It is gone cold in Ireland – although not as cold as the rest of Europe – and travel companies have intensified their efforts to sell Summer holidays.
We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house and so on.
But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive
Thich Nhat Hanh
Finding yourself doesn’t require that you fly to Tibet, join a convent, or build a meditation room.
Just consistently keep a minimal commitment to empty time.
Martha Beck
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater.
We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long.
Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.
Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart
The trick to having a happy life is to remember that it all comes down to what we ourselves make of the life we have.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, Ralph Waldo Emerson says, ” but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger and mosquitoes and silly people.”
Joan Chittister, The Monastic Way, June 2022
Sit with those who are awake
or the caravan will leave while you are still asleep.
Rumi
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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