Frequently we don’t know the answers to some of the questions that life throws at us. We come to see that there is always a balance between knowing and not knowing. We prefer knowing, certainty, clear ideas. But maybe wisdom comes from being able to allow what we don’t know, and from learning to trust.
This is how we become wise:
When the formed
is taught by the unformed.
Chuang Tzu
photo taro taylor
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming
Helen Keller
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Simplify the problem of life:
distinguish the necessary and the real.
Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
Thoreau
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones:
Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time – that this the basic message
Pema Chodron
photo Immanuel giel
It is not death that one should be afraid of,
but rather never beginning to live
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1.2
photo of sunrise at the Sugarloaf mountain, Wicklow, by rahulrana71
The only people who ever get any place interesting
are the people who get lost.
Henry David Thoreau
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