? Is my mind more open? What did I actually do? I feel how little time there is and how important it is how we spend our time. What is the best use of each day of our lives? In one very short day, each of us could become more sane, more compassionate, more tender, more in touch with the dream-like quality of reality. Or we could bury all these qualities and get more in touch with solid mind, retreating more into our own cocoon.
Pema Chodron, Waking up to your World
photo of sun rising over the Corrib river, Galway, by tom murphy
Stop chasing after
De temps en temps,
il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et juste être heureux.
Now and then
it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness
and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, 1880 – 1918
photp ingrid taylar
Bringing awareness and balance
Meditation is an experiment we are making, bringing us out of our normal habits of intense self-judgment, comparing, and impatience. Mindfulness isn’t about what is happening; it is about how we are relating to what is happening — how much awareness, balance and compassion we are bringing to this moment’s experience, whatever it is.
Sharon Salzberg
