Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t hold strongly to the self as self, what do we have to fear?
Have faith in the way things are.
Love all things that happen as your self; then you can care for all things.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
photo : julio nohara
Consider all phenomena to be dreams.
Don’t be swayed by outer circumstances.
Be grateful to everyone.
Don’t brood over the faults of others.
Explore the nature of unborn awareness.
At all times simply rely on a joyful mind.
Don’t expect a standing ovation
Atiśa, 980 – 1054, Seven Points for Training the Mind and Heart
photo Ed Yourdon
Just receive life as it is.
Don’t make a problem about it.
Open yourself to the way things are.
Ajahn Sumedho
Today I’m flying low and I’m
not saying a word.
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.
The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.
But I’m taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I’m traveling
a terrific distance.
Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.
Mary Oliver, Today
photo yanajin33
Things are as they are.
Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars,
nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life
as in hoping for another life
and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
photo Håkon Dahlmo
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