Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!”
and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Mary Oliver
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An Easter Sunday Quote
My eyes already touch the sunny hill
going far ahead of the road I have begun
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp
It has its inner light even from a distance
and changes us even if we do not reach it
into something else, which hardly sensing it, we already are.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sometimes we do not know
Frequently we don’t know the answers to some of the questions that life throws at us. We come to see that there is always a balance between knowing and not knowing. We prefer knowing, certainty, clear ideas. But maybe wisdom comes from being able to allow what we don’t know, and from learning to trust.
This is how we become wise:
When the formed
is taught by the unformed.
Chuang Tzu
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Confidence
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming
Helen Keller
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A day to simplify things
Simplify the problem of life:
distinguish the necessary and the real.
Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
Thoreau
Asking for the impossible
Whenever you experience any pain or difficulty, always remember one of the deep meanings of the word suffering: asking the world for something it can never give you. We expect and ask impossible things from the world. We ask for the perfect home and job and that all the things we work hard to build and arrange run perfectly at the right time and place. Of course, that is asking for something that can never be given. We ask for profound meditation and enlightenment, right here and now. But that’s not the way this universe works. If you ask for something that the world can’t supply, you should understand that you’re asking for suffering. So whether you work or meditate, please accept that things will go wrong from time to time. Your job is not to ask for things the world can’t give you. Your job is to observe.
Ajahn Brahm, It all goes wrong anyway
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