How do you let go of attachment to things?
Don’t even try. It’s impossible.
Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them
Eckhart Tolle
Where do we find our value?
Tag: Awareness
Dying slowly
You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
if you do not listen to the sounds of life,
if you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly
If you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice.
Pablo Neruda, You Start Dying Slowly
what is required
“Noise” in this image can stand for all the hassles which we encounter this day
For the mind that is silent, noise is as direct a spoke into the hub of silence as are birdsong, wind, and waves.
It requires nothing more than to meet noise with stillness and not commentary.
Martin Laird, A Sunlit Absence
its all right
Water, when it flows downstream, does not have a model of what it’s doing. Its just being water, and water flows downstream, because that’s how water works.
The thing that is extraordinarily hard for any of us to truly realize and have sufficient faith to accept, is that if you stop having views, having models, planning, desiring, organizing and structuring….
it’s all right.
Ram Dass
The small ways
If you assume that purpose is something big, you might think its something that you’ll feel at some point down the road, after you’ve achieved something significant. You’re pushing purpose off into the future instead of creating it day-to-day. This mindset prevents you from identifying all the small ways you can contribute to the world right now.
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
Revolving
I hate endings.….The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap.
Why not be more honest with the moment?
The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.
Sam Shepard, 1943 – 2017, American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director.
