The two dynamics

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We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. At birth we were awakened and emerged to become visible in the world. At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible. Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty.

John O Donohue

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Beneath

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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behaviour.

You are not your thoughts

You are beneath the thinker

You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain

Eckhart Tolle

 

Inwardness

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What is happiness but growth in peace,
The timeless sense of time when furniture
Has stood a life’s span in a single place,
And as the air moves, so the old dreams stir
The shining leaves of present happiness?
No one has heard thought or listened to a mind,
But where people have lived in inwardness
The air is charged with blessing and does bless;
Windows look out on mountains and the walls are kind.

May Sarton, The Work of Happiness

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Sunday Quote: No need for words

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I like the silent church

before the service begins,

better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be quiet in heart

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Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.

Wendell Berry

 

Doing good today

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What matters is the good we did

Not the good we expected others to do.

Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow

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