All you can do for another person is be an environment
in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
for another person
Only one person
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, ‘Have faith and take your troubles to God.’
Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help – only yourself.
Martin Buber, philosopher, 1978 – 1965
as we go along
It is really easy to be kind to others
when I remember that none of us came into this world
with a manual about how to get it all right.
Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroscientist and author
Complete in itself
Our essential being is perfect, like boundless space,
which is complete in itself with nothing lacking.
It is our rejection of what is present
or our seeking of what is not present
that determines whether or not we feel the peace and happiness that are our very nature.
Seng-ts’an, the Third Ch’an Patriarch, Hsin Hsin Ming [Rupert Spira’s translation ]
Need to run
Many of us have been running all our lives. We have the feeling that we need to run – into the future, away from the past, out from wherever we are.
In truth, we don’t need to go anywhere.
We just need to sit down and look deeply to discover that the whole cosmos is right here within us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunday Quote: Flows
I would like to live
Like a river flows.
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
John O Donohue, Irish poet and author, Fluent
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