Allow life to unfold without trying to force it into the shape imagined by the mind.
Work at allowing more things to unfold in your life
without forcing them to happen
and without rejecting the ones that don’t fit your idea of
what “should” be happening.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever you go, There you Are
I go among the trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
Wendell Berry I Go Among Trees and Sit Still
If you feel that your dreams aren’t coming true, you might think that you need to do more, or to think and strategize more.
In fact, what you might need is less – less noise coming to you from both inside and outside -so that you have the space for your heart’s truest intention to germinate and flourish
Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence
Enlightenment is not something you achieve.
It is the absence of something.
All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal.
Enlightenment is dropping all that.
Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, 1885–1973, Zen master in the Sōtō tradition,
If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 8, §47, i
If you find yourself rushing or becoming impatient, slowing the pace can help take the edge off your rushing
and remind you that you are here now,
and that when you get there, you will be there.
If you miss the here, you are likely also to miss the there.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever you Go, There you Are
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