We are touched by
fantastic things that seldom speak.
So be careful not to turn away the
mute angels who are waiting.
Mark Nepo, The Song Gives Birth to the Singer.
Drop into being
The act of taking your seat in your own life, which could also be seen as taking a stand of a certain kind, on a regular basis, is in and of itself a profound expression of human intelligence. Ultimately it is a radical act of sanity and love —namely to stop all the doing that carries us through our moments without truly inhabiting them, and actually drop into being, even for one fleeting moment. That dropping in is the exceedingly simple, but at the same time, hugely radical act undergirding mindfulness as a meditation practice and as a way of being. It is easy to learn. It is easy to do. But it is also equally easy to forget to practice, even though this kind of dropping in takes literally no time at all, just remembering.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Meditation is Not what you Think
A wonderful day
The purpose of life is to be defeated by ever greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame.
I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
Rabbi Joshua Herschel
Sunday quote: Open to all
Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
Osho
Aligning with the truth
Rilke urges us: “want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears”
Exquisite image! Why does he exhort us to want the change? Because change is the way it is. We harbor notions of what is good for us and what is not, and try to organize and strategize accordingly. Yet life does what it does without our concern for our preferences, so Rilke is urging us to look beyond the parade of circumstances and events to the fundamental fact of change itself. In wanting the change, we are aligning ourselves with truth, with what is already happening.
Roger Housden, Dropping the Struggle: Seven ways to love the life you have
The sound of the eternal
The images which arise out of the depths, be they the burning bush of biblical imagery, the complaint of the body, or the dream we dream tonight, link us to that throbbing, insistent hum which is the sound of the eternal. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.
James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination
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