When you treat your time as though you are a machine;
a doing machine;
you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
Philip Moffitt
Beyond words
Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;
And from that source alone, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness,
and us — free of our bridges,
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Change
All things change when we do
The first word “Ah”
blossoms into others
All of them true.
Kukai, 774–835, Japanese monk, civil servant, scholar, poet.
As the week begins
Mysteriously, wonderfully,
I bid farewell to what goes
I greet what comes;
for what comes cannot be denied
and what goes cannot be detained
Chuang Tzu
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
(But where are the snows of yesteryear?)
French saying
photo of last fridays Spring weather in Kildare
Sunday Quote: In the heart
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is within you
Kabir
Putting labels
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. ‘Right,’ ‘wrong,’ ‘success,’ ‘failure, ‘ lucky’, ‘unlucky’ may be as limiting a way of seeing things as ‘diabetic’, ‘epileptic’, ‘manic-depressive’ ….. Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.. Belief traps or frees us. Labels may become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Rachel Naomi Remen
photo rinina25
