Having the capacity to be still
means stop interfering with what’s happening.
Adyashanti
Stop interfering
Tag: Awareness
a poppy blooms
Our daily efforts and failings. And all the while, there is beauty around us
I write, erase, rewrite,
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms
Hokushi, 1603-1868, Japanese haiku poet.
Today I pass the time reading
a favorite haiku,
saying the few words over and over.
It feels like eating
the same small, perfect grape
again and again.
Billy Collins, PIcnic, Lightning [excerpt]
The finest medicine
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. The book-learning gradually dribbles away; problems melt and dissolve; ties are gently severed; the body becomes a new and wonderful instrument; you look at plants or stones or fish with different eyes.
Henry Millar, 1981 – 1980, The Colossus of Maroussi
Sunday Quote: Just as things are
The best meditation and, indeed, life instruction ….
The lillies!
The stems, just as they are,
the flowers, just as they are.
Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694, Japanese poet, recognised as the greatest exponent of the haiku form.
Slow down
Walking takes longer..than any other known form of locomotion, except crawling. Thus, it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
Edward Abbey, 1927 – 1989, American author, essayist and environmental advocate.
Joyful and free
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind.
The real you is loving, joyful, and free.
The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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