Tag: Awareness

We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings which are., in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent.

In so doing, we define ourselves by our moods and by our thoughts

We do not just let ourselves be happy or sad

For instance, we must be a happy person or a sad one

This is the chronic tendency of the ignorant or deluded mind, to make “things” out of that which is no thing

Mark Epstein

Maybe the meaning of life is just to see the beauty in the ordinary.

To love the things that don’t last, because nothing does.

To stand in the rain and feel it.

To be alive in the world.

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

We often give the things that bother us more weight than they deserve, forgetting that all things arise and pass away

The great beings see with their wisdom eye

all things like reflections of forms

They do not become stuck in the mire

of so-called objects.

Arya Nagarjuna, 2nd-century Indian Buddhist philosopher, Sixty Verses of Reasoning