Breathing in, I see the beautiful leaves,
breathing out, I know they are impermanent.
Smiling at the nature of change
I enjoy their presence even more.
Thich Nhat Hanh.
The nature of change
Cosmic pain
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.
Pir Vilayat Khan, 1916 – 2004, Sufi Meditation teacher and writer
Full moon
Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side. Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour.
Do it now. You’re covered with thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet.
Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
The speechless full moon comes out now.
Rumi, Quietness
Births and deaths
This moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment.
It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future.
Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.
Alan Watts
Sunday Quote: Perseverance
If we go forward, we die; if we go backward, we die.
So let’s go forward and die.
African Proverb
Simple mindfulness advice
A walk is just as good…
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having,
just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road,
without a thought on anything but on the ride you are taking.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scientific American, 1896
[or as I saw it written on a wall in Italy…”pedala senza pensare a nient’altro che alla strada che percorri”]
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