The mysteries of time and the calendar: a Leap Year “extra” day
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t.
Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
Haruki Murakami
Time heals
Tag: Awareness
I don’t want to be here
The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations. What you can do to a person, you can also do to a situation: make it into an enemy.
The implication is always: this should not be happening; I don’t want to be here; I don’t want to be doing this; I’m being treated unfairly. And the ego’s greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.
Eckhart Tolle
How to work with agitation
When we try to settle, what we might notice is unsettledness.
Rather than go into the topic, recognize the energy.
Give attention to places in the body that are non-agitated.
Use the body and breath to change the speed of the mind, to steady it.
Once settled, then dilemmas and unfinished business can be related to, with dispassion, compassion and detachment.
Ajahn Sucitto
Sunday Quote: Just be present
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expectations
We try to be open to all possibilities, without turning them into expectations
Expectations are the greatest impediment to living
In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today
Seneca
Miraculous things
Who cares about wealth and honour?
Even the poorest thing shines.
My miraculous power and spiritual activity:
drawing water and carrying wood.
Layman Pang, 8th Century lay Buddhist
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