Life dances and you have to dance with it, whether it is taking you on a wonderful ride or is stepping on your toes. This is the necessary price and transcendent gift of being incarnate; alive in a body. Each moment is a fresh moment in the dance, and if you are lost in clinging to the past or clinging to your fears of the future, you are not present for the dance.
Philip Moffitt
photo cindy funk
We can’t travel with others in territory that we haven’t explored ourselves. It is the exploration of our own inner life that enables us to form an empathetic bridge to the other person. It’s our task to trust, to listen, and to pay careful attention to the changing experience. At the deepest level, we are being asked to cultivate a kind of fearless receptivity.
This is a journey of continuous discovery in which we will always be entering new territory. We have no idea how it will turn out, and it takes courage and flexibility. We find a balance. The journey is a mystery we need to live into, opening, risking, and forgiving constantly.
Frank Ostaseski
photo juanedc
The flower doesn’t dream of the bee
It blossoms and the bee comes
Mark Nepo
photo incidencematrix
It is no easy matter to stop short at just seeing.
Mahasi Sayadaw.
photo blue plover
‘Compassion’, when literally translated, means ‘ suffering with others’ and ‘with’ is the most important word, because it implies belonging. ‘Companion’ is ‘one who travels with another’. So in this relationship there is no guide, there is no healer and no one healed; we simply accompany one another.
As we inquire into the heart of service, we see a pattern: common to all habits that hinder us in our work is a sense of separateness; and common to all those moments and actions that truly seem to serve is the experience of unity. As my friend Reb Anderson says, “We are simply walking through birth and death holding hands.”
Frank Ostaseski
photo takato marui
Only from the heart
can you touch the sky
Rumi
photo nojavan
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