Since the treasure does exist in this world,
consider no ruin empty of treasure….
If the inner eye has not been granted to you,
always think that treasure could be in anybody.
Rumi, The Mathnawi II: 2153-2155
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Tag: Awareness
Sunday Quote: the root cause
I think we’re miserable partly because we have only one god, and that’s economics.
James Hillman, 1926 – 2011, American Jungian psychologist
Recognize what you have
Focus on the positive things you have, rather than the size of the task ahead of you.
Jesus said to his disciples, “How many loaves have you? Mark 6:38
Why worry about the loaves and fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love and the felt ferocity of that love and the felt necessity of that love, the fish explode into many.
Imagine him, speaking, and don’t worry about what is reality, or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it is all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy. Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word spoken with love.
Mary Oliver, Logos
Missing most of life
Once at a workshop, the instruction was to walk mindfully over to the lunchtime food across the room. In that short walk across the room, I noticed how automatically I get ahead of myself — how I lose track of these miraculous feet on the ground and miss the space in between. And I’m beginning to suspect that most of life is “in between“.
David Rynick, This Truth Never fails: A Zen memoir in Four Seasons
Letting go
Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go.
Please take an inventory of your life
There are things that you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom
Find the courage to let them go.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Take the step
A new month.
Because in the end you won’t remember the time spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Climb that goddamn mountain
Jack Kerouac
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