Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
John O’Donohue, For a New Beginning [extract]
Let me fall if I must.
The one I will become will catch me
Baal Shem Tov, 1698 – 1760, Jewish mystic, regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism
Many of us have been running all our lives
Practice stopping
Thich Nhat Hanh
“You don’t have to
prove anything” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends“
Poet William Stafford died of a heart attack in August 1993, having written a poem that morning with these words…
The human body, at peace with itself,
is a more precious thing than the rarest gem.
This life you must know as the tiny splash of a raindrop, a thing of beauty that disappears even as it comes into being.
Therefore set your goal, make use of every day and night to achieve it
Je Tsongkhapa, 1357–1419, influential Tibetan Buddhist monk,
One can be too preoccupied with what is ending or too obsessed with what seems to be beginning. In either case one loses touch with the present and with its obscure but dynamic possibilities.
You do not need to know what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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