Most days we resist the moment as it presents itself – even if good – as we either try to make it last longer or change into something else. So we go out of the heart and into the head, judging, plotting, wishing. But becoming whole is only realizable from within, when we come to see the heart is complete when it is free of wanting more or wanting less.
As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
Pablo Neruda, Ode to a Naked Beauty
Every person has a vocation to be someone:
but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation
he can only be one person: himself.
Thomas Merton
Master Rinzai said ‘Place no head above your own’.
That is, to look outside of ourselves for true peace and satisfaction is hopeless.
Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen
Its only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly.
That again is part of this paradox.
You cannot rip away caterpillarness.
The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
A monk asked the master Sengcan: “Master, show me the way to liberation.”
Sengcan replied: “Who binds you?”
The monk replied: “No one binds me.”
Sengcan said: “Then why do you seek liberation?”
Birdsong brings relief to my longing.
I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say!
Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me!
Rumi
Learn from the rivers
in clefts and in crevices:
those in small channels flow noisily,
the great flow silent.
Whatever is not full, makes noise.
Whatever is full is quiet.
Buddha, Nalaka Sutta
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