Now all you can do is wait.
It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything.
Like the ebb and flow of tides.
No one can do anything to change them.
When it is time to wait, you must wait
Haruki Murakumi, Japanese writer 1949 – , The Wind up Bird Chronicle
Mindfulness is an act of hospitality.
A way of learning to treat ourselves with kindness and care that slowly begins to percolate into the deepest recesses of our being while gradually offering us the possibility of relating to others in the same manner. Working with whatever is present is enough. There is no need to condemn ourselves for not feeling loving or kind. Rather, the process simply asks us to entertain the possibility of offering hospitality to ourselves no matter what we are feeling or thinking.
This week try taking some time to explore the possibility of sitting with yourself as if you were your own best friend.
Saki Santorelli, Befriending Self
photo Carriec
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on
preserving every detail of their suffering
Edward St Aubyn, English Author.
Whatever one keeps pursuing with their thinking and pondering,
that becomes the inclination of their awareness.
The Buddha, Dvedhavitakka Sutta, MN 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself.
You may not be perfect, but you are all you’ve got to work with.
The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the
total acceptance of who you are.
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
photo hunterdt
Just be aware whether you are confused, indifferent, happy, sad, uncertain or whatever.
Be that which allows things to be what they are.
Just be the observer of whatever is. Right now my mood is “this”, “I feel this”..
Ajahn Sumedho
Imperfection is not our personal problem
– it is a natural part of existing.
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
photo wingchi poon
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