Each moment

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You do learn some things just by doing them over and over and by getting old doing them. And one of them is, you really need less…

My model for this is late Beethoven. He moves so strangely and quite suddenly sometimes from place to place in his music, in the late quartets. He knows where he’s going and he just doesn’t want to waste all that time getting there. But if you listen, if you’re with it, he takes you with him. I think sometimes about old painters — they get so simple in their means. Just so plain and simple. Because they know they haven’t got time. One is aware of this as one gets older. You can’t waste time.

Ursula LeGuin

Creating drama

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We do not need to save ourselves from the world

only from ourselves and the stories we create.

May all beings be happy.

Michael Kewley, Former Buddhist monk, currently teaching courses on Awareness and meditation.

Adult questions

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A Zen saying helps us – “This being the case, how shall I proceed?”

That is so much more an adult question than “This being the case, who is at fault?” or “why is this happening to me?”

David Richo, The Five Things we Cannot Change

Whatever experience

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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

How do you know this is the experience you need?

Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Always in transformation

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Most of us believe that we will spend seventy, eighty, ninety or one hundred years on this planet and then we’ll be gone. But when we look deeply, we see this is a wrong perception.

Your lifespan is not limited to seventy, eighty, ninety or one hundred years and that is good news. Your body is not your self; you are much more than this body. You are life without boundaries.

We are not limited to our physical body, even when we are alive. We inter-are with our ancestors, our descendants, and the whole of the cosmos. We do not have a separate self. We are interconnected with all of life, and we, and everything, are always in transformation

Thich Nhat Hahn, How to live when a Loved One Dies

Smile

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Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile.

Ketut Liyer, Balinese healer in Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love