Tag: Acceptance

Making space

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In silence there is eloquence.

Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Rumi

Develop a deep container

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A similar idea to yesterday…

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable.

A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s little Instruction Book

Complaining

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See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim.

Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.


 Eckhart Tolle

Life doesn’t go in a straight line

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I know there is no straight road 

No straight road in this world 

Only a giant labyrinth 

Of intersecting crossroads

Federico García Lorca, 1898 – 1936, Spanish poet

Ready for anything

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My teacher Suzuki Roshi would say, “Sitting meditation is to practice being ready for anything.”

Being ready for anything is different than gearing yourself up

to defend or to attack things as they come toward you.

You sit, and you’re ready for anything.

Edward Espe Brown, The Most Important Point

Content in all seasons

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If there are mountains, I look at the mountains;
On days it is raining, I listen to the rain.
Spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Tomorrow too will be good.
Tonight too will be good.

Santoka, Japanese author and haiku poet, 1882 -1940