The secret of change is to focus all your energy
not on fighting the old,
but on building the new
Dan Milmann, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives
Step by step
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
Fully here and yet not
No one needs to tell us
we are already on our onward way,
no one has to remind us
of our everyday and intimate
embrace with disappearance.
We were born saying goodbye
to what we love,
we were born
in a beautiful reluctance,
not quite ready
to breathe in this new world,
we are here and we are not,
we are present while still not
wanting to admit we have arrived.
David Whyte, Cleave
Living peacefully
I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. It’s said that in such a place certain revelations may be discovered. That what the spirit reaches for may be eventually felt, if not exactly understood. Slowly, no doubt. I’m not talking about a vacation.
Of course, at the same time I mean to stay exactly where I am.
Are you following me?
Mary Oliver, I Have Decided
Sunday Quote: Regret
One regret, dear world,
I am determined not to have
when I am dying on my deathbed
is that I did not kiss you enough.
Hafiz
No identification
When there is full awakened awareness, there is no identification with the body or with conditioned factors of mind…. the body and mind are not-self, so the heart remains serene through all life’s ups and downs, its many psychological births and deaths, triumphs and failures, as well as the ‘big death’ of the body’s ending. As St Teresa of Avila put it when expounding on this same theme: ‘We die before we die so that when we die, we won’t die.’
Ajahn Amaro, What does ‘I am the Way’ mean
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