Do not feel overwhelmed by the length of this journey.
All you ever need do is focus on one thing, what you are doing.
Stay on the path and put one foot in front of the other – that is all.
There is joy in the struggle.
Philip Toshio Sudo
…and artichokes
Even
a small purple artichoke
boiled
in its own bittered
and darkening
waters
grows tender,
grows tender and sweet
a small purple artichoke
boiled
in its own bittered
and darkening
waters
grows tender,
grows tender and sweet
patience, I think,
my species
my species
keep testing the spiny leaves
the spiny heart
Jane Hirshfield, My species
….Caterpillars
It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
Lessons from foxes…
What is this message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves- that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting lost
Sunday Quote: Beautiful
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Blaise Pascal
A motto for September
More from Chuang Tzu, just to start the month in a Taoist frame of mind:
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate.
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