Do the best you can, until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Do your best
Past, present and future
The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities
will find no rest.
Be kind to yourself, dear – to your innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or any touch you knew that did not help you to dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us.
Rumi, found in Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems From God
Sunday Quote: Always new
I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather.
Stanley Kunitz 1905 – 2006, American Poet
See with every turning day,
how each season makes a child
of you again, wants you to become
a seeker after rainfall and birdsong,
David Whyte, Coleman’s Bed
Inside and all around
The Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. What we need is already here, inside or all around us
If your spiritual guides say to you,
‘Look, the divine Realm is
in the sky’……. well then the birds
will get there ahead of you.
If they say, ‘It is in the sea’….. then the fish will precede you.
No, divine Reality exists inside and all around you.
When you come to know your true Self, you will be fully known —
realizing at last that you are a child of the Living One.
If, however, you never come to know
who you truly are,
you are a poverty-stricken being,
and it is your ‘self’ which will be impoverished.
The Gospel of Thomas, c 120 AD.
To go around or through?
AS humans we instinctively turn away from what we find difficult, or are impatient for difficult moments to pass:
In a dream, I was working hard to finish a bridge to cross some river whose current was strong. Just as I finished the arc of the bridge, an elephant appeared in the water. It was stepping down the middle of the stream. When it was squarely beneath my unfinished bridge, it stopped to douse itself with water…All at once, the sheen of water on its back made me question why I was building a bridge in the first place. It made me question if what I was crossing really needed to be entered. It made me wonder: If I were to enter the stream rather than cross it, would I have a different sense of where I was going?
In the days since the dream, the image of the elephant under the unfinished bridge has made me consider obstacles differently. Now when I stumble before things I don’t understand, I try to remember the elephant dousing itself in the middle of what I thought I had to cross and ask myself: Is the thing in the way something I need to cross or enter? If it’s a difficulty involving love or fear, where will I be led by crossing it? Where will I be led by entering it? At each turn, I find myself needing to know: What must I face and what must I bridge?
Mark Nepo
Horizons
Recall the way you are all possibilities
you can see and how you live best
as an appreciator of horizons
whether you reach them or not.
David Whyte, Mameen
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