Moment by moment

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

Rabbi Joshua Herschel

Karma

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn’t understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you’re given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.

Pema Chodron

Sunday quote: In the depths

The shape of each soul is different.

There is a secret destiny for each person.

We need to return to the solitude within, to find again the dream that lies at the hearth of the soul. 

John O’Donohue

Enough

When life is ‘enough,’ we don’t need any more. What a good feeling it is when our days are enough. The world is enough. We don’t often let that feeling in. It’s a foreign feeling because we tend to live our lives feeling that they are not enough. But we can change that perception. Saying that this is life and I don’t need anything more is a wonderful statement of grace and power. If we don’t need any more, if we don’t need to control everything, we can let life unfold. …. We must remember that our power comes from knowing that everything is all right and everyone is unfolding exactly as they are supposed to

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

First step

Move and the way will open

Zen proverb

What makes a calm mind

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained
by cultivating friendliness toward the happy,
 compassion for the unhappy,
delight in the virtuous,
and indifference toward the wicked.
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras