Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
Naomi Shibab Nye, The Art of Disappearing [extract]
Sunday Quote: Know
Tag: Awareness
Stop counting
It is not easy to free ourselves from the counting, comparing mind.
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come.
It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letter 3
Slow growing fruition
For autumn and its slow growing fruition
For that season of ultimate rise and fall
We give thanks.
May we gracefully rise to the occasion of our own falling,
Giving ourselves just enough time to go beyond time
To the great Now
At the quiet center of the turning wheels.
David Steindl-Rast, osb, Thanksgiving Song
A transformation of view
In summary,
healing is a transformation of view, rather than a cure
It involves recognizing your intrinsic wholeness
and simultaneously your interconnectedness with everything else
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Don’t separate yourself
Simply be with what’s here.
Shinzan Roshi, my teacher constantly uses the Japanese term “nari kiru” to express what we do here. “Nari” means literally “become” and “kiru” means “totally” or “completely”. So once you find tension or stress, don’t separate yourself from it; quite the opposite, be with it, become it. In that moment there is no gap between you and the sensation.
Julian Daizan Skinner and Sarah Bladen, Practical Zen for Health, Wealth and Mindfulness
New
This is a wonderful day.
I’ve never seen this one before
Maya Angelou
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