Piglet noticed that even
though he had a very small heart,
it could hold a rather
large amount of gratitude.
A.A. Milne
Even though
Tag: Awareness
Cycles
Instead of seeing time as a straight line,
if we see life as a series of cycles of growth, maturation, and death followed by rebirth,
we can better understand why endings are necessary for new beginnings.
Jeremy Hunter, mindfulness teacher, founder Executive Mind Leadership Institute
The human condition
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.
Chuck Palahniuk,1962 – American writer, Invisible Monsters
Sunday Quote: Timelessness
At the end of this Mid-Summer week with the “longest” day
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,
then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present
Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.431
A sureness in you
Your identity is not equivalent to your biography.
There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there’s still a sureness in you, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you.
And I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner kind of sanctuary.
John O’Donohue, The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Journeys
The Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The swallows in full flight across the fields having made their long journey to nest here.
When you set off on a path, the first thing you do is surrender yourself to a greater power, for you will encounter things you will not understand. You will understand things only with your heart, and that can be a little frightening. For a long time, the journey will seem like a Dark Night, but then any search is an act of faith. But God, who is far harder to understand than a Dark Night, appreciates our act of faith and takes our hand and guides us through the Mystery.
Paolo Coelho, Brida
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