This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived,
it is named, interpreted, compared with something else,
liked, disliked, or called good or bad by ….the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
photo eviatar bach
Category: Make the most of life
The quiet growth of winter
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in,
therein to be content
Helen Keller.
photo berit
Sunday Quote: Where we place the mind
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
photo D Sharon Pruitt
Not sorting things into good and bad
Each day we can encounter setbacks or difficulties, or simply things may happen which we did not expect. And sometimes they can reveal a lot, if they stir up our own mixture of unresolved issues linked to our past. Rather than regarding them as diversions or obstacles on the path, we are encouraged to see them as where we are called to go. The “bad” situation becomes something to be skillfully worked with:
A person who falls to the ground gets back up by using that ground.
To try to get up without relying on that ground would be impossible.
Chinul, 1158–1210,
Zen Master considered to be the most significant influence on the formation of Korean Zen
An open being
The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target — you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target — not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
Osho
photo taken in Dunmore West, Co Waterford.
More about tasting
There is a fundamental paradox here. The less we are attached to life, the more alive we can become. The less we have preferences about life, the more deeply we can experience and participate in life. This is not to say that I don’t prefer raisin toast to blueberry muffins. It is to say that I don’t prefer raisin toast so much that I am unwilling to get out of bed unless I can have raisin toast, or that the absence of raisin toast ruins the whole day. Embracing life may be more about tasting than it is about either raisin toast or blueberry muffins. More about trusting one’s ability to take joy in the newness of the day and what it may bring. More about adventure than having your own way.
Rachel Naomi Remen, Embracing Life
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