If you let yourself be blown to and fro
you lose touch with your roots.
If you let restlessness move you
you lose touch with who you are
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 25
Staying rooted
Category: Be fully present
Sunday Quote: Moment by moment
The first of the leaves are beginning to fall…
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,
but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
contentment
Try to live simply.
A simple lifestyle, freely chosen,
is a source of strength
Quaker Faith and Practice: Advices and Queries, 41
the real questions
The word for September in the Irish language is Meán Fómhair, which can be translated as “Mid harvest”
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?’ These are the real questions.
I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Henri Nouwen
a way of peacefulness
Holding onto the world lightly is peacefulness
There is nothing that you need to hold on to
There is nothing that you need to push away
Sutta Nipata 1097
No add-ons
Neither planning ahead nor reminiscing about the past need obscure the clarity of our present awareness.
The Buddha would say “If you are planning ahead, just plan ahead. If you’re remembering, just remember”
We can look forward or back without fretting or obsessing, or allowing concerns about the future to constrict freedom in the present.
Think about it: even contemplating the future or the past is a function of present awareness
Lama Surya Das, Buddha Standard Time
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